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 …
Tag: Guns
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.
Horned Rifles and other Asian Firearms
Dave at Prick- Eared sent me a link to this story on a village in China , where the inhabitants are allowed at least primitive firearms. In strictly “gun free” China, this makes it a great tourist attraction, a situation something like allowing the Naxi to have their goshawk – based falconry. (As a tourist …
Words Fail
Is this not the most grotesque plutocrat’s rifle you have ever seen? And all for only Five Hundred and Twenty Thousand Euros! Click on all to enlarge, especially the last… (HT Jonathan Hanson) Wouldn’t you prefer these? Or even these?
Anthony Bourdain on Guns
Westerners and gun nuts alike will be pleased, as our favorite celebrity chef (and good writer) Anthony Bourdain pens a strong defense of gun ownership, and of our state as well. I’ll excerpt a bunch, but really, this is a classic Read the Whole Thing. Oh, and he is right on Green as chile of …
Sense on guns
I don’t post on political issues too much, because I have strong beliefs but no partisan litmus tests for friends and ideas. I would rather discuss other things (i.e. almost anything else). But this is a good summing- up on guns, one that people I know who differ on other issues agree with, so I …
Morocco Part Two
More from Sir Terence Clark: this time, muzzleloaders, used in a horse “Fantasia” show. He writes: “For lovers of antique guns, Morocco has some amazing weapons still in common use. These muzzle-loading rifles with their silver chased barrels are used in the Fantasia, when a group of horsemen charge full tilt at the audience and …
Punt Guns
I have been in touch recently with Pete Humphreys, son of the man who brought Roaring Emma, the sporting writer James Wentworth Day’s 140- year old magnum 8 bore Joseph Lang, back to England. Pete is an all- round sportsman himself and heir to a rich heritage, especially in wildfowling, and a font of what …
Gun Quiz Solution
It was (obviously?) an 1895 Winchester, most famed as Teddy Roosevelt’s lion gun in Africa, using its odd heavy load, the .405 Winchester. It was a relatively strong action, and because it had a box magazine* rather than the typical tubular ones on most leverguns, it could shoot modern spitzer type loads like the .30- …
Gun Quiz & Tease
What is this? I do not mean ’95 Winchester; I will take it my readers know that– but what caliber? Hint: more were made in it than all the others combined. Where are they now? I know its owner knows, so I will ask him not to give it away. No fair WIKI- ing the …