Richard, I don't believe there is anyone here, or on the SS, that would disagree with you, at least privately. Now publicly, that's a different story.
Funny thing is, I agree with you.... I've talked to a lot of the guys over there since I've been gone. The general consensus is that he is narcissistic and
may actually have a mental illness.... I've never seen someone lie, with such ease and frequency. The thing is, I think after a little while, he actually believes the lies. I have spoken to him a couple of times on the phone and he wasn't NEARLY as bad on the phone as he was behind the computer.
He would talk nice and listen to what you would say. THEN, he would run right back to the SS and start carrying on more crap.
Here's another story about TRUE COLORS...
Morgan made me a beautiful box around my birthday two years ago, August. Well, everyone on the SS was nice to me for a little while. Then I started getting asked about my box EVERY time I logged on over there. Then Honest Frank got mad because Mo made Porter a call. All I knew of Porter was what I had heard over there.(Twerent good buddy! LOL) I then spoke to Porter and thought, "surely this isn't the same guy that everyone ran in to the ground over there." Porter was super nice. I saw nothing wrong with Morgan making him a call, and I knew how good of a guy that Mo was. So, I gave Porter a chance. I am glad I did because I now consider Porter a true friend.
So, here was my predicament, a guy I know is as true and good as they come made a box for a man that seems to be really nice and genuinely eaten up with turkey hunting, like myself. All the while, my good friend Mo is getting slammed!(called everything other than a son of Jesus) Mo "stabbed em in the back by making another man a call." I thought about this to myself and thought just how childish this was. Grown men were having "internet enemies"? How was that possible?
Well, I was on "the list" for a trumpet. The reason I wanted on "the list" is because I am a turkey hunter. I'm only 25, but I have hunted turkeys for as long as I can remember and long before I knew anyone other than my dad and uncle that hunted them. I wanted to learn another call that could help me more efficiently kill turkeys. I had no issue paying $275 for quality, but I am NOT a collector. My calls will be scratched up, beaten up, and hunted with 40-50 days a year and handled year round.
I began taking up for Morgan on the SS and of course was met with opposition. The opposition did not know anything, other than what Frank had told them. Therefore, they RAN with the information given to them solely because they are DYING for a call! (I can tell you this much, they are not worth the wait, the crap you have to put up with for one, or the money.)
Well, Frank "sent word," like he so often does. (Just so you know Frank sent it, "silentK and Packfan" pm'd me and "chatted me". Packfan even called me.) The word was this, "if I would drive to Memphis(2 hour drive) WITH my Morgan box call, I would get PERSONAL turkey calling lessons on a trumpet from Frank. He always kept 4-5 trumpets made up at his house and I could hand pick whichever I wanted. BUT the key was to take the Morgan box call." I told Mo about this and he said to go get my trumpet and take the box to him.(if his boxes sounded so bad, makes you wonder why he wanted to see mine so bad) I thought about it for about 2 minutes. I have more backbone than the rest of the turds over there. I told Morgan, "there are other call makers out there and I was killing turkeys before I knew about L.F. and I will be killing them LONG after he is gone." I didn't need to subject my integrity for a dadgum call. So, as you can imagine, that was the end of my SS life.(for a little while) Around last fall late, Frank called me and wanted to come fall hunting because he had never killed a fall bird in MS. For the hunt I would get moved back to the "TOP OF THE LIST!"(I assume he has had luck leveraging people with turkey calls before) I "politely" declined the self invitation.(If he denys this, I still have the voice messages saved.) *If any one on the SS that I have mentioned denies this, you are an absolute coward. You are letting a grown man leverage you with a turkey call. The most of you kill a turkey every couple of years. That trumpet will not be a magic wand. You either got it or you don't.*
I can not speak to his boxes, but I know who makes them and I know what a turkey sounds like. They can NOT be all he cracks them up to be. Now, to the trumpets. I have run wingbones, Jordan style yelpers, and trumpets. Personally, I have run one of Frank's standard trumpets with ivory mouth piece(body was blackwood I think) and a turkey dog trumpet. I also had my KP trumpet around my neck and my Hudson trumpet. I have no issue in saying his call was better, if it was. It just was NOT! There was no difference, and his didn't run as easy as theirs did. So, you could mess with a narcissistic lunatic, or a calm respectable call maker. I chose the latter.
In short, my one conversation with Ron Magnano(turkeydoghunter) proved to be prophetic. He told me how Frank was and I got to see it first hand.(Seems he is a glutton for punishment though) Ron did run his KP trumpet that day and told me that it was the best he had ever run. He ran a Cox that day too.
(nothing special) I was really glad that he told me about KP's trumpet that day because KP and I have been good friends since then.
Frank doesn't have the truth in him. He has fabricated history to benefit himself, and it is constantly proven not true. He isn't the "trail blazer" that he makes him self out to be. He does make some quality calls, but he isn't in a class all alone as far as calls are concerned. If he were mentally evaluated he might very well be put in a room all of his own.
One last thing, Frank you shouldn't have it out for GR8Calls like you do, if it weren't for him buying calls 2nd hand your calls would not bring nearly what they do now. I know some of this will be difficult for you to comprehend without Packfan to explain the big words to you or tell you how to spell words. I'll make it easy for you...
U WILL HAV 2 HIRE PALLBEARERS...
Now go get after those hen poults you killer you! See ya later Sport!(the anticipation is killing me)
