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  1. Oldsarge

    Now Forming! the Campaign Hat Corps

    Dinerman, you have made my day. Jim Green is going to get an order for a tooled hatband with sequoia cones and needles all around. What a wonderful band! And custom to your taste for $115? Soch ha deel!
  2. Oldsarge

    Do you think there could be a second Great Depression?

    Another Great Depression is highly unlikely. However, the continuance of this miserable recession is almost assured. The reasons are complex but have mostly to do with nearly all families are now double income and losing one job is hard, very hard, but not the catastrophe it was in '29 when...
  3. Oldsarge

    Show us your Guns!

    A back action? Oh, be still my heart! What a treasure. And you can get beautiful quality work for a lot less than H&H will charge from Dale Tate in Ione, California. No, I have no financial connection. Yes, I've met him and seen his work. Good man. London trained. By Purdy, I believe.
  4. Oldsarge

    Gone fishing...

    Commendable, but you must take a salmon as well to complete the McNab. ;)
  5. Oldsarge

    Slap!

    My position is that if it shows up on a runway, don't buy it. Fashion is about the designer screaming, "Me! Me!" Good style is about the tailor making sure its about you.
  7. Oldsarge

    Show us your Guns!

    Can't really comment on that one. I haven't read any comments on the Hulu conversion. The action is made in Turkey and I don't know anyone who has handled one of their shotguns, either. Certainly the price is modest but given the technicality of building double rifles, that would be a red...
  8. Oldsarge

    Show us your Guns!

    I wrote a chapter for the Accurate Reloading Africa Book laying out a classification system for Dangerous Game Rifles. I broke them up into four classes, with 'I' being the minimum and 'IV' being, to my mind, excessive. With strongly constructed bullets, I would venture to place the .405 in...
  9. Oldsarge

    Reunited

    That's very interesting. I believe that the cloth is a Glen Check but I've never seen one in dark blue before. Congratulations on an very nice find. I especially like the slanted breast pocket.
  10. Oldsarge

    Favorite type of Steak

    The best steak I ever had was an eland sirloin grilled over mopane wood in Zimbabwe. Sitting under the Southern Cross, watching the cook prepare it and sipping a glass or three of S. African red, it occurred to me that I really ought to die right then because it wasn't ever going to get any...
  11. Oldsarge

    Show us your Guns!

    Actually, I would call it a step down. While the .405 is a deadly cartridge on soft-skinned game (Teddy Roosevelt thought very highly of it for lion) it lacks both bullet weight and velocity for reliable use on Cape buffalo and larger. This isn't to say that you would regret buying it. Perish...
  13. Oldsarge

    Where did your user name come from??

    Twenty-nine years, active and reserve, under my belt. I retired as the acting battalion sergeant major.
  14. Oldsarge

    Show us your Guns!

    Excellent! That clarifies things. I still maintain that what we have here is Infantry Nose Art.
  15. Oldsarge

    Gone fishing...

    Only if you use a bent pin for a hook!
  16. Oldsarge

    Aftershave : That nostalgic true masculine smell!

    Old Spice or Bay Rum for me.
  17. Oldsarge

    Gone fishing...

    We've got a guy in the local casting club who does it. The chap has devoted his life to fly fishing in all its myriad manifestations. He's in his mid-seventies and knows more about obscure corners of the sport than anyone.
  19. Oldsarge

    Show us your Guns!

    Sort of Infantry nose art? I favor hammers on double rifles because you can cock them silently after stalking with them on half cock and very, very safe. I favor hammers on double shotguns 'cause they look cool!
  20. Oldsarge

    J.L. Taylor men's fashion catalog, 1927

    What is with all the buttoned bottom buttons on the suits and vests?
  21. Oldsarge

    It's starting to look like we've come full circle...

    Not the men, actually. Women's fashion comes from Paris but men's from London or, more recently, Milan depending on how much spezzatura the chap is trying for. When I was in Paris I didn't see any of the men dressed with particular verve.
  22. Oldsarge

    Gone fishing...

    There is an exceedingly rarified form of fly fishing (I only know about this from hearsay, mind) that is done with a very long, fine bamboo rod and a leader. No line, no casting, just dabbing the #20 fly on the surface or floating the #18 nymph down the current. I suspect that it will be...
  23. Oldsarge

    Slant pockets on suits?

    It looks very country. I can imagine a suit with a half belt and slant pockets made from a Donegal tweed as just the ticket for watching the local Hunt ride by or possibly to investigate the possibilities of the nearest chalk stream. Frankly, I like it a lot. If my parents still owned that...

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