Tuesday Morning Treat

[Bruce Day]

CHE 12ga Bernard

[Larry Frey]

Bruce I'm sure you took more than two pics. Don't be holding out on us!

[Bruce Day]

I think I just have the two pictures of it, but maybe you can see all of the gun next month, Larry. Should be good.

I'm planning an early season hunt to southwestern North Dakota for fall 2010. Out near the Theodore Roosevelt Nat'l Grasslands, along the Cannonball River. Lots of birds, sharptails, huns, buttes, river valleys, and very little hunting pressure. I'm trying to plan an early season smallmouth bass fishing trip ( fly rod) into the Minnesota Boundary Waters for some buddies, a mid summer one to the same for a BSA trip, then late July on staff at the Nat'l BSA Jamboree in Virginia, then early fall to NoDak, mid fall to SoDak, early winter to KS. I'd like to bicycle across Kansas again but don't know how that will fit it. Then trying to work also.

[Rich Anderson]

Is the vent rib original to the gun or was it added later? Seems to me that Jack P has/had a DH 12 with Damascuss bbls and rib but that the rib was added later. I'm not sure on the production dates of the vent rib in comparison with the mfg dates of Bernard/Damascuss bbls. All my vent rib guns are fluid steel.

[Bruce Day]

Parker factory redone. SN under rib, reinforced forend lug, correct forend iron, etc. Rib is damascus.

There are a few damascus guns that have later factory added vent ribs. The Puglisi gun and this one are some of them. Vent ribs were what, about 1918 or so, and most damascus and all Bernard guns predated that and some were sent back to get "new, improved". Of course my preference remains splinter forend, double triggers, standard rib, straight or PG stock and skeleton butt but these options and add ons are interesting and desireable from a collector's view.

[Richard Flanders]

Bruce: "Trying to work" summarizes it well. With all the important things there are to do, I can't for the life of me figure out how anyone has time to work... for me the current hinderances to work are guns to fix, guns to evaluate, guns to clean, snow to plow, wood to haul, wood to split, wood stove to tend to, plane to fly back up onto the hill.... you name it and it's in the way of working.

[Dean Romig]

I hold that working gets in the way of living.

[Bill Murphy]

Work always seemed to get in the way of hunting, competition shooting, gun shows, and a few other neccesities of life. However, I have found that the absolutely number one advantage of retirement (after having more time with my wife) is spending about 24 hours a day with bird dogs. I guess working at home would be almost as good.

[Harry Collins]

In "The English Gentleman" by Douglas Sutherland "If one must resort to employment, it is to keep himself in cartridges and whisky".

Harry

[Fred Preston]

To paraphrase the WCTU, "work is the curse of the drinking class".

[C Roger Giles]

Fred;

So true so true, the WCTU finally got one right. Who wants to work anyway, especially during hunting season, then comes the same attitude for the fishing season and on and on.

Stomp out the WCTU

PTG Roger

[John Dallas]

In the early days of live television, the WCTU decided to televise a demonstration of the evils of Demon Rum. To prove the concept, they got a champion pistol shooter, had him shoot at a target (all 10's) then had him drink a tumbler of Old Stump Blower, and come back 45 minutes later. Of course, his score was dramatically worse. Confident, the WTCU booked him on live television. He walked onto the stage, scared S***less, and proceeded to spray shots all over the target, then drank the class of booze. You know what's coming - he came back at the end of the show and put all shots in the black!

[Mike Poindexter]

Much like the Gene Wilder/Waco Kid scene from Blazing Saddles. "You're as steady as a rock." "Yeah, but I shoot with this (other ) hand." Merry Christmas.

[Jack Cronkhite]

This discussion reminds me of when I was quite young and an avid hunter, when not working. I received a large post card from colleagues with the image of two cavemen carrying clubs and a caption that read

"All we ever do is hunt, hunt, hunt - why can't we have any fun"

I guess its all a matter of perspective.

I'm still an avid hunter, while work has passed into the misty corners of my mind.

Cheers,
Jack

[Richard Flanders]

"I'm still an avid hunter, while work has passed into the misty corners of my mind"

I'll second this one Destry...! I don't know how anyone has time to work.... Who splits all their wood, fills the woodstove, shovels the snow, hauls water, and executes the sh*tcicle?! Speaking of which.... I had to test fire a K22 S&W I rebuilt for someone a few days ago so the "cicle" died a premature death this winter, but, fear not, there's plenty of winter left...