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Just saw Cal has passed. No details yet.
 
Posts: 567 | Location: Durango, CO | Registered: 18 July 2005Reply With Quote
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RIP Cal. We shared a love of doubles and a lot of good times at the range and shooting in his yard. You'll be missed!


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Posts: 816 | Location: MT | Registered: 14 November 2004Reply With Quote
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RIP- very sad news. I met Cal in Nyakasanga several years ago and had a nice evening with him.
 
Posts: 1128 | Location: Zimbabwe | Registered: 22 June 2009Reply With Quote
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Posts: 991 | Location: AL | Registered: 13 January 2003Reply With Quote
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Very sad. I enjoyed many conversations with him. RIP.
 
Posts: 7828 | Registered: 31 January 2005Reply With Quote
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Sad indeed!

Condolences to his family and friends.


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Posts: 69283 | Location: Dubai, UAE | Registered: 08 January 1998Reply With Quote
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Damn, what happened? RIP, Cal.


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Posts: 13605 | Location: Georgia | Registered: 28 October 2006Reply With Quote
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RIP Cal.
 
Posts: 1836 | Location: Sinton, Texas | Registered: 08 November 2006Reply With Quote
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So so sorry to hear.

He was one of us..RIP
 
Posts: 1935 | Location: St. Charles, MO | Registered: 02 August 2012Reply With Quote
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Sudden.

On to the happy hunting grounds.


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Posts: 867 | Location: Idaho/Wyoming/South Dakota | Registered: 08 February 2006Reply With Quote
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Hate to hear... another lost. RIP Cal.


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.
 
Posts: 7568 | Location: Victoria, Texas | Registered: 30 March 2003Reply With Quote
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RIP- A great guy to deal with.


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Posts: 402 | Location: Central Wyoming | Registered: 14 March 2010Reply With Quote
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Rest In Peace Cal, will really miss you
 
Posts: 569 | Location: texas | Registered: 29 March 2008Reply With Quote
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Does anyone have any details? I got a PM on AH from him yesterday in the morning, he was getting ready to head out on safari.
 
Posts: 303 | Registered: 01 November 2016Reply With Quote
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Very sad to hear this. A gentleman who will be missed. Rest in Peace Cal.


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Posts: 1857 | Location: Northern Rockies, BC | Registered: 21 July 2006Reply With Quote
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RIP my friend. You will be missed.
 
Posts: 12134 | Location: Orlando, FL | Registered: 26 January 2006Reply With Quote
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RIP Cal.

It appears that your number was called, however, you are in the fields hunting and enjoying your self.


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Posts: 1635 | Location: West River at Heart | Registered: 08 April 2012Reply With Quote
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RIP....wow


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Posts: 1172 | Location: Pamplico, SC USA | Registered: 24 August 2005Reply With Quote
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I really enjoyed his posts. Yes, he had plans to go on a few safaris this year, despite selling many of his doubles. RIP, Cal.


I meant to be DSC Member...bad typing skills.

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Posts: 3460 | Location: Dallas | Registered: 19 March 2008Reply With Quote
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Sad news to start the week, RIP Cal.

But I have to say Cal was blessed in an important way. Rather than dying after a long hospital stay, he was truly living life till the end, still going on safari and anticipating the next one. We should all be so fortunate when our time comes.
 
Posts: 3939 | Location: California | Registered: 01 January 2009Reply With Quote
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I first encountered Cal when I posted a Hunt Report on my first Safari in Namibia 10 years ago. Cal criticized me for using a laser rangefinder in bagging my first African game, a 40” Gemsbok bull. I told him to “practice self insemination”. He later apologized for his criticism and was much more civil and actually praised me in response to my next four Hunting Reports. I enjoyed reading his own Hunting Reports with his beloved double rifles. RIP Cal.


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Posts: 1388 | Location: Lake Bluff, IL | Registered: 02 May 2008Reply With Quote
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Wow_ in the few dealings I had with Cal, always a gentleman. RIP
 
Posts: 134 | Location: west MN | Registered: 22 September 2010Reply With Quote
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Rest In Peace, Mr. Pappas.

Hopefully you are enjoying the happy hunting grounds already.
 
Posts: 11198 | Location: Minnesota USA | Registered: 15 June 2007Reply With Quote
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RIP
 
Posts: 817 | Location: jimtown ND | Registered: 21 January 2011Reply With Quote
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RIP Cal. You will be missed.
 
Posts: 820 | Location: Black Hills of South Dakota/Florida's Gulf Coast | Registered: 23 March 2011Reply With Quote
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To say that I am dismayed to hear this news would be an understatement. Met Cal several years ago at SCI in Reno. We handled some 4 Bores and 600 NE’s. Bought all of his books, and gratefully accepted his help in getting my 8 Bore up and running. I think Cal had an ex wife, but no kids that I’m aware of. He was too young to go. RIP Cal.
 
Posts: 268 | Location: TUCSON, AZ | Registered: 18 November 2007Reply With Quote
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Cal was a great guy and this is a huge loss to the DR community. I enjoy rereading his books on doubles. He was a man who truly enjoyed his passion. He will be remembered.
 
Posts: 897 | Registered: 25 February 2009Reply With Quote
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RIP Cal.
 
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This is such sad news, and so sudden! Very sorry to hear this.

RIP, Cal.


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Posts: 13757 | Location: New England | Registered: 06 June 2003Reply With Quote
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RIP Cal. Very sad news.


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Posts: 1457 | Location: Eastern Cape | Registered: 27 October 2010Reply With Quote
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What a gut-punch! I met Cal in 2010 at the SCI Show where was doing a signing for his 600NE book. There was no one else talking to him, so we had a nice chat, and I bought his book. He invited me to visit him at his place in Alaska and shoot some of his doubles, which I did later that year. I stayed at his place in Willow for two days and found him to be knowledgeable, opinionated, and a raconteur par excellance! His fitness was off the chart, with a well-used weight room in his basement and miles of Alaska all around. When the weather permitted, he would collect his shotgun and his Labrador and do twice daily two-hour walks. His words of encouragement helped me through multiple knee replacement surgeries and the adjustment to insulin dependent diabetes, as he was a veteran of both. Indeed, he was too young to leave, but he is now in a place where the elephants all are 100 pounders, the moose have 70+ antlers, and the caribou all have double shovels. RIP, old friend, I look forward to the caribou hunt we never were able to do.
 
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I spoke to Mr. Cal often. Just spoke to him after Christmas.

He helped me research my Greener. A very sad loss to us. I great gain to him.
 
Posts: 12622 | Location: Somewhere above Tennessee and below Kentucky  | Registered: 31 July 2016Reply With Quote
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Wow. Just talked to him a little while ago. Must have been very sudden as he was leaving on a Safari on the 25th.

RIP Cal.
 
Posts: 1083 | Location: Southern CA | Registered: 01 January 2014Reply With Quote
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I don't know what to say. I didn't give him a call since returning from our road trip. We usually would check in with him so we could get together. I saw on FB he was recently at a local high school graduation last week. I had no hint he was unwell in any way.

He will be missed by many including Joyce and me. Cal had a foggy recollection of Joyce shooting his four bore. He bragged on her often and she just played along.

I got to meet quite a few AR people, including international at the Double Rifle shoots he would organize.

Damn

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Posts: 7625 | Location: Alaska | Registered: 05 February 2008Reply With Quote
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One oF kind, They dont make,em like that anymore, God bless and good hunting in the Happy hunting grounds. Tell Mr. Bell hello for me...God bless.
Ray


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Posts: 42226 | Location: Twin Falls, Idaho | Registered: 04 June 2000Reply With Quote
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RIP Cal Pappas, May you carry your .600 wherever you are in your next life. Your books on doubles will live on here and many double Enthuisiast will treasure your knowledge.


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Posts: 108 | Location: Zimbabwe | Registered: 03 October 2011Reply With Quote
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Rest In Peace cal.

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Posts: 13145 | Location: Cocoa Beach, Florida | Registered: 22 July 2010Reply With Quote
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Taken too soon. Rest in peace Cal.


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So sorry to hear this...

RIP my friend!


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Posts: 895 | Location: Akron, OH | Registered: 07 March 2006Reply With Quote
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Wow! A complete shocker! RIP Cal! You will be missed here on AR! Frowner
 
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