Marko has a discussion on shotgun ammunition going in his comment section. I went to Wikipedia to check something on shotgun slugs.
While I was there, I discovered that it is legal to hunt mouflon in Sweden with slugs. They have mouflon in Sweden? Turns out there are even mouflon in the Kerguelen Islands, where they were imported from Corsica in the1950s.
You know the Kerguelen Islands, down in the Indian Ocean? They're atop the Kerguelen hotspot, a volcanic hotpsot much like the one that produced the New England Seamount chain and, earlier, the White Mountains, near where this wikiwander started with the shooting of a marauding fox. I had no idea that there was a geological connection between New Hampshire and the Azores...
Damn you Wikipedia!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI rolled my will save on this one. Between that and Howard Taylor not linking TV Tropes I figure I've saved 5 hours of my life in the last couple days.
Don't mind the mullet.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlAa0IGCXCw
When I read "Kerguelen" I thought of the bad guy in Highlander, but Wiki informs me that was "Kurgan" I was thinking of, so never mind.
ReplyDeleteAlthough naming a sword weilding immortal bad guy after a volcanic hotspot would have been OK, too.
Is there a scientific name for mistaking a name for a similar but different name, other than stupidity? I ask only because I fear I have it, whichever you call it.
What gun for volcanoes?
ReplyDeleteAirborne lasers, of course!
I don't know what gun to use, but Hornady® is re-branding their V-Max ammo...
ReplyDeleteLOL, thanks for another time sink Tam :-)
ReplyDeleteKurgans are the burial gravemounts associated with the Eurasian semi-nomands ( proto-Scythians, Sarmatians, and those eurasian proto-cowboys who ended up preserved in the far Western Chinese deserts and near Siberia (the Tocharian speakers))
ReplyDeleteAlways found it was funny they named a guy after the burial mount, but it makes sense I guess. He probably got buried a couple of times before they stopped bothering.
"Kerguelen Islands". I wonder, is that where F.M. Busby got the name for the title character in Young Rissa, Rissa and Tregare, and The Long View?
ReplyDeleteThere may be a connection, but New Hamster and the Azores? I know who got the better end of that deal. It ain't New Hamster! Viva!, Viva!
ReplyDeleteCool! If the Great Meteor thingy rises another 900 feet, then we get to homestead, right?
ReplyDeleteMouflon is an introduced species in sweden, there's 50-60 pairs on some islands on the westcoast, its otherwise kept as a domestic animal. I don't think it's hunted, the swedish version of the wiki entry only noted that it's subject to the hunting law in relation to car accidents(obligation to report if you hit one).
ReplyDeleteI think you're allowed to hunt Red Deer with slugs though, but most people hunt them with the 6.5x55 swede.
Tam - I sent an email to you about a little gun... Not sure if it interests you or not.
ReplyDeleteKerguelen - named after the Breton ( French) discover of the god forsaken rock.
ReplyDeleteLove the Breton names, highly distinctive both in spelling and pronunciation in French. Which isn't s surprise really seeing as they weren't actually speaking French at all (Aside from nobles and border lands) until well into the modern era.
Don't forget the French Bobbin Bullet or "Balle Blondeau" invented by Mr. Blondeau to permit French Resistance shotguns to stop police cars during WWII. They also work on critters, and can negotiate Improved chokes.
ReplyDeleteKerguelen Islands: interesting and very desert island but sadly lacking in coconut palms from which to make toddy - however with the glaciere in a central location, one can begin to drill the Fortress of Solitude.
ReplyDeleteSo typically Gallic, they name a geographical feature after a bit of Parliamentary rule-of-order: "Passe de la Resolution" - Seconded, all in favor say "Aye!"
I've often been described as an 'intellectual kangaroo' but even I am impressed by your 'wanderings'.
ReplyDeleteI am not worthy!
In my defense I did end up, following the comments, listening to Denez Prigent (Breton singer - remember Black Hawk Down). Then Lisa Gerrard, to Dead Can Dance and ending up considering:
- what calibre for a zombie ballerina?