Make: Harrington and Richardson
Model: Sportsman 999
Serial Number: A1811
Year of Manufacture: 1940-1952 ( after 1940 letter codes were used, this is a low serial number "A" code making it perhaps a 1940/1941 gun)
Caliber: .22 Long Rifle, is marked but being a revolver it should shoot everything but magnums.
Action Type: Double Action Revolver, Top Break
Markings: The left side of the barrel is marked "H & R "Sportsman" / Double Action". The right side of the barrel is marked "Harrington and Richardson Arms Co. / Worcester, Mass. U.S.A. and ".22 Long Rifle Ctg.". The serial number is on the frame.
Barrel Length: 6"
Sights / Optics: The gun is mounted with a pinned blade front sight and a windage adjustable rear sight.
Stock Configuration & Condition: The stock(s) is/are one piece plastic in good condition with some dings and mars to the bottom of the butt.
Type of Finish: Blue
Finish Originality: All Original
Bore Condition: The rifling is sharp and deep. The bore has a little fouling that should clean up well. There is no apparent erosion.
Overall Condition: This gun retains about 75% of its metal finish. The balance of the finish shows pinprick erosion on the frame (both sides behind the cylinder), on the top latch, hammer and trigger guard. The majority of the blue is retained with a bit of surface rust scattered. This should clean up nicely. The Screw heads are sharp and undamaged. The markings are clear. Overall, this gun rates in about very good condition.
Mechanics: The action functions correctly both single and double action. We did not fire this gun.
Box & Accessories: There is a leather holster included with this gun. It is marked "38" and "6" on the back. We believe it is a tooled "Hunter" holster.
Our Assessment: This gun will clean up well and provide lots of fun. A top break .22, cheap and fun to shoot, with a holster! A good plinker, camp gun even a good home protection gun. Enjoy this gun. This gun belonged to one our best friends, St. Joes Sheriff, who was prematurely taken from us last month. His gun collection is being auctioned through us to benefit his widow and the Happy Trail's Children’s Foundation.
CA Legal or CA Private Party Transferable: This gun can be transferred in California and is C&R eligible, and can be private party transferred at our shop in Simi Valley.
LSB#: 110824NV10 Make: Harrington and Richardson Model: Sportsman 999 Serial Number: A1811 Year of Manufacture: 1940-1952 ( after 1940 letter codes were used
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Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that some of the country’s most run-down housing estates will be replaced with attractive and safe homes.
- country’s worst housing estates to be removed and replaced with safe and attractive homes for residents
- comprehensive approach to estate regeneration to be created
- new £140 million fund to jump-start regeneration projects
- Prime Minister: Time to end ‘decades of neglect’ to aid social reform
RIBA President Jane Duncan said:
“We welcome the Government’s decision to look at improving the built environment in the most deprived communities in our country. We believe passionately that everyone has a right to enjoy and benefit from well-designed architecture. These community improvements, however, can’t come at the expense of existing residents and see further reductions in the number of social rented homes at a time where there is already a desperate shortage.”
Posted on Monday 11th January 2016

domain: sociology


James Surowiecki’s piece about eBay in this month’s issue of Wired is a fascinating study of consumer behavior and how we have been transformed into a nation of hagglers. He quotes Harvard’s Nancy Koehn as saying “consumers now know that prices are not something that you just have to say yes or no to.” Yet Surowiecki doesn’t address how our collective Groupon addiction translates to behavior when buying or selling property. So let me revisit a classic homebuyer’s question (“What should I bid on a property?”) with some insights for today’s modern, love-to-bargain, Internet data-filled world.
Let me start first by saying that we have more real estate data available than ever. I’m an agent, and when my boss started selling property 25 years ago, property information was kept on index cards. Now, most consumers have access to some kind of aggregate property statistics (whether from the local real estate board or an outside data service) as well as computerized listings complete with photos. However, data is not brokerage, and just because a potential homebuyer can see 10 recent sales prices doesn’t mean that he or she knows which ones are most applicable to the current market. (I see this fallacy online a lot, where people comment on recent property sales without knowing if they were elegant renovations or complete wrecks — a big difference!) If you’re a potential buyer, realize that you will, however, get the best pricing if you:
1. Know the micro-market. That means basing your sense of pricing not only on statistical data (which can be for a large area, such as a county, and thus possibly throw too wide a net) but also on recent transactions. If you’ve got the time, start watching your micro-market a few months in advance of actually buying, just so you learn what’s hot and what’s not. If, for example, you go to the first open house of a new property and it’s packed, you’ve got a pretty good idea that that property is either underpriced or that inventory in that particular market segment is thin — and possibly both.
2. Find a real estate agent you like. While I think buyers who want to go it alone can be fine, I think that for most people, it’s worth it to have someone less emotionally involved analyzing the market’s pricing and picking out the most relevant comps. The key is finding someone good. According to Gallup, 48 percent of people in the U.S. rate the real estate industry negatively, placing it 21st on a list of 25 professions (more reviled were oil and gas, the federal government, banking, and healthcare). Yet that high level of dissatisfaction doesn’t always trickle down to individual customers, who tend to like their real estate agents. According to a National Association of Realtors survey, two-thirds of homebuyers would use the same realtor again. (As an aside, with sellers, the satisfaction is even higher, with 84 percent of sellers indicating that they would recommend their agent or use the same agent’s services in the future.)
3. Don’t work off the seller’s number. Ascribing too much power to a property’s list price is a fallacy known as “anchoring.” Certainly, it can be very helpful to have a general sense of the market’s “listing discount” — that is, the percentage difference between last listing prices and closed sales. (Example: a home that was listed for $800,000 and sold for $750,000 sold at a 6.25 percent listing discount.) But use that number as too hard-and-fast a guide at your peril. If a seller has a home that “should,” according to comparable sales, clear at around $800,000, and she lists it for $900,000, you don’t want to offer her 5 percent less than her price just because you believe her number. Always work off your own sense of what a home is worth, informed by #1 and #2 above.
4. Realize that sometimes prices fluctuate over time, even for essentially the same item. Think airline seats: you’re going to Fort Lauderdale just like the guy next to you, but maybe he bought at a time when the airline wanted to move the seat, and you bought at the last minute, when demand was higher. Similarly, home builder/developers have points when they really, really need to sell units and points where they are willing to hold them. The most obvious “tipping point,” real estate reporter Candace Taylor of The Real Deal has noted, is when a building is nearing 70 percent sold, the threshold for Fannie Mae approval. If you’re a buyer who wants a condo unit in a building near that threshold, you have better potential to strike a deal than if you’re one of the very last buyers in.


The single is due out soon via Symbols.
After dropping his debut EP on Kastle’s Symbols label last fall, the producer will return with ‘Where You Are’, a track that teams him with L.A. duo Vindata and Australian singer Bella Hunter. The bouncy dance tune fuses Jersey club kicks, trap accents and a radio-ready vocal melody with a lighter touch than some of his trap-EDM compatriots.
Listen to it below; the single is due out on May 27. Sweater Beats will release an EP in late July on Huh What & Where, the home to Kaytranada, Taku, Sango and more.


I cannot warm to Julian ‘Very’ Asstrange, the Wikileaks founder and all round ‘pain in the arse’! With the Press and the Media having a quiet day at the office, we were flooded with pictures and reports of ‘Very’ Asstrange on the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy, spouting sanctimonious claptrap to a handful of his supporters.
He reminded me of those tin pot South American dictators addressing their adoring supporters,or those who had been paid a few pesos to be adoring, the sort you used to see on the balcony of the presidential palace in downtown Quito, sporting a ridiculous uniform straight from a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta and festooned with self awarded medals.
Peron from Argentina was one of the first, quickly followed by Fidel Castro, whose contribution to population control was to bore his supporters to death, and more recently Chavez of Venezuela, who is barking mad. And now, to cap the lot, we have ‘Very’ Asstrange in the theatre of the absurd, not in Quito, the capital of his adopted country, but in London.
Reporters Without Borders, a French NGO, ranks countries by press freedom, with Finland in first place, and Ecuador at 120 out of 179. Interestingly, Sweden is in third place.
The reports of press persecution in Ecuador make for uneasy reading, and these reports come from such august bodies as Human Rights Watch, RWB and Amnesty International. In short, if ‘Very’ Asstrange harbours any hopes of making the same London speech in Quito, he’s got another think coming!
Here in the United Kingdom, we have a proud tradition of offering shelter to those who have suffered persecution in their own countries. We also have a tradition, proud or otherwise, of opening our doors to misfits, embryo terrorists, and benefits scroungers. In short, we are too nice for our own good, so when ‘Very’ Asstrange, an Australian national, turned up uninvited after a questionable sojourn in Sweden, instead of sending him back home, we get stuck with him. The long suffering taxpayer foots the bill trying to get him out, and just when we thought it was all over bar the shouting, up he pops like a bad dream in the role of the self made martyr.
Why us? Why here? What have we done to deserve him?
Despite his protestations to the contrary, ‘Very’ Asstrange is short on good and reliable friends to march with him to the ramparts. As if to prove the point, the absolutely ghastly George Galloway has come out in support, describing the sexual allegations against him as merely “bad manners”, and accusing his two accusers of a conspiracy against him. With friends like that, who needs enemies?
It’s too late to storm the Ecuadorean Embassy, and the affair has been badly handled. As things stand, the only option is to let him remain indefinitely in the Embassy until Ecuador gets as fed up with him as the rest of us. If he pokes his head round the net curtain for a repeat performance, hose him down with a water cannon, and pack him off to Sweden.
One final thought. Quito is Spanish for ‘I left’. Hope springs eternal!


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Demogorgon - Prince of Demons
I drew this image to supplement an AD&D adventure that I was creating. The being is from Monster Manual I, Gary Gygax: "Demogorgon appears as an 18-foot tall reptilian-humanoid. He has two heads that bear the visages of baboons. His blue-green skin is plated with snake-like scales, his body and legs are those of a giant lizard, his twin necks resemble snakes, and his thick tail is forked. In place of arms, he has two huge tentacles."
While MMI indicates that this demon has baboon heads, I decided to model them more after baboon skulls to enhance the general evil look of the thing. Keep in mind that a human to scale to this drawing would only come roughly to the middle of its thighs.

domain: hobby