Interesting Westley Richards single, Deeley ejectors removed, unusual double lumps. Vintage Guns No bore size mentioned but singles were usually for the larger bores like 8.
Author: Sea Run
EV Scream??
A less obvious example, I was really looking forward to when electric trucks got to the reliability and price points that they’d be a reasonable purchase. That would no doubt take “low impact” everything up a notch. That excitement has vanished, ever since a neighbor bought an electric car. Sure, it’s whisper quiet to me, …
Roy Chapman Andrews update.
Tom Lovell True Magazine Chinese Soldiers Painting I sent Steve this Tom Lovell image in Sept 2023. He replied, “Where do you FIND these things?? I love it.” Lovell was a contemporary to Clymer with a similar career arc. Prior post. Tom Lovell True Magazine June 1949 Last Christmas I posted this and at the time I didn’t know …
Dino Update, Etc.
It’s amazing how far paleontology has come, and these drawings by Nix Illustration demonstrate that progress amazingly well. Lindsey Kinsella – Author A lot of new info to me here. I had no idea of some of these and it makes you wonder if and how they will change further. Steve likely will be …
Xmas Waxwings
If Mother Nature had a Christmas Tree….. It would be this. A tree past its prime. Holding on for a few last breaths. Full of little cones that are full of little seeds that will scatter across the landscape when the time comes. But for now, it will provide a resting post for tired birds …
Extreme Adaptions
Spider tailed horned viper More on the Spider tailed horned viper. Club-winged manakin More on YouTube. A more complete version on Facebook. Modified wing feathers are rubbed over bumps at high speed to produce the sound. The only bird that does so which resembles how insects create mating sounds. If these things were not …
Stillness on Christmas Eve.
Leo Piron – Winter, 1940 Manifest stillness on Christmas Eve. Merry Xmas.
Only six mammoth carcasses had been found. Only Six?
Russian scientists on Monday showed off the remarkably well preserved remains of a baby mammoth found in the permafrost-covered region of Yakutia. The 50,000-year-old female mammoth has been nicknamed “Yana” after the river in whose basin it was discovered this summer. Experts say “Yana” is the best preserved mammoth carcass in the world and is one …
The next big thing?
Modular rifles, the next big thing? We will see.
Stock Repair?
Last summer my beloved 1881 8 ga. Parker Lifter developed a nasty crack in the stock. It was delivered to a guy that put in some reinforcements. I’m looking forward to having it back in action at the 2025 Spring Southern. Jeff Stegmeier Is it really done like this? Seems like a hack to me. …