I'm going to try and bring back my regular weekly posts:  the vintage ads and a selected pipe smoker on Saturdays.  So here's the return of the Wednesday vintage gun ad.  Ammo this time.


I think Junior is trying to figure out a way to talk dear old Dad into letting him try out that scoped semi-auto.  And Rover is about to go for a sandwich.

Just so the blog isn't totally dead this week.  Click to enlarge.

It doesn't look like they give a name of this model on the ad, but according to my old gun books this appears to be the Sport-King Field Autoloader, manufactured 1960-66.

I had this exact pipe for a short time, as part of an estate lot that took a few hours work to bring back to decent smoking condition.  The "precious metal" band is somewhat misleading; it's only sterling silver.  Has a screw-in stem so it can be disassembled during the smoke for a quick swab with a pipe cleaner, if necessary.  Nothing at all wrong with this pipe, but straight pipes aren't really my thing, so after trying it for a month or so I sold it.

This rifle in .243 Winchester has seen a lot of use in my family.  Deer, coyotes, and occasional other odd varmints.

Just thought I might add:  I had the opportunity to eat antelope once.  "You like deer meat, right?" he said.  "Well, this is way, way better than deer meat!"

Boy, was I pumped.  Better than deer meat?  It must be like ambrosia or something.

I was terribly disappointed.  Not only was it not better than venison, it was just about the worst-tasting meat I ever ate.

Since it was a wild animal, it could have just been ruined by the way it was prepared.  Maybe he didn't gut it soon enough, or get it frozen soon enough, or something.

I'd try it again, if I had the chance, but the one time I did eat it didn't impress me.

Antelope are not part of the deer family.  They are actually related to sheep, if I recall correctly.  I didn't know this relation at the time, and I had never eaten mutton before at the time that I ate the antelope.  Years later I did try some mutton, and I didn't like it, either.  So maybe that's why I didn't like the antelope.

I've never known the Dill name to be associated with anything but pipe cleaners.  According to this ad, they once sold tobacco, too.