Happy New Year from Texas

Acutally my handle is first inital last name, RPh is registered pharmacist.

Old Winchesters would be nice but no. Swedish military and my one Swede sporter( on mod 96 action), Swiss rifles, Marlin levers , double barrel shotguns and most anything else I can get my hands on hold my interest. A couple of French sliding breech doubles are my prizes, a nice little Darne 28ga and a Charlin 16.
I have only visited Canada twice, once in late 1967, our pharmacy school class was on a trip visiting a couple of pharmaceutical manufacturers, Parke Davis in Detroit. We had an open afternoon and almost everyone hit Windsor.
I was impressed with the friendlness and cleaniness of the town, sure had Detroit beat. Next was a few hours at Gander International airport, Jan 1990, on my way to England to help man a USAF Contingency hospital for Operation Desert Story. Again everyone was very friendly, but man it was cold in Feb. for this southery boy.

I live in Jacksonville, East Texas, the green part, about 100 miles SE from Dallas, and about the same distance SW from Shreveport, Louisiana. I still have a house, my parents old house in West Monroe, La which is about 200 miles east from here. It makes a good meeting place to link up with my son, an attorney in Jackson, Miss. and my sister, also a pharmacist, in Vicksburg, Miss.
 
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Lol... many of us (myself included) would pay dearly to have the same gun laws as Texas over here in Kanukistan (Canada). Consider yourself lucky and don't let anyone even hint at taking those rights away... if things keep going the way they have, Texas may soon be the last sane place in North America!

Having said that, welcome aboard bud! :cool:
 
Howdy.
Good to have you on board.
Read about our battles to keep our firearms and learn from our mistakes.
Don't give an inch.
We tried that and found it didn't work.
Now we have an uphill fight to try to regain some of what we lost.
 
I gained 30lbs in seven months living in Corpus Christi. That was 10 years ago and never been able to loose it.

Don't Mess With Texas! :D
 
Welcome to the group! I know Jacksonville well. I grew up just South of Frankston, went to school there, & now I live in Ottawa, Ontario (married a Canadian girl) & your right, it is too cold for this Southern boy too :D, but the hunting & fishing make the cold worth enduring. Sure miss that Southern hospitality!

George
 
glang1 said:
Welcome to the group! I know Jacksonville well. I grew up just South of Frankston, went to school there, & now I live in Ottawa, Ontario (married a Canadian girl) & your right, it is too cold for this Southern boy too :D, but the hunting & fishing make the cold worth enduring. Sure miss that Southern hospitality!

George
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Small world isn't it?

Back in the early 70's I was a young pharmacy officer in USAF stationed in Izmir Turkey. Got out of service in '79 and moved to Jacksonville. A few months later a young man came into the drug store where I was working, he was working for a drug company, looked at me and said you are Capt King. I had no recollection of him and he then told me he had been an Army Private and that I had filled prescriptions for him in Turkey. While there the wife and I took a tour to Israel. I needed to cash a few travelers checks and went into a bank and got to talking to the teller and she was from Bossier City, La, and me from W. Monroe only about 90 miles apart.
 
jkingrph said:
Small world isn't it?

I was just thinking the same thing when I wrote my post. I also did a lot of work for a company in NJ that you are probably familiar with; Novartis. It's been about 20 years since I left Texas. Time to make a visit to see all the changes.

George
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