Friends Tom C and all
Friend Tom C:
(friend Vibe, I still ain't got it right about quotes...I'm going to re-read your posts again carefully, thanks again)
I quote from you Tom:
bill
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"i don't know you, probably never will, yet i feel like i do.
thanks, for the articles and the posts in here, i hope you'll
put out a book i would certainly be in line to buy it as i'm
sure many others would too, anyway once again thanks.
friend tom c."
Tom, you may never know how important this post of yours is to me.
Now, you say something so very reflective.....you feel like you know me....I feel the same way about you, and, all the folks that have corresponced with me because of my Precision Shooting writings, these last five years or so.
I've never met many of those folks, but the letters they write are so very personal, like they knew me and me them, all our lives. It's the same way with the folks I build my guns for, most of them I've never met, a lot of them I've never talked to, corresponding by letter or fax only.
One of the greatest satisfactions I got from my writing was when something I wrote actually helped someone with a problem they were having. A feller wrote me from New York some years ago. I had just written my first bore slugging article. He had had a 25-06 built and the thing wouldn't shoot in a bucket. He tried every thing he knew, bullets, powder etc., to try to make it shoot, with no luck.
He then read my slugging article, decided to try to slug his bore to see if he could see, or feel, anything wrong. He said he started a slug in the bore, pushed it to within about two inches of the muzzle, then by gosh, it got real loose and almost fell out of the crown. He said he slugged it several times, then determined exactly where the loose place begain, then marked the barrel, then had it cut off and re-crowned. He said he took that rifle to the range and he couldn't keep it from shooting through the same hole. He was tickled to death.
Tom, he wasn't any more tickled than me.....
I've got so many stories just like his from folks who improved their accuracy with a little help from my writings.....Man, that was the very special part about writing for Precision Shooting.
Friend Don: I follow your great shooting.....thank you for your comments.
Friend Crosshair: When I wrote, I always tried to act like there was two other folks in the room with me. The person I was talking to, face to face, about whatever subject I was writing about, and, a feller who kept an eye on me as I wrote and called me on stuff if I looked too silly, or rambled around too much, which I did all the time of course. I always attempted to explain stuff like I would be able to understand it myself, cause I ain't got no education and I don't know no big fancy words. Every once in a while I'd slip in a big fancy word of some sort, after I looked it up in the dictionary, but they usually looked out of place in my writings.
I gotta tell you a story, a ture story. I wrote about me gar fishing on the Ohio River. When I wrote the word "gar" the first time, I just knew that was too simple to be the way it was spelled. So I opened the dictionary and sure enough, the word was actually spelled "guar". In the article I used the word "guar" about 25 times or so. Dave Brennan, Precision Shooting editor sent me the manuscript back telling me to correct the incorrect spelling of the word "gar"..........I knew I looked it up in my dictionary so I got it out and looked again and as it turned out, the word "guar" is the abbreviation for the word "guarantee"....man, I didn't take time to see what the word "guar" meant when I had looked it up the first time......this is a true story....a man that stupid don't need to be writing anyway....
MY friends, thank you all.......
Finally friend Tom C.......what I'm going to say will have no meaning to you, but your post, that I quoted at the start, has a meaning to me related in the Bible, Matthew, 17 Verse 20
Your friend, Bill Calfee
