Kaywoodie and shrapnel get some exposure in the new Winchester 1895 book by Rob Kassab and Brad Dunbar. It is a select group of people that admire and shoot the 1895 Winchester and once in awhile you do get some recognition. Bob and I have shared some of this enthusiasm and Rob and Brad felt it was worthy of their new book...
Kaywoodie is a hoot. I have seen him set up as in the picture just exactly that way. then after a little liquid refreshment start quoting french poetry or the classics. I get a kick out of that, even if he did have a thing for cheap beer.
Think it is a good thing that there is an appreciation for some of these fine old firearms. Generally find some of these older, well designed, well built firearms are a heck of a lot more interesting than most of the recently introduced stuff, most/much of which is forgettable at introduction.
Kaywoodie is a hoot. I have seen him set up as in the picture just exactly that way. then after a little liquid refreshment start quoting french poetry or the classics. I get a kick out of that, even if he did have a thing for cheap beer.
Most of the other ones here, the only book they ever got into is the one down to the hoosegow what the sheriff fills in for the overnight (or longer) stay.
Congrats.
Geno
PS, Bob, at least the authors mentioned your somewhat odd haberdashery habits in a kindly manner. If you'd have sent a picture of yourself in those johdpurs and puttees they may have had to make fun of you.
Kaywoodie and shrapnel get some exposure in the new Winchester 1895 book by Rob Kassab and Brad Dunbar. It is a select group of people that admire and shoot the 1895 Winchester and once in awhile you do get some recognition. Bob and I have shared some of this enthusiasm and Rob and Brad felt it was worthy of their new book...
Congrats you guys - on your taste in rifles and the ink you have gotten. But, that seems like a lot of coverage just because Kaywoodie was born in 1895
Congrats you guys - on your taste in rifles and the ink you have gotten. But, that seems like a lot of coverage just because Kaywoodie was born in 1895
Hard to believe, but Kaywoodie is the younger of us...
Congrats you guys - on your taste in rifles and the ink you have gotten. But, that seems like a lot of coverage just because Kaywoodie was born in 1895
Hard to believe, but Kaywoodie is the younger of us...
I remember when your bought the Winchester 1895 in 40-82 on Gunbroker, as I recall you made a "Bidding" error with some added zero's in the price....or so it was told.
Thats "GREAT" that those two campfire "LEGENDS" are in the book!!! My brother and i have pictures of a few of our 1895 rifles in the book, but if our pictures were in there they would have to give the book away !!! . Don
I remember when your bought the Winchester 1895 in 40-82 on Gunbroker, as I recall you made a "Bidding" error with some added zero's in the price....or so it was told.
No mistakes were made, it was more expensive than I thought it would be. The gun had been listed multiple times with no bids, so I bid at the final minutes of the auction and someone else out bid me. This went on for several more bids, until I finally prevailed. I should have gotten it several hundred dollars cheaper, but I didn’t. It is a fantastic rifle with lots of original condition, and the book also tells how few 40-72’s were ever made.
As usual, I had to go kill something and I did kill several deer, antelope and rabbits with it...
Rifles with character; appropriate that they be favored by these two characters! The book looks like a good addition to a Loony's library. Thanks to both of you for sharing the pictures.