I understand, James. I could have bought an in-service Spitfire in the UK in the late 60s for $25,000 and a flying Mustang for $8,000 with additional RR pickled engine and a DH Dragon Rapide for $4,000 in Sept Isles. None was practical for my mission at the time. But an aviation museum here, US or overseas I'd crawl to over a mile of broken glass.
old colonel, yes, honest, nothing I wanted. Keeping the aviation analogy, flying is my religion; three generation of the family. There isn't another aircraft I'd want more than my current homebuilt experimental bush plane on floats, some of my design, some technology going back 80 years, performance like being launched on a Titan rocket. Nothing better as far as I'm concerned.
Same with guns. I'm at heart more of a rifleman bound up in handloading and accuracy, have shot competitively rifle and clays but most attractive for me, for tradition, line and form, the double comes first.
