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Posted: 9/20/2025 5:32:04 PM EDT

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Rest in peace Hardshell

wvfarrier

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Posted: 9/20/2025 5:32:28 PM EDT

[#2]

May the GOD of all grace welcome him home

M4ger

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Posted: 9/20/2025 5:37:09 PM EDT

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Be killing sin or sin will be killing you. -John Owen

tightlines49

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Posted: 9/20/2025 5:42:41 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By Ridgerunner9876:

His avatar was the cartoon of the boy praying?

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Thank you, I was wondering what it was.

RIP

"Omnia mei donna Deo" Please pray for our country!
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Posted: 9/20/2025 5:43:35 PM EDT

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R.I.P.

True success is not the absence of failure, it is the refusal to surrender - Lazarus Lake

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exDefensorMilitas

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Posted: 9/20/2025 5:44:41 PM EDT

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Prayers out.

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Bama-Shooter

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Posted: 9/20/2025 5:47:16 PM EDT

[#7]

Damn.

You could not ask for a more solid, good dude than Richard.

American by birth. Southern by the grace of God.

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Posted: 9/20/2025 5:49:30 PM EDT

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JCoop

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Posted: 9/20/2025 5:56:27 PM EDT

[#9]

Another good one passed. RIP, Hardshell.

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Posted: 9/20/2025 5:57:33 PM EDT

[#10]

Sad news.

May he rest in peace.

panzersergeant

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Posted: 9/20/2025 5:58:00 PM EDT

[#11]

He truly represented the best of arfcom and will be missed. I always enjoyed reading his posts.

RIP.

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Posted: 9/20/2025 5:59:31 PM EDT

[#12]

He seemed like such a nice guy

A big heart and a bigger safe(s)

I’m sorry for his family, I think he at least had two girls? Maybe adults now

Makarov

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Posted: 9/20/2025 5:59:47 PM EDT

[#13]

Sincerest condolences.

I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy Glock and thy AR15, they comfort me.

tonysoprano150

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Posted: 9/20/2025 6:01:00 PM EDT

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I do not remember that name, but RIP

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Moon-Watcher

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Posted: 9/20/2025 6:03:05 PM EDT

[#15]

To anger a conservative, tell him a lie; to anger a liberal, tell him the truth.
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Posted: 9/20/2025 6:22:07 PM EDT

[#16]

I enjoyed reading his posts and responses.
Condolences to his family..

dukeofearl

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Posted: 9/20/2025 6:30:40 PM EDT

[#17]

He was a very wealthy man to garner the love and respect you put forth.

RIP, Hardshell. Didn't know you but I sense the loss.

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Posted: 9/20/2025 6:35:47 PM EDT

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We are all diminished.

RIP

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Posted: 9/20/2025 6:39:31 PM EDT

[#19]

Rest in Peace, bro.

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Posted: 9/20/2025 6:40:31 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By osprey21:

RIP Richard.

https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/766/26003-3627354.jpg

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RIP Brother

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Posted: 9/20/2025 6:41:50 PM EDT

[#21]

RIP

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Posted: 9/20/2025 6:42:24 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By tightlines49:

Thank you, I was wondering what it was.

RIP

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Originally Posted By tightlines49:

Originally Posted By Ridgerunner9876:

His avatar was the cartoon of the boy praying?

Thank you, I was wondering what it was.

RIP

It was Calvin, wasn't it?

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Posted: 9/20/2025 6:43:26 PM EDT

[#23]

Rest in peace, Hardshell

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Posted: 9/20/2025 6:45:28 PM EDT

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mudholestomper

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Posted: 9/20/2025 7:17:36 PM EDT

[#25]

RIP brother

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Posted: 9/20/2025 7:18:39 PM EDT

[#26]

Damn!

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Posted: 9/20/2025 7:39:05 PM EDT

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RIP

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Posted: 9/20/2025 7:46:38 PM EDT

[#28]

RIP Hardshell.

It appears you had a life well lived, and I hope to see you in the next one.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. -Viktor Frankl

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Posted: 9/20/2025 7:49:57 PM EDT

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INI

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Posted: 9/20/2025 7:55:50 PM EDT

[#30]

RIP, Sir.

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Posted: 9/20/2025 7:56:36 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By sirbordsalot311:
RIP Hardshell. Great poster from the old days

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Yep, the longer we are here, the more this is gong to happen. RIP man.

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Posted: 9/20/2025 7:58:44 PM EDT

[#32]

He will be missed

RikWriter

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Posted: 9/20/2025 7:59:09 PM EDT

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Farewell, brother.

Author of Contact Front, Glory Boy, Wholesale Slaughter and other military science fiction.

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Posted: 9/20/2025 8:00:35 PM EDT

[#34]

RIP

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Posted: 9/20/2025 8:11:39 PM EDT

[#35]

Saved this on my phone back in 2012

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Posted: 9/20/2025 8:12:55 PM EDT

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Dang.......He was a good friend and a good man.

"The villainy you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction"

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Posted: 9/20/2025 8:14:54 PM EDT

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If you can't dazzle them with brilliance... riddle them with bullets...

MilHouse-556

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Posted: 9/20/2025 8:14:58 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/20/2025 8:16:57 PM EDT

[#39]

Hardshell

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Posted: 9/20/2025 8:18:05 PM EDT

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Teener Crew For Life We hate 'em 'cause we ain't 'em

PASS

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Posted: 9/20/2025 8:22:46 PM EDT

[#41]

Damn, another OG gone.

RIP Brother.

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Posted: 9/20/2025 8:22:53 PM EDT

[#42]

Seems to have been a man of faith.
RIP, Amen

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Posted: 9/20/2025 8:24:20 PM EDT

[#43]

RIP

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Posted: 9/20/2025 8:28:57 PM EDT

[#44]

Well dammit. Tired of watching people around me die. Must be getting old.

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Posted: 9/20/2025 8:32:29 PM EDT

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Is this the guy who was pretty active on the Keltec forum also?

ETA. Yup he was. Really good, God fearing dude.

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lew

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Posted: 9/20/2025 8:37:45 PM EDT

[#46]

May his path from here on out be smooth sailing. RIP.

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Posted: 9/20/2025 8:39:25 PM EDT

[#47]

Sad to hear

Democratic party=new communist party

SeanTX

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Posted: 9/20/2025 8:52:41 PM EDT

[#48]

What a great post by his wife. He had a good wife and was clearly a great husband. Respect.
Rest easy, sir.

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Posted: 9/20/2025 8:52:56 PM EDT

[#49]

RIP sir.

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Posted: 9/20/2025 8:57:10 PM EDT

[#50]

RIP Brother!

"I miss the days of being able to shoot all commies" G.B.

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