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Sorry to hear he is gone. Some of his correspondence is part of my permanent Lindner research file. I never could get John to send me pictures of his Lindner single barrel with safety.
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Was he ill or was thus sudden. Best wishes to his family. T
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I feel a great loss, not only myself but also to this board. What a gentleman! Another reminder this life is but a fleeting breeze.....God speed!
John McCain is my war hero.
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Bloody shame. A civilized man. Good, generous.
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Dang. What a shame. I haven't talk to Mr. Mann in a long time, we used to exchange emails quite often and I even bought a few guns from him....I once posted a question on here concerning a single barrel trap gun for my little cousin who wanted to start shooting.....out of nowhere he offered to give her one of his coveted single barrel trap Lindners. This was a special gun, built for a teenage shooter. And when I mean give....I mean all I had to pay was the shipping...John just wanted to make the little girl happy. I even offered to buy the gun from him, but he declined, he didn't want the money, he wanted to bring happiness. I did not take him up on his offer but repeatedly told him what a gracious and giving man he was. I meant every word of it too. Rest in Peace John...God, you got a good one up there, but you probably knew that already.
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Always the gentleman..... During that April 1st prank of John's I posted this. I think it fitting that I post it again, this time for him.
The Fisherman W.B. Yeats 1919 From The Wild Swans at Coole.
ALTHOUGH I can see him still, The freckled man who goes To a grey place on a hill In grey Connemara clothes At dawn to cast his flies, It’s long since I began To call up to the eyes This wise and simple man. All day I’d looked in the face What I had hoped ’twould be To write for my own race And the reality; The living men that I hate, The dead man that I loved, The craven man in his seat, The insolent unreproved, And no knave brought to book Who has won a drunken cheer, The witty man and his joke Aimed at the commonest ear, The clever man who cries The catch-cries of the clown, The beating down of the wise And great Art beaten down. Maybe a twelvemonth since Suddenly I began, In scorn of this audience, Imagining a man And his sun-freckled face, And grey Connemara cloth, Climbing up to a place Where stone is dark under froth, And the down turn of his wrist When the flies drop in the stream: A man who does not exist, A man who is but a dream; And cried, ‘Before I am old I shall have written him one Poem maybe as cold And passionate as the dawn.’
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Very sad news. John's research on Lindners, published in DGJ, helped me significantly when I finally got around to buying one. And he was also more than willing to answer my questions. RIP, John.
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I will miss him, we shared a few Emails ,,bless him I;m curious to know if anyone has a pic of John they could post, I was in Kittery trading post a few years ago and saw a guy who looked like I though John might look like, but I didn't ask his name Thin, not to tall, longish hair??? I'd love to see a pic He was a nice bloke franc
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Sad news. John was a good man. I will miss him.
Dave Weber doublegunshop.com DoubleGun Evangelist In Charge But Not Responsible
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"It's a good day for something"
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