The REAL Eagle huntress, Lauren McGough, the Mother of Dragons, is in South Africa with a new dragon. Monkeys beware!
John takes off
Our favorite gun geek John Besse left for his summer home on a tributary of the Snake in Idaho in the middle of the night so nobody would make a fuss. I wasn’t too surprised. Here he is with his latest project, a restored M99 Savage in the uncommon “250- 3000” caliber. He is partial …
Registering Microchips
We recently imported several dogs from outside the United States, and those dogs had been microchipped by veterinarians before arriving in the U.S. For the microchips to be useful in the event a dog is lost, the numbers associated with the chip must be registered. Implanted microchips that aren’t registered by the animal owner are …
Paul’s cane
Paul Schmolke is one of my oldest friends in Albuquerque, where he worked st Ron Peterson’s when I first met him. He is a gunmaker, a poet, and a student of Zen Buddhism, which combination made him a natural for our “circle”. In the photo above he is examining a big- frame Parker in our …
If you were to have three English Shotguns
.. you know, if you HAD to… You could do worse than these three: Or if it came to two: Top: Frederick Scott 12 bore SLE proofed for heavy loads, but weighs only 6 1/4 lbs 16 bore Cogswell & Harrison from London, 30″ Damascus barrels. 6 lbs .410 Thomas Turner with 26″ barrels, again …
“Great Unknown”?
John Muller’s fine piece on me in NM magazine is out, graced by the photos of Hans Wachs, and soon to be online. It is called “The Great Unknown”– meaning me!– and uses this photo as a lead, which will have to do until I have a link. UPDATE: Here is the link, thanks to …
No Respect
These fine photos of a cow giving birth are by John L Moore of (near) Miles City, rancher and novelist. If they were of antelope, they would probably be on the cover of a magazine, but domestic animals get no respect. Johnson and Janiga, the authors of the magisterial Superdove, on feral pigeons, say they …
William “Gatz” Hjortsberg, 1941- 2017
Chris Waddington, my old editor at the Minneapolis Star Tribune and now a happier man in his belovcd New Orleans (even though Katrina flooded his house) emailed to tell me that our mutual friend Gatz Hjortsberg died at his home in Livingston after a “short illness” i.e. pancreatic cancer (it’s a bad one; it’s the …
Humor from Annie D
“He was such a good dog, very strange breed, and didn’t train well, but a good boy nonetheless”
Best Dog Photos…
Taken by Dellas Henke of Michigan over a decade (?) ago, and sent a few days past. The last one of Lashyn especially almost made me cry for her beauty, innocence, and youth…