{"id":2265,"date":"2008-05-07T23:19:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T04:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2008-05-07T23:19:07","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T04:19:07","slug":"end-of-an-era-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2265","title":{"rendered":"End of an era."},"content":{"rendered":"

Shit, shit shit shit shit. <\/p>\n

My gunsmith, and the guy from whom I learned more about guns than from any human, has finally retired. He’s sold his business<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I have one of his rifles- this one<\/a>. <\/p>\n

it is my pride and joy.<\/p>\n

Harry is still doing gunsmithing, but on a smaller scale. And he’s no longer making barrels at all. I intend to visit him as soon as I can, now I’ve found this out. <\/p>\n

Look, I imagine Harry would never have sold his business to anyone unless they were going to continue to make fine barrels- but the day of being able to buy a one of a kind rifle, lovingly created, rifled, chambered, fitted to the action, blued, and pillar bedded to an action, one rifle at a time, by one of the world’s old time fine gunsmiths- those days are gone. Forever. And they will never, ever return. <\/p>\n

Damn. <\/p>\n

Oh, for another McGowen rifle look here:<\/a><\/p>\n

Son of a bitch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shit, shit shit shit shit. My gunsmith, and the guy from whom I learned more about guns than from any human, has finally retired. He’s sold his business. I have one of his rifles- this one. it is my pride and joy. Harry is still doing gunsmithing, but on a smaller scale. And he’s no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}