I'm not sure who is playing the part of Walter Mathou, but the movie 'Grumpy Old Men' just popped in to my head. Incredibly amusing. I'll confess - I do LOVE a good insult. Never in short supply on this forum, either. I'm not sure how hard it would be to find yourself banned from the PGCA, but I seriously doubt boorish behavior toward Bill Murphy alone would get the job done. Besides that, if the guy carries some weight with that fraternity it might have something to do with the fact that he knows more about Parker shotguns(and many others) than but a handful of people.

There is a cliche my father used to say. Maybe you've heard it, or hell, maybe he really did coin it - more than one way to skin a cat? He could be sadistic, but I never actually knew of him skinning a cat, although my grandmother did tell me about him tying two cat's tails together and then throwing them over a clothesline when he was a kid. Any way, that wasn't my point.