A & F memories...

OK, as long as we're strolling down memory lane...

What are your favorite A & F memories/gear? Mine is, hands down, G &
H...well, maybe the Paynes...well, wait...maybe the...OK, just to make
it simple, the whole flockin' place...and if you have to ask "what the
hell is 'A & F' or 'G & H,'" for shame, for shame...

TC,
R
....and my ears are still not the same from a 3-4 years-ago wander into
the desecration of the main NYC store...if I ever get the chance, I'm
gonna find out if whoever is responsible for the aforementioned
blasphemy can work a like-new-in-the-box Herter's snipe call with their
colon...

OK, as long as we're strolling down memory lane...

I grew up in Los Angeles in the 70's, I've got no short term memory.

What are your favorite A & F memories/gear? Mine is, hands down, G &
H...well, maybe the Paynes...well, wait...maybe the...OK, just to make
it simple, the whole flockin' place...and if you have to ask "what the
hell is 'A & F' or 'G & H,'" for shame, for shame...

Before my time, ol' timer, my birthday was Sunday, but I've not been
contacted by the AARP (yet). Why don't you shut down Lulubell and
tells us'ns 'bout it.
Frank Reid

On 17 Apr 2007 08:33:35 -0700, Flytyer37 wrote:


OK, as long as we're strolling down memory lane...

I grew up in Los Angeles in the 70's, I've got no short term memory.

What are your favorite A & F memories/gear? Mine is, hands down, G &
H...well, maybe the Paynes...well, wait...maybe the...OK, just to make
it simple, the whole flockin' place...and if you have to ask "what the
hell is 'A & F' or 'G & H,'" for shame, for shame...

Before my time, ol' timer, my birthday was Sunday, but I've not been
contacted by the AARP (yet). Why don't you shut down Lulubell and
tells us'ns 'bout it.

The visit or the stores? If the visit, I posted a "trip report" to ROFF
some years back. If the stores, it was the 10-12 year-old boy's
closing thing to being the only guy at the Playboy mansion on Playmate
Drunken Pyjama Party and Lingerie Try-On Night...with a can of
Crisco...and a case of expensive Champagne, a sack of oysters, a 5kg.
tin of Petrossian, 10kg. of Belgian chocolates, and a gross of
Trojans...well, maybe not a WHOLE case of Champagne...

TC,
R
Frank Reid

On Apr 17, 8:02 am, wrote:
OK, as long as we're strolling down memory lane...

What are your favorite A & F memories/gear? Mine is, hands down, G &
H...well, maybe the Paynes...well, wait...maybe the...OK, just to make
it simple, the whole flockin' place...and if you have to ask "what the
hell is 'A & F' or 'G & H,'" for shame, for shame...

TC,
R
...and my ears are still not the same from a 3-4 years-ago wander into
the desecration of the main NYC store...if I ever get the chance, I'm
gonna find out if whoever is responsible for the aforementioned
blasphemy can work a like-new-in-the-box Herter's snipe call with their
colon...

A friend and I had to make reqular trips to Chicago on one project.
Seeing the Architech/Engineer was a waste of time but eating at the
Hoff Brau and A&F was the highlite of the trips. The people at A&F
would let us look at and handle all the guns we wanted. You could
pick up and play with a .505 Gibbs, 416 Rigby etc. All kinds of
double rifles, drillings etc. Very nice people, they knew we were
hicks off the farm but they treated us like we were on our way to
Africa. I usually bought something there cheap but somethig.

On 17 Apr 2007 10:12:30 -0700, BJ Conner
wrote:

On Apr 17, 8:02 am, wrote:
OK, as long as we're strolling down memory lane...

What are your favorite A & F memories/gear? Mine is, hands down, G &
H...well, maybe the Paynes...well, wait...maybe the...OK, just to make
it simple, the whole flockin' place...and if you have to ask "what the
hell is 'A & F' or 'G & H,'" for shame, for shame...

TC,
R
...and my ears are still not the same from a 3-4 years-ago wander into
the desecration of the main NYC store...if I ever get the chance, I'm
gonna find out if whoever is responsible for the aforementioned
blasphemy can work a like-new-in-the-box Herter's snipe call with their
colon...

A friend and I had to make reqular trips to Chicago on one project.
Seeing the Architech/Engineer was a waste of time but eating at the
Hoff Brau and A&F was the highlite of the trips. The people at A&F
would let us look at and handle all the guns we wanted. You could
pick up and play with a .505 Gibbs, 416 Rigby etc. All kinds of
double rifles, drillings etc. Very nice people, they knew we were
hicks off the farm but they treated us like we were on our way to
Africa. I usually bought something there cheap but somethig.

Interesting you mention drillings. That's what the 6.4mm-30/40 dies are
for - apparently, it was a, well, not-unknown, if you will, wildcat from
the era. It's a 1928 Krieghoff in 16 long chambers over the
aforementioned chambering. The original dies were lost some years ago,
and the brass is getting a bit iffy. And the .256 is a G & H on an
Enfield action. Both were through, yep, A & F.

TC,
R

wrote in message
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OK, as long as we're strolling down memory lane...

What are your favorite A & F memories/gear? Mine is, hands down, G &
H...well, maybe the Paynes...well, wait...maybe the...OK, just to make
it simple, the whole flockin' place...and if you have to ask "what the
hell is 'A & F' or 'G & H,'" for shame, for shame...

TC,
R
...and my ears are still not the same from a 3-4 years-ago wander into
the desecration of the main NYC store...if I ever get the chance, I'm
gonna find out if whoever is responsible for the aforementioned
blasphemy can work a like-new-in-the-box Herter's snipe call with their
colon...

I was raised about 70 mi. from NYC, and from about age 14 to age 18 (when I
left for college in the West) anytime I visited the city I would stop in at
A&F. They always let me fondle the Purdy and Parker ,etc. shotguns and the
Payne and other great flyrods. I once asked them why they would let a
kid who obviously couldn't afford such toys do so. They told me that when I
could afford them I would remember how I was treated there, and would come
to them. Unfortunately some years later (shortly after the attempted
assasination of Reagen IIRC), they decided to stop carrying firearms, and
shortly thereafter went out of business. The yuppie clothing store that
uses the name now has no relationship to the original A&F other than
purchasing the rights to use the name.

Bob Weinberger La Grande,OR

wrote in message
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OK, as long as we're strolling down memory lane...

What are your favorite A & F memories/gear? Mine is, hands down, G &
H...well, maybe the Paynes...well, wait...maybe the...OK, just to make
it simple, the whole flockin' place...and if you have to ask "what the
hell is 'A & F' or 'G & H,'" for shame, for shame...

TC,
R
...and my ears are still not the same from a 3-4 years-ago wander into
the desecration of the main NYC store...if I ever get the chance, I'm
gonna find out if whoever is responsible for the aforementioned
blasphemy can work a like-new-in-the-box Herter's snipe call with their
colon...

ah that was a store.....emphasis on WAS, as noted, although I am not going
to get all crazy with the snipe calls.
Tom

On Apr 17, 4:55 pm, "Tom Littleton" wrote:
wrote in message

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OK, as long as we're strolling down memory lane...

What are your favorite A & F memories/gear? Mine is, hands down, G &
H...well, maybe the Paynes...well, wait...maybe the...OK, just to make
it simple, the whole flockin' place...and if you have to ask "what the
hell is 'A & F' or 'G & H,'" for shame, for shame...

TC,
R
...and my ears are still not the same from a 3-4 years-ago wander into
the desecration of the main NYC store...if I ever get the chance, I'm
gonna find out if whoever is responsible for the aforementioned
blasphemy can work a like-new-in-the-box Herter's snipe call with their
colon...

ah that was a store.....emphasis on WAS, as noted, although I am not going
to get all crazy with the snipe calls.
Tom

On Apr 17, 4:55 pm, "Tom Littleton" wrote:
wrote in message

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OK, as long as we're strolling down memory lane...

What are your favorite A & F memories/gear? Mine is, hands down, G &
H...well, maybe the Paynes...well, wait...maybe the...OK, just to make
it simple, the whole flockin' place...and if you have to ask "what the
hell is 'A & F' or 'G & H,'" for shame, for shame...

TC,
R
...and my ears are still not the same from a 3-4 years-ago wander into
the desecration of the main NYC store...if I ever get the chance, I'm
gonna find out if whoever is responsible for the aforementioned
blasphemy can work a like-new-in-the-box Herter's snipe call with their
colon...

ah that was a store.....emphasis on WAS, as noted, although I am not going
to get all crazy with the snipe calls.
Tom

i first experienced the place in the mid 50's, on a summer stay in nyc
that was hardly voluntary...another story, as they say...at any rate,
it was the most beautiful environment i had ever experienced. i say
"experienced" because one didn't just see it--it had a wonderful odor,
and the tactile pleasures were endless. and the awesome silence of
the place... the carpets, the soft spoken sales staff, all of whom
appeared to a boy from rowan county, nc, to be the lords of london,
all in a single spot...

it was a dream come true. i bought their yearly catalogue for decades
afterwards, just to dream me up a place i had loved.

yfitons
wayno

On 17 Apr 2007 19:43:58 -0700, "
wrote:

On Apr 17, 4:55 pm, "Tom Littleton" wrote:
wrote in message

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OK, as long as we're strolling down memory lane...

What are your favorite A & F memories/gear? Mine is, hands down, G &
H...well, maybe the Paynes...well, wait...maybe the...OK, just to make
it simple, the whole flockin' place...and if you have to ask "what the
hell is 'A & F' or 'G & H,'" for shame, for shame...

TC,
R
...and my ears are still not the same from a 3-4 years-ago wander into
the desecration of the main NYC store...if I ever get the chance, I'm
gonna find out if whoever is responsible for the aforementioned
blasphemy can work a like-new-in-the-box Herter's snipe call with their
colon...

ah that was a store.....emphasis on WAS, as noted, although I am not going
to get all crazy with the snipe calls.
Tom

i first experienced the place in the mid 50's, on a summer stay in nyc
that was hardly voluntary...another story, as they say...at any rate,
it was the most beautiful environment i had ever experienced. i say
"experienced" because one didn't just see it--it had a wonderful odor,

It was the smell of adventure...and it wasn't from a ****in' aerosol
can....

YFCITGS,
R

and the tactile pleasures were endless. and the awesome silence of
the place... the carpets, the soft spoken sales staff, all of whom
appeared to a boy from rowan county, nc, to be the lords of london,
all in a single spot...

it was a dream come true. i bought their yearly catalogue for decades
afterwards, just to dream me up a place i had loved.

yfitons
wayno