We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/snerk_2.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:57:08 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Hey izzit me, or are these guys older than the gun? Union Civil War re-enactors from New York fire two-gun salutes with a Parrot rifle at the 90th anniversary celebration of Fort Dix, New Jersey, July 18. Of course, they're all younger than Bill. Even the original guns... Of course, a gun like that would look good snuggled between the Castle flagpoles... Hi-res available here. If you want the original (about twice the size of the higher-res one) drop me an email.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/snerk_2.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/snerk_2.html Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:45:52 -0600 "OOhh, look ... a four-leaf clover." Note the early model Pendular Recoil Ameliorating Device. Cheers http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/snerk_2.html#comment-62674 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/snerk_2.html#comment-62674 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:41:40 -0600 Fire mission! Platoon of budgies in the open, millet seed in effect... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/snerk_2.html#comment-62670 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/snerk_2.html#comment-62670 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:42:08 -0600 Oh damn there goes my theory of flocks of parrots steadying their aim with tiny little rifles... Polly wants a crack bang http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/snerk_2.html#comment-62660 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/snerk_2.html#comment-62660 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:42:56 -0600 Parrot was the fella who invented the gun.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/snerk_2.html#comment-62658 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/snerk_2.html#comment-62658 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:22:15 -0600 http://www.cwartillery.org/ve/parrott.html The Parrott rifle was so called because of the rifled barrel vs the smoothbore artillery.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/snerk_2.html#comment-62655 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/snerk_2.html#comment-62655 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:45:56 -0600 Yup. Made for rifled birdshot... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/snerk_2.html#comment-62654 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/snerk_2.html#comment-62654 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:29:14 -0600 That is called a parrot rifle? Some kind of internal joke? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/snerk_2.html#comment-62647 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/snerk_2.html#comment-62647 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:08:29 -0600