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Sir, I have just spent a very enjoyable couple of hours reading your story on your website & I have to say you are a helluva story teller!

Now I don't mean that you are telling tall tales but that you write very well indeed & the way that you tell the story brings it to life for the reader. I can't imagine how hard it must have been in those early days in BC for you & your family as I am sure there were many hardships left untold. I laughed my ass off (no pun intended) at your tale of the coyote that wasn't quite dead when you hauled him off, truth surely is stranger than fiction!

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that your life story is both interesting & enjoyable to read & I look forward to more chapters of it being written.

I wish you the very best of health for 2009, most sincerely, George Joy.

CEO & Founder
GS Arms LLC www.arlowers.com

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Richard, I will most probably never be able to afford one of your beautiful rifles, but I have purchased all your dvd's.. I wanted you to know how much I have enjoyed your "My Life" pages.. Everytime I read them it makes me dream of what my life could have been if I would have followed my dreams like you did.. You should write a book and have it published.. Just thought you should know how it touched me..

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My name is Lloyd Hill. I believe you know My brother Russell Hill. He talks about you often as most of our conversations usually turn toward very accurate rifles. Well he and I were talking about your rifles last night and I was looking through your website. Anyway I started reading your history and stories at about 0200. I have not been able to stop until I finished a few minutes ago. I appreciate the brutal honesty in some of the history, and the humor. You have led a truly eventful and interesting life and I just wanted to say thanks for a really enjoyable read.

Richard the Philosopher,

Hope you don't mind, but I refer to you as Richard Franklin - the
great philosopher, occasionally.

Through your writings, as you are fully aware, you have left some
basic truths of life.

Thanks for the nuggets . . .

les philosophical

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Richard:

You built a .17 HMR for me a few years ago on a CZ action. Tonight I stumbled upon your web site after many years absence and saw and read your life story. It was wonderful. Thanks so much for sharing it.

Best,

Jordan Funk

Alturas, CA

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I just wanted to let you know that I have been listing some custom built rifles on the gunbroker and I have got three orders from my listings. I am working on a website like you suggested and it looks promising. I love to build rifles and with the help from your videos I am now able to build them much better than I ever thought. Thanks for all your help and keep making those instructional videos. I will buy everyone you can make. You do an excellent job with them.

The muzzle loader I started on a few weeks ago is all most finished. I am waiting on a trigger guard to do the final fitting and then the stock will be ready for clear coat. I am excited to see how it will shoot. While making the bullet swager I went through 3 dies trying to get it just right. There is a real fine line between fitting the bore and not fitting the bore.

Jeff Hankins.

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Richard,

I have finished watching two of the three videos you sent me.

Bravo!!!!

Really, I am only interested in the learning aspect of machining and gunsmithing. I have no affinity for all the video editing bells and whistles. Your simplicity in your video certainly bled over into the sincerity and process you were trying to convey.

Being a newbie at all of this I am beginning to realize that gunsmithing techniques are not "top secret" as every avenue I have sought has been more than forthcoming in technique and advise.

You are one of the gentlemen that made it that way.

Wally Cox

San Antonio, TX

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I've been so impressed with your website. Great stories, some I can relate to. I grew up in a true to life 1880 style frontier town (killed lots of bad men, with my Colt 44-40, and double barrel sawed off 12 Ga. LOL), and horseback riding stable in the Texas panhandle south of Amarillo, at Palo Duro Canyon. We still rent horses, and our family has had this business running for 47 years. My Dad will be 80 in February, he rides a 6 year old Arab. Stud. He was riding Prince with me awhile back and when we stopped Dad got a big grin and told me that when he's on Prince he's as fast as he was at 30. I'm so blessed. I've always wanted to hunt and fish in Alaska I'm 56 and had better get that dream going. Richard that Turkish Walnut stock, and the way you laminate them is amazing! Anyway you do the nicest pillar bedding I've ever seen, and maybe I missed something but I couldn't figure out how to order the DVD and pay for it with paypal from the video page. Thanks and GOD's Blessings, Mikel Sorenson

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