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Hey Macs,

How's tricks, Buddy?

Hope all's well .. you sorta had me confused there; I thought you just couldn't spell .... Furen or Feren, thought maybe you meant Foreign made .....?

Oh, well, have fun with your new modified '03 Sprg.

Jim Feren, Carson City, NV?

sadly, no. If this is the guy, he may be in the phone book.

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A real beauty ...... Talk about a proud papa.

Macs,

Your daughter, of course! It goes without saying that you have good taste in firearms too! I wish her alot of Waidmannsheil with it.



Yo, still here in The Fatherland. Hope you & the family are doing fine Stateside.

We had another tremendous year in Hohenfels, it only rained sideways, snowed, sleeted & froze 50% of the time so the shooting was pretty good with Smiley Craig, Dr. Markus & the ususal suspects.

Don't be a stranger, you're always welcome at our campfire anytime you would care to re-new your Jagdschein. Let's continue to hear how the Feren does and Good Luck attempting to locate some info on the builder.

It would be fun to see a photo of it.

Not sure if Jim Feren is the smith, but it seems likely.

Here are a couple of blurbs about him from the web. Seems like if I can find this in 10 seconds with google someone else could as well.

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Chick Donnelly was famous in his own right. P.O. Ackely got him established in business. He rebarrel many guns through his relationship with P.O. and Guns & Ammo magazine. He died about 8 years ago.

Jim Feren used his barrels and won many, many matches including most of the Coors matches from about '83 untill about '95. Jim Feren set the still existing 100 shot OH record in '93 with his Donnelly barrel. He also won bench rest matches against all comers and all other barrel makers at that time.

This from 2008:

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I got paired up with Jim Feren twice at HP matches in Reno and Sacremento. Tough on a spotter?? My ass still bears the scars from a couple of minor miss called shots. He demands plus or minus an inch accuracy on shot hit location. Was always quick to correct me on a miss call. I shot next to him at the AZ state HP in Tucson in 2003. He was tough on his spotter then , too. Never again.
Last I heard he was a school teacher in Bullhead City, AZ. I'll bet those are the best behaved kids in the school system.

I don't know if he was the smith, but he damn sure could shoot......from the Angeles Shooting Hall of Fame:

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METALLIC SILHOUETTE RIFLE - RF:
Record - Jim Feren - 58x60
Champion - Jim Feren - High Country Nationals (No Spotters) -2 Years Running

METALLIC SILHOUETTE RIFLE - CF:
Gold Medal - Bob Bowman - 1979 Record - CFAA Olympics
Champion - Jim Feren - 1984 - National
Champion - Jim Feren - 1984, '85, '86 - Canadian Nationals
Record - Jim Feren - NRA Long Run - 1986 - 19 Turkeys]

Pictures sure would be nice.

Idaho sharpshooter,
Didn't you write and covered the Coor's shooting matches for Precision Shooting?
Do you think this is the same Feren that Gatogordo is posting about?