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Well, this is a humorous escapade..............And should just thrill all the purists to tears.

Below is the eval. / description of " Old Reprehensible"...

Shoemakers shoes, and all that.


NRA rules say...' forend Max. width 2"
This one is 1.998" wide ( seated the tacks in a big Mill vice)

The brass tacks did nothing to improve the crappy
Italian cheapo..(But very light).... wood

They ARE handy for slamming that forend against a
pipe stand, sitting, and clamping it there, on
vertical, for a sighter or two at chickens.And I NEVER
burn my fingers, on the barrel.

the staff body is old, very old, and might be an
original.......
All the guts/small parts on the staff, are of my
own manufacture, Otside of the MVA Hadley.
So is the base...
Lee Shaver did the "Soulle" windage
conversion.......it's precise, and repeatable, after
an easy 12,000 rounds, downrange...no backlash, or
hysterisis. It does "rock" , laterally, and I'll have to pay more attention to the bill of that ball cap, till fixing same.
The attrocious looking brass nut, on the staff
detent spring lets me QUICKLY adjust for staff foward
rake, on long shots......thereby defeating oclusion in
sight picture....
Bluing, .........what bluing?

I don't like straight grip guns, I LOVE
"em..........Nothing so rigid, In bedding these
inherently "hinge in the middle" suckers, with the
notable exception of the Ballard.One reason for the
Browning BPCR's success, outside of Ernie's great
tubes, is the THROUGHBOLT, and that forend hanger
ain't a half bad idea either.......you can full float
yer forend, if so inclined. The original high
walls?....terrible, The 44 1/2.....WORSE.The
Hepburn?.......not bad, the big pistol grip
rollers....very good, and the Sharps, with all those
screws going throught the thing, and clamping it in
every dirrection...THE BEST. So, the add on grip is
sculpted a little closer to a Win. Marksman stock in
terms of radius.......I'm not stretching to reach the
trigger, and the original profiles are terrible, in
this regard.It's screwed into the tang with a 1/4-28
allen, cut down with a conventional screw slot.
I think the pistol grip needs some brass tacks, and
will someday so proceed.

One man's idea of a race rig....built for
performance, not for beauty...........as great as it
shoots,if it looked one wit prettier, some damn fool
would offer me way too much money for it. I've grown
quite fond of the old bastard, but have determined
that the sight radius is a mite short, and that I
shoot a 32"barrel way better.....this barrel is cut to 28",
and no loss of velocity was experienced. Once my next
silhouette gun is up,and runnin' this one becomes my '
knockabout' truck gun...............Hell, it is now.

A " Badgersoli" ain't half bad.
Work safe, GTC