(The Revolution Will Not Be Televised) wrote in message ...
On 29 Sep 2003 19:58:49 -0700, Steyr wrote:

I like the full furniture Steyr Deer rifle.

Mmm, with two triggers and hand-polished walnut stocks for full
Victorian authenticity when on a drive for some beaten Mau Mau. Only
when the season's open, mind.

My Great Uncle Charlie prefered to go Mau Mauing with a .600 Nitro
Express hammer gun. Whether it was ethical or not depends on one's
perspective on franchised colonial wars. The slug was the size of an
old gas stove and if that missed the culprit, the noise would surely
kill the blighter.



I like rifles which look as if they
escaped from Kenya in the 1950s. I hate automatic rifles because the philosophy
behind them is entirely suspect.

One can either hit the bloody target or one can't. Of course that is just a
civilian perspective.

It took until 1956 before the Treasury would allow squaddies even a
semi-automatic version.

Gavin Bailey


Can't blame everything on Suez.