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Neat gun, Gil. Straight stock or bump?
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Navets Volants.....I like that. I'm going with flying parsnips.
I'm lucky enough to have handled this gun. Gil is right, the engraving is very attractive, although I think he is downplaying it a bit. Better yet, what engraving is there looks like it was cut yesterday....pretty good for a gun made in the mid 1930s.
Another thing of note about it. As Gil mentioned, he intends to replace the pad. I'm not sure with what yet but I can tell you that it is a 14" LOP to the uncut end of the stock right now. Always nice to find under a pad like that.
And when the wood gets a refinish, it is really going to pop.
The more I handle Manufance Ideals, the more I am comfortable with the idea that, like most of the big American concerns, while they had clearly defined grade levels, the company was in the business of making what the customer wanted. This gun of Gil's has better wood than a 302 should have and more extensive engraving, especially on the fences. To me it looks like they did a normal 302 then pimped it up with game scenes, the fences and a extra nice stick.
Good buy Gil! Ya dun good!
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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Gil, could you share the ease or difficulty with the import experience, and ballpark costs. Thanks, Mark
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Its too bad many engravers never saw a live flying parsnip or a dog on point. Both in this case appear to have been taken from a comic strip. The rest of the engraving while quite simple is at least in good taste and pleasantly executed.
When I look at an Ideal it is the grace of the lines that run from the wrist to the rounded receiver that make it exotic looking. I think a POW grip significantly detracts from that.
None-the-less I bet its a grand gun to take to the field.
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I bet the round body lends itself to a very pleasant carry in the field.
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GLS, I have a Parker DH from 1891 (well abused "shooter grade") that has "flying turnips" on the floor plate.
Someday we'll have to chase woodcock in the SC Low Country and I'll show you REAL "flying turnips" - no, I won't shoot this 7# 4oz 12 bore at woodcock but I'll bring it along to show the "turnips".
BTW that's a nice looking Ideal.
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It is super sexy minus the pad you already hate
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