On another field trip taken while in Arkansas last month, Connie and I drove to the Missouri Ozarks to see the Current River near the town of Van Buren. When I was a kid our family did lots of camping and canoeing here before it became a National Scenic River and the National Park Service …
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Larry Benoit RIP
Legendary whitetail hunter Larry Benoit, of Duxbury VT, is dead at 89. he exemplified the Yankee blue- collar woodsman- hunter, and despite it being a how- to, his How to Bag the Biggest Buck of Your Life, a delightful read as well as a practical manual, would have made my book of books if not …
A Rowan Oak Bonus
I was going to put this in my post last week on Faulkner’s Rowan Oak, but I had so many photos in the post already that Blogger was getting balky and I was afraid I would lose the whole thing. After I had finished walking through the house, I went back to my car, got …
“Preppy”?
Reader Matthew remarks in comments below on my being such a “preppie” in my youth. Well, yeah, but life goes on and reality intrudes. Children become unexpected adults. And no matter how you strive, “Golden lads and girls all must/ As chimney- sweepers, come to dust…”
Range Session, Magdalena
“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 …
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“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 …