Wow. Do you have any regrets for not shooting this gun prior to yesterday? 40 years is a long time to own something and never use it. I personally have a fairly difficult time trying to figure out the collector not user mentality. It's baffling to me.
Well anyway....it's nice that after 40 years of ownership you decided to get the gun out and let it do what it was made to do. Kudos for taking the big leap.