It's been 3 weeks since Beans has posted. That's 3x longer than he did on the Lefever forum!

I honestly do think the guy is a paranoid schizophrenic. I've had two close family members with this, and they both displayed similar traits to Beans. The arrogant dismissiveness. Repeating the same things over and over. Obsessive use of generic terms like "Master Gun Smith." And MOST IMPORTANLY, interjecting grandiose lies into otherwise true statements, in aid of garnering credibility.

I kinda feel for the guy...He seems lonely.

But then when he starts blurting nonsense you just have to slap him.

His insistent confusing of Leroy Smith as being "Leroy Hunter" is just another example. He has a whole tale he tells about a set of guns which were a gift to his family from John Hunter.

The 1,000 Grade Nitro Special -- engraved by BOTH Albert Spangler (who never worked at Ithaca, and died before the Nitro was even introduced) and Albert Krause (who also never worked at Ithaca) was perhaps Beans' crowning laugh moment.

And he really DOES believe what he states! He just confuses so much. Like Brophy's mentioning of "transition guns." They do exist, but they are all sideplate Syracuse guns...no Ithaca model "Nitros."

Beans invents 4 "facts" for every 2 real ones he reads.

He's prolly been hanging out over on the 16ga society...

- NDG