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Bill in Oregon

Well, Brian, you made me have to look that up. Hadn't heard of it, but sounds like a unique gift.

Bill in Oregon

Doc, you're a contrarian for sure!

Bill in Oregon

This is worth watching -- a master craftsman at work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Kk2IJPu8E&t=583s

Bill in Oregon

Pretty much gave up yesterday after many tries. I hope the problems are solved.

Bill in Oregon

This is just amazing. Dunno if the roller is a Cuban or a Dominican, or in Havana or Tampa, but what an art. Makes me consider searching out a fine, hand-rolled cigar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Kk2IJPu8E

Bill in Oregon

As Jack Benny used to say: "Now CUT THAT OUT, Vall!"

Bill in Oregon

Well, Jim, now you have me curious what a 10-shot group with that Fiocchi would look like — at 50 and 100 yards.

Bill in Oregon

It's been slow to load, or refusing to load for me for the past two or three days. I had hoped this issue was behind us.

Bill in Oregon

Looks lovely Darryl. Hey, try shooting the shorty shells from Federal and Aguilla. Recoil a little more than a .410.

Bill in Oregon

There was an article on hunting with one of these early in the Black Powder Cartridge News, before it went four-color, if I recall correctly. Played with a lesser Pedersoli Sharps in .54 and had some fun with it, but an original Merrill was more fun if'n ya want ta spill black powder grains upon loa...

Bill in Oregon

I used to follow this, Vall. Glad Dave Gullo is still out there competing. Was that Hungarian rascal Balazs Nemeth there?

Bill in Oregon

It's just a lovely old Marlin. Glad it has found such a good home.

Bill in Oregon

I got to thinking about the straight-wall pistol cartridge thread, which for some reason reminded me of a story Steve Garbe wrote early in the history of the Black Powder Cartridge News about killing a bull elk with a .38-55 loaded with black powder and cast bullet out of a single shot -- probably a...

Bill in Oregon

I've shot the Holosun 507C Green with the 2-minute/32-minute reticle with good results. Green is better for daylight and competition, red for low-light conditions.

Bill in Oregon

Glad you are getting yours sorted, Scott. Such a lovely carbine!

Bill in Oregon

When Dad even mentioned Wodehouse's "Golf Without Tears," he would start laughing.

Bill in Oregon

Sure news to me, Darryl. Going to pop for a Secesh uniform to do re-enactments?

I had only known St. Albans for the Century Arms stamp on surplus firearms imports.

Bill in Oregon

I don't think i have ever come close to even 20 birds in skeet, so don't beat yourself up too much Will!

Bill in Oregon

... this little film is incredibly rewarding. I had no idea what all went into building a well in Germany in the old days -- especially the wood boring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1SlsMDhPkk

Bill in Oregon

Jason, we simply must have a like button here!

Bill in Oregon

Mr. York, I am 13 years behind you and doubt I will reach your mark. Congratulations sir!

Bill in Oregon

It's a relief to me. Every time I start carrying to the point I forget about the handgun, I have this fear of somehow finding myself in the post office and being busted.

Bill in Oregon

Wow! And here I was proud of myself for than 60 years ago for making a simple chess board of walnut and maple squares in junior high wood shop.

Bill in Oregon

Bruce, he looks like one of ours except he has been going to the gym.

Bill in Oregon

That really is gorgeous country. Youngest brother on the Cache la Poudre up near Fort Collins keeps torturing me with photos of the aspens -- and his Brittany pup.

Bill in Oregon

Agree on the 24-inch untapered octagon barrels taking the fun out of handling and carrying a Rossi.

Bill in Oregon

Every soul is precious to the One who created it.

Bill in Oregon

We have them here in southern New Mexico. Had them in the Rolling Plains of Texas, too. The Comanches revered them.

Bill in Oregon

I prefer the trebuchet method of pumpkin disassembly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXHNdWyTGuA

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Well, they are NATO partners, and it is possible a Christian is among the employees. The Turkish firearms industry has access to some lovely walnut. Islam: The vast majority of Turks are Muslim, with Sunni Islam being the most common branch, particularly the Hanafi school of thought. Alevi Muslims, ...

Bill in Oregon

Here's the skull of the old male I took in Namibia with a 250-grain Barnes Triple-shock out of a CZ in 9,3X62. Our tracker found baboons hilarious and immediately christened him "Old Uncle Bob." He is missing his left canine. They have great dentition for ripping flesh. https://i.postimg.c...

Bill in Oregon

Hard to beat good old Buddy Emmons on pedal steel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuxaVfeqTWA

Bill in Oregon

And this is one of the sweetest grabs from Neil Young's "Harvest Moon" that I ever imagined hearing. Sorry if I posted before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osst1JN5Yk4&t=1s

Bill in Oregon

Will, we love them like children, don't we?

Bill in Oregon

Bill in Oregon

Vall, have you checked with George at Treebone Carving?

Bill in Oregon

They make the most hideous sounds -- screams like a woman being tortured -- and when they run some of them occasionally jump high in the air to look quickly for where the threat is. They were pretty shy out in the bush near Kamanjab in northern Namibia, but when we flew into Windhoek and our PH's wi...

Bill in Oregon

Vall, your Midas touch remains intact.

Bill in Oregon

Wow, Jason, I hadn't thought about potato guns in years. I had one as a kid in the late 1950s that looked like a ray gun out of Buck Rogers. Metal of course.

Bill in Oregon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ1orxXV2Gs

Bill in Oregon

Love living in a public lands state again after two years of exile in Texas. These are the Florida Mountains just south of Deming, which stretch almost to Columbus where Villa made his raid in 1916. Looking south on Highway 180 from the Silver City area. https://i.postimg.cc/dLn8NpDR/IMG-0782.jpg

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This has stuck with me all these years. The Young British Soldier. When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East 'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast, An' 'e wonders because 'e is frequent deceased Ere 'e's fit for to serve as a soldier. Serve, serve, serve as a soldier, Serve, serve, s...

Bill in Oregon

Nuff said.
Rest, my darling.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057413/?ref_=nm_knf_t_4

Bill in Oregon

Great find Ted! The Finns make such wonderful rifles.

Bill in Oregon

Will, the practice of coppicing hazel goes back to the Iron Age or earlier in Britain, because hazel branches were preferred as the lattice material for wattle and daub home construction, which stretches back into prehistory. Cool stuff.

Bill in Oregon

Walt --- ooooh, Capitan. The Oso Grill makes a better green chile cheeseburger than Sparky's in my opinion. For those who've never been there, in the state park across the street, Smokey Bear lies buried. I got oddly enotional standing at his grave. It was near Capitan that the little orphaned cub w...

Bill in Oregon

Hah! Will, I am a native of Oregon, which produces 99 percent of the commercial filbert crop in the United States. We had wild hazelnut growing on our property in the Siskiyou Mountains near Medford, but I had to battle the squirrels to get even a handful of nuts. I enjoyed working with the wood, an...

Bill in Oregon

Look like Oregon hazelnuts to me.

Bill in Oregon

I've never been close to that coordinated!

Bill in Oregon

Oooh. That Achilles again ...

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