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Wonderful custom stocked M 52.
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Probably only Big Larry & myself will appreciate the workmanship.  Count up the hours spent not only on the wood carving, but on acid-etching (I think) the trigger guard.  Heavy “block” fore-end means built as a prone gun, so reasonable to assume “creator” was a serious shooter; maybe his intention was to distract competitors with his showpiece. 

https://www.gunbroker.com/Item/1054834549

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Since Big Larry hasn’t said it yet, I will say it on his behalf:

“Oh, the Humanity!”

 

BRP

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Blue Ridge Parson said
Since Big Larry hasn’t said it yet, I will say it on his behalf:

“Oh, the Humanity!” 

Larry says he’s stopped collecting anything but S&Ws (I’m skeptical), & my SS check won’t accommodate another 52, so I won’t bid against you for this “unique” specimen. 

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They did all that work and forgot to fix the crack in the stock!

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Maverick said
They did all that work and forgot to fix the crack in the stock! 

You didn’t see the plastic wood (I guess) rubbed into it?  But it WAS a pile of work.

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Blue Ridge Parson said
Since Big Larry hasn’t said it yet, I will say it on his behalf:

“Oh, the Humanity!”

 

BRP

  

Thanks BRP. I could not have said it better myself. You forgot the picture. Big Larry

 

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It’s certainly a pile of something.   I usually favor a lot of up close, in-focus auction photography but this specimen could use some Gaussian blur. 

- Bill 

 

WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist

"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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