{"id":2210,"date":"2008-04-15T20:48:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T01:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2008-04-16T06:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T11:23:00","slug":"long-overdue-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2210","title":{"rendered":"Long overdue reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roberta speaks about Guy Lautard <\/a>, serendipitously, at the same time I am about to take delivery of “The J.M. Pyne sories & other selected writings” by Lucian Cary. <\/p>\n

Anyone who doesn’t have a clue who Pyne was, well, could be excused, because it was not a real person. The real person was H.M. Pope. <\/p>\n

Harry Pope made what at the time were arguably the best rifle barrels of the day. The Pope muzzle\/breech loading system was legendary- and Harry himself, along with his contemporary Franklin Mann<\/a> used his barrels to outshoot just about everyone on planet earth. Speaking of Mann, my copy of “the bullet’s flight from powder to target” is dog eared and worn, and I wish I had a new one. <\/p>\n

Anyway, I just today got my copy of “The J.M. Pyne Stories” and I’ll be absent blogging until I’ve gotten it read, and reread, and digested. And read again. <\/p>\n

I have read some of these stories- Cary wrote for Gun Digest, etc. and i enjoyed his work there- but the idea of having all his stuff collected- I’m tickled.<\/p>\n

Yeah, i fully expect to read this three times before I write another word. <\/p>\n

Amuse yourself until I return. <\/p>\n

Except You, Dick. You amuse Kelly. <\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> Wow, this rocks. To a civillian, this would be boring shit- but to a geek, a machinist, or a machinist wannabe- this is incredible. Riveting, even. Certainly a better read than I expected- and now, having read it, i’m bummed. Because not one more Lucian Cary story will ever be written. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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