Austin was beyond brilliant and was a super nice guy.

I have a bunch of his charts, graphs and plottings of various attributes of chambers, chokes, etc. that I look at every so often and try to understand them.

Why he even plotted snowfall for three years in a row where he lived in northwestern NH. And he charted snowflakes too...





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California certainly would prohibit anything that pollutes or causes cancer , except of course meth, cocaine, heroin, sewage on streets and garbage.

Austin, was a fine gentleman, and as Dean says very very smart, I am privileged to have his little 20 ga Hammer gun with the little 00 exposed hammer frame 29/32 firing pin spacing on center, Gary

I wish Austin and I had crossed paths the one year that we were both working in Antarctica. He worked out of a camp run by a friend and I ran another a few hundred miles away. We likely were in McMurdo at the same time but, unfortunately, never met.

Bruce I hope you have that 10 gauge when we meet up in South Dakota.

You would have liked him Richard. Austin was Phd. geophysicist and the consummate scientist.





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Austin's skeet gun is a constant companion for me.

I’ve never seen that one Bill, can you post a picture or two of it?





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I will have it.

You southern boys better bring a sweatshirt . It’s 28 and breezy outside here in northern Minnesota. I am thinking about wading out and breaking ice out to the clear water and see if I can catch some walleye for supper.

Whoa, Dean, a picture.