Recent content by Teach

The late Jim Corbett's classic Maneaters Of Kumaon recounts the author's involvement with tigers rather than lions. Still, common if occasional interest in human flesh by large cats seems a strong link. For what it's worth, Corbett is eloquent and unyielding in his belief that only tigers...

Sixty years ago, my older brother was paid to keep an eye out for night-time predators at a local farm with a big chicken house. The rig he worked up - a double-barrel Stevens 16 gauge with a 2-cell flash light taped below the barrels - helped him take a number of racoons and an occasional fox...

I have been riding motorcycles since I turned 16, which was (yikes!) 51 years ago. My current ride is an '07 Harley Low Rider. And yes, I have after-market mufflers. Not straight pipes, which would make a horrendous racket. But pipes open enough to let the 103 c.i. engine (also after-market)...