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Showing posts with label Swag. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Swag. Show all posts
Mar 12, 2012

Wells Loophole AAR

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My local gang of loopholers totalled six, spread out over three generations.  The youngest came home with a tactical pocket knife and a nice...
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Feb 3, 2012

Holy Loophole, Batman...

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This one is close enough and typically good enough to move me to become an actual vendor. It helped that a bait shop which once tried to get...
Sep 4, 2011

The village flea market

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This is the last big weekend for fleecing tourists and the traditional time for a big flea market not far away.. I conferred with one of t...
Aug 28, 2011

Loophole sidebar

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Otherwise  it was a fine show, hundreds of interesting old pieces, and it's hard to say enough about how well the Dakota Territory Gun C...
Mar 29, 2011

Reloading, anyone?

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Care to see what a half-million pounds of reloadable brass looks like?  And that is Pounds with a "p" -- not rounds. I don'...
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Mar 14, 2011

Welles AAR

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Not much, folks. It may come to pass that I'll consider it a mistake to have left the 1970s Winchester M70 (in the magnificent .30-06)...
Feb 26, 2011

With me loophole on me shoulder

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No one else in the  Smugleye Irregulars lusts to hit the Fort Dodge loophole  today, so I'm passing too. That's manageable if I can ...
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Feb 6, 2011

Loopholing at it's finest

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Sometimes it's as important to know your dealers as to know guns. The two shooters here came from the FFL'ed  friend who has wha...
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Jan 18, 2011

Cowboy fantasies

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It's the summer gun, a Browning for the plains days when a tee shirt, scabby jeans,  and tennies are your basic tactical outfit. T...
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Jan 7, 2011

Vintage and exotic gun porn in .32 ACP

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Or, as the auctioneer announced it, 7 and, uhhh,  point 65 caliber , causing just enough confusion  in the country crowd th...
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Dec 4, 2010

Show Time

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Another weekend, another show    Another Loophole, where we will go... ( With apologies to Cole Porter, PBUH, too.) --- This is one...
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Aug 8, 2010

Uff duh, such an auction.

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If my head weren't so sweaty I'd have someone take a picture of me in my brand new Stetson, the  "Duke" model, and I'l...
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Jul 23, 2010

Gun dream

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Bet the farm that every serious gun enthusiast  has a fantasy of walking into a thrift store or garage sale and finding a  box of shooting g...
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Jul 12, 2010

Colt Gun Pron

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Breda doesn't even know I owe her a favor. She needed a few rounds of semi-oddball ammunition. I pawed through one of my junk boxes to...
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Mar 13, 2010

Sioux Falls AAR

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Those nice shiny old Colt and SW and revolvers with big holes in the barrel cost a lot of money. Scuza, I mean a LOT of money. Even w...
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Let us praise the gun show loophole

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The weekend brings an embarrassment of riches. Two large loopholes beckon, one in Sioux Falls, the other in tiny Wells, Minnesota. My us...
Feb 20, 2010

Recent acquisition (2)

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I once mentioned that my bookseller of choice is Goody O'Will , and yesterday he treated me particularly well. All hardbacks are always ...
Jan 31, 2010

AAR

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The Armstrong show was a shoulder- shrugger . Plenty of interesting stuff was available, but nothing made my wallet quiver. A pard ' pi...
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Jan 30, 2010

Bangsticks on the prairie

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Another small show today, east of here in a burg called Armstrong. It's the evolution of an Estherville show which somehow lost its venu...
Jan 24, 2010

The gunny book business

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I went shopping at www.gunbroker.com and searched "books." The engine returned a three-page list of 109 separate books or lots o...