Some people stop learning at the peak of their collecting lifetime. This guy is one, he probably bought that in the Backbone era which, on a sliding scale, is the Stone Age of 98k collecting. At the time he probably had people drooling in it and telling him how great and correct it was at the gun shows he dragged it to.
I’d say we are in a lot more advanced era now, but there will be more exciting things to learn in the future from new documents which surface every year. The internet transformed our collecting knowledge and cooperation with other countries valuable collecting knowledge, like Europe.
But that rifle? It ain’t gonna be there. He should have sold it back then.
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