Interview with John Buchanan:

Interview with John Buchanan in Kroger Parking Lot March 28, 2006

     Well It was a Mr. Smith a “Star Gage” man  (measures inside the gun tube)  So Early one morning he came down to our building 216 and was hunting for an oil patch to run thru that gun tube before he did the “Star Gage” measurement.  Well what he thought was an oil patch wasn’t, because that morning, Mr. Bob Gosman had found a “Road Kill”  Raccoon carcass.  He had skinned it out to get the hide on it, you know prior to going to work .He kept the hide and put the carcass in a small pile of rags and that was what Mr. Wilbur Smith, he thought it was an oil patch, So he put it in that chamber of that 8 inch gun and got a rammer staff and ran it through there.  Gosman came back  and he said What are you doing!   What in the world are you doing? Wilbur said, “Oh I am running an oil patch thru here”.  No, He said you are running a coon carcass thru there.  I thought that was funny. At least the carcasss did not bust open.  I don’t think it hurt the gun.