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Your good conservative taste shows Mike- no doubt due to your being named after St. Michael, a good and wise call. Ivory for piano keys, cue balls and for cheap "pimped out" rifles, even if made by the founder (OK- 50%) of the G&H gruppen many years ago.
Roy Weatherby (I read your book, written by son Ed)was an great rifle "wildcatter" who liked to "hit 'em hard and fast", his first experiments were on M70 pre-1964 actions- Once he got financial backing, he went with the Krauts for his first series Mark V BA actions, and they love ruptured unicorns and leaping lizards carved all over the stocks, even put cheekpieces and sling swivel clips on their double shotguns (not just the drillings)- Ugly as home-made poop, IMO. One of the first rules of either snipers or Scottish game "ghillies"- is- Nothing rattles, nothing shines. But the no-taste gentry likes shiny-assed stocks a gleamin' on the gun shoppe racks I guess.
Very wise man of the South and I agree with you 100% on the things a fine double should NOT have, and as he once said so well- "Any shotgun with two barrels should always have TWO triggers"- Myself, I'll go with Patton's words-a man who never minced them, or tried to gold-plate a turd, which is what a Weatherby or a Winslow represents, IMO.
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Gregsy- those words of extreme wisdom you just uttered- you want to run for POTUS next, you have my vote- In Spades!!
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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 Copy the IMG code under the picture and the pic will show. A little spash of Ivory like this looks okay but not a full size grip cap.
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Sidelock
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Actually, I could live with some ivory on an elephant gun. But not a bird gun. Birds don't have ivory.
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But they don't carry ebony either.
A well scrimshawed grip cap might be pretty neat, but a big plain hunk, I agree, it would seem out of place.
Brent
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I have some Elephany Ivory,scrimshawed by "Willie B" on one of my Saa's.The more they age the better,some of those old yellow ones on the real early Colts look neat  
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