When I first got into the barrel business back in 1977, I spent a month in the Paris shop, learning the business. It was
there that I was first introduced to the pristine, flawless reproduction rifles of Bob Ditchburn, Karl Pippert, Rudy Bahr, and
others........they really knocked my socks off, I never realized they could be done that well. Then I went to Friendship and met Jerry Kirklin, Hill Pearce, Jack Haugh, and a little later the great John Bivins. Here I was, had built three guns to
that point, but nothing to even come close to the work of these guys. Then in the mid 80's I met a guy by the name of
Bob Harn, whose handle was "clorox" Bob. He may have been the one to start that crazy clorox thing, and it did hang around for quite a few years. I am the proud owner of a Bob Harn rifle, has some clorox etching on it, not too much, and
some intentional dings, but also has some fabulous carving, to my way of thinking some of Bob's best carving. Will have
this gun at Dixon's and the CLA, stop by and check it out. In some ways, I think he started this whole antiquing thing,
had a lot of guys copying his work............Don
