Last week I finally filled a space in the gun safe that’s been empty a while, when I successfully bid on a Savage 24B-DL. This is a neat little combination rifle/shotgun, sporting a .22WMR barrel over a 20 gauge shotgun barrel. Just the thing for casual pokes through the woods for grouse and showshoe hares.
This is an early model of the 24, with nicer wood than the later models, not to mention a more robust frame-mounted selector. I’ve already ordered a wide-angle, low-power scope to go on the rig, to better accommodate my aging optics, although it occurs to me that a peep sight would work well too.
I like the .22WMR over the more common .22LR in this gun, favoring as I do that little extra punch on big snowshoe hares or maybe, now and then, a sleek winter fox or pine marten. I suspect this rig will see a lot of use in the Alaska woods – there’s a reason these old combo guns are very popular in the Great Land.
And so…
On To the Links!
Escape from LA II, Electric Boogaloo.
Cool bit of speculation: What might aliens look like?
Ben Franklin’s greatest invention.
Nigel Farage asks a damn good question.
This is known as belaboring the obvious.
It seems archery was vital to the survival of our ancestors.
A (Trump-appointed) Federal judge has struck down the Biden(‘s handlers) Administration’s travel mask mandate. And the Biden(‘s handlers) Administration has caved.
This Week’s Idiots:
Paul Krugman (Repeat Offender Alert) is still a cheap partisan hack, and an idiot. Double dose of Krugman idiocy this week.
The Guardian’s Thomas Zimmer is an idiot.
MSNBC’s Ryan Cooper is an idiot.
The Nation’s Elie Mystal (Repeat Offender Alert) is an idiot.
MSNBC’s Hayes Brown (Repeat Offender Alert) is an idiot.
CNN’s Chris Cillizza (Repeat Offender Alert) is an idiot.
MSNBC’s (I’m sensing a pattern here) Ja’han Jones is an idiot.
Maureen Dowd is feeling the Bern – and embracing the idiocy.
This Week’s Cultural Edification:
Some songs have popular covers that are better (well, that I like better) that the originals. Aerosmith did Come Together better than the Beatles, as Joe Cocker did the best version of A Little Help From My Friends.
Another example is Grand Funk Railroad’s version of The Loco-Motion. While “Little Eva” Boyd did it first, in 1962, and did it pretty damn well, I still like Grand Funk Railroad’s 1974 version better. And so, without further ado, here it is. Enjoy.
