It's very hard to know what to say when someone is taken from us like this. For the past 6-7 years we've made a summer pilgrimage to visit with Brad and Lori (and their labs) bringing him projects and picking up the previous year's work. He always lingered to talk, show me something unique, and commiserate with me about the state of things gun related. My safe is filled with guns he worked on for me, from full restorations to minor tweaks -- all a testament to how fine a craftsman he was. But all that pales to the kind of man I came to know him to be.
If the PGCA does something in tribute to Brad, and we should (although I'm too stunned and saddened right now to think clearly about it), count me in.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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