Our Gun Club has added a Skeet Range overlayed on the Trap field just this year. The last of the three major shotgun sporting disciplines for me to learn. Myself, a friend and one of my sons tried several guns on the range. Here are a few edited clips.

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Have a couple of Antlerless whitetail tags to fill. Harvested a nice meaty doe the morning of Nov 11. Made a delicious stew the next day.

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The morning of Oct 1 was a very fogged in morning over our duck hunting spot. Turned into an amazing hunt.

Music is Public Domain — “Hawks and Eagles”

Me and a friend went for an overnight camp out to get out early for Black Bear opener. Unfortunately, the bait I had set had not been hit at all, and there were seemingly no Black Bears in the immediate area.
Fortunately, it was still a great time camping and hunting, and even when you cannot get home with your intended quarry, getting out in the woods and connecting with yourself and nature is all the truly matters.

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Visiting my folks and my Dad and I went with his hiking group to follow a trail up Mt. Bruce. Beautiful hike and amazing view from the summit. A great place to sit after a good hike up and eat lunch before going back down.

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Just a nightmare or a hopeless end to the world?

1816 was known as “The Year Without a Summer”. Mount Tambora had erupted that year releasing enough volcanic ash into the atmosphere to shade the sun all over the world, reducing global temperatures, causing abnormal weather across Europe and North America.

Byron opens the poem with “I had a dream, which was not all a dream” indicating that he himself dreamt the imagery he writes in this poem, but much of this imagery was inspired by what was happening in the year without a summer.

The poem relies heavily on elements of Biblical revelation, however unlike the Bible, there is no hope, in the end Darkness is the Universe.

This is one of the most descriptive and off putting works of poetry I have encountered.

My reading of this great Dramatic Blank Verse Monologue.

Facing old age, ancient Greek hero Ulysses (Odysseus) describes his discontent and restlessness upon returning to his kingdom, Ithaca, after his long travels. Despite his reunion with his wife Penelope and his son and heir Telemachus, Ulysses yearning to explore again, abdicates his throne, giving it to Telemachus—who he feels is ready to accept the “sceptre and the isle [kingship over the Isle of Ithaca]”, and sets off to going exploring again for the rest of his days.

Reciting the following Poems:

The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Last of the Light Brigade by Rudyard Kipling

The subject of the first Poem by Tennyson was the
Charge of the Light Brigade at The Battle of Balaclava, in 1854 against Russian Forces in the Crimean War. The charge was a failed military action involving the British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan. It was Lord Raglan who had intended to send the Light Brigade to prevent the Russians from removing captured guns from overrun Turkish positions. However, there was miscommunication in the chain of command (in the Poem noted with the line “Someone had blundered.”); the Light Brigade was instead sent on a frontal assault against a different artillery battery, one well-prepared with excellent fields of defensive fire. The Light Brigade reached the battery under direct fire and managed to scatter some of the gunners. However, they were forced to retreat immediately resulting in very high British casualties and no decisive gains.
Tennyson published the poem six weeks later following his learning of what had happened.

Tennyson wanted to emphasize the valour and courage of the cavalrymen in carrying out the charge, regardless of the nearly inevitable outcome.

About 35 years later, Rudyard Kipling wrote a post script style poem. This is the second poem I read here.

The remaining men of the Light Brigade—who were regarded as heroic folk heroes among the English, with lyrics and tales (like Tennyson’s poem) were known and celebrated-themselves were forgotten and destitute. Fighting bravely for their Country, the soldier was praised at the time of “national need” and forgotten or even shunned thereafter when the “national need” had passed. Kipling frequently spoke and wrote on this theme. Unfortunately little changes. Men are sent off to die “for the State”, and the survivors are rewarded to suffer often worse depredations than they did in war.

Myself and a good friend had a great morning the other day at the shotgun range; shooting 5 stand with the variety of shotguns brought:
12 Gauge Weatherby Element Semi-Auto
12 Gauge Remington 870 Wingmaster
20 Gauge Stoeger Condor Over/Under
.410 Cal CIL (Canadian Industries Limited) Model 402 Single Shot Breechloader

Busted lots of rust

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“Glory Be” by R.L. Burnside (C) 2004.

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Picked up a single shot .410 Calibre Shotgun at a recent gun show. It is an old department store gun, branded with CIL (Canadian Industries Limited), and made in Brazil. My kids are interested in trying shotgun shooting for both clays and small game, so this seemed like a great choice to get them started. Here are some fun clips of my first time shooting it the other day.
This gun is a lovely little pick-up, and made all the more fun by a sweet shell ejector that only adds to the enjoyment.

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“Jenny Get Your Hoe Cake Done”, Public Domain Lyrics by J.W. Sweeny, 1840.
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Lord Acton corresponded with General Robert E. Lee after the conclusion of the American Civil War. He was sympathetic to the Confederate cause seeing America’s constitution with major flaws that Confederacy had corrected in their own constitution.
Here is Lee’s response where he attempts to respond to Acton’s core request but declines to engage in a lengthy discussion due to pressures on his time.
He does go into some detail respect Acton’s desire to better understand the South’s position.
Lee opines that the preservation of the General Government is required as the foundation for peace and safety at home and abroad; but he also added that the maintenance of the State’s reserved rights as essential to adjust and balance the general system as well as a safeguard to “free government”.

Lord Acton corresponded with General Robert E. Lee after the conclusion of the American Civil War. He was sympathetic to the Confederate cause seeing America’s constitution with major flaws that Confederacy had corrected in their own constitution.
He explicitly tells Lee in this letter that he “saw in State Rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will.” He lamented that—while Lee had been at the forefront of fighting the battle for the continuance of Liberty and Western Civilization itself—the loss by the South was a deep set back to “our progress, and our civilization.”

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Video was published by “CauseAndEffectPost” on Youtube Several Years ago, and the original is found here:

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It was such a good summary of the realities of the 1861-65 War of Secession I wanted to ensure there were copies on alt-tech sites.

I have changed the music to Public Domain songs by Tchaikovsky and Mozart. The music chosen in the original video is used a song from “Schindler’s List”, and I want to avoid pedo-wood copyright attacks that may otherwise see this valuable short presentation erased from the internet

THe half without veggies was for the kids. This experiment turned out to be pretty damn good. Meat used was Pork Sausage patties (fried and cut up, black bear salami, and Pepperoni.

The history and stories of coal miners is an amazing heritage we must not forget. A short montage of old miner photography.

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“Dark as a Dungeon” Lyrics by Merle Travis (C) 1946.
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Alberta needs to pursue its future outside of Confederation.
I am neither the best singer or songwriter, so I borrowed some lyrics from our Dixian friend’s down south to craft a song to share with my countrymen. The truckers at Coutts coupled with the tyranny of Ottawa’s Criminal Class (the Federal Government inspired me to create this Alberta Sovereignty song:

Lyrics:

Our flag is proudly floating on the land and on the main,
Shout, shout, the battle cry of Freedom;
Beneath it oft we’ve prospered and will prosper oft again,
Shout, shout, the battle cry of Freedom.

Chorus:
Alberta forever, she’s never at a loss
Down with the red leaf and up with the cross.
We will rally ‘round the bonny flag, we’ll rally once again
Shout, shout the battle cry of Freedom.

Our gallant truckers sounding with the rolling of their wheels,
Shout, shout the battle cry of Freedom;
And the farmers and the fieldmen cry, “Come boys, come!”
Shout, shout the battle cry of Freedom.

Chorus

They have risked their lives and livehoods by road and by the fields,
Shout, shout the battle cry of Freedom;
Their motto is resistance—“To tyrants we’ll not yield!”
Shout, shout the battle cry of Freedom.

Chorus

While our boys have responded and to roads they have gone,
Shout, shout the battle cry of Freedom;
Our noble women also have aided them at home.
Shout, shout the battle cry of Freedom.

Chorus

I discovered Dabney and this essay in 2021. I was first struck by his impressive and arresting writing style. What is more impressive is his prescience regarding how the expansion of “the Franchise” especially into the female sphere was wrought with folly and ruin. While the time it has taken for this ruin and rot to set in is likely longer than he expected, 150 years later much of his predictions have come to pass in one form or another. He focuses on Women here, but if you listen carefully to this essay you will see that he understands that Universal Suffrage to men is also harmful.
My own take on Dabney’s core principles are in general agreement-voting, as a practice of politics will generally lead to bad outcomes, especially so with a spiritually bereft people.

Kill it, clean it, cut it, cook it, eat it.
Just another delicious meal made from my whitetail harvested in November 2021.

Music is public domain, “My Old Kentucky Home” by Stephen Foster, performed by the 2nd South Carolina String Band

My good friend loves her Marlin Lever gun, and I told her to send me some videos so I could make something fun and silly. Its a .357 Magnum Lever Action Marlin. Western themed music of course.
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“The Ecstasy of Gold” is (C) 1966, Written by Ennio Morricone:
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Used some of the Black Bear I harvested in June to make a delicious meat pie accompanied by Lobster stuffed mushrooms

I learned in the past couples years that my understanding of the US Civil War and the Southern States were informed by a lifetime of half truths and lies. My education I have undertaken on the real Dixie these past couple of years. While not of Dixie’s soil, I hold the South near to my heart.
I made this montage in tribute to one of the finest men who ever graced this earth.
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Song is (C) 1983, Written and Performed by Johnny Cash “God Bless Robert E. Lee”.
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Used my ruffed Grouse I hunted last week along with my black bear sausage (from my June harvest) to make 2 great meals for my me and my family.

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The first song is (C) 2021 Sierra Ferrel, “In Dreams”.
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A beautiful day to pursue grouse in the Wilderness. 6 plus hours on foot, and just one Ruffed Grouse shy of limiting out for the day. Could not ask for a better day of uplanding.

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A beautiful autumn day in the Alberta Foothills. SIghting in some rifles and brushing up on some shotgun shooting.