Mark Ferran

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sun, 18 Aug 2002 12:00:00 GMT
From Quotes of the Day:
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. -- Pablo Picasso

From a Firing Line Thread on whether .308 is enough cartridge for elk. Hehe.

308 is a sissy gun. I use mine on gophers and maybe small squirrls. But never on anything bigger than that.

300 WSM is a little better, I will use it on jack rabbits, and perhaps a feral chichhauhau. Other than that it lacks the neccesary penetration. I once had to use 7 rounds of WSM from my Loudenboomer MkIV to drop a charging rock chuck.

For deer size game I like to move up to 458 win mag, or perhaps 600 nitro express if I am hunting in heavy brush. These cartridges have slight recoil, that I tend to notice at the end of my daily 600 round practice sessions. (Shooting flying clay pigeons).

During my monthly trip to Africa, I usually hunt elephant, rhino, and triceratops (you just have to know where to look, they are out there) for these critters I prefer a challenge, and I use an obsidian rock tied to the end of a stout stick. For cape buffalo I use telapathic Mind Bullets.

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Sorry, you had already received plenty of good responses. I couldn't resist. .308 will work on Elk just fine.

I created a page for the writings of Mark Ferran. It contains a mirror of Law, a Revolutionary Idea for Peace, that I linked to yesterday, and two other essays that he sent me via email: US Supreme Court Permits "Unauthorized Deprivations" and thereby Declares War Against God and Against The People of the United States, and The Right of NY Landowners to Use Force (or Display Guns) to Stop, Expel and Arrest Defiant Trespassers. Mr. Ferran and I may meet and shoot some traps this morning.

Michael Peirce at LewRockwell.com - The Soviets Won...Didn't They? - we fought the cold war with an armed-to-the-teeth-with-atomic-weapons adversary, but lost only a small amount of freedom. How come some two-bit rag-heads who can pilot an airplane have done such a better job of destroying our freedom? They haven't. GW and company are responsible for that. [sierra]

It wouldn't have happened at all if we had allowed those bozos to play in their own sandbox. I'm going to make this real clear so even the conservatives and liberals can understand it: we are at risk from our own government, in a very real way, and we are acting like a bunch of timorous old ladies because of a couple demented Third Worlders? Did Osama Bin Laden launch an attack "on freedom itself," as Mexican lobbyist Jorge Bush would have us believe? Not bloody likely! Bush is handling that, following lightly in the tracks of his unlamented predecessor while still passing as a conservative to his cheering followers. No folks, get it straight for once -- Bin Laden attacked the World Trade Center -- Bush and Co. are attacking freedom itself!

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Want to see the terrorist war end? Just ask your "representative" government to bring our troops home from the one hundred and six countries where they now reside and to defend our own borders as directed under the Constitution of the United States. That's all it takes. Do you want to stop living under the imagined threat of Saddam Hussein? That's an easy one. There is no such threat. If our nuclear deterrence kept Joe Stalin off our backs, don't you think Sadaam gets the picture? Do you honestly expect to see Iraqi marines wading ashore at Long Beach in the near future?

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