Used Calfee's

[Bill Calfee]

Used Calfee's

CYA accuracy fool friends:

I've had multiple requests for information about my RFBR guns.

My friends, for a number of reasons I simply can not honor those requests any longer.........I'm sorry......I wish I could.

Your LBK and pistol fool friend, Bill Calfee

 

[Jerry Halcomb]

Used Calfee’s are not all created equal. I like that BC gives some history. Whats ”as”
important is provenance since it left Borden. Who has owned it? How many rounds thru it?
Questions like this are just as important,
so don’t despair.
My focus now is the culmination of the art of rimfire rifles, the Calfee IR50/50 Sporter. They can be had at reasonable prices and at low round count. I shoot them and enjoy them but take good care of them. I’m not certain how many full on Sporters BC completed but I have a couple of them.
JLH

 

[Bill Calfee]

Friend Jerry "Baby Merlin" Halcomb:

Deep in my heart I still believe that Baby Merlin is one of the three or four most accurate Sportas I ever built.....

Your LBK and pistol fool friend, Bill Calfee

 

[Jerry Halcomb]

Bill
These as I call them, culmination of rimfire art, IR Calfee Sporters are great rifles to own and enjoy!!!

 

[Bill Calfee]

Bill
These as I call them, culmination of rimfire art, IR Calfee Sporters are great rifles to own and enjoy!!!

"Culmination of rimfire art"
Friend JH:
I like that phrase...."Culmination of rimfire art".....that pretty much says it all.

Your LBK and pistol fool friend, Bill Calfee

 

[Jerry Halcomb]

BC
Baby Merlin is the culmination of the IR50 Sporter Art plus Functionality. When I do my part it is a joy to shoot.
I have a neighbor who has some walnut trees on the prairie surrounded by cornfields. The grey squirrels havn‘t ruined the red squirrel population there yet so I might get a chance for a nice meal provided by Baby Merlin this fall. Wouldn’t that be a treat!!!
JH

 

[Bill Calfee]

Friend JH:

I quote from your post above:

"The grey squirrels havn‘t ruined the red squirrel population there yet so I might get a chance for a nice meal provided by Baby Merlin this fall. Wouldn’t that be a treat!!!"

JH, I envy you.....

JH, years ago there was a fellow here in Borden that I would lend my repeating 52 E Winchester to so he could squirrel hunt....he didn't have a good rifle of his own.

In return his wife would make the most amazing dinner from the squirrels he took and I was always invited to partake.

She would have squirrel with buttermilk biscuits and the most amazing gravy, and the most amazing fried apples, and all washed down with coffee or hot apple cider......I always took the apple cider...

That squirrel was so tender that it simply melted in your mouth.....

JH, good luck in the woods with Baby....

Your LBK and pistol fool friend, Bill Calfee

 

[Jerry Halcomb]

BC
i always keep my trigger control practiced with the ground squirrels around the edges of my cornfields. This gives me the chance to be able to squirrel hunt with these little rifles.
Bill i love rimfires and using them as I do is part of my enjoyment.
JH

 

[Bill Calfee]

BC
i always keep my trigger control practiced with the ground squirrels around the edges of my cornfields. This gives me the chance to be able to squirrel hunt with these little rifles.
Bill i love rimfires and using them as I do is part of my enjoyment.
JH

Friend JH:

What is your favorite way to cook squirrel?

Your LBK and pistol fool friend, Bill Calfee

 

[Jerry Halcomb]

BC
I put some olive oil, others use milk, on them and then cover them with flour. I brown them in a cast iron skillet. Then I cover them and then put them in the oven for an hour at 350’ in the skillet. This tenderizes them. I usually have some biscuits cooking at the same time. If you want you can put them in a baking dish in the oven and use the skillet to make gravy, while the squirrel bakes.
I like it if I’ve saved some green beans and little red potatoes from the garden and have with the squirrel and biscuits. If we’ve done well it’s a great meal.
If I can I’ll post a pic of my Dad and grandpa with a bunch of squirrels they got one morning in the fall before combining beans that day!!
I will add that people never went to the store for much in those wonderful days. Food was all “homegrown “


JH

 

[Tony K Harper]

BC
I put some olive oil, others use milk, on them and then cover them with flour. I brown them in a cast iron skillet. Then I cover them and then put them in the oven for an hour at 350’ in the skillet. This tenderizes them. I usually have some biscuits cooking at the same time. If you want you can put them in a baking dish in the oven and use the skillet to make gravy, while the squirrel bakes.
I like it if I’ve saved some green beans and little red potatoes from the garden and have with the squirrel and biscuits. If we’ve done well it’s a great meal.
If I can I’ll post a pic of my Dad and grandpa with a bunch of squirrels they got one morning in the fall before combining beans that day!!
I will add that people never went to the store for much in those wonderful days. Food was all “homegrown “


JH

Jerry, I can smell it cooking now.

TKH

 

[Bill Calfee]

BC
I put some olive oil, others use milk, on them and then cover them with flour. I brown them in a cast iron skillet. Then I cover them and then put them in the oven for an hour at 350’ in the skillet. This tenderizes them. I usually have some biscuits cooking at the same time. If you want you can put them in a baking dish in the oven and use the skillet to make gravy, while the squirrel bakes.
I like it if I’ve saved some green beans and little red potatoes from the garden and have with the squirrel and biscuits. If we’ve done well it’s a great meal.
If I can I’ll post a pic of my Dad and grandpa with a bunch of squirrels they got one morning in the fall before combining beans that day!!
I will add that people never went to the store for much in those wonderful days. Food was all “homegrown “


JH

Friend JH:

I especially like the green beans and little red potatoes.....man that sounds delicious...

I can see by the other comments about your recipe that I ain't the only one who loves squirrel when properly prepared.

Them green beans and red potatoes is the topper....man that sounds so good.

Your LBK and pistol fool friend, Bill Calfee