Greetings from the Kiwi Dwarf, ladies and gentlemen! You have made my entire month with all the nice things you have said!
To set the record straight, I welded up the first 4,000 or so stands while Karen took the orders. I hired Roy Taylor when things got too big for me to handle. Yes, Roy still builds ALL the stands...Eagle, Eaglet, Bracket Mount, AND Centerfold!
I have a BUNCH of the original posters of THE PHANTOM BOWHUNTER SCORES and RAMBLING RAMBO REDNECK. If anyone wants one or both, I will be back in Montana on May 1st, just in time to catch Rattlers. I also have about 1,000 of my cook books left. If you want posters or cook books, DON'T email me through the site here. Use my regular email:
[email protected]I have to take serious issue with the dude who said they were past their time and too heavy and hard to hang. I'm 64 years old and have hunted out of just about every stand built (at least those that were not so DANGEROUS that I wouldn't get near them). There is no SAFER stand...period. It was tested to hold FOUR THOUSAND POUNDS and still will! Try that on any other stand! I can still scamper up a tree and hang one in no time and then do it again 20 more times in a day. Now, if I can do that at my age, AND size, how could they be hard to hang. MOST IMPORTANT, THEY DO NOT MAKE ANY NOISE!!!! I have lost a lot of great opportunities in borrowed, NOISY stands.
THE PHANTOM: I remember one morning when my son, Lad, was taking orders and he started laughing like crazy. Some guy said he wanted to know who the "Hottie" was in the poster and wanted her phone number. Lad led him on a wee bit and then said, "She's my Mom"! I guess the guy nearly had a coronary. I have to say at 62 she still looks about the same...she just can't pull a bow or hunt anymore due to a muscle disease.
Thank you all for such an unbelievable accolade for the catalog. We worked our tails off on it and put our hearts in it. Competing against the giants was what shot us down, or we would still be in business...probably run by my son. After we sold, he and his wife went back into the U.S. Army and they are both now Master Sergeants serving our great country. I am seriously proud of them.
I will be hunting and fishing until I fall over dead! What more is there in life than being as one with the mountains?
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