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Quite some time ago I started measuring the progress on my several gun projects in "geological time". Life and work were really starting to cut into my 18 to 20 waking hours each day. Nonetheless, I finally progressed to that point on a new rifle where one starts to accelerate as the finish line begins to come into view. I purchased parts for this Ferguson from TRS several years ago now and then, very slowly, worked on one part or another as the spirit moved me....and the spirit didn't move me very often. Still, I was starting to make some headway when I ended up mentally "in irons" again ....and being set on a lee shore. For a long time I couldn't decide whether to finish the Ferguson as a military arm or add the engraving, carving, etc. and make it a civilian version. This was the first progress
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