Gentlemen All, Many Thanks for your Super Info' Re. the 3"Shelz". I alway look forward to shooting these'Pieces of History' that have had the "Living Crap' torn from their Bodies over the Years. That 1st Shot after all the "Many Hours' that have been spent on the"Rebuilding, Refurbishing,Restoring,Reconditioning,these "Old Lumps of Iron-Steel & Wood that "Long-Dead' Craftsmen,and dare I say'Craftswomen'(The term'Those Bints Upstairs derived from a certain London Gunmakers Esablishment that had several Ladies'On the Bench"!!A story in itself..)..That 1st shot after you have squeezed the trigger, after seeing all the many Bits strewn over the workbench, the mental picture I have of the 'Scear-Nose'rising from the 'Bent in the Hammer'...Hold on Old Chap'...Beginning to sound a bit like"One of them Edificated Writers from the Glossy Gun-Mags.......That 1st shot...Maybe Ansley H.' Himself fired it before he gave it to Frank Barthmaier back in '06'?cc/dt
