Every Man a Minute Man

I never enter the woods unarmed. Today's carry piece features the well-proven flintlock system in marine boarding pistol platform from an unknown custom shop c. a. 1740-1820. About .69 caliber, smooth bore. Fully equipped with serviceable flint held in vise padded with bambiite.

Moose

Along the Mississippi River, well upstream of the Twin Cities sprawl, a very nice dog, owned by a very nice couple, is quite ill. Recovery is something of a long shot, but maybe if enough good people send enough kind thoughts in that direction...

I've known her for most of her ten years, and may I say that I have never met a dog quite so ... well ... polite.

But not servile, as several woulds-be alphas learned when they finally crossed Moose's tolerance line.

Illiterate Redneck Gun Creeps

BookFinder.com is one of the net's good resources for out-of-print books, and once a year or so it publishes a report on the top 100 searches of its databases. The most recent one shows four of the top hundred to be dangerously subversive rants by armed Enemies of the State:

Keith, Elmer - Hell, I Was There

Rule, Roger C. - The Rifleman's Rifle: Winchester's Model 70, 1936-1963

Sharp, Philip - The Rifle in America

Howe, James Virgil - The Modern Gunsmith

---

Nice first editions of the Sharp and Howe books are on the Camp J shelves, but I covet a copy of Keith's book. Also of Bill Jordan's No Second Place Winner.

Travis McGee, horologist

"Meyer, the longest 28 minutes in the world begin when you put the brownies in the oven."