Daryl,

Thank you for the help at Drake. I really appreciated it, and had a great time. I think I got a bit lucky coming in third for the Cup, but I'll certainly go with it! I will definitely be at Hausmann's, and am looking forward to the Fox-Lefever Challenge (even if I'm just watching!).

Sara

Sara is lucky that I shot my Parker on the course instead of my lefever. I would have edged her out by a couple of birds.

We'll never know......





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That is supper cool!! I'm thinking I could get into a lot of trouble at the southern buying stuff.

I meant to hit the quote instead of the thanks on Mr. Dudley's post. If the 1st and 2nd had not shot Sara would have been first, only if.

Brian,
That sounds like a challenge to Sara for the NE S/S.
Bob Jurewicz

We had a very nice, albeit short visit to the Southern on Friday. I stopped by the Parker/Smith tent, but I think it was too early to catch too many folks. I did get to meet and talk with Ed Morgan and looked at some very nice shotguns of his as well as some extraordinary lifter small gauge guns "under glass." I picked up an out of print book about Charles Gordon and some good sale "stuff" from Galazan.

The highlight of the visit was meeting and talking with Jean-Pierre Daeschler, the new managing director of John Dickson. We talked about the 200 year anniversary of the firm which will take place next year. John-Pierre was a personable and knowledgeable individual. He was quite interested in learning that I owned two Dicksons and about our hunting in the States with these fine guns. He promised to get me more information about my guns from his records, and we made a tentative arrangement to visit when we travel to Scotland next year.

The Southern is sure worth a visit, even if one is not a clays shooter.

Sara shot well. I did not shoot with her as I was trying to stick to 20g for the weekend. She was shooting 16, which is the big bore course at Deep river. I was hoping to get out on the course more. I only got out once with my 20g Repro. I at least got to shoot my 20g lefever on sunday morning at the practice stand some.

What a great time at the Southern. Thankfully, my car came back lighter than it went down. It was great to finally put faces with names. It was very nice to meet Brian, Ken, Kevin, Dean, Mills. I even ran into a buddy from home. Lots of fun shooting, guns I’d like to buy when I win the lottery, and a excellent banquet. Thanks to all who made it happen.

It was nice to meet you too Joe.