My grandfather used his 30-30 in the Alaskan Gold rush to shoot a mountain goat and sell it to the tavern.

My father was chief engineer and patent hold on many guns, but the best known was from the M55, M107, and M110 mobile artillery's.
My father was a pheasant man.

I bought a Daisy model 25 pump BB gun at age 10.
At age 70, I chambered and headspaced a 1903 Turkish Mauser to 260 Remington, last night.
I have become a deer man.


There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps