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your missed. RIP friend.
Some here will know.
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Sad. Thanks Jed. He was a wonderful gunsmith, and a heckuva nice guy. Visiting the Pumpkin Mountain Gunshop was a major part of vacationing at Indian Lake for me. I have a Stevens .22 bolt gun that came from there.
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My Winchester Bullet Board came from him. around 1982 or so.
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The name sounds familiar.
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I'm guessing here...but know enough to say...my grand-dad's 1886 was likely one of his last big project's.
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Sorry to hear that Jed,he was a nice guy,i think he was working on the 1886 the time we visited him, a really talented gunsmith, another good guy gone. Don
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Yeah he was,Don. Seems we took one of your 1886 deluxe's up to him to show him where the holes had to go for the climbin Lyman.
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I'll never forget the target he had hanging on the wall, the one with a single .50 bullet hole dead center, fired by truck headlight to sight in the muzzle loader he finished building the night before bear season. Further down the wall hung the head of the bear he killed the next morning, with the second shot ever fired out of that gun.
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One of the Whitetail mounts in the shop, I asked about it. Well he said "theres quite a story behind that one"...and went on to tell me how he bought the rack at the Syracuse NY show for 100$ then sent it to the taxidermist. He had a hell of a sense of humor.
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Cut me deep that day in 2009 I took my buck to him to have it green scored,and he was unable to pull it together enough to measure it.... ![[Linked Image]](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/Jed1899/IMG_6300.jpg)
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What did he score Jed? Hell of a deer.
"...aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one." - Paul to the church in Thessalonica.
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always went by there when it was closed,sorry to hear of his passing sounds like he was a great guy RIP
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When it comes to choosing friends....I'm at an age where I'd rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
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Theres about 10" of deductions that I refuse to allow. 
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Were there with this one in the late 80's [img:center] ![[Linked Image]](http://i591.photobucket.com/albums/ss351/sqweeler/WT002.jpg) [/img]
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Isnt that the Unibomber?
Great buck Jed. Public or private? I got my biggest near New Paltz on public land.
"...aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one." - Paul to the church in Thessalonica.
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What's that one score,Ed?
RAS, Private land....the family farm. That buck grew up and lived in my mom's backyard. I found his sheds about 2 months before I made him dead.
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Nice buck, Ed. When I took mine up, Don wheeled it right up onto the kitchen table while Claire was vacuuming, errrr, doing 'squaw work', as Don used to say it.
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Is the shop still open, I've always wanted to visit it, it seems like every time I was out that way it was closed. But I've heard a lot of great stuff about it.
You've got to hand it to a blind prostitute
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