Somebody saw a cougar down in Iowa City, and one of our vigilant public servants was ready with wisdom -- things you and I would never think of. Misha Goodman, director of the Iowa City Animal Care and Adoption Center, reminds us to
...walk in pairs in the areas where the sightings occurred and to not let children walk alone in wooded areas, particularly at sunset. If a mountain lion is spotted, Goodman said to stay at a distance and to never feed it.
We should all tattoo that on the backs of our hands.
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Our crack DNR isn't quite ready to admit citizens actually saw a cougar this time. They are "investigating."
In the past few years the DNR has finally conceded that a few cougars may have taken up residence in our fair state. Before that they usually said people were mistaking deer for the big cats. The argument eventually colllapsed when DNR learned that even us civilians know that hardly any deer have five-foot tails.
Sep 12, 2011
Slam fire
Blessings on thee, Mr. Browning. This morning I'm grateful for your most elegant shotgun, the Ithaca 37, particularly the one which took up residence in the Camp J arms vault yesterday afternoon. The 37 is alleged to have the fewest moving parts of any pump shotgun.
The old girl suffers from a mild case of patina, and her walnut benefited from severe scrubbing and a couple of coats of brown MinWax. While her debutante glow is irretrievable history, she still pleases me in the wake of her cleanup -- something like a dowager who never missed her day at the gym, beginning about the time of the Tet offensive.
I've owned a couple-three of these things but never tried the slam-fire function which made her desirable to certain police forces. It will be a way of getting rid of a handful of loose 12-gauge orphans in a delightfully noisy manner.
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The adoption fee was quite reasonable. The lady who brought her around "just wanted the thing out of my closet." The perfectly functional Stevens 84D came mostly as lagniappe. (Bonus knowledge, new to me: Remington .22 rifle magazines from the middle of the 20th Century work fine in at least some of the same-era Stevens.)
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The same source will be bringing around a SW 27, about unfired, in the factory wooden box. Pant. Drool.
The old girl suffers from a mild case of patina, and her walnut benefited from severe scrubbing and a couple of coats of brown MinWax. While her debutante glow is irretrievable history, she still pleases me in the wake of her cleanup -- something like a dowager who never missed her day at the gym, beginning about the time of the Tet offensive.
I've owned a couple-three of these things but never tried the slam-fire function which made her desirable to certain police forces. It will be a way of getting rid of a handful of loose 12-gauge orphans in a delightfully noisy manner.
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The adoption fee was quite reasonable. The lady who brought her around "just wanted the thing out of my closet." The perfectly functional Stevens 84D came mostly as lagniappe. (Bonus knowledge, new to me: Remington .22 rifle magazines from the middle of the 20th Century work fine in at least some of the same-era Stevens.)
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The same source will be bringing around a SW 27, about unfired, in the factory wooden box. Pant. Drool.
Sep 11, 2011
My 9/11 offering
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| Aloft in a fighter without ammo, Lt. Penney was quite prepared to launch a kamakazi strike against UAL 93. (A wide departure from the traditional Women With Clothes On offerings, but (a) she is attractive and (b) I think the photo suggests a nobility lacking in the shot just posted of our Narcissist-in-Chief. --- (Credit National Airway Race Shows via http://news.yahoo.com/fighter-pilot-recalls-mission-stop-9-11-plane-230127999.html) |
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