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I’m glad this “manhunt” thread was successful and that Jon is alright even though grieved and clearly overloaded. I’ve just written him which prompts me to say that one day some years ago I had PM from him. He and I had never had any contact and I didn’t know anything about him except through his postings. All it said was, “Send me your mailing address.” My first thought was “thanks but no thanks” but after thinking about it overnight I sent it. And then waited and wondered. A week or two later a box arrived. Inside were two big bags of 16ga wads, one being the then rare DR16’s. Suddenly, it all made sense. There had been a discussion here about the difficulties we hand loaders were having keeping our antique 16’s going when DR16’s hadn’t been available for years and speculation was that they never would be again. (Fortunately, we got one more good run of them before Downrange turned out the lights.) Jon read between the lines that my Ithacas (all 16’s) were soon to go silent and did something about it.

I thanked him for them and asked him for his mailing address (so I could pay him for the wads and the shipping.) He wouldn’t send it.

Good guy and a good reflection of the gents here.

Glad to hear you are doing fine. I still have to chuckle when I think of the first time I tapped on that note that says your location is: "Red State". When I click on it, I get that RED STATE BARBECUE restaurant down in Lexington I used to pass on I-75 all the time. 😄 And the first time I saw that, I wondered if you ran that restaurant. I believe 67 Galaxie runs a restaurant in Valdosta, Georgia. I never got a chance to stop there. But anyway, glad to hear you are up and around. Take care and good luck.