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As I became more annoyed with "Adventurer's" threads at the Fedora Lounge, I decided to create yet another while inserting a smidgen of history. Here is the man whose name everyone recognizes, whose face few recognize.
Who is whom? 1931
At his headquarters in Peking - 1925 1928 Central Asiatic Expedition gets under way
In the Gobi Desert
With Merin in the Gobi Route finding in the Gobi
Getting around in the Gobi
Successful Gobi antelope hunt Surveying the desert
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. Sam Levinson
1923 First dinosaur eggs discovered At the Flaming Cliffs
Still with Olsen at the Flaming Cliffs - 1925
Excavating with Granger
Feeding his eagle chicks Relaxing in night camp
Roy Chapman Andrews, the real Indiana Jones.
Note: For those who might be interested, Andrews wore a Colt Official Police (41 frame) chambered for 38 Special. His preferred rifles were Savage Model 99 in 250-3000 and Mannlicher-Shoenauer in 6.5 x 54 mm Mannlicher. And while his body count was not as high as Indiana Jones', there was a body count in the Gobi. North-central China and Mongolia were dangerous places during the 1920s.
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. Sam Levinson
Every time I read up on a man like like I get both inspired and discouraged. Inspired because their lives are full of stories, discouraged because any one of those stories is more exiting than anything I've ever done. I dont think life today has the same potential in some ways as the times of the past. I wonder what the future might bring however because I know a lot of men feel the same way.
C. Cash wrote:I know him only from the Gun Digest of 2005 or 6, otherwise I would have never have known about him. Great article on this fella and his firearms.
One of his books, "This Business Of Exploring" has been in our mountain cabin since the late 1920s. I have read it several times and still marvel at his adventures. There is NO doubt that he is the original Indiana Jones.
"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale, and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled or hanged"....President Abraham Lincoln
Timothy wrote:Every time I read up on a man like like I get both inspired and discouraged. Inspired because their lives are full of stories, discouraged because any one of those stories is more exiting than anything I've ever done. I dont think life today has the same potential in some ways as the times of the past. I wonder what the future might bring however because I know a lot of men feel the same way.
Nonsense...... Besides, I don't think your allowed to get much of a body account while exploring these days..... Take a deep sea diving class......find a place that will let you hunt pigs with a knife and spear.....spend a week in Africa with a camera taking pics of DG from 20 or 30 feet.....ride a scoot around America.......Date my ex wife
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I read one of his books back in elementary school. I remember being fascinated by it. Wish I could find it again.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! P Henry
When the Government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the Government, there is tyranny.T Jefferson
bobbyjack wrote:Well there gos the myth about him and the S&W 1917 (in .45acp)the pistol in his houlster does have the same frame though!
Bob
While nowadays few people use Colt double-action revolvers regularly, until perhaps after World War II, Smith & Wesson swing-out double-actions were nowhere near as popular as Colts. Possibly this trend began when S&W nearly abandoned the commercial US market in the last third of the nineteenth century to fill Russian government contracts.
While I don't believe that S&Ws were scarce, people going to the movies in the 20s, 30s, and 40s saw the good guys and the gangsters using Colt's revolvers. I don't think I've viewed a Warner Brothers movie of that era where anyone used a Smith.
The Official Police is closer in size to "L" frame than "N" frame. It is a Python under the hood. Colt's New Service was the "N" frame's counterpart.
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One thing that puzzles me is the way members of the Central Asiatic Expeditions wore cartridge belts rather than, for example, McKeever Cartridge boxes and open top holsters rather than full flap. Everything I've read of Andrews' expeditions shows dust and storms and severe weather occurring frequently. One would think the cartridges would become filthy and the revolvers jammed with crud. Apparently, these obvious issues weren't. And I cannot figure out why they weren't.
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. Sam Levinson
Timothy wrote:Every time I read up on a man like like I get both inspired and discouraged. Inspired because their lives are full of stories, discouraged because any one of those stories is more exiting than anything I've ever done. I dont think life today has the same potential in some ways as the times of the past. I wonder what the future might bring however because I know a lot of men feel the same way.
Nonsense...... Besides, I don't think your allowed to get much of a body account while exploring these days..... Take a deep sea diving class......find a place that will let you hunt pigs with a knife and spear.....spend a week in Africa with a camera taking pics of DG from 20 or 30 feet.....ride a scoot around America.......Date my ex wife
Tubby, it all sounded like good ideas until the last. You're a cruel man. How could you suggest that to anyone?
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JustaJeepGuy wrote:
I'd bet they're not really that much different. Just different names for the warlords.
If they crack down on pacifist religious monks and people with different political ideas then somehow I doubt they would tolerate warlords in the old sense. Crime bosses maybe.
1931 
1928 Central Asiatic Expedition gets under way 
Route finding in the Gobi 
Surveying the desert 
At the Flaming Cliffs 
Relaxing in night camp 
Besides, I don't think your allowed to get much of a body account while exploring these days..... Take a deep sea diving class......find a place that will let you hunt pigs with a knife and spear.....spend a week in Africa with a camera taking pics of DG from 20 or 30 feet.....ride a scoot around America.......Date my ex wife 
