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A Cartridge in a Bare Tree. Disclaimer: It's not original and I've posted it before but maybe there are some new folk that might enjoy it.

Disclaimer: I posted this in another forum but thought I'd post it here too just for the enjoyment of anyone that didn't see it. In the 1924 Olympics one of the shooters on the firing line got into an argument with an official that resulted in him dropping his rifle which went off and the...

Steinbeck had a really, really low opinion of deer hunters. The actual title of the book is Travels with Charley but Steinbeck really stretches the truth when he tells this humorous anecdote of the wild shooting done by deer hunters around Salinas California. “-we had a Chinese cook who...

In the 1924 Olympics held in Paris, France USA competitor Army Lieutenant Sidney Hinds shot a perfect score in the Free Rifle Three Position Team event to help the US get the gold medal. What makes this really remarkable is that Hinds managed a perfect score even though half way through the...

On his way to the 1896 Olympics being held in Athens, Greece, John Paine a member of the Boston Athletic Association team decided to stop and visit his brother Sumner Paine who was working in Paris France. On a whim the two decided to take a shot (as it were) and enter the Olympic pistol events...