This would be hilarious if it were a last- page ad satire in Wired. But somebody BUYS these. We. Are. So. Doomed I was going to quit for the night with this but will post two real working rifles above. Their combined cost with scopes is less than this one’s.
Tag: Guns
Rigby
The .275 Rigby takes a second elk for Jonathan. No seller’s remorse here. Well, maybe a TINY bit… but if they make us elk shanks a la Chinoise, more or less after Fuchsia Dunlap, I will forget it….
Born to Hunt
John Barsness has just released his latest book, Born to Hunt, a collection of essays that ranges from his home in Montana to Africa and the Arctic, along with more obscure destinations like Norway and Ireland. If you read magazines you surely know that John is one of the most prolific “gun writers” alive, as …
Boothroyd
Here is the 1987 (see ref to Betsy’s death) letter from “James Bond’s Armourer” praising the Model 12 that I promised last night– click to enlarge, twice if needed. Also notice that handguns were still legal in England then…
Returning to Bloggage: More Gun Stuff
More photo- blogging than not… I always write about double guns but you could make an argument that the most useful shotgun I have is my 20- bore Winchester model 12– even the likes of Geoffrey Boothroyd, who Ian Fleming wrote into the James Bond books as Bond’s “armourer”, owned one, along with one of …
Gun Tech Query
On the inside upper front of the frame above the cylinder of this old Colt revolver (above the barrel throat/ forcing cone) there is a shadow- click to enlarge- which is actually a milled recess. Any of you scholars know why?
More Doom
Birmingham, once one of the greatest gun centers in the world, has renamed its gun quarter. “One of Britain’s oldest industrial areas has been renamed after council leaders claimed local people no longer wanted to be associated with the weapons of war. “Opponents of the name change say the Gun Quarter has been sacrificed on …
A Historic Gun?
A Savage Model 99, for its forward- looking elegance and efficiency perhaps my all time favorite American rifle design (and Roy Chapman Andrews, the model for Indiana Jones, took one to the Gobi when he discovered the Flaming Cliffs fossil beds and the first Dino eggs!) This one is a take- down model in the …
Grooms’ Gun: Mostly a Guest Post
Steve Grooms, the man who wrote the book on pheasants, is reluctantly giving up his gun.He writes: “It is an “Ithaca” Model 600 made by SKB and imported by Ithacagun around 1976. I’m the only owner. “12 gauge with 2 3/4″ chambers, 26” barrels bored improved cylinder and modified. The barrels (at least on the …
Hal Herring on Colonel Cooper
As mentioned below. In his excellent Amazon review of To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth, Hal Herring writes: “…Cooper is an authentic American voice, and the rare man who has read and written as much as he has studied weaponry, ethics, and war. He is opinionated- I never agreed with him about the …