{"id":4910,"date":"2012-01-29T16:49:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T21:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4910"},"modified":"2012-01-29T20:30:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T01:30:08","slug":"five-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4910","title":{"rendered":"Five guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robb asks the question, and it&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.robballen.com\/2012\/01\/26\/p5355-your-5-most-wanted.post\">good one<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Money being no object, of course, and me having painfully expensive tastes, my five guns would be (in no particular order of preference:<\/p>\n<p>1: A Holland and Holland <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollandandholland.com\/royaldouble.php\">Royal Double <\/a>rifle, made by hand for me. 500 nitro, or 577 nitro. Full leather recoil pad, single trigger, automatic safety, Royal scroll. Packed in a &#8220;Motor&#8221; style case with  silver oil bottles and rhino-horn spare firing pin and spare ivory sight bottles.<\/p>\n<p>2: A Browning Auto 5. There are faster shotguns. There are lighter shotguns. There are prettier shotguns. I do not think there can be a better shotgun. And I don&#8217;t want just any Auto 5, I want Serial Number 1, in the Browning Museum. I want to have the actual one held and used by JMB himself. <\/p>\n<p>3: A 275 Rigby. Not just any 275 Rigby, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrifleman.org\/articles\/Karamoja-Bell-275-Rigby\/\">this one<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>4: an engraved Savage 99. Preferably engraved by one of the masters at Abercrombie and Fitch. (or Griffin and Howe) Something like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cowanauctions.com\/auctions\/item.aspx?ItemId=69069\">this<\/a><\/p>\n<p>5: A muzzle\/breech loaded 25-20 by Harry Pope. <\/p>\n<p>H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/tractioncontrol.well-regulatedmilitia.org\/?p=12124\">USC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robb asks the question, and it&#8217;s a good one. Money being no object, of course, and me having painfully expensive tastes, my five guns would be (in no particular order of preference: 1: A Holland and Holland Royal Double rifle, made by hand for me. 500 nitro, or 577 nitro. Full leather recoil pad, single [&hellip;]<\/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-4910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910"}],"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=4910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}