The Armchair Outfitter

“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” – Dr. Samuel Johnson, Johnsonian Miscellanies

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My friend Raimey is what you might call a traditionalist. He drinks vintage port and he smokes cigars from a small island nation in the Caribbean. Here in Alabama, he lives a lifestyle that would befit the gamekeeper of an English shooting preserve around the turn of the century. The last century, that is, when [...]

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Some of you will recognize Raimey’s name from his frequent comments on this site. In the Spring 2008 issue of The Double Gun Journal, you can just see the back of his head in the photo on page 11 accompanying Diggory Hadoke’s article “British Gun Auctions, Part X.” Raimey is on the front row, of [...]

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