Fast forward many years, and again business has brought me to sunny So Cal -- and again, close to where Gunny lives (about 2 hours away). So I reached out to him weeks ago and we made plans, so we were able to get together for a nice brunch before he went into work and I went off to my trade show. (I'm sitting in the San Diego airport as I post this, waiting for a red-eye flight back to the east coast...)
His lovely wife Dee and youngest son Evan joined us, and it was great to see them again. His oldest son Logan is now at Marine Boot Camp, and I learned he wants to be trained to fly drones. So we'll wish him well with that.
We actually got together on Monday of this week, but I'd been too busy until now to post this... (Only got 11 hours of sleep over the last 3 nights...)
Anyway, Gunny (now retired, but I still call him that) looks great and it was terrific to have the chance to reconnect with him again. We didn't get to go out to a range and use his collection or shoot up all his ammo, but we'll have to do that for the next time.
Until then... I'll have to save up for the big bass boat he tried to sell me when we went over to Bass Pro!
Thanks to Gunny for getting together -- it was fun!
Old No7
always good to meet a fellow levergunner....... 
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