[Richard Flanders]

That was the email subject line my good friend Pioneer Bob sent along with this picture of he and I at his house in Rockford Michigan in, I think, 1974. My girlfriend and I hitchhiked to his house from Mich St. Univ. over Christmas break for a visit and some hunting. I broke my Parker VHE20 down, stuffed the parts into the legs of a pair of well-worn Levis and stuffed it into my rucksack for the trip. I hit one of those ruffies from so close and so directly(v rare for me back then)that the wad was inside the bird! The one on the left I think. This is one of the earliest pictures I have of me with that Parker that I had inherited just the year before I think. I only have 2-3 pictures of it from that time. It's a scanned slide so the resolution is not the best.