Stan,
Selective provenance?

Seems like when Teddy Roosevelt’s guns come up for sale, people go nuts. So, yea, I can see that, but, thankfully don’t suffer from it. Nobody from England or Europe means anything to me, or, you. I get that, too. Totally.
I have a couple that have provenance back to my dad, or someone else important to me, but, they wouldn’t mean much to anybody else.

Would you like to own Bo Whoop, Stan? Me, I’d pass, regardless of how good a deal it was. My roots would make it difficult for me to enjoy actually using an artifact like that, since it is historically important, and, as I recall Bo Whoop wasn’t a grouse gun. Ditto Roosevelts .405 lever action, cool, Teddy shot this, but, what would I use it for?

I have mostly given my dad’s guns to my kid. The Remington 241 my Dad bought new in 1947 was special to me most of my life, but, seems more special now that the boy owns it. The boy has his eye on a few other things, as well:

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Best,
Ted

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Patience, grasshopper. The FJ is a force to be reckoned with. So too, is your mother.