Friday Tour d’Horizon, 2017 Week 14

Again, we find ourselves throwing together this week’s Tour d’Horizon on Friday night. We hate that. It makes us late, and you hate that. So much hate. As the Patron Saint of this blog, Rodney King, says, “Can’t we all just get along?” Guns I don’t wanna work, I just wanna bang on my gun all day. How Much Does the Blackhawk! …

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Friday Tour d’Horizon, 2017 Lucky Week 13

This week’s Tour d’Horizon is publishing half a day or so late. The problem was it was just not coming together, and time was running out, and the Saturday run schedule was blank. So we dropped the blocked post, and did Saturday stuff instead. This’ll backfill. We have never actually experienced the neurotic mindlock called “writer’s block,” but …

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Friday Tour d’Horizon, 2017 Week 12

This week’s Tour d’Horizon may actually publish on time. That’s kind of a big deal, as last week’s was finally published today (minus a few categories). You can read last week’s TDH at this link. (Link fixed, thanks to Brian Jaynes for the heads up -Ed.) Guns I don’t wanna work, I just wanna bang on my gun all day. Build …

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WeaponsMan

Hognose March 10, 2017 Tour d’Horizon is more honestly a tour of open tabs that have been annoying and irritating us. Guns I don’t wanna work, I just wanna bang on my gun all day. For the Man Who Would Be Boris If you know who we mean, you’ll get it. If you don’t, you won’t. In any event, …

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Friday Tour d’Horizon, 2017 Week 04

As we all know from Junior High French, Tour d’Horizon means Hognose has too many stories in his open tabs at the end of the week. What do you expect? It’s Friday! Guns I don’t wanna work, I just wanna bang on my gun all day. For the Worst Sportsman in the Trap Club We give you a belt-fed, …

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Friday Tour d’Horizon, 2017 Week 02

As we all know from Junior High French, Tour d’Horizon means Hognose has too many stories in his open tabs at the end of the week. What do you expect? It’s Friday the 13th! Guns I don’t wanna work, I just wanna bang on my gun all day. Yeah, This is a Curio and Relic this Year It’s a …

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Friday Tour d’Horizon, Week 52

Last Tour d’Horizon of 2016, which conveniently ends on a Saturday. Guns I don’t wanna work, I just wanna bang on my gun all day. That’s Not an Auction, Mate. This is an Auction: Rock Island’s next Regional Auction is going to take place Feb. 16-19. Why four days, when past auctions have been two or occasionally three? Ten thousand …

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Friday Tour d’Horizon, Week 43

This week’s Tour d’Horizon is upon us. Too many tabs, too little time. Guns I don’t wanna work, I just wanna bang on my gun all day. Colt Empties a Corner An area where they used to do something else is stripped to the industrial parquet floor. Why? Ah, says Colt in tones like Number Two, the Interim Number One: …

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Friday Tour d’Horizon, Week 39

This week’s Tour d’Horizon is where we dispose of a week’s worth of open tabs, or try to. Guns I don’t wanna work, I just wanna bang on my gun all day. We’re a bit light (and late) this week.  ex-SAMCO Mausers are, As Suspected, Crap SAMCO Global was a major importer and seller that had a warehouse full of, essentially, 10,000 …

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Principles vs. Counterterrorism

We received a heads up from a friend who is a retired senior special operations officer. We think it deserves his full introduction and have edited it in the interests of his privacy. We’ll call him “Roger” because his real name is something else. Invite your attention to following article by Dr. Kathleen Hicks, currently …

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