Bill Calfee
Gun Fool
Paladin and the Duke of Earl....SPEC 7 and SPEC 6
CYA accuracy fool friends:
Memories and reflections.....
This picture was taken October 13, 2008...
It shows Paladin with Duke of Earl behind him on my work bench....both under construction.
Both in their original stocks.....different colors but identical otherwise.
This picture is of Paladin's final range test....SPEC 7
This picture is of Duke of Earl's final range test.....SPEC 6
CYA accuracy fool friends, when I built Paladin and the Duke back in 2008, if I had to predict which would produce the most Big National Event wins, it would have been Paladin....
But...................
Duke of Earl got all the glory once they got to the field of competition, with Craig Young winning the first Indoor PSL, Rocky River, with 102 competitors present....
So Duke of Earl became an icon right off the bat, and has become one of the two or three most famous RFBR guns in the World.......
While Paladin was relegated to the ash heap of forgotten RFBR guns......
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CYA accuracy fool friends, Paladin was one of my greatest disappointments as a RFBR schmidt....
And I was so sure that Paladin would be the "star" between him and the Duke......
And then 11 years later Robert Oates, Bruce Doster, Noah Johns and Jeff Patterson came along.
Robert acquired Paladin and put him in the hands of Noah and Bruce....folks capable of showcasing him.
Then Jeff Patterson performed his bedding and straight lining magic, plus his artistic stock painting...
And now Bruce and Noah are vindicating my opinion of Paladin from my testing with he and the Duke back in 2008'.
And Bruce and Noah aren't done......oh my no they aren't.....
After what Bruce and Paladin did to that talented crowd at Howard Prince last week-end, the sky's the limit...
Finally:
It's taken almost 12 years for Paladin to be vindicated.....
Was it worth the wait, for me......
Oh my yes...........
Thank you Robert, Bruce, Noah and JPAT.
Your cited pistol fool friend, Bill Calfee
CYA accuracy fool friends:
Memories and reflections.....
This picture was taken October 13, 2008...
It shows Paladin with Duke of Earl behind him on my work bench....both under construction.
Both in their original stocks.....different colors but identical otherwise.
This picture is of Paladin's final range test....SPEC 7
This picture is of Duke of Earl's final range test.....SPEC 6
CYA accuracy fool friends, when I built Paladin and the Duke back in 2008, if I had to predict which would produce the most Big National Event wins, it would have been Paladin....
But...................
Duke of Earl got all the glory once they got to the field of competition, with Craig Young winning the first Indoor PSL, Rocky River, with 102 competitors present....
So Duke of Earl became an icon right off the bat, and has become one of the two or three most famous RFBR guns in the World.......
While Paladin was relegated to the ash heap of forgotten RFBR guns......
______________________________________
CYA accuracy fool friends, Paladin was one of my greatest disappointments as a RFBR schmidt....
And I was so sure that Paladin would be the "star" between him and the Duke......
And then 11 years later Robert Oates, Bruce Doster, Noah Johns and Jeff Patterson came along.
Robert acquired Paladin and put him in the hands of Noah and Bruce....folks capable of showcasing him.
Then Jeff Patterson performed his bedding and straight lining magic, plus his artistic stock painting...
And now Bruce and Noah are vindicating my opinion of Paladin from my testing with he and the Duke back in 2008'.
And Bruce and Noah aren't done......oh my no they aren't.....
After what Bruce and Paladin did to that talented crowd at Howard Prince last week-end, the sky's the limit...
Finally:
It's taken almost 12 years for Paladin to be vindicated.....
Was it worth the wait, for me......
Oh my yes...........
Thank you Robert, Bruce, Noah and JPAT.
Your cited pistol fool friend, Bill Calfee
