Some years ago I went on an African Safari. Towards sunset on the first day the guide emphasized the importance of getting back to camp before dark. Suddenly, from out of the dusk a hunter cried out" "There's a rhinoceros out here and he's getting ready to charge!" To which the guide ...

Happy shooting, let us know how it shoots when you find a Pedersen Device, LOL! IIRC, the original MkIs required a special sear and other parts to function with the Pedersen Device, these parts were removed in thr 1930s and replaced with standard parts. The Mk Is were issued to GIs without any expla...

When I went through BCT at Fort Dix in 1967 I had a canteen cup

marked 1918. Wish I still had it.

I have had one for years, mine is a post WWII German Police model, has the letters LPN-LandespolizeiNiedersachsen (State Police of Lower Saxony). When, after the War, the Western Allies allowed the German Police to carry arms, they insisted they not carry German designs. Probably because all the GIs...

That's because God doesn't trust the British in the dark.

Very interesting, I thought that Parliament had taken away your right

to own such things?

If bread is the Staff of Life, what is the Life of the Staff?

One long loaf.

A little while ago at the monthly meeting of my science fiction club I saw a woman I hadn't seen in a while. She asked me what I was up, I told her "I've taken up flying." She said "Really?" I said yes -"You pull Up alongside an airliner, the pilot sees you with your arms ou...

IIRC after the 2002 Presidential Election in France a Socialist minister

was asked why LePen got more votes than Jospin and she replied "the

people weren't listening to what we were telling them." Typical Liberal-

Socialist mentatlity.

I don't think the USA saw the excellence of the 303 catridge so much as that when we entered WWI in 1917 Uncle Sam bought almost anything that would shoot to at least train his boys. I have seen pictures of WWI U.S. Navy recruits drilling with Krags (though I have read the Marine Corps used the Krag...