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Sorry chaps, I've had real difficulty formating it this time - Seems AOL 6
doesn't act like AOL 5 and won't handle longer e-mails in the same way.
Part Two
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I continue to object to the expansion of the color code to place "Black"
beyond "Red." In Red you have made the deci-
sion to take the irrevocable step. You have no place further to go than that
and there is no need to clutter up the scene.
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The following from family member David Kahn from Morrison, Colorado.
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."
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Family member and master instructor Tom Russell points out to us that we
have been teaching the wrong things here
in the rifle program. It turns out that Kenney Jarrett, of Jarrett Rifles
Incorporated, claims that his rifles are so good that
they breed such confidence that the shooter does not have to know how to
shoot�the rifle takes care of that for him. To
quote: "They don't hesitate pulling the trigger because they know they're
going to hit what they shoot at." Well, doggone!
Forget about sights, forget about trigger control, forget about solid
position, just buy a Jarrett rifle and you will hit whatever
you shoot at, under any conditions. Contrary to what I have always felt and
taught, it is the rifle, not the shooter that hits
the target. (Now sure-as-shootin', somebody is going to believe that I said
that seriously.)
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"The only people I know who are trusted by their government are the Swiss."
� Derek Heale
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I have never been much interested in air guns, but I have run across an
air pistol from Germany recently that really
caught my fancy. On this piece the primary tube is the gas chamber, and
around it, like a snake, is wrapped the barrel,
starting top dead center aft and winding up top dead center forward,
describing a 360 degree circle. Now why is this? It
appears that if you start the projectile at the breech and rotate it one full
turn by the time it reaches the muzzle you can
employ a smooth-bore and spin the projectile without rifling. This is a
truly exotic idea, and the pistol itself is a truly bi-
zarre artifact. I am not sure what is gained by this system, since I cannot
read the German that well, but I must certainly
grant these people first prize for ingenuity .
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Since we now have computers to do our thinking for us, here are few
questions for your machine:
Was American Negro chattel slavery an institution extensible into
the American West?
What should be the qualifications for the franchise?
What was the effect of the institution of chivalry upon the Age of
Exploration?
Is there such a thing as natural law?
Can a moral government exist without religion?
Go ahead and punch the keys!
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The Horiuchi case is still open�to the public, if not to the courts.
Horiuchi was defended by Solicitor General Seth
Waxman who told the court that it did not matter whether Vicki Weaver's death
was the result of excessive force. "These
federal law enforcement officials are privileged to do what would otherwise
be unlawful if done by a private citizen. It is a
fundamental function of our government." It is not clear to me that the
deliberate murder of an unarmed woman by a fed-
eral agent who was himself in no danger "is a fundamental function of our
government." The proper adjective for this act
is atrocious. One wonders why that is not clear to Waxman.
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In cruising the great hall at the SHOT Show, we noticed that fully two out
of three people on the floor had cellular
phones permanently screwed into their ears. Modern medicine being what it
is, it is possible that there will be a next step.
Before long we should be able to have a cellular phone implanted into the
mastoid bone and never have to think for our-
selves again.
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The relationship between the client and the guide remains as mystifying as
ever. By choice, the guide should show
the client the animal at a reasonable range and then drop the subject. This
assumes that the hunter knows what he is
doing, which is sometimes a dangerous assumption. The hunter, however,
should by all means control the shot and not
be told when or when not to shoot. The guide not infrequently finds that his
hunter has become procedurally paralyzed
and incapable of making the vital decision. If this is the case, urging him
to shoot may not help matters since he may
press trigger without proper concentration on his shooting. Cases are
different, of course, but it is certainly a splendid
experience for the guide to discover that his hunter knows exactly what he is
doing, and is doing it right. This is usually
the case when the hunter has been exposed to a proper course of instruction
with the rifle, but there are not many of
those available. Sometimes a sportsman will do well on this first trial
without any trace of buck fever. This is to be hoped
for, but not necessarily expected.
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I have been taken to task by one correspondent for pushing the Steyr Scout
too much�at the expense of other rifles
now on the market. The Steyr Scout was conceived and designed to do
everything, and it does. The other two interest-
ing rifles on the market, as I have pointed out, are the Blaser 93 and Jim
West's "Co-pilot." If you are going for elephants
or buffalo, you should use a heavy. But elephant and buffalo are
specialties. The general-purpose rifle is the Steyr Scout,
though the factory is apparently trying to keep that a secret.
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So here we go again in extolling the Steyr Scout. What follows is an
extract from a letter from John Papanicolaou. I
simply could not resist reprinting it.
"Thank you for helping me fall in love again. I am speaking, of course, of
the Steyr Scout rifle. I took your
pistol class in August and, although I had considered buying the rifle but
dismissed the idea as too costly,
I was swayed by your high praise for it. Then, when I got the opportunity to
handle it at the reception at
your house, I was sold. I was not prepared, however, for the joy that
overcame me when I actually un-
packed, handled and fired my own Scout. It was love at first sight, and I
believe I walked around with a
stupid grin on my face that day."
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"Hollywood Gore Supporters Need Your Help
George W. Bush is established as our next President. This will have
catastrophic results in our vital�no,
indispensable�entertainment industry. Barbra Streisand, Martin Sheen, Susan
Sarandon, Whoopie
Goldberg, Alec Baldwin�among many others�have sworn to leave the country if
George W. Bush was
elected President. And this is where YOU can help. We need volunteers to
help pack and to load mov-
ing vans. We also need airfare for these irreplaceable national treasures so
they can relocate before they
change their minds. For the cost of a small SUV, you can sponsor one of
these celebrities and their un-
fortunate relocation. You will know that your efforts are helping when you
receive postcards, letters and
pictures from your chosen "refugees" as they learn to become useful citizens
in the Third World country of
their choosing. You will help, won't you? It costs so little but it means
so much. Call 1-800-DEPART-A-
CELEB now. Operators are standing by. Major credit cards are accepted."
� Hawaii Rifle Association Newsletter, Dec. 2000
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Many of the best things in life are unappreciated until you begin to lose
them. Consider good health, good brakes�
and political liberty.
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This from Bruce Snyder, Amsterdam, The Netherlands:
"As further testimony to this [Bausch & Lomb] scope system, I need to share
one final comment. I was in
Victoria, Australia about to hunt for hogs. Because a group of us had flown
down from Sydney we
wanted to insure the airlines hadn't mistreated our rifles and were checking
zero on a 44-gallon oil drum
about 100 yards down range. A city slicker from Sydney asked if he could
take a shot. We gave him the
basic hold and squeeze instructions. On his first shot, he allowed the recoil
and the scope to bite him
above the right eye. This guy stood up, looked at the rifle a second and
then threw it flat down in the dirt.*
My heart sank and I just knew the scope was a gonner. While others attended
this guy's eyebrow cut, I
attended to the rifle. There was absolutely no harm done. An hour and a
half later, this scope and rifle
dropped a running boar at about 125 yards with one shot. The scope and its
cross hairs had not moved!!!!
Maybe this scope and rifle are some exception to some experience others have
had. But, forty years of
shooting to the same spot with no adjustment says something for a
fixed-reticle design."
* And this was an Aussie!
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"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do
the children of men as a
whole experience it.
Avoidance of danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring ad-
venture, or nothing."
� Helen Keller, The Open Door, 1902
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