11/08/2020 Finally, summer gear and equipment is stowed, winter gear and equipment is staged. After two light snow flurries, the official start of winter in Maine is a mere formality. Charcoal gray skies, bone chilling temperatures and air heavy with humidity suggests a season of heavy snow lies ahead. It...
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Ruger Hawkeye African Part II
06/29/2020 Crazy days. First there was an unidentified intruder that dug a two foot deep hole in the midst of the tomato plants. Then, while at the top of a twenty five foot ladder killing wasps, the wand blew out from the hose that was carrying high concentrations of commercial...
Ruger Hawkeye African Part I
07/13/2020 The sight or mention of the word “Swede” triggers many reaction, even for us unwoke… folk; professional wrestler Phil Olafsson as the Swedish Angel in Mighty Joe Young, the cynical squire in Bergman’s Seventh Seal and Svenska Biogas’s yeoman research into the extraction of methane from slaughterhouse rendered cow...
The Ruger Hawkeye African in 6.5x55mm Swede Part I
Writing about firearms is different than writing about most other things. Mysteries, science fiction, historical works, are almost always outlined, flow charted and modular in structure. Characters are defined to suit the plot, each story unfolding with the intention of bringing about an intended conclusion; the murder of Roger Ackroyd...