Scout Rifle

A New England Firearms "Handi-Rifle" single shot scout rifle chambered in .223.

Bull barrel, red dot scope, maple stocks, rolling block break action. Accurate as balls out to 200 yards (I've not tested it further).

It's Fossil Firday #7

These are obviously (if you've ever spent time on a trawl survey boat, anyway) parts of crab chelae (i.e., upper claws). They were found at Calvert Cliffs, Maryland.

Goose

Here's a painting of a Canada goose I did a few years ago on an old hide stretcher. The wooden stretchers were used here in the mid-Atlantic to prepare and preserve muskrat hides, which during my youth were fetching around $7-$8 per pelt. Not so much these days, methinks. I had a stack of these, on which I was doing thematically related paintings (sometimes trite, like black labs, marsh scenes, etc.) to sell. People then started making requests, so I was being asked to paint shit like non-water dogs (sort of OK), flowers (huh?), and clowns (get the f**k out of here). I finally gave up - people were missing the obvious connection between the stretcher and the subject matter. I only hope these don't fall into the same category as those painted saw blades you sometimes see at the county fair...

Doumbek 1

Clay-shelled doumbek hand drum of recent make. I love hand drums, and have many of them in the Arsenal.

My bow

Kodiak Bear 45 lb draw recurve bow. Nicely green laminated wood in keeping with today's Irish ties. I often call today "amateur day", since beer swilling bucket heads tend to go out to the local mega-sports bar and chuck down nickel, dyed-green drafts of cheap American lager...

A real drinker wouldn't stoop to that level, and Guiness dyed green in heresy, as far as I'm concerned (and still black, don't you know)...

Pepsi

Another Pepsi bottle from Port Mahon, Delaware. I managed to flip this photo, so it's right side up!

Big Bowie

Big (>14" blade) Bowie knife. It appears homemade, with an obviously welded guard, copper riveted handle, and wooden scabbard with copper trim. The blade is spring steel, and it kind of whippy...