Like pigeons (which I will soon be writing about again) big bore shotguns are a constant recurring interest of mine shared by few contemporaries– those mostly coastal wildfowlers who used tens in the US, something I was at least born into. When it comes to Big Guns US shooting society tends to live in the …
Tag: Guns
Drinkable…. MAUSER?
When I got to the last wrapping of an anonymous package last week, the outline of my last unfulfilled firearm desideratum appeared: the unmistakable profile of a ’96 Mauser “Broomhandle”. Could some anonymous admirer have sent me (illegally, but I wasn’t worried– it had passed inspection) the gun used by Winston Churchill in the “River …
What do people in the anti- gun media…
… think of us? Not much, apparently… A few quotes: “Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” asserted that gun rights advocates aren’t “normal people,” they have no “other interests,” and they are uninterested in their wives or kids…” “The Post’s Gene Weingarten in 2011 spat on the Second Amendment as “the refuge of bumpkins and …
Dan Baum sticks to his guns…
… in this excellent interview in Atlantic (pun absolutely intended). Maybe they thought he would back down; because of the current climate, because– I don’t know, he hadn’t spent many years coming to his conclusions? No fear: “I’m no less a Democrat than I was, but I am more attuned to the gun guy complaint …
Gun Guys
I usually don’t review books that I blurb– but if you have any strong views on guns, on either side, take a look at Dan Baum’s Gun Guys . There are several reasons to (on top of its being a fine piece of reporting and a good read): first, genuinely pro- gun books by unabashed …
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I have difficulty spending too much time at the keyboard these days, while work expands, and I find myself neglecting reading my blog “family”. Then I go on binges of catching up. Yesterday, while reading my indispensable fellow New Mexican gun and science fans, the Atomic Nerds, I scrolled down to find that Stingray had …
Literary Cartridges
What famous short story do these two very distinctive cartridges represent?
Thanksgiving late- night early selections
Friends, family, guns, shooters new and old, art, food, conversation… and lots of wine. Best shot of the day other than Piet, always a serious master & coach, was cellist Joel Becktell, our only first timer–!
Gun Books for Boys, Parents, and Girls…
Silvio Calabi and his team released the amazing Gun Book for Boys a couple of weeks ago. I opened it with interest; Silvio has been a fine editor and writer (last year’s Hemingway’s Guns, reviewed here, is a favorite) and good correspondent for years, and he was the somewhat unlikely advisor who recommended I take …
More Visitors
Who but Arthur Wilderson would visit and bring obscure, beautifully- made Czech battle rifles, other military goodies, a bottle of cherry dessert wine from a Colorado winery, and friends, Nate and (female) Evan, with interests in everything from fossil cat cladistics and Darren Naish’s blog to Asian falconry and cartridges I had never heard of? …