"Stuff is eaten by dogs, broken by family and friends, sanded down by the wind, frozen by the mountains, lost by the prairie, burnt off by the sun, washed away by the rain. So you are left with dogs, family, friends, sun, rain, wind, prairie and mountains. What more do you want?"
Federico Calboli
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Just for fun
From Jim at Frontier Partisan. What on earth do you think the Villistas were doing with that punt gun?
A big gun requires really big sombreros. I think it's a wall (or rampart) gun. They were the Barretts of the 17th and 19th Centuries. Because it has a tripod, it's the "mobile" version. They were popular in GB, Europe, and even China (Boxer Rebellion). I bet this one was a left over from Maximilian's brief reign. Very cool. There's one on the wall at Murphy's Gun Shop in Tucson.
There are guys in my UK Wildfowling Club),who cockactually take to the Wash in gun punts, in the depths of UK winter, after "rafts"of wildfowl, they regulrly fail to connect, but what the heck? ! And it's DANGEROUS! Chacun a son gout, as they say here in Loches (in deepest, wonderful France!) Maybe "Vacances" should never end? JohnnyUK
A big gun requires really big sombreros. I think it's a wall (or rampart) gun. They were the Barretts of the 17th and 19th Centuries. Because it has a tripod, it's the "mobile" version. They were popular in GB, Europe, and even China (Boxer Rebellion). I bet this one was a left over from Maximilian's brief reign. Very cool. There's one on the wall at Murphy's Gun Shop in Tucson.
ReplyDeleteGood info!
ReplyDeleteJim Cornelius
www.frontierpartisan.com
Well, gosh guys--isn't it obvious? Didn't we recently show those Dinosaur Guns in a previous post?.....L.B.
ReplyDeleteYou missed with a cannon! How do you miss with a cannon?!
ReplyDeleteThere are guys in my UK Wildfowling Club),who cockactually take to the Wash in gun punts, in the depths of UK winter, after "rafts"of wildfowl, they regulrly fail to connect, but what the heck? ! And it's DANGEROUS!
ReplyDeleteChacun a son gout, as they say here in Loches (in deepest, wonderful France!)
Maybe "Vacances" should never end?
JohnnyUK