As you may have seen on the other DSC Searcy thread, my buddy, Bill, won the Searcy at DSC. This is an account of how he was actually notified.

Bill and I left Dallas Sunday morning, he drove back to Houston, and I flew back to Phoenix. When I finally made it home, I decided to take a nap. (I was very tired for some reason.) My cell phone started ringing at about 2:45pm Phoenix time, 3:45pm Dallas time. I laid there and listened, but whoever called did not leave a voice mail. A few minutes later it rang again, and this time there was a voice mail. I looked at the clock and told my girlfriend, Shannon, that this would be about the time they would be calling to notify the winners of the DSC drawing. I got out of bed, and saw that Bill had called twice.

Before I go any further, I better explain, Bill and I love to play practical jokes on each other; probably about half our time together is spent plotting new ways to make the other look foolish.

I checked Bill’s voice mail and all it said was, “You stupid #$^@&#$^! Did you really think I would be dumb enough to fall for that BS?â€

I told Shannon that Bill is trying to set me up using reverse psychology. He wants me to call him back and swear that I had not set him up; when in reality nobody had ever called him, and then he would tell everybody how he had me believing that he had won the drawing.

I got on my computer and went to Christer’s (cchunter) web site to show Shannon some of the DSC pictures, when Christer called me. Christer said, “Lee, Bill won the double rifle, but when I called to tell him he did not believe me. He thinks you and I are playing a game with him.†I asked Christer if Bill had put him up to calling me and he said, “I will joke about a lot of things, but not about a rifle or hunting.†That was good enough for me. We said our goodbyes, and I called Bill.

I told Bill he had won the rifle, and he said, “Screw you, you SOB. I’m busy and tired and don’t have time for this.†I tried a little longer to convince him, but to no avail. While all this was going on I checked my email and had one from Bill entitled, “Payback is a Bitch.†It contained the following message (exact copy and paste):

“I'm not fooled for one minute and just remember that payback will be a bitch when you get to Houston.--------Billâ€

I called our other buddy Robert, and explained to him what was going on. Robert figured I was trying to play a joke on him, so he called Christer. Christer told Robert the truth, so Robert called Bill and got pretty much the same response I had received.

Bill called me back at about 7:00pm and asked if I was telling the truth, I assured him I was, and I could tell he was starting to believe me. Finally, about an hour and a half ago, someone from DSC called him and officially notified him that he had won the rifle. He is really excited and is already looking at some upgrades.

Hell, you guys didn't have to go to all that trouble, I'd could have just taken the rifle home with me, and saved all the misunderstanding. I was there, when all the tickets were drawn, and his name was called, and no one answered! Dang another missed chance!

I was there in my booth listening to the PA, I lost intrest when the started with a name of Bill----. Did not pay anymore attention because my name aint Bill---.

Hog Killer

Hog Killer,

I thought he would get the rifle that was on display, but he actually gets a certificate for Butch to build him one. I guess we'll have to wait a while before heading over to American Shooters.

Talked to Bill about two hours ago. He confirmed your story of the events Sunday pm. Butch builds what you want. So Bill can do whatever upgrades he wants as long as he pays the diff.

I am looking forward to his gettng delivery and "helping" him get it broken in.

Hog Killer

My feelings are badly hurted, I tried to be a friend of Bill and get treated that way.........

But I am not that way so once again, congratulations Bill, hope you believe me now!!!