Mr. Destroyer sir,
In my experience Percy answered his phone less than half the time, prefering to do business by mail. Inverness (his previous location, great motorcycle backroads) is about 30 minutes from me. BTW, the landscape picture at Percy's website is carried over from Inverness, apparently taken from a ridge overlooking Tomales Bay.
Is that you in your Avatar, or some other interesting fan of big bore hand guns?
Disclaimer: Any resemblance to real people & real situations in the following story is purely coincidental:
I've recently been working in the area of a lake in the neighborhood where I grew up in the '60's (19, NOT 18 you smart-alecks!)
I can only admit this because there is no jeopardy at this late date due to the statute of limitations, & guns were not registerd at that time so I could never ever be associated w/ any particular weapon. Anyway, I can't believe we did this, but at that time we rode motorcycles over to the above lake w/ a .22 long-rifle bolt-action single-shot, the rifle carried causually in a carry case by the guy on the back of the bike. A friend owned about 20 snakes, reptiles, an alligator, birds, etc, etc...(he later became a naturalist of course).
These animals needed to eat, so we'd go to the lake & shoot birds & rabbits. The thing is, sometimes we'd shoot at birds on tree branches. But those bullets have a long range, & the rise on the opposite side of the lake was barely a 1/4 mile away. Thank God we never heard of any "accidents" taking place in that vicinity!
