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I was searching for Ken Eyster's website today and couldn't find the old one, but stumbled across some sites stating that Ken had passed away in November. I didn't know him, but some of you likely did. I searched this bbs for some past posts on his passing that I may have missed. I didn't find anything, so I thought I'd post this. I didn't know him personally, but I hear he was a great shooter and gunsmith.

Thanks for posting this Chuck. Kenny was one of the finest barrelsmiths, who really understood the relationship between shotgun chambers/cones/bores/chokes. Many men referred to him as the modern Burt Becker. Customers would spend hours drinking coffee and playing with his dogs while in the shop waiting to shoot the next round of patterning, or at blocks on the water. Pictures of his better shooters grace the walls of Eyster's shop and the covers of the clay shooting mags, but most wouldn't advertise they had barrels done by Eyster. In recent years Kenny was tutoring his sons Jim and Tim, and I suspect they continue Eystering guns under the same trade name = Heritage Gunsmithing in Centerburg OH. Not well known, Kenny was very good friends with B/Gen Paul W. Tibbetts, pilot of the B-29 Enola Gay, who passed two years ago, also in November. Frank

Near as I know, they do continue. Last time I saw him in the shop was the year of the big Xmas ice storm in the Johnstown area. I took my Diana Super to them for a TIG-ed lock block on the way thru to Indiana but they couldn't work on it until later in January because of power outage. He was supposed to be THE barrel tuner.

jack