“Guns that work”, to paraphrase Guy Clark…. Best quality Scott game 12 bore ca. 1918, waiting for the clay bird… Smith .44 “Mountain gun”. The trigger worked fine. And no grief for the Brit shooting cap please! 40 mph gusts precluded no hat, and I have never been able to reconcile shotgunning with my usual …
Month: October 2013
Quote
“Deserves” got nothin’ to do with it. Clint Eastwood as William Munny in Unforgiven
Fangio’s day drive and other cars…
Juan Fangio was a great driver who dominated Formula One racing in the fifties and later, along with the likes of Stirling Moss and Jackie Stewart. I am one of an aging remnant of mostly males (though another local friend and member of our band, Brian Romkey, reminded me of Denise McLuggage and Jean Lindamood, …
Guest Quotes– Teddy Moritz
Teddy writes: “Just finished a book by Christine Byl titled ‘Dirt Work, An Education in the Woods’. This woman worked summers on trail maintenance in Glacier National Park, and in several parks in Alaska. She talks about the grunt work, the digging and clearing and loading and discomfort of physical work. She loved it all. …
Worst Gun Engraving…
EVER? A “Palo Alto Rigby”, sent by Jonathan who has an old London one. Makes this English- made one, which we used to groan about, look quite tasteful. At least the lions are realistic… Do remember that both of these guns cost more than my house– come to think of it, the engraved coyotes cost …
Blizzard Whiteout
Eastern Montana writer John Moore alerted me to the great October blizzard in South Dakota a few days ago. I told him I would blog on it, but assumed something of such magnitude would soon get out. But nooo… apparently the actions of petty bureaucrats top any need to report the effects of the greatest …
Good Lizard
A melanistic Sceloporus in our woodpile amongst the hot- burning “pitchwood” pinon logs picked for fire starters, far from any black lava. Must ask Harry Greene if this is just the natural variation selected for on black Malpai rock…
Good Gun
Older run (see beveled edges on the front of the cylinder?) Mountain gun by Smith and Wesson; still older young mammoth tooth from a Florida spring courtesy of Joe Hutto. Backdrop is a Kazakh wall hanging from Olgii, probably between them in age…. It– the revolver– needs good wooden grips and a tanker holster.
Good Run
Tavi, and Tavo Cruz’s Luna, bred on a Dutch Salmon longdog out of our Kyran. Yes, we do use wrong names sometimes. Remember how I said big packs are sometimes less effective? This was a three dog run; they caught the hare shortly. Always click right or double for bigger photos. Shot by Shiri…
Argentavis magnificens
The BIG bird. Moro correctly guessed — no, knew- what the huge black cutout a few posts ago represented: the the biggest bird that ever flew, and one of the biggest flying creatures– only Azdarchid pterosaurs were larger. As far as I know (Therese? Darren?), its taxonomy seems a bit vague, and its habits disputed. …