I also have an AFRICAN pistol that has a very high profile nipples on it. seems that it was not odd back in the day.
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Well its like this, down here in the deep Southern land when it comes to ML Gurns ol Rudyard is on par with the Obi Wan Kenobi bloke featured in Star Wars; that said they havent tried to portray him with some mere hollywood BS actor simply because it cant be done !
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You failed to mention the many eager young village girls who pawned their families artifacts just so Rudyard never ran short of Black powder.......
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I have a raunchy reply to that, but if I wrote it here I'd be permanently banned.
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Incredible! Have you written a book on your travels. If not, you should. Don’t let it go.
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Just an FYI in relation to some 1st page responses stating that @Rudyard woud know about this, and that he would "be along."
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The member should get an alert (up at the top of the page where the little bell is) with a message that they were mentioned in a post and when they click on it they will be brought to that post.
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When you do this,
@Pukka Bundook @TFoley @toot
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I have told him the same and offered to buy his book.
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No rear site, nor do I see where one was previously attached.
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Thank you for the heads up on reaching out to members.
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Perhaps Rudyard listens to a voice other than his own. He should listen to what you told him. I also would purchase a copy
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You over kind fellows seem to be nye deifying me .Ime just Rudyard . The expressions' Gob smacked & Double WOW' come to mind . You have certainly made my day . I have written a Draft about my early years & the Travels through the Saharah & all through West Africa when I was twenty & I mean to add the Overlanding out & back UK to NZ !966 to 1969 .then the South Africa working in Natal & the run up through East Africa then liveing in Canada early 70s then trips to India to buy old guns Then the extensive time in Australia & spending summers of NZ then the USA & Canada so,s I never had winters (Not big on snow).I did every rendezvous or Reenactment going . Never drove just hitched & rode freight trains . And a lot of bush miles hunting or making 'passages 'down remote rivers . Still involved with SAR if too lame these days but I fund raise & write humorous accounts Also CD radio checker .Oh the guns I made can't leave them out . Not sure about Obe one Kanobi but would make a cracking Demented' Ben Gunn .' So there I am a legend in my own lunch box & I agree I should write I seem to have some ability at writing and my memory is still good Thank you all for the kind thoughts .
Regards Rudyard
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Rudyard;
I know how you may write a book of your life. Certainly none of my business, but I believe you have a story to tell that should be passed on to future generations. You could get your daughter, or someone you trust with your story to record your thoughts on a digital hard drive. Make an outline as far back as you can remember, and then speak what your mind tells you about that part of you life; how things came about, and how you ended up where you are today. Once you have completed your stories, based on the outline someone as a "Ghost Writer" could put your words in print for a book. You could retain editing rights on everything. If you believe that perhaps some things are better left out of the story, then leave them out. I am sure as your friend said, there is no one that could tell Rudyard's story better than Rudyard. I'm sure that is not an exact quote, but I think it captures the intent. I mean no intrusion by offering these thoughts. I have written in a computer file almost 10 times that I could have died and was delivered from that fate. I'll bet you have more than that.
As you would say;
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Dear Stephen I have thought about narrateing then have others write it down but thats a Lot of accounts . Might make Tolstoy's ' War & Peace ' light reading ! I can't say I had too many near death occasion's & did get Malaria in West Africa, Tick bight fever in Natal & Blackwater fever in Kathmandu the useual 'souvenir's' & lots of Delhi bellies & some awfull maladies in Mali Ide NO idea what they where . But my appendix bursting in Invercargill was perhaps the closest run go at permanence . and more than a few hairy climbs & goe,s arounds with' big country' . An Amorous Bull Moose encounter could have gone very wrong but talked him out of it .Then a mid night Bear species unknown but it got as much a fright as I did I expect & I put my hand on a snake in a steep defile not sure who frightened who the most .Then a log in a similar defile was just barely holding it had moved and there was no where to go but back and it just held long enough for me to get down & free of that considerable hazzard , just had Covid . Then one weird occasion when camped in a large cleft near ' Murderers bar on the Homathko river BC I woke with the rifle in my hand (Muzzle loader of course) . Why I did so no idea , but was mayhap haunted or I had dwelt on the history of murdered road builders crew in1864 or so . but like the Bear I just knocked the fire up & went back to sleep, what else to do ?. I have slept in Grave yards I figure' dead men don't bite ' just an expedient port in a storm not far from Karl Marks as it happened ..but Ime getting off topic though I seem by your all good graces to be Thee topic. and at least theres a ML rifle in it ..Again thank you Gentlemen all &
Regards Rudyard
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...., And with that, good night one and all.
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