Actually Larry, I bought $100 worth of raffle tickets because I wanted it so badly. I even blabbed endlessly on the forum about the fact that I
knew I would win it. I couldn't make it to the Annual Meeting that year but when I learned on the forum that I had won it I nearly fell off my chair....
I was shocked!!
Thanks Allan for the "rest of the story". And thank you for bringing it back to New England making it easier for me to 'claim my winnings'. That first meeting was the beginning of a really good friendship.
I'm not a trap shooter. And like a lot of others, I generally don't keep a gun for a long time that I don't intend to shoot so that great CHE went down the road - hopefully to a dedicated trap shooter or sporting clays shooter. It was a great privilege to call it mine for a year or so.