Pheasant Fest is a Pheasants Forever event that rotates between Sioux Falls, MSP, DSM , Omaha , sometimes Kansas City , Milwaukee , Madison , Chicago area . People come from all over the US . There is no wall running along the Mississippi.

I have exhibited Parkers at the Southern SxS .

This years Pheasant Fest will be in Omaha Nebraska March 11-13 2022...

Yes. We were invited and it’s not too late to join but all this Covid has me spooked with large crowds. Even this Omicron variant is said to leave lung damage and sometimes cognitive damage. I do not need either. Every year after Pheasant Fest I came down with some sort of cough and crud after shaking hands , being two feet from people and in the breath mist of up to 30,000 people. It’s not just cough and crud with Covid. Many years after PF, I end up getting Z packed . In 2020, I was sick by the time I got home and was concerned that it was the Covid that we were starting to hear about. Within a couple weeks , the Covid was hitting hard and people were dying.

It is not only me that I have been concerned about but I feel responsible to those friends and acquaintances that I ask to join as booth presenters. Many are senior citizens and all most are long time personal friends. I do not want to risk their health.

You are taking the correct approach in my opinion Bruce. Thanks for representing all the past years and I am sure there will be more in the years to come!

I agree with Reggie and Bruce. Unless I can have some control over with whom and how I interact with people, I'll stick to hunting with the dogs and wife. No need to risk getting sick, even the "regular" flu under these circumstances. Hopefully things will spike and drop quickly as seems to be the pattern in other places. I thought for sure I'd go to the Pheasant Fest this year, but... Good luck and health to those who do venture to Omaha.

The original question was about tablecloths . I have five of the PGCA tablecloths , all owned by the association. I keep them for Pheasant Fest . I have two Parker banners that I had made , paid for myself and use them on behalf of the association . I do not have a sales table under either . I also have a vinyl tablecloth that Charlie Herzog had made and gave to me when we started.

There are a few other tablecloths owned by the PGCA and stored by trusted individuals for use at events which the board approves a PGCA presence. I have board approval and do not use them without board approval.

I do not know current thinking but I know that we did not want what you see with some collector organizations with dubious dealers doing business under collector association banners.

When Kevin and I were doing the PGCA tables at The Vintage Cup, we had this heavy vinyl or leatherette table cover --

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I don't know if it was Kevin's or the associations.

Years ago either Austin Hogan or Charlie Herzog (I forget whom) loaned me that tablecloth for use in doing Parker-related displays at shows where the Association did not want to do a formal PGCA-sponsored display such as Bruce cites at Pheasant Fest. I believe Charlie Herzog had 3 of them made up at his expense. Although heavy and cumbersome compared to the lovely current lightweight, full-colored ones in Association use today, people seemed to like it; like John B's comment, we frequently heard, "Where can I get one?"

Apparently somebody liked it a whole lot more than we did; it was stolen from my trap and pigeon gun display table in the Parker-LC Smith tent a few years ago. The thieves had very bold and eclectic tastes: the cover shown was under a soft table cover with a plastic tarp on top of both to protect the display from rain, all secured to the table with heavy spring hand clamps. Just to add a dash of variety, person or persons who took it may be the same ones who also stole 17 brand new 40-gallon plastic trash barrels that Bill Kempfer had purchased at WalMart the day before! Caveat exhibitor!!

Pheasant Fest photo righted.

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I had some made up by the same folks that made them for the PGCA, Mine just said the parker gun