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Well as promised I headed on down to the Riviera, went straight in and did my business in the Antique Gun room, took another quick look at the 1877 Sharps...drooled a bit and walked away with a tear in my eye. Bought a book for $60 on Martial Colt Single Action Armys including Custer range serial numbered guns from the author.

Then I went over to the High Grade Sporting Gun Room...including shotguns, double rifles, and magazine rifles....You talk about money....you need cubic dollar bills in that room, think in terms of Porsche money for a double Shotgun. You want a Purdey try L120,000 sterling... a Holland and Holland oh about 65K will take one home...and it goes on and on...never have I seen so many High Grade Guns in one place. I saw one gun in that room that I woulda dropped my pants for...an that was a English Whitworth Target rifle from the 1860's...beautiful condition...17K. This paticular dealer marks everything up very high.

So ended my day at Beinfields...and I headed over to the local gunshow being held at the Cashman center...the local show caters basically to locals and the only thing sold there is Modern stamped metal and plastic guns. A friend had told me there was a Colt Single Action Artillery there, but it was allready sold by the time I got there...so after talking to the dealer a bit I headed on home...Since I was gunned out and Buffeted out and I wasn't feeling all that hungry I stopped at one of the local casinos and had a Chicken Fried Steak dinner and headed home. When i got there I plunked myself down in my recliner and smoked a Cohiba while I watched the History Channel and the Untold Story of the Little Big Horn. I afraid to say the program didn't say anything new, nor did it give very much information about the battle. The one thing it did do was bad mouth ole Georgie A Custer. I suppose he does deserve to be bad mouthed though.