The Armchair Outfitter

“If you wound the lion and he gets into cover it is even money that you will be mauled when you go in after him. A lion can still cover one hundred yards so fast toward you that there is barely time for two aimed shots before he is on you. After he […]

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(Note: The U.S. edition of the book bears the subtitle, “Collecting, Restoring & Shooting Classic Firearms,” in place of, “For the Modern Shot.”)
I must begin this review with a disclaimer: I met the author and he is a thoroughly decent fellow. I had the pleasure of making Mr. Hadoke’s acquaintance at a […]

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“I like to park my old fish car by the camp perhaps an hour or so before sundown. Generally I enter the neglected old camp to look around and, over a devotional beer, sit and brood a little over the dear dead days of yesteryear, or perhaps morosely review the progressive decay of calendar […]

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