Agreed, Dean. I sold a set of 12 gauge Parker Damascus ejector barrels to Mr. Cote a few years ago- his home is near our summer cottage near Boyne (6 Mile Lake) and he is a fine person to know. Very erudite, yet, like me, with a working class background, and also very well read. Dates, like the Lusitania sinking (possibly the Titanic as well) and Bodio's ten year gap error on the Model 21 intro year are very hard for the average non-gunning educated proof reader to spot. One reason I take pride in my "eagle eyes" for proof-reading is that my friend (we have never met face-to-face, and probably never will, for that matter) Silvio Calabi--he send me the galley proofs of his book on Hemingway's guns to proof-read, which I did, with gusto. RWTF

"The field is the touchstone of the man"..