Recent content by Recoil Rob

Yes, the bowl has a meerschaum liner that's cracked.

Yep, this has been sitting around for a while, it's briar with meerschaum insert that's cracked as well as cracked stem.....

That's a meerschaum cutty with an amber stem, probably at least 100 years old. They are around, new ones will have to come from Turkey as meerschaum is no longer exported. Also it's very hard to source real amber, it will have a plastic substitute. Here's one I picked up about 20 years ago...

This is a Marlin 336 I tweaked for hog hunting. .35 Remington, Leupold Scout Scope, barrel shortened to 16.5" That short, stiff barrel is pretty accurate with factory ammo, I was quite surprised, I'm not that good a shot.....