Joe Kautzky , of Fort Dodge, Iowa, was an in-law and family friend. Kautzky Sporting Goods was located on the square at the end of Central Avenue. I have wonderful memories of hanging around the store and talking to Joe and Rudy and looking at the gun racks. At the time, the Browning Auto 5 was the gun to have in pheasant country. Joe was also the inventor of the Lazy Ike fishing lure, which he sold to Berkley up at Spirit Lake. Spirit Lake was the home of Fred Gilbert, and we showed a photo of Fred at the last Pheasant Fest taken in 1926 at a shoot in his honor.
A few blocks up from Kautzky's Sporting Goods was the Model Clothing Store, and a girl I was kinda sweet on worked there at her father's store.
If the gun becomes available, I would love to have the opportunity.
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