OK...I've been corrected...this country was peppered with great gunshops back then...how could I forget Creekside Gunshop (Turnbull) and all the others...
Gregsy,
That's Buffalo NY....as for the PM's...I love point/counterpoint...but when someone misuses counterpoint as way to jack somebody else up, they should realize that point/counterpoint goes both ways...in other words, you can't jump on a thread, hurl some half-baked mud, and expect kind words in return .
At least part of the reason(s) Koch did factory shaping and checkering was his relationship with Flues. From late Depression to 1947 or so, Emil Flues re-worked Parkers, one after the next...His journeyman Sam Koch did the woodwork at least some or most of the time. Emil's customers also insisted on factory engraving patterns...There are probably well over 100 floating around...nowadays people who don't know what they are call them Pachmayr upgrades...
Collectors always have some vague name for guns they don't understand...you know...it's a "trade gun" or "it's a guild gun"...hardware store gun...now we have "clones" and cheap copys and Italian knock-offs as new pigeon holes...
If this keeps up, we'll need need waders and a thesaurus just to understand what some of these guys are talking about...
I'm sure you've heard the the new stuff...like...
I got a cryo stress relieved barrel, with a micro-lam stock, and a cantelevered mount, .3 nano-sec lock time...I'm shootin' saboted boat tails, using extreme ball powder and mountain dew primers..
