I befriended Ed over 40 years ago. At that time, I was helping new shooters get into action shooting so I would reload some ammo for people who needed some.
Ed was bringing in hard-cast bullets by the pallet for the bullseye shootin' club, so I would go up to his house and pick up bullets and chat about this n' that.
For a while, he had a lace-neck dove flying around his workshop because it was injured, and he nursed it back to health. 
He worked on some of my pistols and one of them is my standard range gun to this day.
I remember that dove. It became Ed's pet.
I also bought cast bullets from Ed. The price was right and for years I did not cast pistol bullets.
In the early 90's Ed gave testimony against a bill that would out law guns like the ar15 because it
could be mistaken for an M16. He said: "If we are going to ban something because it looks like something
bad, well then I better not associate with COP Boise Correa because he look like Sadam Hussein."
The auditorium erupted and even Boise Correa was laughing. Ed more than made his point to the
law makers. The bill did not pass. Ed will be missed.
Mahalo for jogging my memory OF.