Can you spot the theme?

Hint:  The picture is titled "Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum."

How many themed items can you ID?

Hound dog, Bowie knife and a bandolier of sizable rifle ammo- squirrel hunting?

Here's another hint:  The dog is from what is known today as "Zimbabwe. "

The only thing I can say for certain is that his pants are too long. 

In reply to EastCoastMojo :

That's better than highwaters.

Redneck Goodfella?

Looks like Henry Hill/ Ray Liotta

In reply to Nick Comstock :

Unless the water is high. 

This guy?

That's a Rhodesian Ridgeback. Blue Ridge Mountains?

I don't know.

I see several bullet themed items.

Is he bleeding and/Or an Englishman? 

Rhodesia was an English colony

In reply to OHSCrifle :

Those aren’t bullets, they’re magic beans. 

In reply to Floating Doc :

Before Rhodesia was an English colony, it was a free country.  That's theme related.

It’s modern picture made to look old?

Does the bowie knife/Jim figure in?

The picture was taken yesterday.  Uh... Than's me and my dog, Bubba.

In Zimbabwe?

No, right next door.  Arkansas.

Are you pretending to be a Boer?

Dr. Hess said:

The picture was taken yesterday.  Uh... Than's me and my dog, Bubba.

The scope and the trigger discipline both seemed a bit modern to me!

and... your quite a bit younger than I imagined?

spitfirebill said:

Are you pretending to be a Boer?

You got it.  Or... DING DING DING.

The rifle is a small ring Mauser in 7x57 (7mm Mauser) as used by the Boer.  It was actually made in 1904, so it's too "young" by a couple years and also from Spain, whereas the Boer's 7x57 small ring Mausers were from Germany.  But it is the right caliber.  The bullets are also the correct weight, 139 GR.  Of course, it is also sporterized and with a modern scope.  I have seen no Boer War pics with a scoped rifle.  I could have posed with a straight bolt small ring German made Mauser from the mid to late 1890's in complete original military configuration, but it would have been 8x57.  I suppose you couldn't tell from just a pic, but I'd know.  The Turks bought them from the Germans originally in 7x57 after they got their asses kicked and thrown out of one of those Yugoslavian countries.  The Yugos had 7x57 Mausers.  They later rebarreled them in 8x57 which they standardized on after the Germans did.

The shoes are referred to as "vellies."  Short for "veldskoen" or "Field Shoes" in English , although it may have originally been "Skin Shoes."  They are the traditional show of the region, with the design going back to the 16th century.  The modern incarnation has a crape rubber sole.  The Rhodesian Selous Scouts were said to prefer this type of shoe because of the difficulty in tracking them versus a conventional lugged sole. You can't see because of the pants, but I am wearing them in the traditional fashion of no-socks.  They wear them that way so that burrs don't get stuck in the socks and dig into their ankles.  This particular pair I got on Amazon, made in India, but the design is the same as what is made in Africa today.  I understand that some of the African made ones currently use used tires for the sole. 

The hat is kind of a slouch hat that is still used today.  Most of the pics I saw had men wearing hats like that, sometimes with the brim pinned up and sometimes down.  Occasionally with a larger American Cowboy style hat, sometimes with one side up and sometimes not.

The knifes they carried looked identical to a classic Bowie knife design.  At least in the photos that teh Googles found.  The Bowie knife design would have been over 80 years old at that time.  Jim Bowie made the design and had an Arkansan blacksmith make him the knife after he cut himself in a knife fight with what he had.  The Bowie knife is really a short sword.  Bowie was quite an interesting character.  They say he traveled in all circles equally, outlaw and heads of state.  Not much different, I suppose, when you get down to it.  Anyway, here's another Bowie fact:  In the early 1800's, slavery was being phased out.  The importation of slaves was illegal.  The punishment was to have the slaves confiscated by the state and sold at auction.  If you snitched off a slave importer, your reward was half of what the slaves brought at auction.  So Bowie was importing slaves from Texas into Lousiana, if I recall, then snitching off on himself.  "Oh, look Jim Bowie imported those slaves!"  The slaves he imported were confiscated, sold at auction and he got half the proceeds.  Yeah, people suck.

That particular Bowie knife in the pic I have had about 30 years.  I got it "free with any purchase" from a mail order knife company that went out of business a few years later.  It's Pakistani made, but a classic Bowie design. 

Joey, I'm the same age as Margie, a year younger than Tim.  Significantly Older Than Tom.

spitfirebill said:

Are you pretending to be a Boer?

Speaking of Boers...highly recommend the movie "BREAKER MORANT:...1980s Australian film about the Boer war.  Full length available on YouTube.   Check it out...one of my all time favorites.