Remembering "Slingster"

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28 July 2011, 18:28

DavidC

Thanks Nick.

Eric was a good guy.

It's alway sad to look back over the people that we have lost.

Best,
Dave

28 July 2011, 20:59

D. Nelson

quote:
Originally posted by DavidC:
Thanks Nick.

Eric was a good guy.

It's alway sad to look back over the people that we have lost.

Best,
Dave

Eric was a dear friend...my husaband and I do miss him!

D. Nelson

On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died.

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch...
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
- Rudyard Kipling

Life grows grim without senseless indulgence.

29 July 2011, 00:50

JBrown

quote:
Originally posted by DavidC:
Thanks Nick.

Eric was a good guy.

It's alway sad to look back over the people that we have lost.

Best,
Dave

I agree on all three points. As important as it is for us to remember our friends that have passed, these tributes should also serve to remind us that our own time here is limited.

Spend as much time as you can doing what you love, because you never know when your number will be called.

For me that means going hunting and spending time with family, and foregoing the less important things.

Jason

"You're not hard-core, unless you live hard-core."
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Hunting in Africa is an adventure. The number of variables involved preclude the possibility of a perfect hunt. Some problems will arise. How you decide to handle them will determine how much you enjoy your hunt.

Just tell yourself, "it's all part of the adventure." Remember, if Robert Ruark had gotten upset every time problems with Harry
Selby's flat bed truck delayed the safari, Horn of the Hunter would have read like an indictment of Selby. But Ruark rolled with the punches, poured some gin, and enjoyed the adventure.

-Jason Brown

29 July 2011, 01:36

mstarling

Indeed. Thank you for the remembrance.

Sad to lose the great guys ... would have been sadder for them not to have been here!

Mike

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29 July 2011, 03:25

Aspen Hill Adventures

I think most will agree that Accurate Reloading was a better place due to Eric Ching. RIP, you are missed!

I hate when we lose someone....

29 July 2011, 04:42

Michael Robinson

I'm not the sentimental type. But when I think of Eric, I am reminded of the wonderful poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, Requiem, that speaks to all sportsmen:

Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.

I hope that there is a Happy Hunting Ground, and if there is, I hope and trust that Eric is there.

Mike

Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer.

29 July 2011, 04:56

Bill C

Thanks Nick.

I wish there were a way the pictures could be maintained, but as they are not actually uploaded, when we go eventually so will the website hosting the pictures.

http://forums.accuratereloadin...321043/m/805105101?r

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31 July 2011, 02:35

Andy

I used a Ching sling on my 450 Dakota in 2005, and still use it.

My condolances.

My brother, Barrett, knew Eric. They went to orange Gunsight together.

Andy