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FROM THE LIZARD

I’m going to get right to it. You club members out there that haven’t sent your pictures in for our book, are basically “Assholes”. Even if you don’t care that this is a once in a lifetime deal, to get your pictures in the Smithsonian, you should care that the “other club” members do. By not sending in your pictures you are screwing it up for the rest of us. If you can’t take 15 minutes of your valuable time to support the club, why the Hell are you in it?

The old deadline is shot in the ass. Digger, Preacher and I took a different approach to get the book done. It is a pain in the ass, and a lot of work and phone calls to get it started up again.

The three of us lost about $300.00 because it didn’t happen the first time. The pictures we processed (the ones that sent them in) are no longer good, because they would be different from all the rest. The lady and the way she was doing them are gone, so now we need to start over from scratch again. Now you have all this month and the next two months to get them done. I hope that it is enough frigging time for you.

I hope that the new deadline of June 1, 1998 A.D. is something that you might be able to invest 15 minutes of your time into meeting. I would like to have them a lot sooner, but I know this is asking an awful lot!!

Below is the list of “Dorks” and the club members that sent the pictures in. If you people do decide to do it, use your last Broken Arrow for the instructions on doing it right.

NO PICTURES

1) Dave Brattain

2) Dan Clendenen

3) Sam Clevenger

4) Kyle Frank

5) Rod McElwee

6) A. D. Wells

7) Lew Panopolus

8) Marvin Phelps

9) Don Pickins

10) Harry Bickel

11) Bill Pruitt

12) Chris Rabenach

13) Ricky Roberts

14) Nathan Sell

15) Joe Talbert

16) Ron Tolls

17) Nailman

18) Lynne Tyner

19) Everett Webster

20) Jim Fulmer

TURNED IN WRONG

1) Fred Martin - need negatives and name plate

2) Frank Breseman - need close up (turn camera)

3) Redeye - negatives

4) Morris Taylor - Close up is blurred, need negatives and personal information.

5) Peter Klinge - close up and negatives

6) Hugo - close up - the picture you sent cut off half of your hat and head.

7) JD - no longer a club member, now riding motorcycles

8) John & Eric Empie - need new closeup - turn the camera

1) Lizard

2) Digger

3) Gramps

4) Cram

5) Whip

6) Crash

7) Steve Cushing

8) Tom Dunn

9) Max

10) Willie Hofstee

11) Lawdog

12) Bob Pollack, jr.

13) Craig Witte

14) Ruth Waugh

15) Mike Waugh

16) Bluejacket

17) Danny Powell

18) Bruce Rudd

19) Glenn Dickey

20) Preacher

21) Rudd

Well that is about it. If you get a chance to send in your name tags, for Gramps, send them to me.

Our first opportunity to get together is at Frank House’s 10^th Annual Woodbury Rifle Frolic near Woodbury Kentucky. If you haven’t made this one you are missing a good one. It is the best small rendezvous going (and it is not so small anymore, come early). You also get a chance to win one of Frank House’s guns. The dates are May 7,8,9 & 10 of this year.

If you have not been there, only Eastern clothing is accepted, no TiPi’s, and no percussion. Regardless of flood or fire there will be a rendezvous.

According to the flyer, our own Lizard will be putting on a smoothbore woodswalk on Thursday, May 7^th at 9:00 A.M. sharp.

I just found this. If you don’t have one, get it cause it’s worth the price. If you guys (and gals) out there don’t have a telescope for your “Woods Pack”, you won’t beat this deal. I had one of these years ago, and I haven’t seen any for sale for years. When the scope is retracted, it is only 5 1/4 inches long, and it telescopes to 13 1/4 inches. The main tube is brown enamel, that’s the neat part. To focus you turn the eyepiece instead of sliding the tube in and out, that’s the other neat thing.

The big “DEAL” is that the price is only $19.75, plus shipping. If you want one, don’t dork around, I don’t know how many of these that they have. You won’t have an excuse not to have a telescope. This is the buy of the century and cheap. I am going to get one for myself. They may have some engraving on the front tube but you can remove it with a belt sander if you don’t like it.

This scope is sold by the Sportsman’s Guide. The phone number is 1-800-888-30-06.

Here is the item number - # C8-28248. 25X Pocket Telescope. The Sportsman’s Guide takes credit cards.

Maurice Taylor our globe-trotting member has moved up in the world. He recently bought a typewriter for $15.00. Now that they are made obsolete by the word processors he is no doubt feeling that they are now worth his interest.

He does state that the spell checker on his typewriter is not as good as the ones on the word processors, but at least it doesn’t take all the proper “U’s” out of words like colour and honour. Maurice make mention of this lest anyone think that he is

illiterate. By the way, Morris can hunt year round in New Zealand because there is no season. However it does make the game “Spooky” or as one New Zealand wit put it, “they graze at 50 miles per hour”.

The truck I had hitched a ride on stopped at a small oasis. Time is not for them what it is for us. The driver had friends with whom we drank mint tea, smoked kief, and we stayed two days attending a wedding and some celebration. The colourful proceedings were punctuated by musketry and pistol fire.

An old boy I met had no English or French, but we got on famously. I saw his long Snaphaunce Kabil, dug out a gift of flint from my pack which tickled him no end because he knew the worth of it.

An awkwardly stuffed Gazelle head hung upon the wall. My observing it prompted the old boy to mimic with all the theatre he could summon, the spotting, stalking, closing in, and motions of priming these cranky locks. “Boom!” Smoke bellows across the desert, death throes. Gazelle or “Beesh” as he called it for tea. No doubt goes down well with Kus Kus.

Yep, Lizard has found something new to abuse. He has gone overboard on the Internet. Here are some interesting nuggets that he has dredged up.

We had a good turnout for our gun show. Lizard and Nailman were cruising the aisles looking for bargains. Gramps and Cram had a table covered with everybody elses stuff to sell. Dave Brattain was there as was Bobby Blair.

Bobby Blair traded me out of a .22 caliber falling block rifle in return for building a .54 smoothbore pistol.

Little Big Man and Dorothy were there along with Mike Fischer and Joyce. The turnout was a lot like holding a rendezvous. Dang shame that we can’t have a campfire in the middle of the building so everyone can sit around and tell lies.