Eightbore
I have enjoyed thinking about some of the old timers from the past because of these post. I spent several hours today trying to put names to old faces and events, just because of these post. Many stories came to mind, but some were in different times and their sharing might not make some very happy. So I will not post most of them.
I met D. Lee Braun and Fred Miseldine(sp), about a hundred years ago. Herb Parson and another pro exibition shooter whose name escapes me, who shot for Federal or Remington, are very distant memories of my youth. I use to have an American Indian image Herb shot with a .22 as fast as he could pull the trigger the head emerged in a sheet of Aluminium. Might still be in my parents attic. I will look next time I am there.
Point is if these post and memories have left some cold I am sorry. I have to say I have gained as much information and stirred as many memories in these few post as I have gained in the last six months on the web. These are in the top ten post of my bbs memories here.
But if old memories of shooters, guns and hunting from days gone bother others I am sorry. What then are we doing with these old guns? Collecting antiques, collecting reilcs of the past or keeping the past alive for the next generation. Because there are far more effieicnt shotguns for most hunting or clay targets these days. Double guns are the link to men long dead and times they enjoyed. Links to friends and family few never realy get to know as well as the wish they had. Links to who we are and where we came from.
And on that note I will drop this thread and post no more on it. I hope others here take a few minutes and remember someone like we have mentioned here, not all the famous shooters, but the humble or the odd, or the kind, or just a long departed family or friend who use to hunt. The Greeks use to say a man is never dead as long as others remember his name and deeds. I feel that is true with hunters and dogs as well.
