Traveling Through New Mexico
 

Any of the Luger forum folks travelling through NM please drop us a line at Thor340@aol.com and stop by Ted & Natalie's Place in Rio Rancho (near Albuquerque). After meeting in person the following excellent Luger folks; John and Jen Dunkle, Dok Center and his wife, GT (The Luger Mag and wood bottom Guru) & Carol Tomek, Luke Smithwick, Ed Tinker, Frank (The Mauser Man)Manders and his fine son, Bill Forsythe, Hugh & Ms Minta Clark (Hugh is amazing with Lugers), the gracious Ralph & Nancy Shattuck, Marvin Cook (my dear friend), Ellie and Jerry Burney (The Holster Guru), Robert Tracy, Herb, Bill and Linda Stanley (what fine people), Doug and Nancy Taylor, Bob Adams, Ron Wood, Jim Eckert, Sid Gariss (Strider) and lots of other fine folks. Always a pleasure to meet these great people! Take a few minutes and come by and talk Lugers with us! We would love it!!!

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Hi Thor!!! I whole heartily agree!! What a great bunch of people!! Brings back some great memories ... i'm glad you posted Thor.... maybe we can once again get something going for the SW area!! You forgot to mention...Thor... the Guru of restoration bluing!!! Best to you, til...lat'r...GT <img border="0" alt="[jumper]" title="" src="graemlins/jumper.gif" />

Wow..

Where the heck did this thread come from????

Thor - the trip Jen and I had to that meeting was absolutely terrific..!!! It was one of the highlights of my collecting....

I remember meeting all the folks;

Herb and his wonderful wife - setting Jen and I up at the Military installation (and getting STOPPED as we wandered into restricted areas that next morning. Fortunately, I made frieds with eth Staff Sarget on duty when we checked in - and he knew I was harmless - just an old dub who gets lost with a compass...!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> )..

Ed T. getting into the main gate - where they actually believed I would VOUCH for him!! (LOL!!!!!!!) ...

Walking into the Shattuck mansion for the first and last time - and gasping for oxygen being overcome by the "sight".....

Meeting you and Natalie for the first time - and becoming lifelong buddies for that... Oh - that was the time you asked me to host your website, right?? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> ;

Meeting Frank - and instantly looking up to him - and paying him exactly $1... Some things will never change....

GT's house and dinner - which was absolutely amazing..... The food, the folks, G.T.'s family.. AND HIS DAMN COLLECTION OF P 38S which was terrific!!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

Meeting Ron Wood - who kept trying to tell me Lugers WERE MADE before HK started (hmmm..?? I still question that one... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> ), but had some pieces I could hardly get over.... . He actually had me hooked on a Fat Barrel, a Swiss and a... Nevermind... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> ....

Hugh - who pulled out a "baby" in pieces so we could all gawk.... And we did......

Luke - who was the "quiet guy" -who helped me understand "what was what" on all Ralph's shelves;

Bill F.??? Bob Tracy??? Bill S...???? Yea - there are so many more...

Thanks Thor for posting this.. It brought back some great times with terrific people. We'll do it again....

Count on it... I know I do.....

John D.

Ted,
I would have dropped in on my way back from San Diego last Oct but it was about 4:30am when I was passing through so I thought I would let you sleep I wanted to see Ralph also...sigh... maybe on my next cross country run!

I look forward to it Jesse!