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June 26, 2013
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Hey Bert,
You have this one in your survey? This is the highest condition Spruce gun I’ve seen. However, photo 59 ruins it for me–what a shame!!
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1149964299
Don
April 15, 2005
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Don,
It is a new Spruce Gun for the survey (it brings the total to 296), and yes, it is a crying shame some ignorant moron drilled the ugly extra hole in the upper tang. It is the 34th Spruce Gun documented with the “J.C. ’17” marking, and the 7th verified with a rack # stamped on the stock. It should not be too much longer before I log the 300th Spruce Gun in the survey thanks to you and the other WACA members finding and alerting them to me.
Thanks again,
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
March 15, 2020
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Good morning Bert,
I think you are a bit harsh. There was a time when our guns were not sacrosanct. They were purchased for our use and this moron with macular degeneration would have a tang drilled for a tang sight so I could better use it. That would have been why I purchased it.
Respectfully, Don
June 26, 2013
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86Win said
Good morning Bert,
I think you are a bit harsh. There was a time when our guns were not sacrosanct. They were purchased for our use and this moron with macular degeneration would have a tang drilled for a tang sight so I could better use it. That would have been why I purchased it.
Respectfully, Don
Yes, but if the CORRECT tang sight were used, no extra hole would have been needed–and no longer a moron.
Just my 2 cents,
Don
March 15, 2020
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So 50 years ago my eyes are failing and I am given a tang sight by a friend. In order to not have to spend money I don’t have I drill a hole and continue using my gun to harvest venison, am I still a moron?
Also so much for Berts mellowing. Don
May 9, 2024
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Its the same as sporterizing a mauser or springfield in the 50s. I understand why they did it but it’s still a shame today now that they’re valuable.
April 15, 2005
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86Win said
Also so much for Berts mellowing. Don
Don,
In defense of my reverting back to being a hardcase I will offer you this… “A Leopard cannot change its spots“
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
November 7, 2015
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Nathan said
Its the same as sporterizing a mauser or springfield in the 50s. I understand why they did it but it’s still a shame today now that they’re valuable.
Have you considered that maybe the fact that so many were modified/sporterized is why the unmolested examples are so valuable?
Mike
January 20, 2023
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Bert H. said
86Win said
Also so much for Berts mellowing. Don
Don,
In defense of my reverting back to being a hardcase I will offer you this… “A Leopard cannot change its spots”
Bert
Yes, but beneath that case hardened exterior beats a heart of top grain leather..
- 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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