33 years ago

33 years ago today I lost my oldest sister in a tragic car accident. To say this is a hard day for myself and my family is an understatement. Shortly before Gwen died I gave her what had been my first firearm, a Remington Nylon 12 that was given to me by my step father. I shot my first grouse, first groundhog, and first cottontails with this little rifle. I had acquired a Ruger 10/22 from my older brother and decided to pass this on to my sister. It just happened that the day and practically the moment I gave this to her would be the last time I ever saw her. Skip ahead 33 years and I'm perusing Sage's FacistBook group and I come across a nice whitetail buck posted by Dwayne McClanahan. By chance I hovered over his name with my mouse long enough and I notice we have a mutual friend Wayne McClanahan, my sisters widower. I posted a comment to the effect of "Hey nice buck. I see we have a friend in common" and he comes back with "Yep that's my brother." Long story short with not more than a simple request Dwayne returned this rifle to me after it sat for years in a closet at his parents home in Whitefish MT, driving all the way from Whitehall MT along with a couple hundred rounds of 22LR, some big game summer sausage and polska keilbasa. I would just like to make a very public and heart felt thank you to Dwayne and to Wes and to this community.

What an amazing story! Thank you for sharing that with us and my deepest condolences on your loss.

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Awesome story and my condolences on the loss of your sister.

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This is so heartwarming! Amazing connection after so many years. Also, my condolences. Thank you for sharing!

Wow! Just incredible. Great story and great picture.

I’m so sorry you lost your sister so many years ago.


JTD

That is really a neat story. Good for you!