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 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 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:55:06 GMT, "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.

Stroll on in to the desecration next time you're in good ol'
Gotham...you'll be eBay'ing up snipe calls...maybe even shopping for
carpet tacks and caulk...

Seriously, I rarely get truly worked up over such things, but I'll admit
right here in front of God, ROFF, and whoever reads this, that if some
guy had walked up to me on or near that (thankfully) one and only visit
and told me THEY were to "thank" for the change, one of us would have
been ****ting teeth for a week...and if it had been a women (no "lady"
would have participated), I'd have done my best to make sure she was
asking if the customer wanted fries with their order within the week.

If venerable old institutions, like good ol' dogs, must die, they
deserve a dignified passing, one hell of a wake, and a quiet burial
attended by close friends, not to be stuffed, put on the street, and
gawked-at by little ****asses in $40USD wifebeaters and buttfloss they
can't fill up, badly dancing to a sorry excuse for "music."

TC,
R
Tom

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