Jerry, what a hoot! great writing ! That's one unique friend you have; I love the line about the Springers biting him repeatedly. what a chump, ex-friend you say? I met a "friend of a friend" in our duck camp one year, who although a crack shot and an Orvis wingshooting instructor, also believed that guns should not have cases and should always be "thrown" into the back of trucks whenever possible. However he knocked ducks out of the sky that I could barely even see.