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Originally posted by tabs
I appreciate History and Craftsmanship. There is nothing like shooting a piece of History.
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Absolutely. I have an old Ballard Pacific that one of the Robinson brothers (there is a Robinson Pass up above Winthrop in our Okanogan County) carried up the Okanogan River Valley from Chelan to Oroville in the '80's. Got it from one of the Allards that haved owned orchards up there forever; descendants of the Robinsons by marriage. I hunt with it regularly, and have won some mid-range matches with it. The thing was a disaster when he gave it to me. I promised to fix it and hunt with it once again as a requiset to obtaining it. The guy I got it from, one of the Allards, also hunts with a rifle carried by the other Robinson brother, a Remington Hepburn. I fixed it up and got it shooting for him again, and worked up a hunting load for it. When we take to the hills up above Oroville together, I'm always toting the Ballard, and he is always toting the Hepburn. Somewhere, a couple of Robinson brothers are looking down and smiling. I like that.