Thank you John. I will post further but infrequently, and not attempt to boost the forum the way CH and I have done previously.
I'm afraid my friend CH is finished, he has made that plain in four letter words after for no reason one of his prize Parkers was mocked here. I posted several photos of Austin Hogan, who we had just announced was in serious condition, from several years ago when he was strong and vigorous and involved in articles about the Parker intended for Czar Nicolas. Forum participants said nothing about Austin but took the opportunity to rehash the tired story about the Czar gun and worse, to gratuitously badmouth an uninvolved AAHE owned by Charlie and embellished further to what we have called the Czar Memorial Gun. One poster started in on the gun giving him nightmares, talking about raincosts and a Lindberg case, calling it a "strange and mesmerizing gun", and on and on talking about the Maltese Falcon and some sort of grassy knoll, all without provocation or apparent direction.
So my good friend has said he will never allow his guns to be shown here and will not forward any photos to me for posting, and he has wiped the forum off his computer and may not visit here again. This from one of the early PGCA members, a director emeritus and one of the principal Parker collectors and one of a handful who has spent thousands of personal money and much time promoting the PGCA.
We lost another principal collector several years ago when he posted photos of A grades here, got snotty responses, and left. He has never posted here again and says he won't. I see his guns once in a while, but he will not display them nor post them and so some of the top and most interesting Parkers have been lost to view to enthusiasts.
So in my buddy's words, if I post here more, I must enjoy getting kicked in the teeth and he won't . Thanks for your kind comments. Hope to see you at Pheasant Fest in St Paul.
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