Accoutrements
Sourced a few accessories. My good friend David Boyles gifted me a Parker Bros powder measure, I reciprocated with my BGI measure. Capacity of 5 drams, must be for the huge 8 gauges. Ten gauge loading tools are certainly more scarce than 12’s. I have already used the James Dixon wad tool, it has internal petals to compress and center the wads. It works really well, much more efficient than using your thumb. It’s very long, you could load a 5” shell if there was such a thing. Perhaps the length is for stacking all the wads at once and compressing them in the hull at the same time.
When I was conditioning and buffing the old carriage case (again) I found the patent on the lock, “Mar. 69”.
I sourced a PB “Kelsey’s Patent” cartridge capper with most of the bronze finish remaining, it should be here pretty soon. Those were quite expensive back then, you could have purchased a decent hardware store shotgun with that much money. Pretty pricey today, though I did get a very fair price.
Jason is off to the Flat Tops Wilderness for his annual elk hunt. He left early this morning in the dark. He’s setting up camp four days early, catching fish is still a requirement.
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Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell and the profit and loss.
A current under sea picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell he passed the stages of his age and youth entering the whirlpool. Gentile or Jew O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
T.S. Eliot
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