So the Professor walks in the other day....

by Otony, Wednesday, July 01, 2015, 16:41 (3437 days ago)

...he is one of our regular customers, teaches biology at Whitman College here in Walla Walla. He, like most of us here, is a fan of older iron and brings in stuff from time to time for consignment. He is also a pretty fair machinist and gunsmith.

Lo and behold, this visit he walks in with a long gun case in hand.

"Whutcha got?" sez I.

"Late model 1897 Winchester" sez he.

I look it over, and easily rate it as between 85 to 90%. Good, honest gun.

"If it is a 1955, I will buy it myownself" sez yours truly. We can all guess what year I'm born, right?

Son of a gun! It IS a 1955! I will have to get pics up toot sweet. BTW, years ago I passed up a NIB 1955 1897 at a gun show for lack of funds. Killed me that did. I swore I would have a clean '55 example someday in lieu thereof. Oh, $400 American. Not shabby for a clean hammer pump, eh?

Otony, owner of a Grail Gun of sorts.