I’m taking a much needed and well-earned vacation. I’ll be back in two weeks or so.
I do have two articles in the hopper over at AmmoLand and one at Firearms News. I won’t be able to promote them until I get back, so if you’re interested in reading them, watch the links for them to appear.
Please hold off on comments, emails and social media contacts because I just won’t be able to get to them and they will end up wasted efforts.
I am really missing your humorous headlines on stories of the day David!
Want to hear all about your trip with images when you return. It’s good to take a break from one’s regular routine, I’ll give you that.
Hopefully you got in some time in a canoe.
“It’s good practice.” — Lt. Orr in Heller’s “Catch 22”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orr_(Catch-22)
“His most notable feature is repeatedly being shot down over water, but, until his final flight, always managing to survive along with his entire crew. On his final flight, perhaps two-thirds of the way through the novel, he is again shot down into the Mediterranean, and is lost at sea. Only in the last ten pages of the novel does Heller reveal that Orr’s crashes were part of an elaborate (and successful) plot to escape the war.”
Nasty things those canoes, always tipping over and dumping their contents, such as firearms, into deep water never to be seen again.
I couldn’t find a good source for one of the punch lines of the book. So as Inigo Montoya said:
“Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.”
After his final ditching in the Mediterranean Sea, about two thirds through the book, air sea rescue finds no trace of Lt. Orr, and he is presumed lost.
It is only in the last few pages the we’re told that Lt. Orr, after having ditched in the Med, managed to paddle his dinky little raft all the way to Sweden, (Here is where some readers might want to take a look at a map.) and get interred for the rest of the war, becoming the only member of his unit to escape from the madness described in the book.