Parker Pages arrived at a great time!!!!
 

Thanks to all those who put together such nice issue. I am humbled and proud to have my picture in this issue for the Major Waldron event and for being in the elite group earning a Parker Doubles pin.

The Spring issue arrived yesterday and the timing was perfect. Thursday night around midnight New Hampshire was hit with Hurricane force winds and many inches of rain. I lost my electricity (along with most of the state) at 11:45pm Thursday and it was not restored until 3:45PM today (Sunday). Yesterday when the mailman delivered my issue I was thrilled to have something so interesting to read. I was trapped here manning my generator, coleman lantern and stove, with no internet or TV to entertain myself. Living off the grid for three days was not fun and the Spring issue lifted my spirits. Thank you to all who made it possible.

Pete,Happy to hear you made it through ok.We got the same storm here in CT.Alot of rain and a few inches of snow but we were on the lee side of all that wind.Nothing more than 30mph gusts.On my way up to Larry Freys yesterday I spotted a convoy of Electric Co. trucks from North Carolina heading your way.Dean was telling me of all the wind damage on the Mass. coast also.Glad you enjoyed the latest issue of PP.

It is now 6:30 Sunday and my power has been back on for about 15 min. Now I can read the Parker Pages that arrived yesterday.

Dave this was a real bad storm. Winds and wind damage seemed to be greater than Hurricane Gloria in '85 and Hurricane Bob in '91. Local news reports remain sketchy for me. I have heard as much of 8" of rain came down over two days in nearby Maine. Confirmed wind gust of 91mph in Portsmouth. I woke up to the wind and rain about 11:30pm Thurs. I have been in a tornado before in TX and this sounded similiar. Sustained winds were worse than the two Hurricanes IMO. I went to Durham to get gas for generator yesterday, lines at every gas station that had power. The Evangelical church in Durham has the roof stripped of it's shingles. I went to get gas in the teeth of the storm hoping to find some before there was no power at the stations, I ran into a Dover cop blocking the main drag by the hospital. She told me she did not know where there were stations with power and that the entire police force had lost their radio system. Thinking about the total lack of police coverage, power out and wide spread chaos,after setting up the generator for lights and sump pump I went to the gun rack. I mulled over a few Parkers and decided to make a bedmate of an old reliable 870 with a 18.5 barrel and 5rounds. Glad to get through it and with no damage to my house.

As far as I know Scott is still without power and at one point his house was down to 48 degrees. Have not heard from Bob.

I got mine yesterday, great job as always, very pleased to see Ernesto on the cover. I've followed the "Papa's Guns" series in Shooting Sportsman with great interest over the last couple of issues. I'd love to know what he's toting in the PP cover photo.

Page three top right, a VH photo found in sunny NH

Just a couple of shots of some huge trees dropped by the high winds.

the first picture is taken about fifteen miles from the coast and the second is 1/2 mile from the coast.





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My friend sent me a picture of his backyard storage shed, anyone need any BMW Motorcycle parts?

Remmie 870 with 18.5" barrel--
 

Pete- good choice. Let me guess- you were also a Boy Scout. That old "Be Prepared" in today's world can mean more than just fresh Duracells in the old MagLite and extra Bics and waterproofed matches, along with a charged cell phone and a sharpened Randall or Buck in the sheath--

Sad but a fact of life- looters after Katrina, now in Chile after the 8.8 Richter scaled earthquake that hit down there-so the 870 stoked with 00 buck and a Uncle Mike's spare 5 round elastic shell carrier on the buttstock- good call.

Reminds me of a line from a Michigan writer's short story- "Revenge" by Jim Harrison- where the main character, a former Phantom pilot in Vietnam, is on the run in dark and dirty Mexico-the now deceased horse wrangler he hitched a ride with carried a S&W .44mag- now in his possession- and he 'slept the sleep of angels in the motel room that night, with the cold blue steel of that big revolver under his pillow, and the wrangler's $5K in the cigar box tucked inside the back of the TV set'--:bowdown: