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My day off and took a break from a house project that I've been doing for the last month and went to the range.
Brought a Castello that I never really liked all that well, but it smoked very nicely today. Have to keep it out a few days and re-access it.
75 rounds at 25 yards off hand with my Less Baer PII in .45 acp.
25 yards really shows your little errors.
Porch sitting with a Capri stab stem with a half bowl of Dunhill Flake burning. Nice pipe AND 1911 apipeguy.
good shooting. I cant hit much with a pistol. I use to shoot air rifle and air pistol.....not the kids ones. I was very good at air rifle. I just shoot skeet and trap these days with a little 5 stand. The trap season just ended for me . I won some money even at the final shoot. Lewis system if you don't win you didn't shoot good enough or bad enough. Skeet is more my game, I have a group of guys we meet on Saturday morning and shoot 3 rounds. fun fun.
Well after many years of enjoying cigars and a couple of false starts with a crappy Dr. Grabow pipe. I decided to buy a hopefully decent first real pipe from my local tobacconist, and think deep smokey thoughts with the folks in this thread. Since R.A.D and H.A.D have been under control for a bit, time to start P.A.D maybe.
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Peterson 2013 Christmas 68 smooth fishtail.
Smokes very nice. I tried something called Gentleman's blend from a nice tobacco shop in Ridgewood, NJ
Cheers
Another day off and back to work on my outside project, sanding the entire east side of my house. Should finish that part next week, about a month or more into it.
My outdoors work pipe a Castello Collection and my outside work lighter and Old Boy briar.
They should clean up pretty good when I'm done, they always have.
Wearing a lead rated respirator when sanding, smoke when I'm not.
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New blliard with dark wallnut ring and 2 horn rings . Military , delrin insert in the shank for strenght .
Outstanding job Rusen. I like it.
Very nice pipe. Like the military bit.
I see the tin of Royal Yacht. I used to smoke Dunhill 965 almost exclusively but stopped maybe mid 90's when they changed companies making their tobacco and I felt the quality suffered. Still have a 100 gm. tin of 965 from 1992 that I'm saving for my second retirement. Just curious about your thoughts of their current tobaccos.
I realize this question being subjective and all, but what are some of the really great pipe tobaccos that one just must try?
What type of tobacco do you like most: Aromatics, English, Virginia, Virginia Perique mixes, Scottish, Balkans, Burleys?
