Hey, Destry, what's this "our friend" business. He's your friend. You shoot thrown birds with him and will probably take him to GB next year. I'm glad he got over being banned from this site, but he had to come in under his real name to get over that. How did he get over being banned when the other guy is still banned? Maybe our webmaster doesn't know who Francis is.

Oh NO! Not an alter ego! Spare us!

Francis, I'm glad you caught the line about "I'm glad he got over being banned". After rereading my post, I was afraid you would misunderstand. I bought a Parker today and I may go over to the Smith site to tell them about it. You know, the Smith guys have a shoot in Carlisle, PA in March. If you can come, I'll get you a sponsor if you're not a member.

Everyone:
I'll bet a flat of RST 28 ga. 2 1/2 inch shells that we see someone wearing that L.C. Smith 'fob' around the grounds at the Southern at Deep River in a couple of months;

Destry: please get rid of that hideous picture and the overlengthy quote footnoting all your posts lately; both are light years and a galaxy away from the preppy bars in Ann Arbor;

Eightbore: In case word has not reached you yet, it is now much in vogue and (in some associations) a badge of honor to have been banned from a BBS!

Researcher; My last "close encounter" with a Clown Catalog via Ron Willoughby was in excess of $2K.

Kevin,

I like my new decorations and plan on clinging to them till at least hunting season. I may work in an Ann Arbor bar but I most definitely don't fit in there. I think that's why they hired me, a redneck strikes the fear of God into these yuppie ying yangs.


Destry

Now Francis, don't put words in my mouth. I did not call Mr Hoffard "Falstaff". I was responding to a post by Bill Bolyard and Destry picked up on my citation to the quote from Shakespeare and jumped in. What name Destry chooses to call and label himself is not my concern nor my doing. In fact I like his waterfowling posts and appreciate his dedication to that aspect of hunting. He certainly likes getting wet and freezing at 5am a lot more than I do.

Bruce Once was a Young Urban Professional ( Yuppie), now a Middle Aged Urban Professional ( Muppie) Day.

Francis, the private message service should work and if it doesn't, ask the webmaster. Maybe its your computer. I've never seen any difficulty with it.

Civility is key here, and a person only has to look at some of the other websites to appreciate that....especially those sites where people hide behind noms de plume which degenerate into noms de guerre. We have this "ignore" feature, where if a person doesn't even want to see, much less read, the posts of somebody else, they can list that person to be ignored, and those posts don't even appear on his computer. But regardless, following a conversation and staying on track is a good thing, in my opinion.

John is the buck stops here man and contact him as you have done before.

Francis was not banned from this site for voluminous correspondence about unrelated subjects, although he was and is again, guilty of that (non hanging) offense. He was found guilty of bullying, using of obscenities and other offenses that only our webmaster may remember. I don't know how he got reinstated, but he did, under a name that the webmaster may not have recognized. It seems that Francis is going back to his old ways and may get banned again. Don't despair, Francis, I have been banned myself, but got myself back on track and here I am. Cut the crap and stick to the subject at hand.

Gentlemen, it's getting difficult to see the difference between this thread and those on doublegunshop.com.... may I suggest you take your gloved (so far) fisticuffs elsewhere?