Gary, aka Onondaga, has passed away

[Maven]

You may remember Onondaga from the Boolits site and more recently from the CBA Forum. His untimely passing was posted there: https://castbulletassoc.org/forum/thread/gary-aka-onondaga-passing/ Rest in peace, Gary.

 

[358156 hp]

Thank you for sharing this with us Maven.

Rest In Peace, Gary.

 

[Ian]

Thanks for letting us know, Paul. I visited with Gary a few times on the phone many years ago.

 

[Pistolero]

It's sad to hear. I think I remember the name from the other site, but no detailed memories.

A bunch of old farts......stuff happens.

Bill

 

[Jeff H]

Yes, sad to hear. I never interacted personally with Gary, but I've read a LOT of his posts. He was always willing to put the time in to share his experiences. I noticed sometime back that he had attained expat status over there. He's popped up a lot recently as I've done general searches for cast in the 7.62x39.

 

[RicinYakima]

He was opinionated, we didn't always agree, but he was never boring.

 

[Reloader762]

I always enjoyed reading his post or comment in others post, RIP Gary.

 

[462]

Condolences to his family and friends.

Like Ric, I didn't always agree with Gary, but that's what makes the world go round. He was a staunch defender of Lee products, as I recall, and his posts were well written.

Michael

 

[Ian]

He was ornery and opinionated for sure, and I didn't agree with him all the time either, but those were things I liked about him most. He lived close to the site of the old Wurlitzer piano/jukebox factory, I quizzed him on that one time and he filled me in on the whole company history.

 

[Intheshop]

Rest in peace.

 

[blackthorn]

I too am sorry to hear of Gary's passing. Long ago we had a detailed discussion about the use of the Blackthorn wood used to make Irish "attitude adjustment" (shillelagh) walking sticks (clubs) and how they came to be developed. Interesting guy. RIP Gary.

 

[Pistolero]

Just curiosity, does anyone know the origin of that screen name. Pretty unusual.

Bill

 

[462]

Isn't it the name of an Indian tribe that lived in the New England area?

 

[fiver]

town/county in new York he lived in.
Bret might know it.

 

[Rick]

462 is correct, it is an Indian tribe in NE. Iroquois Nation I believe. If it's also a town I don't know.

 

[KHornet]

He was interesting. The name is one of the tribes
of the 6 nations in N.Y.

Paul

 

[JonB]

I am reasonably sure it's the town where he lived

Onondaga, New York - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Sig556r]

Rest well...

 

[RBHarter]

Back when thread drift within topic was acceptable over there , there was someone all gramer Nazi about Oxford comma's etc . Apologies if it's one of y'all . Anyway it was him that at the tender age of 44 that finally explained to why a direct object had nothing to do with the subject of a sentence in a way that would have been very helpful to me in 1978 ....... In any case learning that a direct object was in fact the objective directive made all of those red marks on the papers make way more sense . So I guess I owe him a debt of gratitude for that .

 

[fiver]

I don't know what you just said, maybe I should have read that too.