Our Responsibilities as Collectors

[Patrick Chadwick]

One thing I've noticed that catches my eye allot is wasted material.

Well I reckon that the combined efforts of forum members go a long way to making sure that as much is saved as can be. And as you will have noticed, some desperate cases have been restored to original configuration and function. The trouble is rather a naive expectation on the part of many that there must be spares somewhere for guns that were made a century or more ago and a reluctance to face up to the necessity to acquire some serious knowhow to do the job oneself. In which noble aim, we do our best to help. But sometimes scrap is, well, just scrap.