my laptop and couldn’t find it. A short trip to my local office store and my worst fears were realized. There never was a USB cable, or the capability of downloading. Just clicking. I now had my own walking-talking MEG, except it wasn’t very mythical. The youngster at the store suggested sending the images to someone with a smart phone, who could then send them to my e-mail. I hadn’t spent much time wonder- ing who I knew who was cell-photo lit- erate and wouldn’t laugh at my request, when I got this message in my e-mail: “Good morning, Eileen, From a
proud dad, Greta drilled this one at 69 paces.
Tedd’s nephew, with a mountain lion he took with Tedd’s old Model 66.
shot 30 rounds on Monday to get ready; Sharon shot 60 rounds, warming up. She has a partner, and she’d just shot eight rounds for the record, and it blew up at Sharon’s first shot.”
used?”
“The same load you’d always “That round or very close. Even
heavier sometimes. But that day pret- ty ordinary: 23 grains 5744, with a 400-grain cast bullet.”
By the time I got home, Kirk had found the online photos of Sharon’s rifle and sent them to my phone. I started looking for the USB cable to download them from my basic plan cell phone to
I hope all is well, Tedd”
Attached were two images, one of both Greta and her older sister Annie holding a jackrabbit between them, and the second of just Greta with her first solo jack. And a rifle.
I e-mailed Tedd in response: “Did
you take those pictures with a smart phone?” Instantly he responded: “Wow, you’re really on top of it. Yes, I took those with my cell. It’s always handy. And here’s another one. It’s a photo of my nephew with a mountain lion he shot with my Model 66. I bought the revolver from an old guy and thought he would like to see what his gun could do. So, Robert, my nephew shot the cat and texted me a photo to my phone, I in turn emailed it to myself so I could email it to Wal-Mart and get a photograph printed, which I did, and then Wal-Mart mailed me the photo which now hangs on the old guy’s wall. How’s that for ‘something old and something new’? Hope all is well, Tedd”
Well, all is well, but not quite as
Two views of Sharon Matney’s Ballard, after it didn’t take off her thumb. She was pretty lucky, at that. (P.S. That’s not Sharon’s hand; that was too gruesome for a family magazine.) The good news is that two months down the road, Sharon’s hand is much better. Full recovery is still a big question mark.
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on top of it as Tedd imagined. But at least I’m not carrying around all those skeletons in my pocket anymore. Except for that photo I couldn’t resist. As I was leaving the Bozeman gun show, my dubious cell phone in my pocket, I saw a vision of loveliness. And had to snap her photo. So, that’s still here, buried in the MEG. Maybe I should send it to Tedd, to send to WallyWorld, to send to … Oh, never mind.
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