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Wednesday, 25 December 2013
Wednesday, 27 November 2013
A Sportsman's Working Battery
|Guns and Gunning, Captain Paul A. Curtis. Penn Publishing Co. 1934.
I first recall reading a specification for a personal battery in Curtis' book Guns and Gunning. This book is a favorite of mine though it is not often mentioned today - prices for used copies do not indicate it holds much collector value. Like reading Datus Proper's recommendation that a man should spend a months salary on his shotgun (I have not), Curtis's recommendations for an all-round battery gave me a kind of permission to think in a way I'd not have dared to before reading it.
Considering a battery (and not a collection) is a holistic view that remains surprisingly infrequently discussed in writing. The question answered by the consideration of the battery is just this: "What collection of firearms does a modern hunter need to participate in the various forms of hunting throughout the season?" Obviously the answer depends on what you hunt, where you live, if you travel to hunt and of course on personal tastes.
For the North American game hunter not planning to travel to Alaska or Africa, Curtis recommends the following minimal battery:
- Rifles: a small game rifle [.22 LR], .a varmint rifle [.22 Hornet], a general service rifle [.30-06]
- Shotguns: an upland gun [20 GA double], for all round use [12 GA double], a duck gun [Magnum 12 bore or 10 bore]
- Sidearms: A .22 revolver or automatic and a large frame revolver [.45 Colt or .44-40]
If you are also a target shooter, Curtis provides the following additional recommendations:
- a heavy barreled .22 target rifle with telescopic sight
- a Springfield National Match rifle [.30-06]
- a trap gun [12 GA pump]
- a target pistol [.22 single shot heavy frame with adjustable sights]
"Remember, I said in the beginning that my ideal battery must be limited to a few guns to meet satisfactorily many needs. When one's battery assumes the proportions of a collection, he perforce becomes a slave to its care and it ceases to be ideal."
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There's an old saying: "Beware the man with one gun." What is left unsaid is that he certainly knows how to shoot it well. An alternate approach to the question of a personal battery is based on a minimalist philosophy: a shotgun a rifle and perhaps a sidearm. After a lifetime of gun trading, Steve Bodio may have reached a kind of perfection in his (current) minimalist battery.
|Steve with his small working battery.
Steve has a British sidelock 12 GA shotgun, a Mannlicher Schoenauer 1903 rifle and a Smith and Wesson model 629 in .44 Magnum. Not shown in the photos is a Smith and Wesson model 34 kit gun which is chambered for a .22LR. He of course has other firearms, but these are the ones he brought, and they form a kind of elegant minimalist working battery.
|F. C. Scott sidelock, 1903 Mannlicher Schoenauer and S&W .44 Mag.
The Mannlicher is a model 1903 takedown chambered in 6.5x54 MS. It has the most elegant factory pop-up peep sight I have ever seen. The peep is articulated so that when the bolt is pulled back, it lowers into the tang of the stock and as the bolt is pushed back forward it pops back up. In photos (and I am kicking myself for not taking more of them) the mechanism looks like it might be flimsy, in person it is not - it is astoundingly robust. The rifle handles like a shotgun - notice the Prince of Wales grip. I was disappointed we did not get a chance to shoot while he was here.
The 6.5x54 is a very interesting cartridge. In fact, Curtis himself recommended the 6.5x54 specifically (with the Savage 250-3000 as an alternate) for the hunter who wanted to combine his varmint rifle with a rifle for medium sized game shooting. The 6.5 shoots heavy for caliber bullets at lower velocity. This translates to bullets with very high sectional density and thus exceptional penetration. The 6.5 Mannlicher was famously used (with 160 gr solids) by W. D. M. Bell to kill elephants. It is an outstanding deer and hog rifle and is not to be sneezed at for elk in the timber when shooting a 140 or 160 grain bullet. It is interesting that both Jack O'Connor and Elmer Keith agreed that it is an exceptional cartridge. John Taylor was less complimentary.
Steve took the Mannlicher (and the Scott) to show to the rifle maker Nathan Heineke here in Laramie. The rifle has been previously drilled for a side mounted scope and Steve is planning to have Nate put a Griffin and Howe side mount on the rifle. Nate worked as a gunsmith at Griffin & Howe in NJ for about 8 years and may well be the most qualified person in the country to do the work. The great thing about a G&H side mount is that the scope is guaranteed to return to zero and, it does not mess up the engraving on the front ring of the action. With a classic rifle I consider this to be an important feature. If the rifle had not previously been drilled and tapped for a side-mount it would be a shame to add it but, since it has, adding a side-mount it is more akin to a restoration.
Steve's choice of a shotgun is an Birmingham made F. C. Scott sidelock in 12 GA with original 2 3/4" chambers. It was probably made in 1910. For British made guns of the period, 2 1/2" chambers were standard. Fredrick Scott was known for his pigeon guns and this may explain the non-standard chamber size. A description of the gun by Steve from an email:
He (Frederick, called "Frank") was in business from 1904 to 1918 (some say 19). I think he made fewer than a thousand guns. The wood is really nice which doesn't show well-- may eventually refinish. LOP 14 1/2 or a little less to checkered butt; barrels 70 cm (continental--??), chokes 1/4 & F. balance on hinge pin. Slightly more pitch up than BL and slightly shorter, and weighs 6 1/2 instead of 6 1/4 so it took a little practice to mount as well but I find if I hold it on the barrel ahead of the forearm it points very well. I will probably disable the ejectors (remove springs?) because they are no use to me. I think it was all tightened up when re-proofed (for pigeon level loads -- 1 1/4 oz-- which I will NOT shoot). I think I will never get closer to a London gun. People who loved the AyA can see how superior it is even if they know nothing about guns (and it weighs exactly the same).The Scott is a perfect upland game gun (good for NM quail) and will serve for the occasional duck.
|F. C. Scott ad from 1910.
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At this point my personal battery is closer to Curtis's recommended selection than to Bodio's. I think I'd like to fix that, which of course means, more buying and selling which is half the fun.
Sunday, 17 November 2013
Fall 2013 Deer & Elk Season
|Four cow elk silhouetted on the skyline. [photo: copyright Mike Dunn 2006]
There's meat in the freezer, but there the 2013 season has been a bit of a bust for me. I was only able to spent a total of about four or five days hunting and really had no success. I killed a grouse in thick cover on a great left to right crossing shot, it tumbled to the ground, feathers flying, but I never found the bird, only feathers. I misidentified what turned out to be a very nice whitetail buck as a doe, until it was too late for a shot. I never got a shot at an elk - though Brad cleanly killed one of the four I spotted driving out at dusk.
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Brad will be surprised by the image at the top because it is almost exactly the image we saw driving out after a long day hunting elk on foot. In Wyoming, you can shoot a 1/2 hour before and after sunset. I spotted four cow elk and within a minute of the end of legal shooting time. They stood there perfectly silhouetted against the skyline. It was dark enough that the stars were clearly visible. Brad got out of the truck with his .270 and I rolled forward, keeping the engine running. The elk calmly watched the truck, certainly believing they were safely cloaked in darkness. They were close, about 80 yards, but it was a very steep 80 yards uphill. Brad made a perfect heart shot on the leftmost of the four and she went down within 10 yards of where the bullet hit her. We were able to gralloch her on the spot and to roll her onto the orange plastic toboggan I use for hauling meat. The hillside was steep enough that with some backbreaking pulling and lifting, we were able to lower her right down into the back of the pickup. We were back at the house within an hour and a half of the shot. We quartered her and the meat was hung for a week before we spent a day butchering.
Posted by Old Gunkie in Wyoming at 12:48 No comments: Links to this post
Saturday, 2 November 2013
Steve & Libby Bodio and Montana writer Malcolm Brooks
|Steve, Jim and Malcolm.
|... and Ataika and Erdos.
|Penelope and Libby.
|Libby, Steve, Malcolm and Penelope.
Posted by Old Gunkie in Wyoming at 17:30 2 comments: Links to this post
Labels: Ataika, Erdos, Malcolm Brooks, Steve and Libby Bodio
Saturday, 27 July 2013
A good day on the North Fork of the Stillaguamish
|First Steelhead - caught on the swing.
|Dolly Varden - a new species for me.
|G with a nice Dolly.
|Second steelhead on the swing - same day. Sparsely tied purple and black Intruder.
Posted by Old Gunkie in Wyoming at 23:30 No comments: Links to this post
Thursday, 18 July 2013
Eating Around / Little Bird Bistro (Petit Oiseau)
|Caribou rack over the entrance to the kitchen at Little Bird Bistro.
|Daily chalk board specials.
For the second round of small plates I ordered the sweet breads and we also ordered the Marrow Bones with Chorizo, and Calamari, oregano, pickled chilies and black flat-bread. Everyone enjoyed the marrow bones immensely. The black flat bread was dyed black with squid ink! The sweet breads were described on the menu as follows: Crispy Veal Sweetbreads, carrot purée, roasted carrots, curried crème fraîche - they had a kind of peppery coleslaw on top that was a bit strong for the delicate sweet breads. The curried creme fraiche was something I never would have thought of myself - very good. By then we'd switched to a red Rhone, Crozes Hermitage, Domaine des Martinelles, '09. This one was, I thought, better than the Chablis. Rich texture, deep berry flavors and peppery.
|G came directly from work and still had his flight uniform on.
Eating a meal like this is a luxury few can afford and we count ourselves very lucky indeed to be able to do so once in a while. From a practical point of view, I do it for the chance to get a taste of foods I can not, or have not, tried to cook at home. But really it's just plain fun to share a special meal with family and friends.
Posted by Old Gunkie in Wyoming at 23:30 No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Cassoulet, duck breast, Eating Around, Eric Van Kley, Gabriel Rucker, Le Pigeon, Little Bird Bistro, Marrow, Oysters, Sweet breads
Sunday, 7 July 2013
North Platte, Wind River, Big Horn
|Gerry fishing on the North Platte upstream from the raft.
Synopsis: Spent a week fishing with Gerry Cox. We started with a day and a half on the North Platte river at Gray Reef. Wade fished the dam the first day and floated from the dam to Lusby the second. We stayed at Sloan's cabins in Alcova. From there we drove overland through the Rattlesnake Hills to the Wind River at Boysen State Park. That was about 60 miles of dirt through some rather beautiful sage country. We wade fished the Wind in Boysen State Park for the afternoon and into the evening catching many large rainbows (18" to 24") on size 18 caddis. We probably should never have left Boysen. We drove north, spending the night at the Greybull Historic Hotel (which I can recommend should you happen to pass through Greybull WY.) Continued north, over the Big Horns and up into Montana. We did a quick tour of the Little Bighorn Battlefield and then to Fort Smith on the Big Horn below the Yellowtail damn. Stayed in a small but very new and clean room at the Bighorn Angler. It was an unbearable 98°F and we waited until almost 5PM to wade fish at the three mile access - and it was still brutally hot with icy water at about 47°F. On the fourth of July we floated the Big Horn from Afterbay below the dam to 13 mile takeout at Bighorn. The final day we floated the three miles from the Afterbay to the three mile takeout. The fishing on the Big Horn was difficult and the average fish is nowhere near the size they were fifteen years ago, and we were not the only ones saying so. We left Fort Smith at 2PM and were at home, sitting on the couch sipping bourbon, a bit after 9PM.
|Gerry with a nice North Platte rainbow.
Miles Driven: 1042
Miles Floated: 24 - Grey Reef to Lusby (8), Afterbay to Bighorn (13), Afterbay to Three Mile (3)
Longest Overland: 42.5 of dirt (Dry Creek Rd. Alcova WY to Gas Hills Rd. Riverton WY)
Best Sleep: Greybull Historic Hotel, Greybull, WY
Best Meal: Pulled pork sandwich with coleslaw, Up in Smoke BBQ, Buffalo WY
Weirdest Meal: Subway, Garryowen MT
Biggest Fish: 25" Rainbow - Wind River, Boysen State Park, Shoshoni WY
Coldest Water: 47°F - Big Horn River, Fort Smith, MT
Warmest Water: 66°F - Wind River, Boysen State Park, Shononi WY
Hottest Air Temp: 98°F - July 3rd, Fort Smith, MT
|Wind River cutthroat - over 18"
Sunday, 30 June 2013
On Sighting In
|Gerry sighting-in for elk season 9/29/10
Ask 3 people what you need to mount a scope and you'll get at least 3 answers. This is my take on it; others may disagree.
Dunk the scope in hot water and see if any bubbles come up. If not, it's waterproof. Sigh with relief.
If you buy a decent quality gun and decent quality mounts, they probably will be aligned, so you won't need a lapping rod. Alignment rods are sort of fun, but align them both ways, point to point and butt to butt. A torque wrench is nice (I bought a Weaver one on sale), but if you just turn the scope screws tight with no more than thumb and finger, you don't really need one. If you do decide you can't live w/o one, do find out what torque the manufacturer of that mount recommends.
I don't own a collimator, as most of my rifles are bolt actions (and I'm cheap). My procedure is to center the reticule (very imp if a used scope; new Leupolds are typically centered*). If you cut V notches in a cardboard carton, place the rifle in them, and remove the bolt, you can boresight the target. Adjust the elevation and windage until the crosshairs are on target. Test fire. Holding the rifle steady and aiming at the bullseye again, move crosshairs until they are on the bullet hole. Test fire again. You should be close to point of aim. Tweak until you're happy. This will work with a No. 1: just be sure to have the rifle high enough that you can drop the lever to see through the bore. I often start at 50 yards to get on paper, then move to 100.
*Centering: Turn a knob all the way until it stops. Now turn it back all the way, counting the number of clicks. Take half that number and turn it back; it's centered. Now do the same for the other knob.
As you're hunting, not trying for a benchrest record, there's no particular reason to try various brands of ammo. Sight in the Federals and use them. If you can get a 1.5" group at 100 yards, you should be fine. Start with a clean dry barrel. Some barrels throw the first shot from a clean barrel, then group nicely; if you have one of those, hunt with a fouled barrel. Keep a journal each time you test or shoot for practice: temp., wind, ammo, group sizes, etc.
And remember, this is supposed to be fun.
Gerry and I are off to fish the N. Platte and the Bighorn for a week.
Posted by Old Gunkie in Wyoming at 08:33 No comments: Links to this post
Labels: elevation, groups, mounting rifle scopes, Sighting in, torque wrench, windage
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
A Sportsman's Library
Steve Bodio's newest book is out, and it's great. It is an erudite, idiosyncratic, personal catalog of one hundred sporting titles. At 256 + xvi pages, each title gets, on average, an 2.56 page description. And what descriptions they are, one chapter for each of the hundred books. Each description contains information on the author, a gloss of the content of the book and and Steve's reasons for including the book among among the hundred. He knows many of the living authors and that comes through in personal anecdotes about them.
Steve manages to pull together so many cultural and literary threads it's hard to imagine how he keeps them all in his head.
I was lucky enough to have been sent a preprint back in November - but I just got my bound copy today. Aside from the pleasure of having a properly bound copy to hold in my hand, what I had not seen, was Malcolm Brooks' blurb on the back which is truly excellent.
"Nobody who loves traditional blood sport wants it's long literary line totally obfuscated by faux-gonzo, Wang-dang Nugents and gear-hawking carny barkers of cartoonish hunting shows. Steve Bodio brings his formidable powers as both reader and writer to the cause, gifting us with a guide to the greats as varied, as magical, and yes, as essential as the works he champions." -- Malcolm Brooks, author of Painted HorsesWhen a pre-print arrived in my inbox I printed a copy and could not put it down. I quickly ordered a couple of the rarest titles that I did not already own, figuring prices for some of these out of print books are going to go sky high. In an unscientific survey I just checked to verify my theory and it seems to me that prices on some titles are definitely up. I claim it's because Steve's book is now out. In a shrewd moment I thought of cornering the market on Plummer's Tales of a Rat Hunting Man, which wouldn't have been all that hard at the time - now it is impossible. One copy is now listed at $673.76. Prices on a few of the titles in the hundred have been out of sight for a long time -- I'm thinking of Jack O'Connor's Hunting in the Southwest which I looked for again after reading Steve's description.
Steve's book won't help the price situation, though it may actually get some classics back in print. I notice that one of the hundred, Saxton Pope's 1923 book Hunting with the Bow and Arrow, a longtime favorite of mine, is recently back in print. I traded my own copy, an early printing, to a fanatic bow hunter in Virginia for a hind quarter of a whitetail he killed with his bow. That meat was the beginning of my own long relationship with game meat; killing, butchering, cooking and feasting. I cooked and shared a memorable meal with friends, one of whom popped the cork on a 1974 Chateau Latour for the occasion. But I always regretted not having my copy of Pope's book which I bought for five dollars in a used book and magazine store in Norfolk Virginia.
In our broader culture, the trend to dumb everything down to the lowest common denominator, to reach the largest possible audience, seems inexorable. Steve refuses to participate in that trend. A selection of books like this reveals as much about the selector as it does about the books themselves. Taken as a whole, it represents a lifetime of scholarship. This book, and the books he recommends, provide a view into the mind of perhaps the deepest thinker about blood sport we have today. Thank you Steve.
Buy Steve's book now!
Saturday, 18 May 2013
A Day on the Green
|Leopard spotted brown.
It turned out to be a very good day. Saddly, I was a week late for the Blue Winged Olive hatch, though a few olives did come off during the day. Even so, the fish were still keyed in on BWO nymphs, and I caught as many fish as I care to in a day. I know because I lost count. If I had to guess I landed 15 and hooked about twice that many. None of the fish I landed was under 15" and none were over 20". All of them took my Black Back Wet Dream.
|BBWD tied on a size 20 Dai-Riki #135 hook - black flashback.
Black Back Wet Dream (BBWD)
Hook: size 18-22 scud/pupa hook
Body: olive or brown olive thread
Tail: a few fibers from a Wood Duck flank feather
Thorax: tan/brown dubbing
Wing Case: Black Holo-Tinsel
In the pictured fly I used 70 denier brown olive Ultra thread, the thorax is SLF Spikey Dubbing in natural fox color and the wing case is black Holo Tinsel. It is a synthesis of Mark Engler's original WD (wet dream) pattern with a flashier version of Randy Smith's Tyvek Baetis. Engler's pattern was renamed the WD-40 by Umpqua when they commercialised it - so as not to offend delicate sensibilities. I do not share their compuction. Many folks assume the WD stands for "wood duck". Good marketing at work I guess. Smith's pattern uses a wing case tied from Tyvek that has been colored black. Mine uses black holo-tinsel. Feel free to tie as many as you like, it's proving to be an amazingly effective pattern, but also, consider this post a copyright on the pattern should you want to commercialize it.
|An eighteen incher.
I met a man on the trial who I took to be from Oregon since he talked about fishing to spawning rainbows on the Williamson River. These are fish that run up out of Klamath Lake. He seemed somewhat disappointed with the Green in comparison. He said he'd done well the day before but he complained that he'd had to fish size 20 flies. When I first met him he was fishing a cicada and when I saw him later had a streamer tied on. By that time he'd had one hook-up. Somewhat hopefully, he told me how he'd met someone the day before who frequently fishes the Green and who prefers to tie on an Adams or a Royal Coachman. A size 20 Adams would actually be a decent imitation of a BWO and there is a kind of local beetle with red/orange colouring. So who knows, maybe an Adams or a Royal Coachman would be just the ticket. I expressed my doubts which prompted him to walk on.
|Looking down into Little Hole on my way out at about five-thirty.
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Wanted: A Blue Winged Olive Hatch
|A wild brown that took a BWO imitation.
It's that time of year when the Blue Winged Olive hatch should be on. I spent Sunday seeking the hatch but did not find it. I drove around to Six Mile Gap on the Upper North Platte and discovered it was too muddy to fish. Maybe not too muddy, but muddier that I wanted to deal with. Lesson learned: check the N. Platte at the State Line Ranch bridge before driving another 12 miles north to six mile gap. The muddy run off was from a snow storm that had hit the N. Platte River Valley but did not leave us a drop of snow on the other side of the Snowy Range. I drove back to fish the Laramie River not far from my home. The ice is off but the water is clear and low. These are not the easiest conditions for fishing there. The Laramie is a wild brown trout fishery and can offer fantastic fishing - but just as often, for me anyway, it can be a bust. In fact, I can not think of another river that has fished as inconsistently for me as the Laramie.
The day was cool and intermittently overcast with fast scudding clouds which occasionally dropped a mixture of rain and sleet and sometimes a rush of snow which was gone in another minute. Textbook conditions for a Spring Baetis hatch. The Blue Winged Olives are the first mayflies to hatch in the season. They are magnificent little mayflies with bluish gray wings and olive/brown bodies. Unfortunately, the hatch was not to be.
I did have a good afternoon. I caught six (or seven?) beautiful wild brown trout in a bit more than three hours. The largest (shown above) was just under 18" but the fish were more commonly around 14". All but two of the fish took a WD40 tied on a size 18 DaiRiki #135 hook. I've been tying the WD40 with a wood duck tail and a body of 70 denier olive/brown UTC thread. Compared to the old standard Uni-thread the UTC thread colors are both nuanced and rich. The thorax is dubbed with SLF Spikey Dubbing in the Natural Fox color. The wing case is black Holo Tinsel. The distinctive thing about the WD40 is the oversize "globular" thorax. Of the two fish that did not take the WD40, one fancied a skinny orange rock worm and another took a gold bead caddis. I have to say that every time I brought one in on the WD40 I was surprised to see the fish had not taken the more colorful fly of the pair. The BWO's may not have been hatching but the fish seem keyed into a good imitation of the BWO nymph/emerger. That has me thinking the hatch is on, I just missed it.
Posted by Old Gunkie in Wyoming at 07:00 No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Baetis, Blue Winged Olives, Brown trout, BWO, Flyfishing, Laramie River, North Platte, SLF Spikey Dubbing, UTC thread, WD40, Wild goose chase
Sunday, 31 March 2013
The flush is on at the Reef and the rainbows are in.
|Biggest fish of the day.
|Rock Worms - tied on a DaiRiki 135 #16 with Danville 70 denier red thread wrapped over two strands of UTC micro orange stretch tubing, and coated with Sally Hansen Hard as Nails..
I did not get one hit on a midge - neither did Jeff. As I've never seen it before red was the fly color of the day. If I was a better naturalist I would have thought to pump the stomach on one of the fish I caught to see what they were feeding on. I'd bet money they were stuffed with annelids - or were they stuffed with midge larvae? Most of the fish, including my biggest fish of the day, took a smaller worm pattern which was tied on a size 16 Dai Riki 135 hook. By the way, the biggest fish I caught 22" and it was the largest one I've managed to catch for some time at Gray Reef. The flush and the pending spawn are bringing bigger fish up to the dam.
I have often been resistant to fishing worm patterns, but yesterday, to match the hatch, a worm was de riguer. It's pretty much the only thing I could get any fish to look at though I did hook two on a green leech. The red "rock worm" is a standard pattern at Gray Reef and it produces fish on a regular basis. Some guys fish almost nothing else. During the spawn, a worm is often teamed with an egg - this rig is commonly referred to "Bacon and Eggs." The standard Gray Reef Rock Worm pattern is usually tied in a larger size than the ones shown above. Yesterday, with the fish so keyed in on red, I eventually rigged up with with a larger rock worm above the smaller one on the point.
On the web you can find the Rock Worm pattern referred to as a San Juan Worm; this just shows an unfortunate ignorance (or indifference) to fly pattern history and nomenclature. Unfortunately this usage seems to be taking hold - I talked to someone yesterday at the Reef who had a Rock Worm tied on and told me he was fishing a San Juan Worm. For those who may not know, a San Juan Worm is a fly pattern developed on the San Juan river in NM. It is a bit of ultra-chenille tied on a hook. It looks nothing like the N. Platte Rock Worm. Personally, if I ordered half a dozen San Juan Worms and a package of Rock Worms showed up instead (or vice versa) I'd be miffed. Not all worm patterns are San Juan Worms.
I've always been a bit puzzled as to why the Rock Worm is such a popular pattern at the Reef. Sure it brings in some good fish throughout the year - but so will a Gold Ribbed Hares Ear nymph. I caught my largest trout ever (measured at 27") on a GRHE drifted deep on the south side of the Gray Reef dam. I suspect it was taken for a crane fly larva. A day like yesterday is not enough to convince me that a Rock Worm is always the way to go at the reef - but I could see how some people might get that idea. It seems to be common knowledge that the flush is a good time to fish and so it was as crowded yesterday as I've seen it in a long time. That means a lot of people got the rock worm message.
Posted by Old Gunkie in Wyoming at 13:31 No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Annelid, Cocks and Hens, Flushing a river, Flyfishing, North Platte, Rainbow, River Health, rock worm, San Juan worm
Saturday, 2 March 2013
Fishing the Wind River Canyon
|A nice rainbow caught in the Wind River canyon.
For about a mile (maybe less) after the Wind flows out of Boysen Reservoir and just before it drops into the canyon proper, it flows through Boysen State Park. In the state park a WY fishing license is all you need. Once past the park, the river flows on the Wind River reservation which is the home of the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes. To fish or hike in the canyon (or anywhere on the reservation) you need a Tribal Fishing/Trespass license plus a $5 conservation stamp. For WY residents the license costs $20/day, $50/7days and $80/year - non-residents pay $25, $75 and $125. I purchased a yearly permit at the Fast Lane in Shoshoni. Last year I tried to buy a permit on a Sunday in Thermopolis - no can do.
|Looking upstream - I am bringing in a nice fish.
Starting around noon I fished a deep run low in the canyon for a couple of hours in the sun, the air temperature was around 50F. I hooked up pretty consistently on a size 12 bead-head pheasant tail. In an hour and a half or so I managed to land five nice fish and hooked up with another five I did not bring to hand. I fished further upstream later in the day - after the sun had disappeared in the clouds - and was frustrated to not hook up again.
|A smaller rainbow in beautiful form.
Sunday, 10 February 2013
Superbowl Sunday on the Reef.
The day was indeed warm for early February - the thermometer bumping 50F. It was breezy all day with an occasional real gust, but never so bad that you felt like it was just crazy to be on the water. I got there at 10:30 and fished until 4:30. Six hours of fishing and five of driving. My rule for a successful day trip (which does not always obtain) is that there should be more fishing than driving.
The last two times I've fished the reef I've done well with a green leech pattern followed with a midge dropper. Of course I started with that rig and before long I'd hooked up with a decent rainbow. Somehow hooking and landing that first fish is always a relief, it's a kind of confirmation, and a day seems to flow more seamlessly after that.
The river is very low (500 cfs) and so, with a bit of boldness, I was able to wade our to a spot I've never made it to before. From the far side of the dam I was able to follow a rocky edge out to a spot where I was almost directly downstream from the left edge of the dam. The position was a bit precarious and the flow was a bit stronger and the water a bit deeper out there than I like it in such cold water - but I was able to reach a lot of fish from there. The 11 foot five weight switch rod is just about perfect for this fishing. I can cast it significantly farther than I can a 9' eight weight and certainly far further than I can cast a 9 foot 5 weight. Once the fly is on the water, the long rod provides amazing line control. I cast it single handed style all day. After using an 11 footer, a 9 foot rod feels like a tiny wand. And it does very nicely in the wind - somehow that extra length allows me to really punch a line into the wind. It was Superbowl Sunday and by 2 PM I was the only on the river besides one other fellow who showed up and fished for about twenty minutes before leaving. I spent as much time as I could fishing that spot before I was too cold and needed to warm up in the truck. More than once I'd noticed two larger fish sporadically but actively feeding in shallower water on either side of the main flow.
Although I've seen it many times, there is always something truly astounding about seeing the mottled back of a trout as it slowly emerges from the surface of the water, fin standing high, the fish slowly arcing up and then back down. Not apparently in a hurry at all. The sun was just right to expose a brightly colored flank just before the fish slipped seamlessly back into the water - quietly disappearing as if it had never been there.
Around 1 PM I recharged in the truck in full gear with heater running full blast to warm my icy feet. I downed a surprisingly good bacon and egg burrito from Sloane's. With warm feet and a full stomach I waded back out to my precarious perch on the edge of the main current with the intention of catching those two larger fish. They were still feeding. They were undoubtedly smutting; exclusively feeding on midges. I knew that - but my recent successes with the leech pattern paired with conversation in local fly shops had me wanting to take them with anything but a midge.
The loneliness of manning a fly shop counter mid-winter has these guides anxious for conversation, but in those conversations I have often found them disdainful of (my) small fly tactics. In the coarser shop, the recommendation for the reef in winter is "bacon and eggs" i.e. a San Juan worm with an egg pattern for a dropper. I'd talked to Trent at the reef fly shop briefly the last time I was up and told him about my (surprising to me) success with a green leech pattern, his response was something to the effect that - "Yes, at this time of year they like something chunky to bite on." In general, except perhaps on the San Juan, fly shops are generally loath to recommend small flies - or if they do, they are at the bottom of the recommendation list. Most people don't want to fish a size 24 fly, and even less do they care to tie one on. And besides, most of the guides who man the counters fish from drift boats where a larger fly might actually do better on average. Tiny flies are most successful when paired with a drag free drift and the occasional induced movement done just so - not always easily accomplished from a moving boat. A bigger fly is certainly easier to tie on and a single large fly is far less prone to tangle in the wind. As a guide this is important. At the reef they mostly push an inch long red "rock worm" and perhaps a squirrel strip streamer and an egg. Of course these patterns catch fish, but not a trout selectively feeding on small midges.
Anyway, I tried almost everything before I tied on what I knew those bigger fish were taking. This was cold work - constantly re-rigging in thigh deep faster water. Neither of those fish would be fooled by anything larger - at least not by me. I already knew the green mohair leech was of no interest. Forget a black woolly bugger. I have a beautiful bead head caddis pupae pattern with a pale yellow translucent body. It was of no interest. Valadi's worm was unanimously rejected. A small bright red midge larva did not interest them at all, and neither did a scud pattern tied with CDC legs. I tried swinging a white marabou streamer through the water
near them and got nothing. This last failure surprised me because it has proved so effective in the past - even sometimes on smutting trout.
It was a classic smutting trout situation - they were uninterested in anything but the midges they were keyed on and I knew it the whole time. Those fish below the dam are hit very hard all year and with the water so low they are very exposed. Eventually, feet nearly frozen, I tied on what I knew they wanted. I managed to hook them both on a size 24 foam wing RS2. (To be fair - I just now see this very fly is near the bottom of the list of recommended flies on the Reef fly shop pages.) In the water, that tiny white dot wing on the RS2 is astoundingly visible. The larger of the two was feeding in a shallow spot closer to the middle of the river. It was a long cast and harder to get a good drift out there. I only managed to get him to take my fly once - had him on for a second and that put him down for the rest of my day. I did not see him again. I did managed to the land the other fish after the subtlest take you could ever imagine. That was very satisfying. It was a rainbow that I will generously say was 18" in length.
The RS2 really turned out to be the fly of the day - fished upstream or across, dead drift with a occasional twitch to induce the take. This is a variant of the good old Leisenring lift - or something like it - on a fly fished a long way out under a thing-a-ma-bobber. I did not keep count but I believe I hooked and landed a dozen fish and most of those took the RS2. Interestingly I had a small black bodied silver beadhead midge above the RS2 and it hooked only one fish - an 8" rainbow. All but one of the fish I caught were rainbows and the one brown was snagged in the belly on a drift through a hole that was obviously holding him and others.
Posted by Old Gunkie in Wyoming at 09:00 3 comments: Links to this post
Labels: Brown trout, Gray Reef, Leisenring lift, North Platte, Rainbow, Reef Fly Shop, RS2, Sage 5110-4, smutting trout, switch rod, Trout, Valadi's worm
Thursday, 31 January 2013
He's everywhere.
|Back covers of recent issues of The Drake, Fly Rod and Reel and Flyfish Journal..
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Cold day on the Platte
|A nice rainbow that took the green leach pattern.
|A nice rainbow in Jeff took with the leech.
|This was one that was working best.
Posted by Old Gunkie in Wyoming at 10:18 No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Leech, mercury midge, Midge fishing, North Platte, Rainbow trout
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
Pheasant Rillettes
Found a couple of freezer burned pheasants in the bottom of the freezer when I cleared it to make some space for the elk this year. I know - how could I let this happen. I thawed them out and trimmed until I was left with a handful of good looking meat. I mashed some thyme, salt and black pepper, rubbed it on the meat and confited it in duck fat. Slow cooked them all day in the oven at 225F. Put it in the fridge and left for Portland. When I got back - I chopped it fine, put in a bit more salt - a lot more pepper - a sprinkle of cayenne - and a bit more thyme and put it in a jar in the fridge. Had some last night - not bad at all for two year old pheasant.
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Some of you understand that I'm not a partisan in US politics, but that I watch it closely because I'm curious. Frankly I've been pretty quiet about it, but I've been getting questions from a lot of family and friends; people seem to want my opinion on this political stuff. With that many questions, I suppose I need to post a little more about it. I've been tracking this from several angles, but I don't know everything. I also don't trust any one source. Beyond mere reading and cataloging and analyzing the reports, I've been trying to measure all things against the moral character of God revealed to me in my heart.
Let's start with a review of some of what I have said so far. This election represents a major breaking point in the US political system. While there hasn't been that much literal bloodshed, the three major groups (globalists, imperialists, and nationalists) have each moved to seize full control and squeeze their opponents out. It's rather like a coup and counter-coup going on at the same time. I'm not kidding; this is the end of whatever America has been up to now.
The imperialists have been forced to a sideline, still powerful, but unable/unwilling to seize the spotlight. They are not unified. While we cannot easily characterize the full range of who they are, it represents the neocons, the defense industries, some large segments of academia, and to some degree the Zionists. The nationalists and globalists are in open warfare; it hasn't been this level of naked hostility before now. Both sides consider the stakes too high because both sides have determined now is the time to shut the other side down once and for all. They are ready to shed blood, though I don't think much of that has happened yet.
At this particular moment, it seems that the globalists have been crushed. In particular, Hillary Clinton's campaign has been fatally wounded. Over this past weekend, the NYPD revealed they seized a laptop from former Congressman Anthony Weiner (reports indicate they've had it since early October). He is married to Huma Adedin, the single closest confident of Hillary Clinton. They are separated because Weiner has a habit of sexting and sending naughty selfies to other women and some underage girls. He was doing that again recently and the NYPD was investigating, sometimes getting support from the FBI. They seized his laptop with a warrant regarding his peccadilloes. They didn't expect to find on this laptop a massive collection of emails (approximately 650,000) connected to his wife's work for Hillary Clinton. Though the warrant didn't cover that kind of thing, they knew the FBI had been looking into Hillary Clinton's email stuff from when she served as Secretary of State. You can bet they all looked at some of those emails.
You have to understand how that warrant business works. If a police agency needs a warrant to see something, they can usually get it. If they see something anyway, they still may need a warrant for permission to use that evidence. You can bet they saw plenty and wanted legal authority to use it, not against Weiner, but as evidence in some other on-going investigation elsewhere. This has happened many times before. Right now, no one has revealed very much about the contents of those emails.
Keep in mind that the NYPD is somewhat in the nationalist camp. They have their own dirty political ties; they are one of the largest and most politically powerful police agencies in the US, despite being ostensibly a mere municipal police department. Lots of very powerful political figures on local and national levels fall under their jurisdiction, so their budget and their reach has taken them around the world, sometimes in direct competition with federal agencies. They are a force to be reckoned with. Their leadership has recently threatened to go public with the entire collection of emails if the FBI doesn't do something with them.
The reluctance in the FBI is hard to explain, but you can bet most of it is at the top. FBI Director Comey is a political appointee under President Obama, and some of those directly under him are more or less in the same boat. Obama and Clinton operate under a partisan truce; they aren't friends. Obama's position is complicated; he came to the office of POTUS an empty suit obeying his handlers, handlers who are not united and frankly conflicting at times. Here at the end of his administration he does have some power of his own, but it's limited. This business with the Clinton emails discovered on Weiner's laptop threatens him, his handlers and lot of their allies on Congress.
Previously, the FBI was willing to protect everyone else if they could just shut down the Clintons. They tried to leak carefully selected information, but it didn't work. She is maniacal about seizing power and won't allow a compromise. She has burned bridges. So she has raised the price and now the FBI is willing to pay; they aren't going to protect anyone else any more. Besides, the NYPD will make them look stupid if they do. On top of this, it appears just about the entire range of some 15 spying agencies in the US are on board with this move. In that sense, Clinton represents a coup, and the nationalists together represent a counter-coup. So far, the primary weapons have been leaked information broadcast across the Internet, an update on the ancient "pen is mightier than the sword." But the swords have not been put away for long.
The shrieking globalists and Hillary's partisans will not go down quietly, but it's virtually impossible for them to hang on at this point. I cannot imagine how they can win now, but they will most certainly be sore losers. Both major parties in the presidential election have already lawyered up to challenge the election results, and those lawyers can do other work as necessary. On top of that, both sides have an army of activists who would react violently if they lose, though the flavor of violence would be different between them. The US is a house divided, and we are past the point of peaceful change.
I do not rejoice; this is going to hurt all of us. Also, be aware that I may see the need to edit this post if today's events move swiftly.
Aside: In response to an offline question — Yes, we need to think about what it will take to exploit all of this for the Father's glory. I have traded guns for computers in the past. I have long believed that in our world today, having a gun is okay, but having access to the Internet takes priority over that. What you do with your computer is another question, but our near-term future survival as humans hangs more strongly on Net access than on having a firearm for self/home defense. In my case, it's a matter of mission and calling taking priority over some personal wants. As an ex-military cop, you can bet I appreciate good weapons, but they aren't a priority; I put my money where my mouth is.
Addenda: For those of you interested in a more technical explanation of how those emails could all be stored on Weiner's laptop, Karl Denninger covers it nicely. He talks about how a Windows-based Exchange mail server would work, and that when Hillary's server was shut down, the laptop never got a signal to erase all those emails.


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(open up on The 7D making music)
Happy: Fantastic, fellas. Now, one more time from the top.
(dwarfs groan)
Bashful: You're bustin' our onions.
Doc: We've already played it six times, Happy.
Happy: Seven's the charm.
Grumpy: (tries to play the tuba) My-my wips are wumb.
Happy: Your "wips" are "wumb"?
Grumpy: My wips are wollen.
Happy: You wanna go bowling? We can't go bowling. We got a concert tonight.
Grumpy: My...lips...are...numb...and...swollen.
Happy: Your lips are numb and swollen? That happens when you play the tuba.
(Grumpy pulls his hand over his face)
Happy: Oh, this is gonna be the best Heroes' Day concert ever! Woo-hoo!
(cut to Doc on the couch)
Doc: Heroes' Day celebrates Jollywood's founding fathers. Long, long ago, our kingdom was ruled by a wicked warlock.
(Dopey and Bashful appear)
Bashful: He was a real big meanie.
Doc: But the seven wise founding fathers of Jollywood banded together and defeated him...
Sneezy: And you should've seen da feet on him!
Sleepy: High four, sneeze man. (him and Sneezy high-four) I could hear that joke every day.
Bashful: And we do.
Doc: And now, every year, we celebrate our founding fathers and all of Jollywood's heroes with a big concert, and a spectacular fireworks show.
Happy: And this year, the Queen asked me to come up with something special for the show, so I did!
Doc: It's Happy's musical masterpiece.
Happy: I call it, "The Jollywood Jam."
Grumpy: I call it, "My wips are wumb."
(cut to Hildy and Grim's manor)
Grim: (offscreen) Heroes Day makes me feel gloopy.
Hildy: Oh, don't be such a sad pants, Grimmy.
Grim: But Hildy, how can my pants not be sad on the day that Jollywood is all happy pants about kickin' out my Great-Great-Great Grandpapa Gloom? (sighs) Today, nothing can make me not boo-hooey.
Hildy: Not even a prezzie?
Grim: (gasps) A prezzie? For me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! (sees a magic wand) Oh! Oh, Hildy! A wand!
Hildy: Not just any wand, Grim. It's a brand-new y-wizard! Try it!
Grim: Okay. Ala-ca...
Hildy: Sh! That's the best part. You don't even need to say a spell. It's on "read your mind mode".
Grim: Excellent.
(A kitty appears floating in a bubble)
Grim: It did read my mind! Fancy-schmancy.
Hildy: The most powerful wand in Jollywood and that's what you come up with, a kitty? Grim, this wand can do anything. Think bigger!
Grim: Yeah, bigger. (the kitty turns into a big one) Big kitty!
Hildy: Ugh! (pops the bubble) You have a very powerful new wand.
Grim: Uh-huh.
Hildy: Today, all of Jollywood is gathered for Heroes Day.
Grim: Right.
Hildy: So... you are going to use your new wand to ruin Heroes Day.
Grim: I am?
Hildy: You are.
Grim: I are.
(cut to the Jollywood Jam show)
Starchy: Five minutes to show time. Everyone here? Queen Delightful, check. Squire Peckington, check. Sir Yipsalot, check. 7D. 7D? 7D! Where are the 7D?
Delightful: Oh, I haven't seen them, Lord Starchbottom. Maybe, they're looking for parking.
Starchbottom: This is a disaster. Without the 7D, we don't have a show. Squire Peckington?
(Squire Peckington squawks)
Squire Peckington: What do you want?
Starchbottom: Fetch the 7D.
Sir Yipsalot: (yips and grabs the quill from Starchy)
Starchbottom: Not you, Sir Yipsalot. No fetching for you. Come back here.
(cut to the 7D)
Squire Peckington: (flies towards the 7D) 7D, show's about to start. (flies away)
Happy: We better get cranking, Doc.
Doc: You got it.
Happy: Follow that bird.
(cut to Grim and Hildy)
Grim: Excellent sammy. Why didn't we travel by broom, my Hildy-Wildy?
Hildy: If we want to ruin Heroes Day, first, we have to fit in, so brooms, no. Silly hats, yes. Skate speedily, Peaches.
(Peaches is shown wearing skates and is traveling fast)
(cut to the 7D)
Doc: Look out!
(cut to Grim and Hildy)
Hildy: Brakes, Peaches, brakes!
(a short cut scene of the 7D bumping into the Glooms plays)
Grumpy: (distantly) I think I bruised my wips.
Doc: Everybody okay?
Hildy: Oh no, The 7D. Grim, cover your face.
Happy: That was fun.
Grim: Sorry, eh. Oopsie-doopsie, eh.
Happy: Ooh, come on, guys. We got a concert to give.
Grumpy: Woad hog!
(camera zooms over to Hildy and Grim)
Grim: Peaches, you're a speed demon. We gotta get you some driving lessons.
Hildy: Let's go, Grim, before they spot us.
Happy: Let's get a move on, 7D.
Dwarfs: Hi-ho!
(cut to Starchy and Delightful)
Starchbottom: (paces) Oh, dear, where are they? (bumps on the 7D)
Dwarfs: We're here!
Delightful: Oh, good, you found parking.
Starchbottom: Queen Delightful, you're on. Oh, your speech.
(cut to the concert)
(fanfare plays)
Delightful: Ahem. Ice cream, sour balls, peanut brittle. (Starchy's jaw drops) Rock salt...
Starchbottom: (freaks out) That's my grocery list! (to Delightful) Here's your speech. Here it is, your speech.
Delightful: Ahem. Welcome to Heroes Day!
Man in audience: Heroes Day, yeah!
Audience: Heroes, heroes!
Hildy: This is it, Grim. We'll ruin Heroes Day.
Grim: Right. First, I'm gonna turn Queen Delightful into a donkey. (waves his wand) Ta-da! I did it.
(camera cuts to Queen Delightful)
Delightful: ...brave, courageous, and true.
Hildy: Ta-da, you did not. Gimme that.
(camera cuts to Queen Delightful)
Delightful: And on this Heroes Day, we celebrate with music... And a sparkly boom-boom sky show. Ooh!
(cut to Doc)
Doc: For the biggest boom, I built the Fizz-Gig Thingamajig, so that the fireworks at the end of the show would be exactly like Happy pictured them.
Happy: When I wrote this piece, I wasn't just coming up with music. In my mind, I was seeing all the amazing pictures that can go with it. Grumpy.
Grumpy: My wips are still wumb.
(cut back to the concert)
Delightful: And now, to honor the heroes of our kingdom, The 7D present the world premiere of a new composition by Happy, "The Jollywood Jam"! Take it away, Happy! Go, you!
Audience: Happy! Happy!
Man in audience: Happy rules. Yeah!
(camera shifts to Happy)
Happy: Ladies and jolly men, expect the unexpected. And a-one, and a-two, and a one, two, three.
(music plays)
(audience gasps)
Audience: Ooh!
(the dwarfs turn into animals)
(Starchy stammers)
Delightful: In all fairness, Happy did say to expect the unexpected.
(music continues playing)
Dwarfs: ♪ Hi-ho, ga-dooka-looka, Jollywood ♪
♪ Hi-ho, ga-dooka-looka, Jollywood ♪
♪ Hi-ho, oh, oh ♪
Starchbottom: This is magnificent.
(music continues playing)
(the 7D start surfing)
Dwarfs: Cowabunga! Whoo-hoo!
Sleepy: Hang, 7D! Righteous!
Hildy: Ugh! This wand is useless. The y-wizard shouldn't work like this. It should work like... (notices the 7D) that! That's your wand, Grim! This is that smiley guy's music stick.
Grim: We've gotta get my wand back.
(the 7D swim underwater)
♪ Hi-ho, hi-ho, we're the 7D ♪
(the 7D ride on horses)
Delightful: And, they're coming around the final turn. They're in the home stretch. It's down to the wire.
Sneezy: Ah-choo!
Delightful: (distantly) And it's Sneezy by a nose!
Starchbottom: Wow, is this in the budget? Who's paying for all this?
(Happy does another magic trick with the rest of the 7D)
Dwarfs: ♪ Hi-ho ♪
♪ Hi-ho, the 7D ♪
♪ Are in the house ♪
♪ Hi-ho ♪
♪ The 7D... ♪
(the 7D start snowboarding, ♪)
(the 7D get transported into a video game, ♪)
Delightful: I don't even know what this is, but I love it! I don't wanna put it down. I wanna play all the time, day and night.
Starchbottom: Hey, I think I won.
(the 7D start dancing ♪)
Grumpy: Now, my wips are weally, weally wumb.
(music continues playing)
(the 7D are on top of a train)
(the 7D turn into bees)
Grim: Bees! They have stingies! I'm allergic!
(the 7D are floating in space)
Grim: Whoa!
Hildy: Ugh. (hands Grim his magic wand) It's all yours, Grim. Ruin Heroes Day.
Grim: This one's for you, Great-Great-Grandpapa Gloom.
Starchbottom: I can't decide which is my favorite part so far.
Delightful: I love all the costumes. So fetching.
Yipsalot: Yip, yip, yip!
Starchbottom: Not you, Sir Yipsalot. She didn't say "fetch". She said "fetching".
Grim: Come back here!
(fireworks start up)
Grim: Hey, you. Gimme back my wand.
Hildy: Pickle juice. Eww!
Grim: Baby dill.
(Hildy and Grim turn into cats)
Hildy: Grim, you're a cat!
Grim: I can has pickle?
Yipsalot: Yip yip!
(Grim and Hildy gasp)
Yipsalot: Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip!
(fireworks boom)
Audience: Ooh!
Delightful: Sparkly boom-boom sky show. Yay!
Happy: "The Jollywood Jam".
(audience cheer)
Happy: Wow, that was even better than I pictured it.
Delightful: Bravo, bravo!
Starchbottom: Unbelievable! We should take this on the road. We could make a fortune. Grumpy, let's talk.
Grumpy: Not now. My wips need a wong west. (sighs)
Dwarfs: Hi-ho!
(episode ends)


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[Bonus points for whoever can tell me where the title is from. Extra bonus points for admitting this publicly]
I has ragrets. I am not a big screenshot taker. In the days of my youth it never really occurred to me to save pictures of games or to record video, but in my defense back in My Day taking a screenshot was a painful affair. If the game itself didn't support it, you needed an external app to handle it, and there weren't that many (FRAPS and…). If a game did support in-game screenshots, it was usually followed by a session of "where the hell does this game store images on my hard drive?" Even when taking screens became a lot easier I still managed to avoid having a record of my gaming history, because at that point, I really just blame old age. You know how when you're in the middle of something and you're concentrating on it so when you finally get a breather and look up and, like, hours have passed, you're hungry, and need to pee? It's like that, except in addition to all those things, I smacked my forehead for not having taken any screenshots.
A brief discussion on Twitter with Sers Dusty and Belghast made me realize how many screenshots I don't have. This makes me sad on a personal level because all of the time I've spent in-game and what do I have to show for it? About as much as I'd have had I not spent all that time in-game. On the other hand, as a soloist, most of my screenshots would be of mundane things like landscapes and NPC conversations, and not memory provoking images of my time spent doing events with friends. More importantly, though, I'm missing a record of all of the games I've played, but which are no longer with us.
One or two more because Nostalgia. #TheMatrixOnline pic.twitter.com/2SOnPX8G3W
— Dusty Monk (@Dusty_Monk) February 10, 2017
I've tried to get better at taking screenshots, though. Back when it first launched, Forge's biggest draw for me was that it could take a screenshot of whatever you were playing. Then they went all Brittany Spears circa 2007 with their streaming to Twitch and dropped that cool feature, only having brought it back in a weaker form just recently. I now use Greenshot, a desktop app which allows for full screen or regional capture but also uploads to Google Photo where I archive all of my pictures.
Last night I went through what images I have from semi-recent forays and organized them into folders because my dumping ground directory was just that — a massive pile of unorganized images. I sorted the images by game, leaving me with a more profound sense of loss in seeing how few folders there are, and how few images per folder there are. Even now, a lot of screenshots in those folders are on-demand captures of funny dialog, attractive landscapes, or regions of the screen that I used to send to other people to explain something about the game, or to use in a blog post.
Looking at Greenshot, though, I realized that I should re-work the filename pattern to auto-sort the images into their own folders. This way, I won't have to remember to sort them all into the appropriate bins and will have everything nicely organized for when I want access to those images. The key, of course, will be to remember to take those screenshots, because no amount of organization will be worthwhile if there's nothing to organize.


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How to compensate for the cosine losses?
Second, how fine-grained is your data? Every few minutes? Hourly?
Do you know the location (latitude and longitude) where the module was installed? If you know that location, then you can (do a Web search) convert local civil time (what the clock shows) to local solar time (where "solar noon" is when the Sun is at its maximum height).
If you have fine grained data, then you can easily plot the current vs. local solar time and see the cosine structure, with maxima at solar noon and minima towards dawn and dusk. you'll also see the annual modulation as the Sun's height changes around the year.
Combining the annual modulation with the known latitude should be
enough for you to derive the tilt angle at which the module was installed.
If you do not have fine grained data (for example, you just have the total energy or charge output per day), then you have to take a more theoretical approach. Use the local time function computed above to create the local cosine function for each day. You can then integrate that to get the average (which for a perfect cosine is 0.5, of course). The reciprocal of that is the compensation factor you need to deduce what the maximum output was each day.
Very tricky, unless you have accurate infomation about the panels original orientation.
You could actually estimate that, knowing the long and lat of the original location, and deconvolving the maximum output with the local noon/solar time.


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360W Power Supply Switch (Folgertech, probably others too)
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Great upgrade to my Folger 2020, so much better than having to just unplug it from the wall.
Unfortunately I'm not having much luck with the switch this was designed around :( First one came with a fuse but only lasted about 2 months and then locked in the on position. Ordered a replacement and it came in pieces with no fuse. Reading the reviews on amazon it sounds like a lot of these switches are failing early for people.
I may have to see if I can find a better switch for the plug module since the actual switch itself can be replaced.
Thanks for sharing this! I'm ordering the part on Amazon and I'll be making setting it up in the next week or so. Can you recommend any resources on how to wire it safely? I don't have much experience with A/C current, so I need to get up to speed on that before I try to wire it.
one wire direct on the psu
the ground direct on the psu too
The other wire on one side of the switch and start another wire from the switch to the power supply
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Livingston County, New York
Learn more about Livingston County, New York
|Livingston County, New York
|Image:Seal of Livingston County, New York.jpg
| Image:Map of New York highlighting Livingston County.png
Location in the state of New York
| Area
- Total
- Land
- Water
1,659 km² (640 mi²)
sq mi ( km²)
22 km² (8 mi²), 1.30%
| Population
- (2000)
- Density
|Website: www.co.livingston.state.ny.us
Livingston County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of 2000, the population was 64,328. It is named after Robert R. Livingston, delegate to the 1775 Continental Congress, member of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence, and father-in-law of Richard Montgomery, after whom Montgomery County (and similarly named counties in many other states) were named. Its county seat is Geneseo.
- There is also a town named Livingston in Columbia County.
[edit] History
When counties were established in New York State in 1683, the present Livingston County was part of Albany County. This was an enormous county, including the northern part of New York State as well as all of the present State of Vermont and, in theory, extending westward to the Pacific Ocean. This county was reduced in size on July 3, 1766 by the creation of Cumberland County, and further on March 16, 1770 by the creation of Gloucester County, both containing territory now in Vermont.
On March 12, 1772, what was left of Albany County was split into three parts, one remaining under the name Albany County. One of the other pieces, Tryon County, contained the western portion (and thus, since no western boundary was specified, theoretically still extended west to the Pacific). The eastern boundary of Tryon County was approximately five miles west of the present city of Schenectady, and the county included the western part of the Adirondack Mountains and the area west of the West Branch of the Delaware River. The area then designated as Tryon County now includes 37 counties of New York State. The county was named for William Tryon, colonial governor of New York.
In the years prior to 1776, most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to Canada. In 1784, following the peace treaty that ended the American Revolutionary War, the name of Tryon County was changed to Montgomery County in order to honor the general, Richard Montgomery, who had captured several places in Canada and died attempting to capture the city of Quebec, replacing the name of the hated British governor.
In 1789, Ontario County was split off from Montgomery. The actual area split off from Montgomery County was much larger than the present county, also including the present Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans, Steuben, Wyoming, Yates, and part of Schuyler and Wayne Counties.
Genesee County was created by a splitting of Ontario County in 1802. This was much larger than the present Genesee County, however. It contained the present Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Niagara, Orleans, Wyoming, and portions of Livingston and Monroe Counties.
Livingston County was formed from Genesee and Ontario Counties in 1821.
Livingston County is home to the State University of New York, College at Geneseo (now SUNY Geneseo), one of the top liberal arts colleges in the country.[citation needed]
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Livingston County is located in western New York State, south of Rochester and east of Buffalo.
A popular tourist location in partly in Livingston County is the Finger Lakes. Letchworth State Park in partly in the western part of the county. The Genesee River flows northward through the county.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,659 km² (640 mi²). 1,637 km² (632 mi²) of it is land and 22 km² (8 mi²) of it (1.30%) is water.
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- Monroe County, New York - north
- Ontario County, New York - east
- Steuben County, New York - southeast
- Allegany County, New York - southwest
- Wyoming County, New York - west
- Genesee County, New York - northwest
[edit] Demographics
As of the census² of 2000, there were 64,328 people, 22,150 households, and 15,349 families residing in the county. The population density was 39/km² (102/mi²). There were 24,023 housing units at an average density of 15/km² (38/mi²). The racial makeup of the county was 94.04% White, 3.01% African American, 0.27% Native American, 0.76% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.85% from other races, and 1.04% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.27% of the population.
There were 22,150 households out of which 34.00% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.80% were married couples living together, 10.00% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.70% were non-families. 23.10% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.40% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.60 and the average family size was 3.05.
In the county the population was spread out with 23.40% under the age of 18, 14.20% from 18 to 24, 28.90% from 25 to 44, 22.10% from 45 to 64, and 11.40% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 100.70 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 99.00 males.
The median income for a household in the county was $42,066, and the median income for a family was $50,513. Males had a median income of $36,599 versus $25,228 for females. The per capita income for the county was $18,062. About 5.80% of families and 10.40% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.70% of those under age 18 and 6.50% of those age 65 or over.
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|Image:Seal of Livingston County, New York.jpg
|Livingston County, New York
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|Avon | Caledonia | Dansville | Leicester | Lima | Livonia | Mount Morris | Nunda
|Avon | Caledonia | Conesus | Geneseo | Groveland | Leicester | Lima | Livonia | Mount Morris | North Dansville | Nunda | Ossian | Portage | Sparta | Springwater | West Sparta | York
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- Livingston County webpage
- Information from the Chamber of Commerce
- Brief histories of Livingston towns
- Summary history of Livingston County and its towns
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594 results found in Carriages for sale, carts for sale. All carriages in date order, latest adverts first. Competition vehicles, exercise carts, drays, gypsy wagons, two and four wheelers. Advertise your carriage for sale for only £6 until sold.
Landau carriage in very good condition, currently set up for a single horse. Purpose build trailer available separately.
Price: £2,750
Location: Suffolk
Contact: John
Phone: 01638 714197
Mobile: 07775 511903
4 wheeled leisure/exercise carriage. No maker's mark but solid and well built. Brakes recently overhauled with new bearings all round. Good rubber tyres, steel rims and spokes. Independent shafts, extended to comfortably take a 17hh heavy draught, but this vehicle is light and manoeuvrable enough to be pulled by a 14hh upwards.
Has recently been washed off, lightly rubbed down, and is currently for sale 'as is'. Perfectly usable as it stands or would look very smart with a quick coat of paint but sadly I've got too much going on to do it myself and need the storage space it's taking up.
Could deliver locally for cost of fuel.
To Fit: 14hh to 17hh
Price: £500 ovno
Location: Liss, Hampshire
Contact: Neil Ransom
Phone: 01730 827134
Mobile: 07715 783429
1904 pleasure carriage made by Auster of Leicester, restored 6 years ago and barn stored until now.
Would make nice wedding carriage. Rubber tyres worn but still usable.
To Fit: 15hh to 17hh
Price: £1,000 offers
Location: Hayle Cornwall
Contact: Sid
Phone: 07544 720146
A rare pony sleigh to fit 10hh - 11 hh. Unusual that it is for a single not pair and the two seats the driver sits at the back all original.
Approx 100 years old. Has been used in department stores as a window display and Father Christmas work.
To Fit: 10hh to 11hh
£1,200 £999
Location: Cheshire
Contact: Harvey Wilmot - T
Phone: 01260 226426
Mobile: 07766 204291
Lovely carriage made in Germany, seats 6 passengers, disc brakes all round and hand brake. Adjustable shafts.
Could be used for pair (but no pole). Ideal for weddings or just for pleasure.
Great condition, a stunning cart.
To Fit: 14hh to 16.2hh
Price: £1,600 ovno
Location: Wrexham
Contact: Roy Powell
Phone: 07502 041799
Horse exercise cart to fit from 13.2hh to 15.2hh. Made to last and is a good cart.
To Fit: 13.2hh to 15.2hh
£250 £230
Location: Stoke On Trent
Contact: Shelly Ross
Phone: 07987 61420
Four wheel old carriage. Needs tlc.
Price: £1,100 ono
Location: Edenbridge
Contact: John
Phone: 07748 084494
4 wheel jogger.
To Fit: 14.2hh to 17hh
Price: £600 ono
Location: Essex
Contact: Mr William Rogers
Phone: 07885 301761
Pony 2 wheel carriage, this was purchased for my 12hh section A, when I brought it the guy said it's for section A size up to 13.2hh.
It comes with 2 sets of shafts. Suspension, metal wheels, adjustable axle, back step, adjustable balance.
Nice comfy seat, whip holder. This is a used vehicle and paint on shafts is worn.
To Fit: 11.2hh to 13.2hh
Price: £450 ono
Location: Arundel West Sussex
Contact: Nichola Bolesworth
Phone: 07380 894078
Four wheeled carriage to fit 14.2hh to 16hh horse or cob. Fitted with new disc brakes on rear wheels.
Newly covered padded seats. Delivery can be arranged.
To Fit: 14.2hh to 16hh
£950 £925 ovno
Location: Melton Mowbray
Contact: Mike Harvey
Phone: 07867 770013
4 wheeled trolley/dray on springs, disc brakes all round, plus hand brake. Lights, indicators with foot controlled indicator and light sensor. Lovely comfy ride with sprung bench.
Drop sides and back which can also be taken completely off making it a really versatile vehicle. Tie down hooks underneath. Comes with shafts, pole and swingle trees.
Outside diameter approx just under 6ft wide. Outside diameter bed length 7ft 2". Overall length approx 10ft 3". Near Bromyard, Herefordshire Worcestershire border. Ring for more details, thanks.
To Fit: up to 18.3hh
Price: £1,600
Location: Herefordshire
Contact: Richard Cook - T
Phone: 07774 253717
Governess cart made by C. Robinsons of Grimsby, really nice cart, all sound and solid.
Really good wooden wheels with channel rubbers, recently had new channels on. Well sprung on nutcracker springs. Also has swingle tree.
Painted and lined. Really nice piece all ready to go. Suit around 14.2hh
To Fit: 14hh
Price: £750 ono
Location: Rotherham, S.yorks
Contact: Oliver
Phone: 07812 828576
Bow top, rolls like a pram on new Don Royston wheels. New queen stove, new weather boards.
This wagon is solid and ready to go on the road, grab yourself a summer bargain. Will have some trade for gold and cash, try me.
To Fit: 13.3hh to 16hh
Price: £6,500 ono
Location: Manchester
Contact: Connor John
Phone: 07561 023940
Clever carriage for sale, comes with shafts and has rear disc brakes. Is used but in a good condition.
It has been pulled with both a 15.2hh and a 14.2hh cob. Cash on collection please.
To Fit: 14.2hh to 16.1hh
Price: £2,250 ovno
Location: Otley
Contact: Andrew Letten
Phone: 07795 384172
Hartland, Fenix Microsport, Flyer or similar for 12.2hh. 4 wheeler.
To Fit: 11.2hh to 13hh
Location: Somerset
Contact: Jess
Phone: 07936 394552
Mobile: 07938 503700
Trap to fit 14hh. As used on BBCs Peaky Blinders.
Sold by Dragon Driving
Four wheel Co Op laundry van in excellent condition, had wheels fully restored three years ago so in excellent condition.
All original under carriage. Complete with shafts.
For more information please email. No texts will be answered and more photos can be sent.
To Fit: 15hh to >18.3hh
Flat cart with harness to fit standard Shetland or 12hh to 12.2hh pony, also will fit donkey.
To Fit: 12hh to 12.2hh
Price: £300 ovno
Location: Ferryhill
Contact: Patricia Wilson
Phone: 01740 653934
Mobile: 07810 014227
Lovely old Henry Bowers 2 wheel milk float in excellent condition. 2 brand new tyres.
Will seat 4 and has been pulled by a 14.2hh cob and 14.2hh Fjord.
The shafts are adjustable. Very comfortable, smooth ride.
To Fit: 14.2hh to 15.2hh
Price: £750 ovno
Location: Near Glastonbury, Somerset
Contact: Suzannah Leighton
Phone: 07545 139009
This is a listing for a Roman Way farm cart/wagon. The body is in ok condition the paintwork is good. In need of small touch ups and repair work to one wheel and a few other spots on the body, see pictures.
Ideal for a garden feature as is or restoration to bring into working condition. Comes with shafts and has removable wooden sides. Floor in need of minor work. See pictures.
Please call Allen.
To Fit: 14.2hh to 16hh
Price: £1,500 offers
Location: Alton, Hampshire
Contact: Allen Taylor
Phone: 07808 157475
Full pony wedding & funeral set up. Victorian pony sociable carriage suitable for pony pair or single up to 14hh. Inc lamps & floral decorations (new hood). 1 Open backed funeral caisson suitable for pony pair (can be used with single with appropriate shaft set up, not included) inc floral decorations & hood. 1 Single black leather Geoff Dean pony harness. 1 Single brown cob harness.
Also included in sale all accessories, 2 old traditional coaching jackets plus matching accessories ie top hats, hair nets/bows, 2 black jackets, bowler hats, top hats, ties hair nets/bows, 2 Barbour tweed hacking jackets plus brown top hats. Umbrellas & wicker holder. Small feather plumes, 2 navy, 2 white. 2 navy fly fringe. 2 dark navy velour pony rugs. 2 white sweat rugs. Ice bucket & basket.
Ideal opportunity to buy a complete set up, ready to work, I have receipts for everything totalling over £10,000. Selling as no longer have a suitable pony. Pony in pictures not included.
To Fit: 11hh to 14hh
Price: £7,000 the lot
Location: East Manchester
Contact: Julie
Phone: 07801 282224
Bennington 2 wheeler in very good condition, few minor signs of wear and tear. Wasted in my barn.
To Fit: 11.2hh to 14hh
£450 £400 ono
Location: Colchester
Contact: Jodie
Phone: 07961 787585
Exercise or breaking cart and brown leather harness. Very light, solid, well built cart with new tyres and tubes at a cost of £120.
Has had a chunky 14hh and a 17.2hh in it. Harness is cob size that will fit up to 15.2hh.
To Fit: 14hh to 15.3hh
Price: £425
Location: Swansea
Contact: Harries
Phone: 07811 702865
Breakers jog cart with groom stand. Twin wheeled, very strong mag wheels. Would fit up to 15hh strong cob.
Very solid made cart with no bends in metal work, padded seat with new boards fitted.
This cart can be use with quick hitch or conventional harness. Delivery can be arranged.
To Fit: 13hh to 15hh
Price: £450 ovno
Location: Melton Mowbray
Contact: Mike Harvey
Phone: 07867 770013
1906 Joseph Gibson tub cart, beautiful red and yellow trim. Rubber tyres, seat cushions plus two aprons.
Delivery of cart available to mainland.
Update: Tub cart will soon be sent to South Wales for viewing as my location on the Isles of Scilly is remote!
To Fit: 12hh to 14hh
Price: £450 ono
Location: Isles of Scilly
Contact: Mrs Pam Manning
Phone: 01720 422478
Mobile: 07799 537293
Black Victoria carriage to fit 14.2hh - 17.2hh. Been used for weddings and proms. Light enough to be pulled by one horse.
It's had a brand new hood made and reupholstered cushions done this summer to a very high standard. Has had the brakes checked and serviced including wheel bearings.
Wicker basket suitable for champagne flutes and 2 leather holders for umbrellas. Spacious box at the back. Shafts included. Carriage lamps not included.
To Fit: 14hh to 17.2hh
£2,250 £1,800 ono
Location: Staffordshire
Contact: Lucas
Phone: 07875 971027
Quick hitch cart and harness, both good condition.
To Fit: 13.2hh to 14.3hh
£500 ovno - Sold
Sold by Dragon Driving
Unusual canopy, very solid wooden spindles, excellent condition, well maintained and always kept inside.
Previous used on flat dray for weddings, carnivals and rides. Fits flat back dray (dray not included) or could be used as garden feature. Wooden bench seats included.
Can be viewed. Can be delivered locally. Size: .5' 7" (1690) W. 7' 8" (2350) L. 6' 3" (1910) H
Price: £500
Location: Hope Valley, Derbyshire
Contact: Peter Eyre
Phone: 01433 620882
Mobile: 07787 116435
Original bow top gypsy wagon, beautifully painted inside and out with fiddle heads and carvings.
Genuine glass corner cupboards and drawers. Extending double bed and traditional working stove.
Shafts and steps in sound order.
To Fit: 14.1hh to 15hh
Price: £30,000 ovno
Location: North Cornwall
Contact: Julie Yelland
Phone: 01841 540045
Mobile: 07593 090579
Good solid rolley / dray on easy clean wheels with Massey tyres, rolls like a pram. Got good bent shafts.
Comes with lift on lift off accommodation. No, I won't sell separately as what use is top with no rolley.
Will consider half decent trailer in trade.
To Fit: 13.2hh to 15.3hh
Price: £2,000 ono
Location: Newcastle
Contact: Scott
Phone: 07907 597602
A versatile Hartland Freeway wagonette in excellent condition. The carriage was designed to take a wheelchair, but as can been seen from the pictures, the adjustable seating arrangement means that it operates as a normal carriage or is able to be used for any other utilitarian use.
To Fit: 13hh to 15.2hh
£3,950 £2,950 ono
Location: Heathfield
Contact: Peter Horwood
Phone: 07729 839116
Beautiful original Victoria carriage, used for weddings and proms, etc... Leather hood in excellent condition, upholstered seats.
Can seat 4 adults comfortably (fold out seat under driver's). Has original brass lamps. Wheels in lovely condition.
Said to have been owned by the Danish Royal family as has the crests on the wheel hubs. Call for details.
£3,000 £2,500 no offers
Location: South West
Contact: Withheld
Phone: 07740 995885
Traditional solid pony trap with nice hand painted decor. Good wheels, recovered seat.
Used on a 14hh cob, would fit from 12hh. Delivery can be arranged at buyers cost.
To Fit: 12hh to 14hh
£250 £150 no offers
Location: Scunthorpe
Contact: Kimberley
Phone: 07939 317410
Wedding carriage and custom transporter. 1908 German Hunting Carriage with folding hood. Complete with lamps and two sets of seat cushions (ivory & white). Shafts for single horse and provision for pole.
Twin axle transporter made with aluminium body and fibreglass roof. Lightweight rear sprung door. Up and over access side door, manual loading winch.
Both carriage and transporter stored inside. Both items in excellent condition. Selling as one but would consider splitting. Can deliver locally. Can be viewed.
Price: £4,500
Location: Hope Valley, Derbyshire
Contact: Peter Eyre
Phone: 01433 620882
Mobile: 07787 116435
Bow top living wagon, built two year ago, been to Appleby twice, never had any problems with it. Rolls like a pram.
Pull out bed, plenty cupboards and a Queen Anne stove! Real nice little wagon.
All ready to yoke up. For any more information please feel free to contact me.
£7,500 ovno - Sold
Kutzmann Hanna pony 3 phase marathon competition carriage.
This carriage is new and has hard tyres, turntable brake, stainless steel competition eye shaft tips, stainless steel side pipe, carriage cover, extendable rear axle, rear brakes with stainless discs and decorative piping on the upholstery.
A very rugged carriage with rear bench seats for the groom and ample back step room. Price includes VAT and free delivery mainland UK.
To Fit: 11.2hh to 14hh
Price: £4,188 no offers
Location: Narberth
Contact: P.phillips - T
Phone: 01994 453571
Kutzmann MD15S 3 phase marathon competition carriage. This carriage is new and fully equipped for 3 phase marathon competitions.
It has hard tyres, turntable brake, delayed steering, stainless steel competition eye shaft tips, extendable rear axle, rear brakes with stainless discs and decorative piping on the upholstery. The suspension is 3 point semi elliptical front and elliptical rear for ruggedness and stability over rough ground and obstacles.
The delayed steering means that the carriage follows the pony more accurately without cutting in making a clear round in the cones easier to achieve. The driver can mount the carriage from the rear instead of climbing up the side. Price includes VAT and free delivery mainland UK.
To Fit: 11.2hh to 13.2hh
Price: £3,379 no offers
Location: Narberth
Contact: P. Phillips - T
Phone: 01994 453571
For sale, Clydesdale Harvest cart on rubber tyres. Excellent condition.
To Fit: 16.2hh to 18.3hh
Price: £1,200 ono
Location: Ayr
Contact: Stephen
Phone: 07971 494182
Sadly for sale due to horse injury, can no longer be driven. Was used by a 17.2hh but can be use by 14.2hh+ pony. The carriage is in very good condition see photos. Green trim on seats.
For more information please give me a call or text, please no not leave a voicemail as cannot seem to pick them up. Please no time wasters, thank you.
To Fit: 14.2hh to 17hh
Price: £1,900 ovno
Location: Nr Marwell Zoo
Contact: Carolyne Cowlard
Phone: 07793 3765177
Hartland pair marathon carriage suitable for pair 14.2hh up to 16.2hh.
Groom operated turntable brake and adjustable turn delay as well as front and rear disc brakes. Has just been serviced!
Ideal for exercise and training now surplus to requirements !
To Fit: 14.2hh to 16.2hh
£1,500 ono - Sold
Milk cart in good condition, to suit pony or small horse. From Guernsey in the Channel Islands where it was built.
Includes lights seen on the side of the cart. Can be delivered to Weymouth docks.
To Fit: 11hh to 14.1hh
Price: £1,000 ono
Location: Guernsey
Contact: Kevin Driscoll
Phone: 07781 101147
Bennington Fun Bug GL only used once since new, size 13hh-15.2hh. Every option fitted including removable back step, cover for carriage, shaft covers.
2 side access steps, tow bar, picnic basket and frame, spares bag and tool kit, pair of stainless steel quick release links.
Price new £4300 absolute bargain at this price. Harness available.
To Fit: 13hh to 15.2hh
£3,400 £3,300 ono
Location: Pulborough W. Sussex
Contact: Dave Perry
Phone: 01798 813460
Mobile: 07951 932481
Bellcrown Super Bantam competition carriage, used but very good condition.
Dismantles so would fit in a reasonable sized van for transport.
To Fit: 13hh to 15hh
Price: £750 offers
Location: Maryport
Contact: Chris Storey
Phone: 07746 741638
Bradford flat cart, all painted, on rubber channels. Would consider part ex.
To Fit: 13hh to 14.2hh
POA - Sold
2 1920s 4 wheel carriages in good condition for age. No shafts! One sold.
Price each or sensible offer for both. One set of wheels on iron the other is on rubber.
To Fit: 16hh
£550 ovno - Sold
Sold by Dragon Driving
London Trolley, all newly painted London Van on 3 stud easy cleans, good tyres. All solid, well sprung on nutcracker springs at back. Has drop down tailgate, foot brake, cushioned seat.
Real nice piece, all chamfered and carved out. Recently painted this year. Nice double bent lancewood shafts.
Ready to roll. Fit 14hh to 16hh.
To Fit: 14hh to 16hh
Price: £1,750 ono
Location: Rotherham, S.yorks
Contact: Oliver
Phone: 07812 828576
2 wheel flat cart, steel undercarriage with wooden top. Ideal for work, breaking or exercise. Good solid undercarriage, steel frame with wooden runners and bed.
Steel shafts which can be taken off for storage and transport. Runners and bed chamfered and carved with nice fiddle ends.
On pneumatic tyres, good wheels and tyres. Also has swingle tree. Ready for work. Fits 13hh to 15hh.
To Fit: 13.1hh to 15hh
Price: £395 ono
Location: Rotherham, S.yorks
Contact: Oliver
Phone: 07812 828576
Made by Kelders Carriage Company, Holland 4 wheel presentation carriage. Dark green paintwork with cream coach lines.
Has bars for driving in pair, no shaft for single horse but adaptors are available to buy from manufacturers.
Stunning show condition, 3 seats ( 2 front 1 rear ). Viewing very welcome prior to bidding. Cash on collection only. Any questions please contact me.
To Fit: 14.2hh to 16.2hh
Price: £1,300
Location: Doncaster
Contact: Paul
Phone: 07867 451600
Wagonette black with red piping comes with shafts for single and pole for pairs.
Very good condition, only used on road.
To Fit: 14.2hh to 16hh
£2,200 £2,000
Location: Brentwood
Contact: Alan Ellis
Phone: 01277 822476
Brand new, never been used, small light weight black exercise cart to suit 10hh and over.
Bought for my mini Shetland but unfortunately to big.
To Fit: 10hh to 13hh
Price: £325 ono
Location: Soberton
Contact: Katie
Phone: 07802 507031