WOW! I haven't heard Homer Dangler's name for 30 some years. we both used to be members of the Three Fires ML Club in Michigan. That was before he started selling kits. He was selling parts and wood at the time and I think he was building rifles too. We went to the Southern Ohio Rendevous at Fort Hill Ohio, Homer showed up with an original Jacob Dikert Rifle from the Golden age. he was afraid it would draw moisture, so I told him he could wrap it in the edge of my blankets for the night. He did. And I slept with that old rifle by my side. He shot it the next day and I think he won some blanket prizes. Not the nasty Billy Goat we took as a blamket prize, but something.
Riding in an old Chrysler with a mad billy goat in a pen on the roof from Hillsdale Michigan to Fort Hill, Ohio is a story for another day. Yep we really were crazy back then.