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Colonel Brown · #136 Post by **Colonel Brown** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:52 am

OK . . . who's got the "after" shots of Layman??

Bill Layman · #137 Post by **Bill Layman** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:04 am

Something like this Brown?

The Pumpermeister

Stackbarrel16 · #138 Post by **Stackbarrel16** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:27 am

The Pumpermeister has no "after" pictures of scotch as he drinks good whiskey.

Colonel Brown · #139 Post by **Colonel Brown** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:51 pm

Well, I'm not quite a teetotaler like Sundog, but I stick to wine and beer. Therefore, the red face has to be from too much sun. Or maybe from a Purdey self-opener and misdirected snap caps . . . :)

steve voss · #140 Post by **steve voss** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:08 pm

Larry Brown wrote:Well, I'm not quite a teetotaler like Sundog, but I stick to wine and beer. Therefore, the red face has to be from too much sun. Or maybe from a Purdey self-opener and misdirected snap caps . . . :)

Somebody let you that close to their Purdey?

sv

wingshooter · #141 Post by **wingshooter** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:09 pm

You remember, two years ago I think. Doug's gun. Did some damage, and the only time I've seen Brown red.

Colonel Brown · #142 Post by **Colonel Brown** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:07 am

Didn't do any damage, but I was damned lucky!

Stackbarrel16 · #143 Post by **Stackbarrel16** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:43 am

Anybody else notice Larry B. has a lot of problems with ejection?

steve voss · #144 Post by **steve voss** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:49 am

Yes, but WE were too polite to mention it.

sv

wingshooter · #145 Post by **wingshooter** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:50 am

How did you two notice the problem?

Colonel Brown · #146 Post by **Colonel Brown** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:52 am

That particular incident was certainly a case of premature ejection.

steve voss · #147 Post by **steve voss** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:02 am

wingshooter wrote:How did you two notice the problem?

How did you miss it? Brown had an ejection right in the middle of Larry Swanson's main room. The ejecta landed right in the middle of one of Doug's tables. Very Scary.

sv

Colonel Brown · #148 Post by **Colonel Brown** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:55 pm

No shit!

steve voss · #149 Post by **steve voss** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:50 pm

It remains a classic bit of Brown lore. Funny now, but just barely. Well no, it's not funny at all.

Larry B. had tried the triggers of a between the wars Purdey 12 bore of Doug's and hit the toplever. It may have been his first Beesley because the next thing we saw was the result of a self-opening gun combined with perfectly timed, STRONG ejectors. Two nickle plated snap caps went sailing over LB's shoulder in tight formation, landing amidst a myriad of fine London guns.

Wow!!

How this isn't in 1st place for Brown stories ahead of the "Man Eating Woodward" I do not know.

sv

Colonel Brown · #150 Post by **Colonel Brown** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:12 pm

I shoulda known that sucker was a self-opener, Voss! And I think that may have been the same Flatwater when I encountered Egbert's flesh-eating Woodward.

Can't even use the excuse that I'd been drinking.