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3/14/04 |
On the subject of "banning Willie's gun":
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photos Please see photos and
decide for yourself. I find his creation a work of art.
Engraving is a particular aspect of decorative art. Enhancing the
metal parts of firearms goes back hundreds of years. One of the most
celebrated of subjects in visual art is the nude human form, male or
female. If we're going to have nudes on guns...make mine female.
The suggestion of banning Willie's artwork is to say we should paint over
the Sistine Chapel, and put pants on Michelangelo's David. I think
not. So, "miss ladyshooter" who made a post on the bulletin board,
call me a male chauvinist pig if you want, but seeing his gun does make me
smile. I confess I like seeing women, naked women. Yes, I buy
Playboy, but I do read the articles (sometimes), or at least the cartoons.
Next week, Cindy and I fly to Missouri to have guns fitted and stocks
made by Wineg. I will have pictures and a story. Maybe a
bikini clad babe on my new stock???? That oughta ruffle some
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3/9/04 |
Cindy and I attended the Cajun Elite shoot in Louisiana this past weekend.
As you may have already read on the bulletin board, the facilities are
great. The Miller family that owns and runs the club is extremely
customer oriented. If you missed the shoot this year, don't make the
same mistake next year. Cindy and I had a great time. We're both
looking forward to the next shoot.
Now for my silly
comments:
First, answer this question - Barbeque is to a Texan as
[ blank ] is to a Cajun
The three possible answers are as follows.... pick one.
[crawfish] [crawfish] [crawfish]
Now that you have the idea, let's continue.
First, Cindy doesn't eat fish, she can't even stand the smell of
fish. Saturday night at the Cajun Elite dinner, 2000 pounds of
crawfish was being served. This meant that we would have to find
another place to eat....upwind. Cindy's question to me was where
could we go to get away from these crawfish and find some meat. I
was thinking the closest place from there might be in North Dakota.
We and a group of shooters from Lufkin decided to dine elsewhere. On
the advise of one of the locals at the shoot, we were told to travel 7
miles up the road to a restaurant. My thinking was, what kind of
place could be out here in 'no man's' land...what would be the chances of
finding a decent place to eat out in the swamps. We found the place,
and to my surprise, it was clean on the outside and jumping on the inside.
All the locals were waiting to get into this place,
a Zydeco band was playing, people were dancing, everyone was having fun.
As for the decor of the place, charts were on the walls that identified
the common frogs of La., the common reptiles of La., and the common
turtles of La. These were things one would find in a young boy's
room who was interested in nature. Also, I saw a yellowed, newspaper
clipping of a boy sitting on a 150 lb. snapping turtle. Obviously
the turtle had been caught in the area in the past. After about an
hour wait we were seated and given menus. When I opened the menu I
realized that those charts on the walls (the frogs, the turtles, and the
reptiles) were in fact part of the extended menu!
Let's see, some religions have some eating
restrictions. For a while Catholics couldn't eat meat on Fridays,
Muslims don't eat pork, and Jews have Kosher laws. Cajun rules are,
if it lives in, near, over or under a swamp, it's edible. I think
Louisiana has a swamp biologist who oversees the restaurants. If it
ever lived in a swamp, it's good to go as far as food for a
restaurant.
Having lived in Florida for 15 yr. I did a lot of
off-shore fishing. I have knowledge about the fish that live in that area.
For example, a dolphin (fish, not mammal) will grow in its first year of
life to 20+ lb. if it survives in the ocean. Tuna consume 10% of
their body weight each day. From my observation in the restaurant,
every Cajun (male, female, or child) will consume 25% of his body weight
in crawfish at each meal.
At the rate Cajuns eat crawfish it's a wonder they
haven't been eaten into extinction and gone the way of the passenger
pigeon and dodo bird. For the crawfish population to sustain itself
under the foraging of the Cajun masses there is only one thing the male
and female crawfish could be doing, and that's "gettin' after it"!
There couldn't be any time in a crawfish's lifespan to do anything else
but breed. Have you all seen the survivor shows on TV? Trust
me, if there ever is a Cajun team involved in a survivor episode put your
money on them. They have been living off the land for hundreds of
years. All the disgusting and weird foods they make the people on
those shows eat is, for a Cajun, a buffet table at Luby's Cafeteria.
My idea of a La. pest control company? Four one hundred
pound Cajuns. Let's see, the call comes into the pest control
office. "Boudreaux, we have a big gator threatening our kids and
animals". In Florida they would send a team of animal experts to
relocate the offending gator. In Louisiana, they send the four one
hundred pound Cajuns to EAT the gator. A week later, you have four
two hundred pound Cajuns and one less gator.
Thinking back to the yellowed newspaper article with
the snapping turtle, it really was the equivalent of a Chucky Cheese
birthday party for a Cajun kid. Get one big turtle, slap birthday candles
on its back and you have the makings of a party.
One last thing, have you ever heard of a TurboDog?
A TurboDog is a La. beer brewed in one of the local breweries. I am
not a drinker but I couldn't resist trying one. I ordered one beer
with four glasses so that a group of us could try this crazy sounding
thing. The beer came with four heavily frosted glasses. I
poured out a little into each glass, and passed the glasses around so the
bunch of us could try this beer. I noticed after a while that as the
frost on the mugs melted there remained a brown sludge on the glass.
At this point I thought of Coors Light made from genuine Colorado
spring water. I would bet TurboDog was made with "gen-u-ine"
Louisiana swamp water.
"LAISSEZ LES BONS TEMPS ROULE" (Let the good times roll)
Next week: Exclusive pictures of Willie's gun with the infamous engravings
on the sides will be displayed here for all to see. |
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2/29/04 |
Great turnout at Greater Houston Gun
Club with a turnout of over 100
- Craig Hill HOA, super score of 110
- Dean Olson, 109 great shooting
- And, the amazing Omar El-Aazami shoots a 107. Omar is not the
serious shooter he used to be, but when he shows up...."look out".
Did you see the new EZ Go shooters cart that Peanut of
Liberty Golf Cars was toolin'
around in? It's an ST 4X4 Sport Utility. Looks like EZ Go's
answer to the Hummer. Wider, higher, big bad tires. I loved
it. This was the stripped down version. Peanut will be getting
in some tricked out versions in the coming weeks. Priced at around
$9,000.00.
Simonton's shoot: Rick
Storey won the shoot, but alas the perfect score eluded him and thus no
new truck was awarded.
On tap for next week, among the many
shoots (see: Events/Results menu above), is Louisiana's Mardis Gras Open.
Our chance to visit with our "mud bug eating" friends.
If you are going to England for the World
Sporting Championship, it's not too early to apply for your shotgun entry
permit. There's a convenient link on the
Major
Sporting Clays calendar that will take you to the entry form and
permit form. |
