I was asked by a couple of people for a better picture of my Standard Tobacco of PA coffee mug that @woodsroad gifted me for my 60th birthday so without further ado here it is accompanied by some pipe cleaner porn!
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G.L. Pease Maltese Falcon is the choice for the maiden voyage of this Peterson Plateau Iora.
Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am smoking year 2000 VaPer Three Nuns in a 1938 straight black grain relief Dunhill OX Shell bulldog with a silver band repair with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Gold Star Nightwish, neat, is my drink. Watching Bat Masterson.
Putting Things in Pipes Magazine maybe?Do you have the name of that forum....... asking for a friend !
May she sail smoothly in all waters! Beauty!
Now, that is a snazzy cob, indeed!
Breaking in the Ashton Pebble Grain XX Apple with some WC ACPM and a mug of Russian Caravan tea.
Passing the first third of this bowl of year 2013 Rotary Navy Cut in a post-1938 Pre-Republic Peterson Dublin straight smooth X155 bulldog with a sterling silver band and a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. Nigel Bruce smoked this model in two Sherlock Holmes movies. Please consider asking Shane Ireland at Smoking Pipes and Peterson to bring the pipe back into production. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Cleaned a few pipes, got a few ready for work time tonight, and gave Tomato the Brave a little attention. He has a loud motor.
Okay. A very long and boring post. You're forwarned and excused if you skip it! 
Yesterday's festivities at the gun range. I don't usually post this kind of stuff but as the execution of the feat was totally dependent on the use of nicotine, I'm going to show you the proceedings of yesterday. And do a little bragging as well.
As many of you know, I'm not particularly adept at handguns. I'm a nationally ranked rifle shooter in Field Target, (Springer and PCP) and am Small Bore Director of the Prince George Rod&Gun. My raison d'etre there is to establish Field Target, an airgun discipline, as a regional competition, so we don't have to drive to Vancouver to shoot and qualify in their regionals, in both rifle and handgun. I'm not a very adept handgun guy. Not my thing. But necessity is a mother, and I'm going to be ready for the demos in late June, which I'm apparently in charge of.
Making a long story longer and more boring, I had my best handgun day ever. I shot well enough that a regular handgunner present complimented me on my group. I put the credit where it is do - to the calming effect of a film canister of SWR chew, and a couple of Smoker's Pride Whiskey Tobacco homerolly little cigars, shown below in the first photo with my best group ever. Explanation below the picture.
That's my competition pistol, a Russian Alpha pneumatic, an oldie but still viable. It dominated air pistol competition from about 2003-14, but has fallen behind. Still recognized as a fantastic starter pistol in 7.5m and 10m competition.
I shot the above group of 20 shots at 20 meters, handheld with iron sights as pictured, in 4 minutes. I used a 2 hand grip and rested my elbows on the table I was shooting from. The black bull is 2 3/8", and the group is just a shade over 3 1/2 ". It is not centered because the gun was not sighted in at this distance, but at 7.5 meters. I aimed at the same spot. This current group (because at 7.5 meters, the pellets are still spreading) would measure less than 2" at that distance, all 20 then falling into within the 8 ring. The pellets used were Cometa Exacts at 4.52 radius and 8.2 gr in weight. The gun likes this fodder. I'm not going to get excited about this especially but I'm now much more motivated because I've tasted blood.
The next photo is my stocked Crosman Sillouette, a PCP air pistol that operates at 3000 psi. It has a "sweet" bandwidth at 2600 psi down to 1800 psi, which gives me consecutive 5 shot groups. I need 25 for Field Target competition, and the extra 5 gives me a margin of safety. I shot 6 - five shot groups yesterday, all inside 1/4". That's about perfect for Field Target competition. Yeah. The pistol is that accurate. That's why we stock our pistols - to test pellets 'cause we need 25 yard tiny groups to compete at a high level. Can't do that freehand. So once we sight in our guns with stocks, we remove them and shoot freehand. (except at 7.5 and 10 m. Guys can hand hold 1/4" groups at that distance. I can't, yet. Now I take off the stock and practice outdoors at different ranges, secure in the fact that I have the best pellet for the gun.
Following shot is the last one - my portable compressor bottle, with which I fill both my PCP pistols and rifles with in the field. Fascinating stuff, at least to me.
Okay, gotta go now . . . . student arriving in 10 minutes and gotta grab the rest of that chew in the film cannister to survive the ordeal. See you later. Didn't have time to process the last shot so it's not great.
Yesterday's festivities at the gun range. I don't usually post this kind of stuff but as the execution of the feat was totally dependent on the use of nicotine, I'm going to show you the proceedings of yesterday. And do a little bragging as well.
As many of you know, I'm not particularly adept at handguns. I'm a nationally ranked rifle shooter in Field Target, (Springer and PCP) and am Small Bore Director of the Prince George Rod&Gun. My raison d'etre there is to establish Field Target, an airgun discipline, as a regional competition, so we don't have to drive to Vancouver to shoot and qualify in their regionals, in both rifle and handgun. I'm not a very adept handgun guy. Not my thing. But necessity is a mother, and I'm going to be ready for the demos in late June, which I'm apparently in charge of.
Making a long story longer and more boring, I had my best handgun day ever. I shot well enough that a regular handgunner present complimented me on my group. I put the credit where it is do - to the calming effect of a film canister of SWR chew, and a couple of Smoker's Pride Whiskey Tobacco homerolly little cigars, shown below in the first photo with my best group ever. Explanation below the picture.
I shot the above group of 20 shots at 20 meters, handheld with iron sights as pictured, in 4 minutes. I used a 2 hand grip and rested my elbows on the table I was shooting from. The black bull is 2 3/8", and the group is just a shade over 3 1/2 ". It is not centered because the gun was not sighted in at this distance, but at 7.5 meters. I aimed at the same spot. This current group (because at 7.5 meters, the pellets are still spreading) would measure less than 2" at that distance, all 20 then falling into within the 8 ring. The pellets used were Cometa Exacts at 4.52 radius and 8.2 gr in weight. The gun likes this fodder. I'm not going to get excited about this especially but I'm now much more motivated because I've tasted blood.
The next photo is my stocked Crosman Sillouette, a PCP air pistol that operates at 3000 psi. It has a "sweet" bandwidth at 2600 psi down to 1800 psi, which gives me consecutive 5 shot groups. I need 25 for Field Target competition, and the extra 5 gives me a margin of safety. I shot 6 - five shot groups yesterday, all inside 1/4". That's about perfect for Field Target competition. Yeah. The pistol is that accurate. That's why we stock our pistols - to test pellets 'cause we need 25 yard tiny groups to compete at a high level. Can't do that freehand. So once we sight in our guns with stocks, we remove them and shoot freehand. (except at 7.5 and 10 m. Guys can hand hold 1/4" groups at that distance. I can't, yet. Now I take off the stock and practice outdoors at different ranges, secure in the fact that I have the best pellet for the gun.
Following shot is the last one - my portable compressor bottle, with which I fill both my PCP pistols and rifles with in the field. Fascinating stuff, at least to me.
Okay, gotta go now . . . . student arriving in 10 minutes and gotta grab the rest of that chew in the film cannister to survive the ordeal. See you later. Didn't have time to process the last shot so it's not great.
Director's Cut in a Radice Rind after lunch. Life is good.
Smoking a little sutliff buttered rum in my Astas Meer with coffee this morning.
Peterson Navy Rolls in a Briarworks
HH Latakia Flake in the Savinelli Clark's Favorite
Im thinking perhaps Nigel Bruce used this pipe in Sherlock Holmes Faces Death.
What's this I hear...........1792 being relegated because the taste spuds have fatigued, you extol the virtues of this blend against all others and now this. Oh Lordy you're lucky the Best Blend thread is locked or it would be carnage
6 year old Six Pence in a Willmer billiard.
SmokingPipes. It may come in later bowls. Time will tell.
Just finished my second bowl of the day. Smoking a 304 shaped Arklow Peterson that was brand new yesterday morning and in it has been a December 2013 dated Maltese Falcon that I popped yesterday as well.
I’m a bit confused because I am now sure of a nic hit but I didn’t recall that when smoking this blend fresh. Anyway I’m enjoying it and will probably dedicate the Arklow 304 to the Falcon.
Like yesterday I think I will finish my day off in a bit with a bowl of Boswells Vanilla Cream in my Bings Favorite.
I’m a bit confused because I am now sure of a nic hit but I didn’t recall that when smoking this blend fresh. Anyway I’m enjoying it and will probably dedicate the Arklow 304 to the Falcon.
Like yesterday I think I will finish my day off in a bit with a bowl of Boswells Vanilla Cream in my Bings Favorite.
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