The old days

[Phil Yearout]

I haven't been at this nearly as long as most of y'all; my first ever double gun came from a flea market - a 16ga Stevens 5100 which I still have. I can think of two shotguns and several rifles that I bought at gun shows, and two shotguns from gun shops. The rest all came from folks on the web sites, either by referral or from inquiries I placed, and usually from folks I knew or at least had seen on these sites a lot. I've never bought a gun off a classified or a web site, and I'm not sure I ever want to.

[Kevin Finnerty]

Ah, Gunlist The Good Old Days... Before the Evils of The Internet

Life was simpler, a touch slower, And most of all more personal

My best guns came from my true friend and Mentor, one Wiley Bower

A fine West Virginia ex pat

....Living in a small town in Northeast Ohio

He had a lifelong interest in Parkers and deep connections, likely going back

to the mid 1950’s

A true southern gentleman

A Dedicated grouse hunter, with an exceptional English Setter by his side

He lived the part.

It was a simpler time

I am better for knowing Wiley

Rest In Peace my friend

[6pt-Sika]

I met an older gentleman about twenty years ago he used to frequent the shops in my area . He was big into period single shot rifles . His two fav cartridges were the 22 Hornet and R2 Lovell . Anyway he showed me five or six guns he’d bought out of the classified adds in the Washington Post . All were Ballard , Stevens or Sharps based guns and all came with pretty much hand made shooting kits (mold powder measure priming tool etc) . Granted this was stuff he bought in the 50’s and 60’s . Guy was a big time groundhog hunter , he and the Clark brother that ignited himself while welding on top a keg of black powder on the back porch of Clark Brothers Gunshop in Warrenton VA hunted groundhogs together from a specially rigged flat fender jeep .