I had asked on the forum here about refinishing a stock on my Mosin M44. He was telling me how to do it, and finally just said "Why don't you just bring it over to the house, and WE can work on it together" Well I did, and the "we" quickly turned into him doing amazing work (for free) while I watched. That gun (which I sold to another member here after I got my Garand) is still the best looking Mosin I have ever seen. This was a year or two before he had a shop, and he had an old orange colored van he drove around doing touch up painting on cars. I went home with a beautiful rifle, a bag full of okra and feeling like I had met some real salt of the earth people in Don and Lia. I had a few other meetings with Don and Lia. He checked the headspace on a couple rifles for me, and bought a stock off me. I was able to send some people his way, and everyone one of them always left with the same experience I had. Really good and sweet people. I also had some conversations with him about raising bees a while back when looking into beekeeping. He was always ready to help, or give advice.
Don was a great guy, we as a community are surely diminished.
Here is the rifle he re did the stock on. Not my picture. He was a true craftsman as well as being a great person.
Don was a great guy, we as a community are surely diminished.
Here is the rifle he re did the stock on. Not my picture. He was a true craftsman as well as being a great person.
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