it seems like F&S has been stretching for reasons to post photos of women in recent days, i.e., the date with a cover model . . . but this time you've crossed a line . . . ;)

Billboard size photos of Pelosi is not what I visit this site for. A photo of a baboons butt would better reflect the administration.

Somebody missing?

Dave Petzal,
I remember having met Warren Page at the IBS Winter League benchrest matches at Millerton, when John Dewey managed those. Mr. Page was a gentleman and a fine shot, despite the bitter winter cold.
I remember your occasional visits to Paragon Sporting Goods on 18th & B'way in Manhattan, when it still sold firearms, and you were always fun to talk to, Dave.
At a time when I thought the Kodak Instamatic was the very pinnacle of my photographic acquisitions, you had a Hasselblad and impressive photos you'd taken with it. You were patient with my ignorance, and explained the benefits of the larger format, adjustable lenses and excellent optics. That left a lasting impression and led to many other camera purchases. I'm glad both of us still have a pulse!
Continue to write, Dave. You know you have a gift, with opinions and insights that need to be shared. God bless.

That picture has just scarred me for life. Gee, thanks, Petzal. For future reference, I think I speak for everyone when I say that we seriously prefer Maxim cover models...

Jim, I 'll see if I can get you a date.

Mark-1-
Anyone who could bear to see naked pictures of San Fran Nan has no gag limit, and is a complete masochist.

That is a face that would fit better in the Stepford Wives, but their minds are capable of deeper thought.

All; don't worry too much about Nanny P spending our money,worry about what/where you will hunt when we default on the Chinese loans. Right now China has mortgages on about 64% of our government land, and she WILL foreclose. The drilling for oil that has been stopped on public land will be resumed with a passion, guarded by Chinese soldiers and artillery. All perfectly legal. I am probably too old to see that, but some of you are not.
Just a thought to cheer you up.

if nancy pelosi is here then who's runnin hell? dont stare into her eyes for too long or she will turn you to stone. either that or brain-wash you and put you in the ranks of her mindless zombie army shes building for world domination

"you’re better of with a 6mm"

correction: "you're better OFF with a 6mm"

I just HAD to take this chance to spell check D. Petzal, because it doesn't happen often haha.

I keep trying to post a reply, but is pelosi an obscene word these days? my post gets rejected for obscenity?

buckhunter

Let a sleeping dog lie.....

Cheers,
WMH

davidpetzal-
Don't know what this post is about, you have scared me into an hour long fit of the nervous heebie-jeebies and induced a case of nausea that has me heaving my toenails. Whatever old Joe Footinthemouth said, it cannot be as horrible as that picture! Can't write anything intelligent, because the picture won't let me get down to the text, therefor I will attempt a cure with 90 proof and call back tomorrow!

Beekeeper,
Forget the drugs, complete stupidity will do that to a face also.

So much more reason to learn to live off the land shaky ;)
Git your silencer and ghillie suit now and learn from good poachers how they git away with it :)
america will never git out of debt, better have an armed revolution be4 foreclosure and claim the land by force.. general amnesty worldwide and we can all begin again. People will still need food and shelter etc. the world will go on as it allways has, detrimental regimes will not, not in theire survival instincts. just rape, pillage and burn. just now by people in suits and mercedes and so on. (facepalm) people can be so stupid u know :P

btw, the last thing going through a vikings head just be4 the longship hits the shore "rape pillage burn, rape pillage burn, rape pillage burn, and dont get it in the wrong order this time" :D:D:D

Only way a picture like that should be posted is with a warning before clicking to see it, if you are old enuff and tough enough not to become violently ill from it.

Dave, I remember an article that you wrote several years ago for F & S entitled "The Guns You Keep" in which you told the story of that 7mm Weatherby--custom-stocked and completed earlier than you had planned. You were short on money but the proprietor allowed you some extra time to pay. Or at least that is how I remember the story. I also remember reading either on this blog or in F & S that you had retired the rifle since you cannot trust the airlines to transport it without damaging it or losing it.

By the way, my father, who is 92, bought a 7mm Weatherby for me in 1965. I had it rebarreled with a Douglas premium in 1980 and still own the rifle.

Mine too...

Lol, are comparing Pelosi and Cooper?

David you could of said, "anything past 300 yards rainbows like hell!" Unless your shooting that Thunder++++++ you mentioned earlier and if the ballistic calculator was correct, you sight it in at 400 yards!

David, that was a quote from Norma itself, didn't want to take anything out of text. By the way, tried to cross reference the 284 with other cases to see if cases could have been used to make 284 cases. It's like taking 300 Win Mag or 7mm Rem Mag and making 338 Win Mag.

Lots of fudging going on in the ballistics/shooting world. Useful range? Optimum weight range? All kinds of knock down power formulas? If I can get some sort of bullet through both of something's lungs, it works. There isn't much for math that will figure that one.

Better question - What's my useful range? Not very far? Ha ha.

The only face worse than that was Tammy Fae Baker.

"Master of the wind." Gee Dave I never figured you as being so religious. :) The Pastor

Notbad...She will certainly be a contender in the Grinnin' Dawg Competition. For second place. You won't believe Bill. He shows 'em all. And talks, too!

Jeez, Dave; I see that plastic enhanced, ludicrous la-la land grin every day on the news. Did you have to ruin an otherwise wonderful blog (the main reason I open my email) with that hideous photo? A couple of postings of Ms. Elisa Cuthbert will surely make up for this travesty.

Regarding the 6.5x284, I don't think it will slay an animal any quicker or farther than my .260 Remington; a round claimed to be invented by Jim Carmichael, but according to P.O. Ackley's Vol I&II reloading books, wildcatted many years before that by Ken Waters and before him by another wildcatter whose name escapes me now. Carmichael had the influence to get Remington to adopt it as a factory cartridge. Another wildcat from Ackley's book was the 280 Ackley improved necked down to 6.5. Ackley lists 3,350 fps for the 125 gr. Nosler. Might be interesting to resurrect that one now that the 280 improved is a factory cartridge.

Maybe all her JFK pictures were under the desk except the one that has been on the net before? LOL

I honestly don't think I can click on this blog again and see that mug again...

wingshooter54,
Mr. Carmichael did invent and coerced Rem. to proprietor this round. In fact, and I don't remember which, but at the time he had created two rounds, one called the 'bobcat' the other the 'cheetah'. I can't remember which one made it to factory production but it was the .260 Rem.

Egads! I accidentally clicked on this blog again and was greeted by Satan Incarnate herself. Ruined my day. I need to go back to the Zeiss post and gaze at that pic as an antidote!

Hey, y'all--think what you will of her politics, you should hope you look so good at 70 ;-)