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Lowell, you're having linguistic challenges again. "Field Grade" has to do with a lack of engraving, less than XXX walnut, less than the finest checkering--in other words, a working gun. "Field gun" is any gun you take afield, regardless of grade, regardless of gauge, regardless of price and ornamentation. A field gun may be a field grade, but it may also be several steps above that in terms of fit, finish, engraving, etc--depending on what the owner chooses to carry afield. And it may be a 9MM if he's out shooting sparrows.

Could even be like his hill and dale rOOk rifle if some middlewestern turnip seed farmer walked across a field with it.

I honestly think he's been dip'n in the Famous Glen'thOrne Manor Whiskey barrel again.

Status and ready cash do not always travel together, Lowell, particuarly in a mixed barter/cash economy. Like to see a breakdown of those Sterlingworth buyers by occupation or profession--might find more doctors than you imagine. As for the turnip patch types, I wouldn't be a bit surprised to find that just as many turnips were grown and layered into a trench by the good Reverend and Ol Doc as by their bucolic neighbors for whom corn, beans, hogs and steers were the main event.

jack

Nosir, New Ithaca Field Grade on the right bbl. Ain't no scribblin or scratchin a-tall on the rib. Reckon should I file and hone me a smooth place on the rib, and use metal stamps to add my social security number? Strictly for ID purposes, don'tcha know.
Curtis

Jack I think the "turnip patch" owners are fairly new on the scene.

Only new to the rustic scene, but what a scene it is.
Generations went to the field, woods and lakes as a part of their everyday lives with these lower grades with no fanfare.
From the kitchen door, to the back 40 - the way hunting should be!
Btw Rabbit, status and money do go hand and hand - why else would there be the ultra high vanity grades -they imbody both traits.

Ha! Exactly Larry. He sounds like my old English friend asking me what it was like to grow up as a "peasant" family when I told him that both of my parents grew up on farms.

What's the expression? "Two countries divided by a common language?"

Interesting gun discussion. What would the 2" shell be? Our 28 gauge?

KB

Lowell, old buddy, apparently the phrase "starving to death as live-in caretaker of a National Trust manorhouse" is not one with which you are familiar. You need to read your Henry James, Richard Hofstadter, Scott Fitzgerald on the care and feeding of new and old elites. Altho my people weren't waiting when the mothers of the Daughters of the American Revolution hiked up their skirts and waded ashore, my mother does still own about half the original acreage of a two-horse hill farm in southeastern Ohio which has been in our family for four generations. She takes the haying and pasturage money but I pay the taxes as, at ninety years old, she forgets. If it was up to me, I'd have let it go to scrub 30 yrs. ago. That may be digressively OT but with you everything's in play so I expect you to understand!

jack

"You need to read your Henry James, Richard Hofstadter, Scott Fitzgerald on the care and feeding of new and old elites."

Rabbit, next Vintagers can I buy you a beer?

You bet. Longer drive for you; shorter for me. Eightbore says it will be "different". I like the Hudson but the bay is ok. LG, you should come!

jack