Sometimes when I see certain things that bring up memories associated with the activities associated with this particular forum.
I met both E.M.Farris and Bill Large on the same day in 1953 and that got me started down the road I am now nearly retired from.
FEW on this or any other forum can make this claim.Both men I just named were founding members of the NMLRA.One benefactor
Bill mentioned was Powel Crosley Jr. maker of Crosley radios and later a tiny car that was truly SUB compact.Crosley himself drove
a Duesenberg that cost $16,000 in 1934
. The acquisition of the property in Southern Indiana was a real help to establish a place
for "National"shooting matches and the later purchase of 204 acres and the old house that now is the NMLRA headquarters was a
real benefit.The commercial row area to me looks like a disaster area but the area is prone to frequent floods and nothing can be done
about that in that particular area.
E.M.Farris was the one who got me started in making locks and triggers long with We Kindig who owned the Log Cabin Shop were the two
that bought these items from me when they,in reality would barely rise to the level of junk.The lock making skills of the British gunmakers was and still is a fascination to me and thanks to Lynton McKenzie who would loan anything he had to me for study and try to copy I think I
came about as close as anyone to that level and applied it to common locks.I am both honored and surprised at some of the prices being paid for some of my later work in lock making. The simple triggers I now make are all i care to do and for the first 4 months of this current year made and sold only 2 Hawken triggers.
Gotta go,my Dachshund says "I got to GO".
Bob Roller
