, WELL I DIDN'T dodge the bullet, folks

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22 March 2006, 22:15

JPK

, WELL I DIDN'T dodge the bullet, folks

Great News!

Best,

JPK

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22 March 2006, 23:51

308Sako

Way to go Mac! We are all very happy.

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23 March 2006, 00:16

Hog Killer

That's great news Mac. Glad to hear a positive report.

Hog Killer

IGNORE YOUR RIGHTS AND THEY'LL GO AWAY!!!
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23 March 2006, 02:00

Chasseur

Great news Mac!!!

Before all else, be armed.

Machiavelli

23 March 2006, 04:22

mstarling

YYYYEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!

Great news.

Mike

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23 March 2006, 07:58

Charles_Helm

I'm very relieved to hear your news.

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23 March 2006, 11:42

ForrestB

Thank God, Mac. I'm relieved and happy for you. Live life like you're on borrowed time.

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"Truth is the daughter of time."
Francis Bacon

23 March 2006, 13:20

BigFiveJack

More time here asked for, more time here granted, The SOURCE is obvious

Jack

OH GOD! {Seriously, we need the help.}

23 March 2006, 17:23

Palmer

What great news! Take it one day at a time. Thought of you when I got the message below:

Trials keep You Strong,

Sorrows keep You Human,

Failures keep You Humble,

Success keeps You Glowing,

But Only God keeps You Going!

ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS

Into my heart on air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.

A. E. Housman

23 March 2006, 17:35

Lhook7

Great news, Mac!!! I'm happy for you and your family!!!

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23 March 2006, 19:40

Rusty

I look forward to sharing more campfires with you, Sir!

Now if we can just get Claire to remove those "For Sale" tag of your doubles!

So very happy for you, Mac!

Rusty
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"for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson
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23 March 2006, 19:44

Bill/Oregon

Mac: Look forward to reading fresh Duggaboy posts 10 years from now.

There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.
– John Green, author

23 March 2006, 21:52

degoins

great news indeed!!!! thank God!!!

DRSS

24 March 2006, 07:38

Frank Beller

What Bill/Oregon said !!!

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24 March 2006, 23:26

Steve

Great news! Very happy for you and your family.

-Steve

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25 March 2006, 05:01

MacD37

quote:
Originally posted by Rusty:
Now if we can just get Claire to remove those "For Sale" tag of your doubles!

!

I think I just saw her come in the door with some packages that read "MADALINE KAY JEWELRY" on them!

....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1
DRSS Charter member
"If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982

Hands of Old Elmer Keith

26 March 2006, 05:48

BigB

Mac,

Congrats on the great news, now as soon as you feel up to it get that 470 in hand and go chase a buff or two.

Byron

26 March 2006, 22:40

MacD37

quote:
Originally posted by BigB:
Mac,

Congrats on the great news, now as soon as you feel up to it get that 470 in hand and go chase a buff or two.

Byron

Thanks Byron! By the way that 470NE Merkel shoots four rounds, two from each barrel, into a 2" group at 50yds. I'm modifying the sights as we speak to a wide"V", and ivory bead front. The triggers are very nice on that rifle! Did they come that way, or did you have them smoothed?

I have a feeling this rifle will stay in my vault for as long as I live. It shoots as well as any double I've ever owned! Maybe that is because it fits me so well.

Did you ever find the factory test target? if so I'd love to have it!

Thanks again for the kind words, Byron, and the way it looks now, with fingers crossed, I'm going to beat this! If so, I'm on my way to reach out and touch a couple of Buffalo with your old double rifle! I have the picture of you, and your elephant, holding that 470, in my screen saver!

27 March 2006, 03:41

BigB

Mac,

Triggers are from the factory, I will look again for the test target. It had two rounds touching at 50.

Glad to hear the rifle shoots well for you. My elephant ear turned out nice, I had it tanned and flattened to put on the wall. Did you getyours tanned.

Take care.

Byron

27 March 2006, 17:46

MacD37

quote:
Originally posted by BigB:
Mac,

Triggers are from the factory, I will look again for the test target. It had two rounds touching at 50.

Glad to hear the rifle shoots well for you. My elephant ear turned out nice, I had it tanned and flattened to put on the wall. Did you getyours tanned.

Take care.

Byron

I had my taxidermist send my ear to be tanned, but they called and said they do not tan Elephant. I've still got in the box but haven't found anyone who will tan it. Who did your's?

Don't go to any trouble to find the target, it isn't important!

27 March 2006, 22:58

BigB

Mac,

Mayes Taxidermy

715 344 4868

Ask for Randy Mayes, he is in Stevens Point, WI

Byron

01 April 2006, 07:30

fla3006

quote:
MacD37: the CAT-scan and PET-scan didn't light up anything....six weeks of radiation therapy to make sure the surgery got it all....there may be very small particles left that will not show up, but the radiation should take care of that....Maybe, I stopped the charge!

Mac, this is good news. My brother-in-law is fighting the same thing but he has had fairly aggressive metastasis. Your positive attitude will go along way in "stopping the charge".

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