Well, it finally happened! Ercnan and I got together at a gun shop and range located 'bout halfway between us. Most of you have known and been forum buddies with Erc far, far longer than I have. This sort of makes me feel like a line-cutter or some such. We met, broused and looked and lusted a lot, then shot a little, then looked and lusted somemore. Erc is a great guy, interesting, and very humble when his considerable contributions to this forum and other favorites of ours are mentioned.

Erc had cameras but we had much to shoot and little time so no pictures this time. Erc let me shoot his HP 9mm pistol, my first experience with a HP gun and it was cool. I let Erc shoot my lefty Savage mkll.22 lr bolt. We both brought shotguns, he his Pardner which he posted pics of here in the past and I had "old ugly" a shortened FIE-CBC 12ga single. Both would put a load of buckshot #4 and or 00b entirely in a 10-12" circle at 25yds. Which was a lot tighter than I expected. I was shooting unbuffered shot in 00b but buffered in #4b. Erc and I only live 60 or so miles apart so it's unlikely this will be the last meetup 'tween us. We saw the new style 995 carb. a really nice Heritage BB 45 Colt and other cool guns too numerous to mention. It was a really great day with a very cool and interesting guy!

He really doesn't seem to realize how grateful some of us are to him and all you who put blood ,sweat,toil and tears into making these forums work!
KB
PS When I asked about you other "old timers" on here
Erc verified what I already thought, how good a bunch this here is!