What's on your coffee table?

[Cannonball888]

Crayon marks and Silly-Putty residue.

 

[3pairs12]

^^ yeah there is actually some of that on mine too.

 

[knockonit]

shotgun news, about two months worth, guns & ammo, rifle, handgun mags, big fat cat, my feet and an old indian blanket I wish was on my feet.

 

[shotgunjoel]

Not on my coffee table but my coffee table books are Steel Canvas, The Illustrated Directory of Guns, and Earth From Above. All good and interesting books.

 

[greenr18]

i dont have a coffee table but my night stand has a book called Rifles and Small Arms that's laughably inaccurate and has a crap load of typos too. inaccurate for example showing a Canadian soldier with a C7A1 and the caption being "an M16A2 in the hands of an American soldier" and claiming the M16A2 fires a ".556 of an inch in diameter caliber bullet" its kinda fun actually to look over all the dumb mistakes and typos in it. obviously the authors knew jack about firearms...

 

[the iron horse]

-ashtray

-a few newpapers

-hunting and fishing mags

-seed cataloges

-coffee cup

 

[HGUNHNTR]

Kevin Zraly's "Complete Wine Course" A couple History books, broken cell phone, a glass of mineral water, and some coarse black hairs frome the doberman.

 

[Hardtarget]

Y'all have some interesting coffee tables.

Mine has some coasters, a candle, a camera, ...coffee table is wifey's territory.

All the gun books are in the magazine rack beside the couch.

Mark.

 

[jpwilly]

Coffie table is in the other room so the kids don't bang their heads on it!

 

[patsygarret]

shotgun news, illustrated history of WW2 and some dried bloodhound drool. Wife says throw some of the shotgun news away, leave the WW2 book in your bathroom and clean your damn dogs' drool up.

 

[Doc_Jude]

Oh, Lords of Kobol, you really bit off more than you could chew with this thread.
- a big huge mug of Thai tea
- a 6" stack of Silat and FMA dvds
- Battlestar Galactica seasons 1-2.5
- my wallet
- LED headlamp
- Cell Phone
- an empty Ritter sport wrapper (Dark Chocolate & Marzipan)
- most recent Emergency Essentials & Mossberg catalogs

& now for the coffee table Book List:
- Why People Believe Weird Things
- Warhammer: Blood For The Blood Gods
- The Living Dead (a collection of Zombie fiction)
- Barry Eisler's REQUIEM FOR AN ASSASSIN
- Weapons & Fighting Arts of Indonesia (Draeger)
- Germs (Miller, Engelberg, & Broad)
- On Killing (Grossman)
- Watchmen (Moore & Gibbons)
- How to Pinch a Penny Till It Screams (McDonald)
- Hammer of the Gods (Nietzsche)
- World War Z (Brooks)
- Ed McGivern's Book of Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting
- Training & Fighting Skills (Urquidez)
- Secrets of Judo (Watanabe & Avakian)
- Warhammer's Mathias Thulman: WITCH HUNTER Omnibus
- Art of the Rifle (Cooper)
- John Le Carre collection
- Atheism Explained (Steele)
- The Art of Shooting (Chapel)
- Drama of the English Renaissance 2: The Stuart Period


Hey, you asked... ^_^

 

[armoredman]

The War, a great book on WWII, lots of pictures not in other books, present from my loving wife.

 

[sailortoo]

A really big candle, investment tax folder (got to get after that one!), Pacific Motor Boat, 1935; Rudder Magazine, 1935. The Rudder cover has a (at that time currently in the freight business) beauty of a full rigged ship - 1935! - have we come a long way in 74 years, or what! All the gun reference works are in the book case.
sailortoo

 

[geronimo509]

coffee

 

[Texas Colt]

at this moment... The Bible, a Colt CCO, a Longaberger basket, and season 4 of LOST.

I usually have one or more of R.L Wilson's books about Colts or Winchesters on the coffee table as well, but they are on the book shelf now.

 

[Oro]

On our coffee table right now?

Gun books:
- Standard Catalog of S&W, 3r Edition. Lovely.
- Speer #8, 1971.

Other regular Coffe Table books:
- "African Forms" - pretty figurative art book
-"The history of the Horse"

Other things and interloping books:
- Mother's Mag polish
- S&W 686, 2.5"
- Essential bartender's Guide by Robert Hess
- box of 9mm Blazer she brought back from the range last week
- Glass and the remains of a French 75 (the cocktail, not the old artillery piece)
- Glass of water one of the cats is now finishing
- a cat (see above)
- Battlestar Galactica season 4, discs 1 &2 (Spoiler alert: the Cylons did it)
- "American Gods" by Neal Gaimon
- pair of extra wood combat grips for a K frame I need to post in the classifieds
- Other random books and mags too obscure to talk about.

 

[Duke of Doubt]

That's a hard-working coffee table, Doc J. But not as hard-working as mine:

Huge Edward Hopper art book
Huge Norman Rockwell art book
Ansonia cast iron mantle clock
"The Service: The Memoirs of General Reinhard Gehlen."
Cookridge's "Gehlen: Spy of the Century"
Remarque's "Heaven Has No Favorites"
Ricoh SLR camera on tripod
Nineteenth Century Russian nesting dolls
Thirteenth century Romanian tandem nut bowl
Twentieth century Russian soup bowl and ladle
Twentieth century Ukrainian cheese platter
Soviet WWII photo album
Yugoslavian Mauser ammunition pouch
Six stripper clips of 5.56 Nato ammunition
Grundig Mini World 100PE instruction manual
Glass telephone poll insulator
Precision screwdriver set
Mechanical perpetual calendar, 1993-2032
Lion of Lucerne miniature
et cetera

On adjacent TV tray:
Knight's "Rorke's Drift"
Colt Officer's Model Target, 7 1/2 inch, .38 Special, unloaded, with holster.

On floor:
Too much to list.

 

[colorado_handgunner]

"Guns and Special Weapons for Law Enforcement" current issue
CD's
DVD
Ipod
Candles
Remote controls
and phone case

You didn't ask us to be gun specific!

 

[armoredman]

I do use my coffee table for other things, too...



Cleaned and polished, it's big enough, and nice looking enough, to use for pictures.

 

[Calibre44]

‘Buffalo Bills Wild West – An American Legend’ which I bought in the States last year – more pics and articles about old guns than you can ‘shake a stick at!’

Oh and a coffee stain.

 

[Rembrandt]

A duck carving, quail lamp, and some book ends....

 

[Claude Clay]

^^ real nice

besides what the dogs may drag onto the floor---
dust
dog hair x 2
candles & wax & match sticks
3 or 4 remotes
lap top
latest gun magazine or 2

 

[JWarren]

I think the only book on my coffee table right now is

Cade's Cove: Window to a Secret World


Hso will probably know what this refers to.


-- John

 

[Erik]

It rotates, but for now my coffee table has th Bible, two copies of the Harvard Business Review, an Economist, and an area tourism guide arranged on it. OK, perhaps "arranged" is a bit ambitious, but they are there.

 

[XD Fan]

No Coffee Table