Fred Preston.....

[Dean Romig]

A fitting requiem for ol' Fred "Jelly Belly" Preston. What a likable guy he was.

I bought a set of Bernard barrels from him almost fifteen years ago - I've shown them here a couple of times. He had some nice Parkers too. He was a very decent man.






.

[Opening Day]

Fred was a great guy, if you met him he was very quiet man, unassuming and would do anything for you. I remember another story about Fred and Sanford, he had driven down with Roger Giles (Roger driving) and old Roger was well lets just say he was dangerous in that Buick Roadmaster station wagon knew only one speed from what I heard from Fred (I'll let Destry tell you about road trips with Roger ) and Fred was not looking forward to the trip back. Well Sunday arrived and there was a knock on our door at 7 am and there was Fred, he looked at me and asked is there any beer left in our cooler, I said yes and he promptly downed three or four in minutes because he said that was the only way he could survive driving back with Roger !

I am going to miss Fred, he was a good man.

[Randy Roberts]

Never met the man but that's one funny story. You're a better man than me. I could have never made the drive after all that booze. A long nap would be in order. Sounds like he was a fine chap !

[Bill Murphy]

I guess I should consider laying off the brown stuff if I don't want stories like this told about me. On the other hand, I guess it's a bit late to change my reputation. The best thing I have ever done to save my reputation is taking The Lovely Linda and my Wirehair, Eva, to just about every double gun event in the past decade or more.