Truth is, Joe Wood (me) darned near ruined this gun half century ago. Bought it from an elderly gentleman in Slaton, Texas and immediately proceeded to have it made to look NEW by letting a "gunsmith" polish and blue it! Lordy, lordy....the stuff we did to old guns back then would curl the blood in the most indifferent collector. But we didn't know better then (and some still don't). Amazingly, after all the things I did to try to ruin this gun it is still solid as a rock and even the ribs survived my best attempts. Congratulations, Leighton. You're saved it from the grave. Oh, think I paid something like $40 for it in the late 50's and that was a whole lot of money.
