You live in a "dream world then" Mr. Treblig-- nothing- not women, horses, money- good liquor and cigars- arouses passions in men like our love of guns and gunning- and as we get longer in the tooth- we get set in our ways and a tad "peckish" when some 4-eyed "expert", a member of the Eastern Seaboard Mafiaoso, comments on things he doesn't know Jack Schmidt about- experts up da giggi here-

"The field is the touchstone of the man"..