WINCHESTER

Many of us "knew" Lynn way before we met him. Without realizing who he really was, we had that vision of him being called from the vast audience of persons watching his father's exhibition shooting in Winchester's 1954 "Showman Shooter" film - Lynn with his Buster Brown shoes and rolled up jeans and slicked back hair - only ten at the time - shooting five clay pigeons one right after the other before they hit the ground ("Whose show is this anyway?" his famous father Herb said to the camera in mock exasperation)... After we talked about Lynn and traded some stories about him, I took my leave and walked out through the basement of the museum and there were the famous lines of the "Showman Shooter" film that has run now for years as a continuous loop resonating through the room. I walked over to the Herb Parsons exhibit with all of his guns, the shooting vests, the famous table cloth, the photos of he and the boys and paused for a moment and then through tears I said, "We will keep it..

Primary location: Bellefontaine United States