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My preference for good coffee is a local dark roast. I brew it in a Dutch Moccamaster and keep it warm in a vacuum insulated carafe or my dented 35 year-old Nissan Thermos for hunting or fishing. The old hot plated Mr. Coffee can flat ruin a pot of coffee if left to cook. I understand the criticism of Starbucks, but they introduced a wide swath of interest in decent, brewed coffee and saved generations from being stuck with instant coffee or some of the canned brown sawdust pawned off as coffee. At least for this hour, coffee is considered good for you. I'm on my second cup since crawling out of the rack. <g>

I always did, too, until my wife bought a Keurig coffee maker. I never dreamed coffee could be made that good one cup at a time. I'm old school, learned to drink black coffee in the Navy. Sweetener or creamer turns my stomach. K-cups are the way to go for really flavorful coffee. One of my other quirks is that I want my coffee so hot that it is "smokin,". I will regularly reheat a mug of coffee twice in the microwave before finishing it. I tell people who turn their coffee into a tan colored milkshake that they never really get "hooked" on coffee until they begin to drink it black. I can hardly get it too strong, occasionally ordering myself a double shot of expresso. But once, in the airport in Santiago, I got some too strong for me, no, actually twice. I bought a cup between flights in a restaurant there, and couldn't drink it, it was so strong. Dropped it in a trash can and headed toward my next flight's loading area. Passed a Dunkin Donut shop and thought "Now there's bound to be a good cup here". Bought it and, lo and behold, it was the same way!!! Trashed it, too. I like it really strong, but those people just make it wretched. Argentinian coffee is fine, but not Chilean.

SRH

I buy quality beans, grind them myself and use a French press. The very best way to make coffee, one or two cups at a time. Yum!

Everyone I grew up around hunting used pumps. All of them. So I used a pump. Until I was in my mid forties. Then I discovered SxS. Kids grow up and many, not all, will develop an appreciation for the finer things in life. But it takes some time.

+1 You just talked me into my third cup James

De Gustibus... Sorry guys, I can drink it hot and black, but prefer it yellow with creamer and sweet with local honey. Cold is just fine after the cup sits on my desk a while. So there...Geo

Yuuuchhhhh!

Si nescis melius.

SRH

The best news about kids: While they have far more options for entertainment than we did when we were growing up, the school trapshooting teams (Scholastic Clay Target Program) are hooking a lot of them on guns and shooting. If there are birds around, the fact they already know a bit about guns and shooting puts them ahead of where I was when my dad handed me a shotgun. I think I may have been 26 or 27 when I shot my first clay target. But by that time, I'd already shot quite a few squirrels, rabbits, and pheasants--many of the latter in the "pre-flight" position.

In the 6,000 pages of the 20 completed books (and one incomplete) in Patrick O'Brian's series regarding the exploits of the Royal Navy's Lucky Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin during the Napoleonic Wars, coffee plays a significant role in life aboard ships. (In keeping with double guns, Maturin has a Manton fowling piece.) From the Mauritius Command, book 4 in the series, an exchange between Maturin and Aubrey:

'... This coffee has a damned odd taste.'

'This I attribute to the excrement of rats. Rats have eaten our entire stock; and I take the present brew to be a mixture of the scrapings at the bottom of the sack.'

'I thought it had a familiar tang,' said Jack. 'Killick, you may tell Mr Seymour, with my compliments, that you are to have a boat. And if you don't find at least a stone of beans among the squadron, you need not come back...'

73 Gil

I shot my first gun in my late 50's. It was a Mossberg 500 pump. I graduated to a Beretta O/U within six months and a year later I fell in love with SxS's. No family history of hunting or shooting. It just happened. I then discovered this site.

I took my stepson, 25 skeet shooting this past weekend. I brought two guns. A Benelli Montefeltro for him and a Fox CE for me. I gave him his choice. He chose the Fox. that surprised me.

Argh. So when some says, that gun handles like a wand, they aren't thinking about the switch that their old man used on their rear end way back when?

It's not always doable, but one cup at a time and black. The more coffee aroma around, which is a good thing, the less goodness in the cup.