Skipper wrote:

Methinks your handgun experience is like your boating experience,
Snipper. You haven't any.

Whatever.

BTW, J. Curtis Earl was an old family friend we knew for over 4 decades.
It was through him that I initially got involved in shooting sports. Do
you know who he was or about his guns?

Here is a streaming video of what's left of his collection:

http://www.idahohistory.net/earl.html

The video really doesn't do the collection justice. He'd been harassed
by liberals in the ATF for decades and they'd confiscated his collection
several times. His collection was *much* larger before these
confiscation's, and included the Midas Thompson, arms from Hitler's
bunker, and the original machine guns from Folsom Prison.

Curtis died a couple years ago...I miss that great guy! Here's some more
info on him and his collection: http://tinyurl.com/aue2l Can you
imagine...250 Thompsons in one collection!

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Skipper