Nitro - Being a fellow South Australian, you probably know this anyway, but for the other members, dear old John passed away just recently at his Pheasant Shoot just out of Kingston.

I hunted there on many occasions and was fortunate to hear first hand, acounts of the adventures he had with John (Pondoro)Taylor and see some of the original photos that were subsequently published in Taylor's book "Pondoro".

He still had most of the guns that you mentioned and it was a very real priviledge to view them in his Trophy Room.

I have some recent photos of John in his Trophy Room; if you are interested, I could e-mail them for posting?

Sadly, John was severely burn't when the incubator he was tending caught fire and being in advancing years, he was never to recover.

VALE JOHN DAWKINS