Just a note to those of you who thought my comment about lifting barb wire in the rain was literary hyperbole, let me assure you not. The actual event was part and parcel of a longer story that involved my having nicely refinished the wood on that gun a year or two earlier. A few years after the described event he asked about a full metal resotration. I thought, "What the...?" I get prickly about nonsense like that. Sigh.