Antique Firearms Calendar project

[Bottom Dealin Mike, SASS #22273]

For the last month I've been photographing and doing the individual gun write-ups for a Bic Graphics calendar that will feature a dozen antique firearms.

 

I thought you might like to see some of the photographs from the session.

 

[Ethan Cord]

Very nice. Thanks for sharing this Mike!

[WOODFOX , sass#34179]

Thanks .

Woodfox

[Del Rio Pete]

Way cool!

Great history lesson in just a few minutes.

Thanks

[Rye Miles #13621]

Thanks Mike, interesting stuff, great looking guns!

[Driftwood Johnson, SASS #38283]

Great presentation Mike!

[Abilene, SASS # 27489]

Very cool!

 

Gonna make Shot Show this year?

[Faygo Kid, SASS # 26408]

Thanks for sharing.......Faygo Kid

[Blackey Cole]

Very nice job mike did you have help in designing the sets or layouts for the images or was it free range

[Claude Dirtbank, #104201]

Thanks for sharing this early Mike. I assume this will be for the 2017 calendar year. I'll be watching the news stand.

[Bottom Dealin Mike, SASS #22273]

Abilene, I will be at SHOT.

 

Blacky, sets and layouts are all me.

[Rancho Roy]

Nice work Mike.......I thought you laid your head in Massachusetts? I now see Central PA?..........

[Prairie Dawg, SASS #50329]

Thanks Mike:

When & Where will the calendar be available for purchase?

--Dawg

[Bottom Dealin Mike, SASS #22273]

Roy,

 

I never lived in Mass. I was born in Vermont and went to high school and college in Rhode Island. I've been in Pennsylvania ever since.

[Bottom Dealin Mike, SASS #22273]

Prairie Dawg,

 

This isn't going to be a calendar that you can buy at the bookstore. It is the sort of calendar that your bank or your dentist gives to customers.

 

But, since so many people in different venues have been asking me about buying this calendar, when it is available, I'm considering buying 500 of them myself and sell them at roughly cost, plus shipping...if I'm sure people will actually buy them.

 

I don't want to be stuck with 300 calendars when everything is said and done...

 

So, if you’re interested, you can go to my Facebook writer's page, The Duelist's Den, and "Like" the page.

 

If I do a calendar buy, I'll announce it there.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/mike.beliveau.writer/

[Warden Callaway]

I enjoy your videos and the content. But I especially take note of your photos. I can see all the effort you put into collecting all the other items that complement the main subject of the picture.

 

I would have like to have seen an old Marlin rifle included in the collection.

[Bottom Dealin Mike, SASS #22273]

Maybe in next year's calendar. The policy is that I can't repeat a make/model of gun until the third year after it appears. So, assuming this is a success for Bic Graphics, and they opt to keep going with antique firearms calendars in the future, the next calendar will have to feature a whole new batch of guns.

[Abilene, SASS # 27489]

...I don't want to be stuck with 300 calendars when everything is said and done....

 

But Mike, the 2017 calendar repeats in just 6 years (2023), so if you had any left over you could sell those then

[Keystone, SASS # 47578]

Thanks BDM,

 

Always enjoy your projects & videos. Nice presentions of the antique firearms.

 

Merry Christmas, Keystone

[Pat Riot]

Mike, that will be a great calendar. Thanks for sharing. If I did Facebook I'd buy one.

 

Thanks

 

Pat Riot

[Chelsea Kid, #47400]

Mike,

 

That was a great short history lesson. I look forward to getting one of the calendars.

 

Chelsea

[Blackey Cole]

Mike add me to the list wanting one