When Gene Hill and Michael McIntosh visited MI with Brian Belinski on a promo trip for Orvis, the manager of the nearby Thornapple Orvis shoppe arranged for me to take Gene Duck hunting of a Sat. morning, lunch later. My Lab Dixie was in her prime, I shot a Model 12, Gene had his Remington 12 gauge 1100- one of my favorite spots, lots of mallards, we had a fine hunt, and chatted between flights. I told him that of all his many great stories, my 2 favorites were: "The Stranger" and "Pepper"-- I still have pictures of myself, with Gene and Brian and Michael on the front porch of the Orvis shoppe in Ada, MI--I have all of his books, which he personally signed for me. A sportsman like Gene Hill never wears out a welcome-never. RWTF

"The field is the touchstone of the man"..