Caroline

[Stan Hillis]

This is Caroline. She and I shared a spot on a sunflower field yesterday afternoon. This sweet Parker had come to live with me some months before I was involved in a drowning mishap that resulted in my being in ICU, on a ventilator, for nearly two weeks, under sedation. When I was removed from it, and later the breathing tube, I was greeted one day by a young lady nurse named Caroline, the daughter of a close friend and hunting buddy of mine. As she stood by my bedside and related to me why I was there, and what I had been through, I thought I was looking at the most beautiful person I'd ever seen.

Later, after my complete recovery, as I sat on a dove field with the Parker I realized it was the most beautiful Parker I'd ever seen in person. (Bear with me guys, I'd been a Fox man most of my life. :)) I give many of my vintage guns feminine names and one day, as I was driving to a dove shoot with the DHE, it occurred to me that she should be named after my sweet, pretty friend, Caroline.

Caroline has 32 inch 20 ga., and also 32 inch 16 ga., barrels. She was wearing the 20s yesterday afternoon, and shooting RST LITEs, in no. 8s.

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How neat that the little butterfly chose to land on the gun just before I snapped the pic.

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[CraigThompson]

Very nice Stan ! Is that gun a 1 frame ?

[CraigThompson]

Stan if that gun is a 1 frame are the 20 gauge barrels 2 7/8” ?

[Garry L Gordon]

Nice! Looks like you and Caroline "done good."

[todd allen]

Glad you're still here, Stan. Beautiful Parker, BTW!

[Stan Hillis]

Craig, it is a no. 1 frame, but does not have 2 7/8" chambers.

[Stan Hillis]

Glad you're still here, Stan. Beautiful Parker, BTW!

Thank you, Todd. Every new day is a gift.

[CraigThompson]

Thank you, Todd. Every new day is a gift.

I know a gentleman that used to be a member of our gun club . He was originally from Wyoming and a few years back moved back to Wyoming . Anyway he’s married to a lady from Belgium and they were in the airport at the ticket counter in Belgium getting boarding passes and he just dropped over dead . There happened to be I assume a thoracic surgeon behind him at the time who immediately opened him up with a pen knife and massaged his heart some kinda way and kept him going until they could get him to a hospital etc . Anyway he survived and was in the shop one day and we were talking about the incident and he pretty much said the same thing about being brought back and each day being a freebie .

[Stan Hillis]

Being "brought back" definitely changes one's priorities. I'm sure some have questioned my use of the term "drowning", as drowning victims typically have a funeral service. However, eye witnesses and rescuers assured me I was indeed dead after having been on the bottom of a warm water lake over 8 minutes. My doctors all agreed that there is no medical explanation for why I have no lung or brain damage, or even how I was rescucitated, after being deprived of oxygen that long. They all agreed with me that there IS an explanation, and it is that the Almighty wasn't ready for me yet, and had more purposes for me here.

Congratulate your friend for me, please, if you ever have the opportunity.

[Phillip Carr]

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I know a gentleman that used to be a member of our gun club . He was originally from Wyoming and a few years back moved back to Wyoming . Anyway he’s married to a lady from Belgium and they were in the airport at the ticket counter in Belgium getting boarding passes and he just dropped over dead .

We just cleared security, customs in Canada, and The Cruise ship boarding process with all of the Covid protocols in place. I may not be a heart surgeon but I know first hand what probably brought this on :rotf:

[Garry L Gordon]

There are still miracles. It's heartening to hear of them. Glad you're still chasing birds, farming for the rest of us, and enjoying your life and family (AND shooting dove well with a .410!).