In Indiana… TWELVE of them:
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“James Bond’s Armourer”
Geoffrey Boothroyd really did write me on Model 12 Winchesters. He also really held that “position”- a critical letter to Ian Fleming on guns, early in the series, led to Fleming’s whimsically writing him into the books as a character. With Fleming, early in his career. Here is the Winchester letter. He later provided an …
Interactive Olgii
Belatedly (because of TOO MUCH GOING ON the past few weeks), an unusual interactive video of eagle hunters in Olgii, courtesy of local reader James Cherry. If I were to guess,. I would say it is on the hill on the east side of valley, south of Olgii town, near where Manai used to live… …
Fine Shotguns: A Review
Subtitled The History, Science, and Art of the Finest Shotguns from Around the World, John Taylor’s big- format paperback from Skyhorse is both moreambitious and far more difficult a task than it might appear to be, andfor the most part he has succeeded splendidly. No, that’s not fair; heHAS succeeded; that is to say, I have …
Uncontacted
Andaman Islanders perhaps?
Pre-review
I read Larry Millman’s At the End of the World: A True Story of Murder in the Arctic, a few months ago, and was so impressed I immediately gave him him a blurb. I didn’t give it any more thought until checked today to see when it was coming out, and he told me they …
Old Timer’s
Nothing amiss- the camera ran out of juice just as Libby was beginning to take photos, and we are awaiting others’ pics. Here are a few, some “stolen” from Linda Smiley’s newsletter. Cousin Nina McCabe and Holly Hagy, Ghost riders Me & Bodie in Shelby Mustang. John L Moore says ” Still a rascal after …
Old dog
The tragic thing about Scottish deerhounds is their short life span- even HALF deerhounds, like my old dog Riley (left), may only live nine years. His brother Ruffus, even bigger- he killed an antelope once- lived to only eight. So it is with great pleasure that I announce the thirteenth birthday of Margory Cohen’s Stella. …
Gunny in native dress
Gunny, Tina Garfield’s Anatolian, is the biggest dog we know, bigger even than other flock protection dogs. Libby used to weigh him on the postal scales when he was a baby. He thinks he still fits on it. Tina just got him a proper Turkish dress collar. He doesn’t quite know what to make of …
Indian Vultures
I wrote soberly on the Indian Vulture crisis years ago in the Atlantic. They continued to decline; nobody gives a damn about serious whiny articles. Today, my friend Jemima “Mima” Parry Jones, daughter of the grand old falconer Philip Glasier, sent me this YouTube piece of pro- vulture propaganda, and I am envious- it will …