About using an A 1 Special as it should be used, I bought two dozen of the last of Cliff Arvan's whistler and bluebill decoys in the 60s at a little gunshop on Yonge Street in Toronto for $3.50 apiece.
I gave a dozen to my brother who put them away in the attic where they still are, and he rolls his eyes as I use them for what they were made for, even at current collector value of $1,000 apiece.
We may look at them and die or use them and die. With the fun of it gone, my brother no longer hunts. The inheritor of the A 1 Special honors his uncle. Quill's notice of it here warms my heart.
