My favorite picture is often the most recent. This is from Monday of this week. The gun is a pre-war French guild 16 ga, barrelled by Jean Breuil, taken as a trophy from a Normandy farm by a GI in the summer of '44. It's my first bird and first shot at game with this gun. According to the seller, the now-late GI's son, this gun hadn't been fired since 1959 though it did receive both pride of place in the gun cabinet and a lot of loving care.

fiery, dependable, occasionally transcendent