{"id":686,"date":"2007-10-28T16:52:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T23:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/28\/quoting-harry-callahan\/"},"modified":"2008-05-09T09:58:38","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T16:58:38","slug":"quoting-harry-callahan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/28\/quoting-harry-callahan\/","title":{"rendered":"Quoting Harry Callahan"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/revolver-barrel.jpg' title='revolver-barrel.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/revolver-barrel.thumbnail.jpg' alt='revolver-barrel.jpg' width=\"240\" class=\"right\" \/><\/a><strong>I know what you&#8217;re thinking. &#8220;Did he fire six shots or only five?&#8221; Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you&#8217;ve got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When I saw this picture that Verna took today while cleaning our guns, it reminded me of the famous line from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0066999\/quotes\">Dirty Harry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, some of that description of the gun would be inaccurate.  First this is only a .357 magnum, and far from the most powerful handgun in the world. Next, this Smith and Wesson 686 has a seven-round capacity, not six as in the .44 magnum version Harry used.<\/p>\n<p>As far as feeling lucky? We do.  We had a very good day at the range today and are glad that we have the opportunity to shoot at least once a week. This week, we will have an extra session at the range when we finally <a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/19\/waiting-again-stepping-up-to-45acp\/\">get our new pistols<\/a> after the unnecessary California 10 day waiting period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know what you&#8217;re thinking. &#8220;Did he fire six shots or only five?&#8221; Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firearms","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}