I like to think of the big school in Wells, Minnesota, as the best disciplined one in the country. For at least one day a year it is as thousands of gun freaks crowd the halls. Probably the rest of the year, too. Politeness is contagious.
We made our annual pilgrimage Saturday and came home happy even if not significantly more lethal -- except for our youngest loopholer, 10. He loopholed a tactical sharp thing. It has so many "features" I refuse to honor it with the term "knife," but it made him smile and that's the general idea.
I settled for about 300 pages of hilarity, an excellent hardback copy of the 1960 "Professional Guides Manual" by Minnesota's own George L. Herter.
(Sample: "If a bull moose will not give you a good sidewise look and you have to judge his rack from the front, look carefully at his ears. If his ears are real long, you can be sure he has a trophy rack.")
Plus an almost unused 1950-ish powder measure and stand, also from Mr. Herter. I've set it up and it works as expected. How could a measure weighing something like 20 pounds be less than perfect?
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Next week is our little local loophole. Y'all come. I'll be the guy with the interesting useless crap on his table, waving Federal Reserve Cartoons, begging you to sell me something made of steel and walnut.
2 comments:
Where would one find info on the little local loophole?
I don't have a flyer here, but there really isn't much to say exept Saturday and Sunday, usual gun show hours. It's a small show and last year was a near-bust. The guy running admitted promo failures and promised to do better. I think he has. At the big Sioux Falls show a few weeks back he was personally talking with and handing a flyer to every dealer there.
If you decide to make it, I renew the offer of a bunk here and a brew -- or maybe something with even more authority.
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