[Bruce Day]

Here's the PGCA trailer that holds the physical objects. Its kept in a shed and well protected from the weather. When a request is made to display objects from it, Charlie ( or me too if we are doing it together) haul the boxes out of the trailer, get what is wanted, load that stuff into the back of a truck or van and then reload the trailer. Then at the end of the show, we do the reverse. Now this time, the footlocker exhibit was requested and the Parker progressive shot shell loader was wanted. So we hauled that.

The loader is big and heavy and has the original glass powder and shot jars....it was used to load the factory paper shotshells. But there was no handy way to bolt it to a rental table and we didn't want the glass jars to get broken so that ended up being left in the box although some folks did look at it unmounted.

We are careful with these objects because a Parker small and rare item was stolen some years ago from a table at a PGCA meeting, so they are now kept under glass. We also have tablecloths and banners, and these get borrowed and not returned despite calls to send them back. And we can't just go down to Wal Mart and get replacements of these custom made logoed tabled cloths, and they are not cheap.

So here is the Black Hole of the PGCA, it looks like a simple white utility trailer to me, but what do I know? So we hauled stuff from it to the annual meeting and put it back in the trailer and will do so again when the next time rolls around that these things are requested. We have the Browning AH gun also, which will be shown again at the winter Pheasants Forever Pheasant Fest, then it goes back into the black hole gun safe again for a few months.