I doubt I will ever buy a Purdey but I have always shot beautiful guns, as good as I could wrangle. I have never hesitated to buy fine guns, good books or for that matter art or even good custom shirts. This thoughtful unsigned post from the excellent Mannlicher Schoenauer rifle site gets to the …
Month: July 2012
New Damascus Steel
Purdey has reinvented Damascus, using a process I don’t even pretend to understand. From Michael Yardley’s site: “Powder steels have around twice the fracture strength of normal steels. The molten steel from the refining furnace runs into a nitrogen-filled vacuum chamber. In the chamber powerful gas beams atomize the alloy into a fine powder. The… …
Quote of the day #1: The way things were
“Until August 1914 a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state, beyond the post office and the policeman. He could live where he liked and as he liked. He had no official number or identity card. He could travel abroad or leave his country for ever without …
“Look, don’t touch!”
Tim Gallagher sent this article by David Sobel from Orion about how our nit- picking, rule- bound, risk- averse society is creating a generation of kids who dislike and fear and are bored by nature and the outdoors. It should scare the hell out of you. Some quotes: “Amanda notices a red eft in a …
Rants & Raves
Abby Mouat runs an amazing gun catalog reprint press. I have both ordered from and contributed to it, and recommend it without reservation to my readers. But in the Internet world no good deed goes unpunished. Abby believes in letting the world see when you make a rude fool of yourself, and publishes the best …
One more from Cap’n Rick
Whale breeching near tuna boat. Rick: “I have hours of whale videos and every day we go for tuna it’s a spectacular whale show. Here’s a pic I took– when the whale landed everyone in the boat got soaked!”
Just a little time left
To contribute to the Russian Life Silk Road Trilogy translation project. My earlier take here. Apparently just 100 ten- dollar book orders would put them over the top. It would be a shame if lack of publicity made this wonderful project fail.Tell your friends. Go viral!
Found Image from PO
Golfing trapper:
Another granddog
Dan & Margaret’s 7- month old Hilda, from a Lashyn- Plum descendant at Dutch’s and their Galgo Sandia. Pretty girl!
Gratuitous dog pic
Riss racing Tavi (Shiri has a new camera).