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Ya think he was brave enough to pull the trigger with the muzzel between them ears??

The pic taken right after that was on the cover of the 1958, "I Got Thrown On My Ass" magazine.

The look in the horse's eyes says "Please don't shoot that thing again, man! You damned near burned all the hair off my head the last time."

Is PETA going to mess its collective shorts when they see that picture?

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Is PETA going to mess its collective shorts when they see that picture?

I was thinking the same thing.

Someone used to have a by-line, "You can shoot from the saddle on any horse, once."

read it & weep:

I would like to point out that I could have bought an AR15 before 1994 for $500 and it went up to $1500 becuase of Clinton.
A gain of 3:1

Instead I bought Microsoft stock [MSFT] in 94.

My money went up 20:1 by the top of the dot com bubble in 2000.
My father got into MSFT earlier than me, and his money went up 333:1 by 2000.


If I take a 1963 Shooter's bible, and look at the retail cost of guns, and compare that to the current value of those guns 45 years later, I see 3% compounded.

e.g. A gun that cost $100 in 1963 is worth $375 today.

compound interest = [100- [45th root[$375/$100]]] = 3%

You can get the same rate of return with guitars or Leupold scopes over the last 45 years.
It is, in fact, measuring inflation.
And yes, I know that 45Colt peacemakers did better and Mossberg bolt action shotguns did worse, but these numbers are more typical.

What does THAT mean?
Guns hedge against inflation with no real gain.
Stock make ~9% adjusted for inflation.