Ed, I'll be sure to keep a good thought for your Dad. I hope all goes well with you and yours during his surgery. I hope too that you can spend time with relatives while there. Might as well make the most of it, eh? Good luck to your Dad.
John, thank you for this board. It's my latest addiction and is threatening my buying other guns. Just this afternoon I saw a nice CZ-50 for sale cheap. I almost bought it but then thought, "Hey, that's a fifth of a Erfurt"....

The check is, literally, in the mail. You ought to have it any day now.
Thanks also to all of the moderators, without whom this site would be less informative.