I just found what is most likely the best deal on a C&R firearm that I have ever seen.
The price of this great deal is $140 plus $40 shipping. It includes:
Mosin-Nagant M91/30 rifle, Excellent Condition
Cruciform spike bayonet
"Dog collar" sling
30 round double ammo pouch
Sealed 440 round tin of 7.62x54mmR ammunition
The rifle alone on average sells for about $100. The ammunition, at the lowest price I have seen lately goes for about $75.00. Those prices do not include shipping but if included it would amount to about the same as charged with this deal. That would make it a total of about $215 normally as compared to $180 for this deal. I know that is only comparable to a 16% off sale but when it the last time you got such a deal on essentially already low-ball priced items.
If you want to see if it is still available so you can take advantage of it, then go here to RGuns. The deal is shown on their homepage. If I had not just bought a Nagant last month, well I probably would have ordered one of these.
By the way, you have got to love the name of the deal, the RGuns: "HOPE & CHANGE SURVIVAL PACKAGE!"
All the best,
Glenn B
Monday, March 14, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
My Mom and Her Predictions of Doom & Gloom
My mom is in a rehabilitation center, recuperating from her most recent fall during which she took a good hit to the head. I would hate to see the damage she did to whatever it was that her head hit, she has a hard head. Still though, she was pretty seriously injured with a subdural hematoma, stitches, bruises and so on. She is much better already and as I said is already in rehab.
Today, when I went to see her, she was sitting at a table in the dining room talking with another resident and with that lady's family. They had just finished up a birthday party for the other lady. As I approached the other woman was just finishing talking about one of her sons or grandsons. I got there just in time to hear my mom talking about her son who she told the others is a policeman. Sh told them that her son had recently been shot and she was worried as to whether or not he was doing well. She said she was mostly worried because she had not heard from him or anyone else as to how he was doing. She went on to tell them that he had been in law enforcement a long time and this was the first time he had been shot. She again repeated that she wondered how he was doing.
By this time, I had been standing right next to her for about half a minute or more. One of the young men who was visiting the other elderly lady looked at me, then at my mom and just said: I think we are about to find out. At that point, I said hi to my mom and she burst into tears and asked me how I was and how I had gotten better so fast after having been shot! It was sad, it was amusing and it was scary all at once. I was happy to explain to her that no one she knows had been shot - especially me. She then said she saw it in the news paper and it mentioned me by name. I explained maybe she had gotten confused and that was good enough for her. I have to admit though - there have been lots of shootings of police officers lately and if she saw a paper recently I understand ow she could have gotten that into her head. She has dementia and just let me say it allows the imagination to run wild and the sub dural hematoma she just suffered could certainly make things worse.
I visited with my mom for a couple of hours and we talked about this and that. She brought up my having been shot several times more during our visit. Each time, when I assured her I had not been shot, she seemed content with my answer and smiled but then asked if I had ever been shot? Then she said something that made my spine tingle. She said guessed she had dreamed that I had been shot and then said she had been dreaming about it a lot. Just thinking of her saying that made my spine tingle again, just now, as I sit here at home typing on my keyboard. You see, she had this thing about dreaming about blood. If she dreamed about blood, she would tell the whole family the next day and tell us all to be careful because it meant something bad would happen. She did not do it often and that is what makes it so scary. You see, when she did dream about blood, more times than not, something almost always happened to someone she knew well like family, friends or coworkers. The something that happened was never good. I would say she was on the mark about 60-70% of the time.
Just coincidence? I would say so but coincidental often enough to make it scary. I remember one time, while she was napping, she dreamed about her second husband, my step-dad, all bloodied up. She woke up all afraid and such and the next thing you knew the phone rang and it was someone from his job, or the police, or maybe even himself calling to say he had been injured in an accident or something like that. Other times, she would tell us about her dream and the next day or two we would find out an elderly relative had passed on the day of her dream or the day after. It was always something that happened after she told us about it. I don't remember her telling me that she dreamed about blood in a long, long time but today she did just that and her dream was about me having been shot! I was thinking, in a half hearted way, I may just have to wear my body armor for the next couple of days whenever I go anywhere and maybe I had best be extra careful tonight when I clean my sidearms. I really don't think it a harbinger of doom but it still gives me the heebie-jeebies to think about it. Now that I think of it, maybe I had best be extra nice to my wife too, just in case...
All the best,
Glenn B
Today, when I went to see her, she was sitting at a table in the dining room talking with another resident and with that lady's family. They had just finished up a birthday party for the other lady. As I approached the other woman was just finishing talking about one of her sons or grandsons. I got there just in time to hear my mom talking about her son who she told the others is a policeman. Sh told them that her son had recently been shot and she was worried as to whether or not he was doing well. She said she was mostly worried because she had not heard from him or anyone else as to how he was doing. She went on to tell them that he had been in law enforcement a long time and this was the first time he had been shot. She again repeated that she wondered how he was doing.
By this time, I had been standing right next to her for about half a minute or more. One of the young men who was visiting the other elderly lady looked at me, then at my mom and just said: I think we are about to find out. At that point, I said hi to my mom and she burst into tears and asked me how I was and how I had gotten better so fast after having been shot! It was sad, it was amusing and it was scary all at once. I was happy to explain to her that no one she knows had been shot - especially me. She then said she saw it in the news paper and it mentioned me by name. I explained maybe she had gotten confused and that was good enough for her. I have to admit though - there have been lots of shootings of police officers lately and if she saw a paper recently I understand ow she could have gotten that into her head. She has dementia and just let me say it allows the imagination to run wild and the sub dural hematoma she just suffered could certainly make things worse.
I visited with my mom for a couple of hours and we talked about this and that. She brought up my having been shot several times more during our visit. Each time, when I assured her I had not been shot, she seemed content with my answer and smiled but then asked if I had ever been shot? Then she said something that made my spine tingle. She said guessed she had dreamed that I had been shot and then said she had been dreaming about it a lot. Just thinking of her saying that made my spine tingle again, just now, as I sit here at home typing on my keyboard. You see, she had this thing about dreaming about blood. If she dreamed about blood, she would tell the whole family the next day and tell us all to be careful because it meant something bad would happen. She did not do it often and that is what makes it so scary. You see, when she did dream about blood, more times than not, something almost always happened to someone she knew well like family, friends or coworkers. The something that happened was never good. I would say she was on the mark about 60-70% of the time.
Just coincidence? I would say so but coincidental often enough to make it scary. I remember one time, while she was napping, she dreamed about her second husband, my step-dad, all bloodied up. She woke up all afraid and such and the next thing you knew the phone rang and it was someone from his job, or the police, or maybe even himself calling to say he had been injured in an accident or something like that. Other times, she would tell us about her dream and the next day or two we would find out an elderly relative had passed on the day of her dream or the day after. It was always something that happened after she told us about it. I don't remember her telling me that she dreamed about blood in a long, long time but today she did just that and her dream was about me having been shot! I was thinking, in a half hearted way, I may just have to wear my body armor for the next couple of days whenever I go anywhere and maybe I had best be extra careful tonight when I clean my sidearms. I really don't think it a harbinger of doom but it still gives me the heebie-jeebies to think about it. Now that I think of it, maybe I had best be extra nice to my wife too, just in case...
All the best,
Glenn B
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Putting Henry Back Together Again or The Survival Of My Henry Survival Rifle
It was a boring day for me, in Phoenix Arizona in April 2010, when I decided to pretty much detail strip my Henry Survival Rifle to give it a good cleaning. I had the little black beast for several years and could not remember ever taking out the bolt to clean it and lord knows it needed cleaning after having recently put another 750 rounds through it. Now, while I am into guns and shooting, I am certainly no grand wizard of an expert when it comes to taking them down beyond a filed strip for a normal cleaning. So I looked to the Internet for advice on how to get the job done. I came across a web site, here, that gave a fairly good description of how to do the job and it had pictures too. I gave it a good look and, while I wished it had more details and more pictures (because I am not high in mechanical prowess and have little self confidence when it comes to doing things like this), I decided that the job did not seem too difficult regardless of a bit of advice given by the site's author when he wrote:
"Once the hammer and trigger assembly clear the receiver, remove the magazine catch with caution. The tiny spring is very easy to lose."
Yes, you know it, I lost the spring! It wasn't during disassembly but while I was trying to reassemble it but that does not matter much. What mattered was that I spent enough time crawling around on the floor of my apartment to get carpet burns on my knees over the several hours I searched for the spring. When I could not find it, I put all the other pieces in a Ziplock freezer bag and put them in a closet. As luck would have it, two days later, while walking barefoot on the carpet, I felt the tiny trouble making spring stinging my heel. Even after feeling it, it took several minutes of crawling and feeling to find it in the thick carpet. I was just about to sit down to eat, was in no mood to try to reassemble the Henry Survival Rifle and so, away went the tiny spring into the plastic bag with all the other parts. Then I proceeded to promptly forget about it for way too long.
How long did I forget about it? Well, first let me say, neglect it would be the better term? As a matter of fact, my misadventure of losing the spring took place exactly 11 months and 2 days ago. I know because I wrote a blog post about it 2 days after I lost it, that would be the day I found it - precisely 11 months ago to this day. I don't know exactly what got me to thinking of it today, I have thought about it a few times over the past 11 months, but whatever got me thinking of it today was different than other days if only because it got me thinking seriously about putting it back together. After I got done with bill paying, online banking, cleaning up some of the mess in the basement, vacuuming, and so on, I sat down at a folding table in the basement and laid the parts out in front of me. I gave them all a good cleaning, then got called upstairs for dinner. After my appetite was sated, and thus in a good mood, I looked up the blog on which I had found the disassembly instructions last year to see if there were any reassembly instructions. All it said was reassemble in reverse order. Oh there was no joy in reading that. I much prefer detailed instructions and usually lack the confidence needed to get something done without them but, today for some reason, I figured would just do it.
The truth be told, while I had wished them to be more detailed, those disassembly instructions were good enough, along with the great photos that accompanied them so that I could follow the instructions in reverse while looking at the pics, to get the job done. I owe a debt of gratitude to Derek from The Packing Rat blog for that. I also owe him a nod and thanks for his allowing me to use that blog post as the background in the snapshot, of my reassembled Henry Survival Rifle, that accompanies this post. Without those instructions I would have had to take it to a gunsmith who probably would have charged me more than the rifle is worth to reassemble it.
There is no moral to this story, no warnings not to take your guns apart to clean them. I do think that proper maintenance is the best way to assure your guns last a long, long time. Of course, I do recommend being familiar with the how to get the job done before doing it. Good, step by step, illustrated instructions are just about a must for me when taking apart or putting together firearms. I would not have tried to detail strip the Henry, without a very detailed set of disassembly and reassembly showing each and every step in photos, except that it was disgustingly fouled. It was bad enough that the bolt was starting to operate sluggishly a bit because it was so dirty. Mind you, I am not knocking the instructions found at The Packing Rat, they were pretty good, they were illustrated with good photos, and they were the only ones available. While I usually prefer manufacturer's instructions, since Henry did not supply any, I depended on those from Derek's blog. I am happy I did because in the end they helped me a great deal to get the job done. My little black survival rifle has survived being in parts for most of a year, apparently no worse for the wait to be reassembled. I consider myself lucky that The Packing Rat was still online and that it still had the instructions available. There is now a link to that blog over on the right side of my blog page.
Oh yeah, in case you were wondering, the Henry seems to be operating properly. The bolt travels smoothly, the hammer cocks, the trigger releases the hammer and the firing pin moves forward. That last was easy to tell because the Henry Survival Rifle is a take down rifle and when the barrel is off of the receiver, the action can still be operated. I simply cocked it, put my finger on the bolt face over the firing pin channel, pulled the trigger and felt the sting of the firing pin on my finger tip. I have not shot it yet, maybe I will do so tomorrow. I will let you know how it shot once I have done so. I already have a bit more self confidence in my abilities to get such things done and you can be sure that if it fires as it should that self confidence will be even stronger. Thanks Derek!
All the best,
Glenn B
"Once the hammer and trigger assembly clear the receiver, remove the magazine catch with caution. The tiny spring is very easy to lose."
Yes, you know it, I lost the spring! It wasn't during disassembly but while I was trying to reassemble it but that does not matter much. What mattered was that I spent enough time crawling around on the floor of my apartment to get carpet burns on my knees over the several hours I searched for the spring. When I could not find it, I put all the other pieces in a Ziplock freezer bag and put them in a closet. As luck would have it, two days later, while walking barefoot on the carpet, I felt the tiny trouble making spring stinging my heel. Even after feeling it, it took several minutes of crawling and feeling to find it in the thick carpet. I was just about to sit down to eat, was in no mood to try to reassemble the Henry Survival Rifle and so, away went the tiny spring into the plastic bag with all the other parts. Then I proceeded to promptly forget about it for way too long.How long did I forget about it? Well, first let me say, neglect it would be the better term? As a matter of fact, my misadventure of losing the spring took place exactly 11 months and 2 days ago. I know because I wrote a blog post about it 2 days after I lost it, that would be the day I found it - precisely 11 months ago to this day. I don't know exactly what got me to thinking of it today, I have thought about it a few times over the past 11 months, but whatever got me thinking of it today was different than other days if only because it got me thinking seriously about putting it back together. After I got done with bill paying, online banking, cleaning up some of the mess in the basement, vacuuming, and so on, I sat down at a folding table in the basement and laid the parts out in front of me. I gave them all a good cleaning, then got called upstairs for dinner. After my appetite was sated, and thus in a good mood, I looked up the blog on which I had found the disassembly instructions last year to see if there were any reassembly instructions. All it said was reassemble in reverse order. Oh there was no joy in reading that. I much prefer detailed instructions and usually lack the confidence needed to get something done without them but, today for some reason, I figured would just do it.
The truth be told, while I had wished them to be more detailed, those disassembly instructions were good enough, along with the great photos that accompanied them so that I could follow the instructions in reverse while looking at the pics, to get the job done. I owe a debt of gratitude to Derek from The Packing Rat blog for that. I also owe him a nod and thanks for his allowing me to use that blog post as the background in the snapshot, of my reassembled Henry Survival Rifle, that accompanies this post. Without those instructions I would have had to take it to a gunsmith who probably would have charged me more than the rifle is worth to reassemble it.There is no moral to this story, no warnings not to take your guns apart to clean them. I do think that proper maintenance is the best way to assure your guns last a long, long time. Of course, I do recommend being familiar with the how to get the job done before doing it. Good, step by step, illustrated instructions are just about a must for me when taking apart or putting together firearms. I would not have tried to detail strip the Henry, without a very detailed set of disassembly and reassembly showing each and every step in photos, except that it was disgustingly fouled. It was bad enough that the bolt was starting to operate sluggishly a bit because it was so dirty. Mind you, I am not knocking the instructions found at The Packing Rat, they were pretty good, they were illustrated with good photos, and they were the only ones available. While I usually prefer manufacturer's instructions, since Henry did not supply any, I depended on those from Derek's blog. I am happy I did because in the end they helped me a great deal to get the job done. My little black survival rifle has survived being in parts for most of a year, apparently no worse for the wait to be reassembled. I consider myself lucky that The Packing Rat was still online and that it still had the instructions available. There is now a link to that blog over on the right side of my blog page.
Oh yeah, in case you were wondering, the Henry seems to be operating properly. The bolt travels smoothly, the hammer cocks, the trigger releases the hammer and the firing pin moves forward. That last was easy to tell because the Henry Survival Rifle is a take down rifle and when the barrel is off of the receiver, the action can still be operated. I simply cocked it, put my finger on the bolt face over the firing pin channel, pulled the trigger and felt the sting of the firing pin on my finger tip. I have not shot it yet, maybe I will do so tomorrow. I will let you know how it shot once I have done so. I already have a bit more self confidence in my abilities to get such things done and you can be sure that if it fires as it should that self confidence will be even stronger. Thanks Derek!
All the best,
Glenn B
Friday, March 11, 2011
Surviving The Unexpected - Survival Tips To Help You Make It Through A Catastrophe
Snowfall and cold the likes we have not experienced in decades. Rain storms and floods as not seen in many years. Birds falling from the skies dead, not once but repeated times no conclusive reason. Fish floating belly up by the thousands for no known reason. Horrific tornadoes spread far and wide. Volcanic eruptions round the world. Earthquakes and tsunamis to follow. Is it TWOG? I hink not but I am surprised there are not doom-sayers on every corner telling us that The Wrath Of God is upon us. Is it TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it)? I doubt that too.
While I do not think the end of the world is upon us, I do think that all of those things I just mentioned are a good reason to have emergency supplies on hand. You never know, or certainly only have very little warning, that such things are about to happen and when they do, it is often too late to run out to the store to stock up. So what should you have on hand? Well, I could write up a list that would take hours for me to compile but I will keep this one pretty basic. In fact it will cover what I think are the bare minimum that you should have on hand at any given time in your home (and it is not a bad idea to also have something in each of your cars).
Drinking Water: First and foremost you should have a supply of clean drinking water. Have at least 3 days worth though enough for a week would be better. How much water is that? It is recommended that you have on hand a minimum of about 1 gallon of drinking water per person per day. That may be higher in desert or tropical areas.
Food: Again, at a minimum, you should have a 3 day supply of food per person. As with water, more food is recommended and a weeks supply would be better than a few days worth. Right now, I figure I have at least a 10 days to 2 weeks supply at hand in my home, that includes everything in our daily use pantries and whatever else I have in survival storage. Remember I am talking about food that does not require refrigeration since the power may be out. So types to have on hand could consist of: MREs, canned foods (remember a can opener), packaged foods, snack bars, and so on.
First Aide: I have a fairly decent first aid kit available for emergencies. I am not a doctor or a medic nor an EMT but I do no how to administer basic first aid. I recommend not only having a first aid kit but also taking a course I how to administer first aid to those in need. A little simple preparation could save a life.
Weapons: They are right up there on my list and I am listing things in order of importance, the most important at the top and working my way down in level of importance, as I see these items. I have firearms, ammunition and knives at the ready at all times. A good strong knife is a must have in a survival situation. If at the onset of a disaster, I could have nothing else other than water, I would want a good strong sharp knife.
Flashlights and Batteries: I have several flashlights in our home, one in each car, and carry one in my pocket at virtually all times. As far as batteries go, I buy sufficient number of them to last a few days to a week with minimal use of flashlights anticipated. I buy fresh replacement batteries at least yearly for those I keep in storage. I replace batteries in flashlights as needed and check them at least quarterly even if I have not used them since batteries can drain without use.
Candles and Matches: I have a good supply of both, waterproof matches at that.
Grab & Go Supplies: I have a plastic container set up with grab and go items. In the event we have to evacuate our home, we can grab that box and will have at least a few days worth of food inside of it. I have a case of 24 ounce bottles of water to go with it (I need to get another case). t is not a bad idea to have at least a grab & go bag, in your house, for each family member. Keep at least a days worth of food, water in it along with first aid kit, flashlight, batteries, some cash, a change of clothing, emergency blanket, matches, candle, weapon such as a firearm (when and where legal), knife. There are many other things you can put into a grab & go bag, just remember you need to carry it and be able to move fast, it is for use in case of quick evacuations. Having it read at all times means you are ready when need be.
Weather Appropriate Clothing and Blankets: You should have something at easy reach in case you need to evacuate. A good wool blanket goes a long way to keeping you warm, even if wet.
Cell Phone with Charger: Almost should go without saying nowadays.
Extra Pet Food & Water: Probably a good idea to have a few days to a weeks worth of food and water for you pets on hand.
Emergency Radio: A battery operated radio, at least AM/FM to listen for public service announcements during a disaster. Of course this means having batteries on hand for the radio. A radio with alternate power supply, such as a solar powered radio or crank powered radio is a good thing to have in case of emergency, they usually operate on batteries, ac/dc, solar power and can be crank powered too. Some of these emergency radios have the capability to charge cell phones.
There are a lot of other things I could think of to recommend to you to have in the event of an emergency but those I just mentioned can go a long way toward helping you survive many disasters that could befall you. Having similar items in your car can do likewise if you are caught on the road during a SHTF situation. If you carry weapons in your car make sure it is legal to do so.
All the best,
Glenn B
While I do not think the end of the world is upon us, I do think that all of those things I just mentioned are a good reason to have emergency supplies on hand. You never know, or certainly only have very little warning, that such things are about to happen and when they do, it is often too late to run out to the store to stock up. So what should you have on hand? Well, I could write up a list that would take hours for me to compile but I will keep this one pretty basic. In fact it will cover what I think are the bare minimum that you should have on hand at any given time in your home (and it is not a bad idea to also have something in each of your cars).
Drinking Water: First and foremost you should have a supply of clean drinking water. Have at least 3 days worth though enough for a week would be better. How much water is that? It is recommended that you have on hand a minimum of about 1 gallon of drinking water per person per day. That may be higher in desert or tropical areas.
Food: Again, at a minimum, you should have a 3 day supply of food per person. As with water, more food is recommended and a weeks supply would be better than a few days worth. Right now, I figure I have at least a 10 days to 2 weeks supply at hand in my home, that includes everything in our daily use pantries and whatever else I have in survival storage. Remember I am talking about food that does not require refrigeration since the power may be out. So types to have on hand could consist of: MREs, canned foods (remember a can opener), packaged foods, snack bars, and so on.
First Aide: I have a fairly decent first aid kit available for emergencies. I am not a doctor or a medic nor an EMT but I do no how to administer basic first aid. I recommend not only having a first aid kit but also taking a course I how to administer first aid to those in need. A little simple preparation could save a life.
Weapons: They are right up there on my list and I am listing things in order of importance, the most important at the top and working my way down in level of importance, as I see these items. I have firearms, ammunition and knives at the ready at all times. A good strong knife is a must have in a survival situation. If at the onset of a disaster, I could have nothing else other than water, I would want a good strong sharp knife.
Flashlights and Batteries: I have several flashlights in our home, one in each car, and carry one in my pocket at virtually all times. As far as batteries go, I buy sufficient number of them to last a few days to a week with minimal use of flashlights anticipated. I buy fresh replacement batteries at least yearly for those I keep in storage. I replace batteries in flashlights as needed and check them at least quarterly even if I have not used them since batteries can drain without use.
Candles and Matches: I have a good supply of both, waterproof matches at that.
Grab & Go Supplies: I have a plastic container set up with grab and go items. In the event we have to evacuate our home, we can grab that box and will have at least a few days worth of food inside of it. I have a case of 24 ounce bottles of water to go with it (I need to get another case). t is not a bad idea to have at least a grab & go bag, in your house, for each family member. Keep at least a days worth of food, water in it along with first aid kit, flashlight, batteries, some cash, a change of clothing, emergency blanket, matches, candle, weapon such as a firearm (when and where legal), knife. There are many other things you can put into a grab & go bag, just remember you need to carry it and be able to move fast, it is for use in case of quick evacuations. Having it read at all times means you are ready when need be.
Weather Appropriate Clothing and Blankets: You should have something at easy reach in case you need to evacuate. A good wool blanket goes a long way to keeping you warm, even if wet.
Cell Phone with Charger: Almost should go without saying nowadays.
Extra Pet Food & Water: Probably a good idea to have a few days to a weeks worth of food and water for you pets on hand.
Emergency Radio: A battery operated radio, at least AM/FM to listen for public service announcements during a disaster. Of course this means having batteries on hand for the radio. A radio with alternate power supply, such as a solar powered radio or crank powered radio is a good thing to have in case of emergency, they usually operate on batteries, ac/dc, solar power and can be crank powered too. Some of these emergency radios have the capability to charge cell phones.
There are a lot of other things I could think of to recommend to you to have in the event of an emergency but those I just mentioned can go a long way toward helping you survive many disasters that could befall you. Having similar items in your car can do likewise if you are caught on the road during a SHTF situation. If you carry weapons in your car make sure it is legal to do so.
All the best,
Glenn B
Pandemonium In The Pacific - Pray For Japan
Unbelievable is all I can say. Japan has been hit by the Godzilla of all earthquakes, a magnitude 8.9, the largest to have ever hit Japan. Then it was hit by a wall of water in the form of a tsunami. There also have been numerous aftershocks, one reportedly of 7.4 magnitude (a terrible earthquake in its own right) and many in the 5.0 plus range. They were also hit by another 7.2 magnitude quake in Japan about 2 days ago and can expect hundreds if not thousands of aftershocks (as reported on Fox News). So far, they are reporting only 32 dead but are saying the death toll is sure to rise. Amazingly though, and thankfully, the death toll is low so far. Hopefully it will not rise much further. Of huge concern are the nuclear power plants in Japan which so far are not reporting any radiation leaks.
There are now tsunami warnings across the whole of the Pacific. A 4.5 magnitude earthquake has struck Hawaii. They are expecting the tsunami to hit Hawaii by 0800 EST. The west coast of the U.S. is on alert for a tsunami.
My guess would be more earthquakes worldwide, probably along more faults than the one in Japan, I am guessing on some limited knowledge of such in the past after other large earthquakes.
I am not a religious guy but I have found myself praying for the Japanese and the rest of those in the Pacific. I ask you to do the same.
All the best,
GB
There are now tsunami warnings across the whole of the Pacific. A 4.5 magnitude earthquake has struck Hawaii. They are expecting the tsunami to hit Hawaii by 0800 EST. The west coast of the U.S. is on alert for a tsunami.
My guess would be more earthquakes worldwide, probably along more faults than the one in Japan, I am guessing on some limited knowledge of such in the past after other large earthquakes.
I am not a religious guy but I have found myself praying for the Japanese and the rest of those in the Pacific. I ask you to do the same.
All the best,
GB
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Violence - Incompetence or Life Saver
As per Isaac Asimov:
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
As per me:
"Violence is often the last resort of the dying man, as he vainly struggles to survive. Had he resorted to violence sooner, he may have lived longer. Only those competent in the wise application of violence know when to make good use of it and when to safely abstain from it."
All the best,
Glenn B
As per me:
"Violence is often the last resort of the dying man, as he vainly struggles to survive. Had he resorted to violence sooner, he may have lived longer. Only those competent in the wise application of violence know when to make good use of it and when to safely abstain from it."
All the best,
Glenn B
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Been A Bit Of A Busy Day Today...
...I had to buy a new clothes drier since our old one bit the bullet. I figured fixing a 16 or 17 year old drier would only assure it would work until something else wore out and broke and since one visit from a repairman would go for about 1/4 of what a new one would cost, and that would be just for the cost of the visit not including the cost of a repair, well you do the math. To me it was not worth it, so I got the new one. Now, the new ones are expensive. I bought a mid priced one and it was just over $500 (other stores wanted as much as $50 to $175 more for the exact same model). Add to that expenses for the delivery, installation and removal of the old one and tax and it was over $700. Wow, that was a big hit that was not needed right now.
Then I hit Home Depot for some manure. Spring will soon be sprung and I want the garden to be ready to be planted as soon as the first few nice days in a row are upon us.
After that, I headed out to see my mom. She was zonked out when I got there - well almost anyway. She sure was trying to sleep despite the best efforts of an aide. She had been given a strong sedative not too long before I got there; yet, when I walked into her room in ICU, an aide was trying to feed her dinner. Every time the aide tried to force a spoonful of some pulpy looking gruel into my mom's mouth, my mom's head just kept lolling to one side or the other and her eyes would roll back. She was out, really out, but the darned aide kept pinching my mom's cheek trying to wake her while insisting to my mom that she positively had to eat. I told the aid to just let my mom sleep and I would feed her if she woke up. Whatabsolute morons ever vigilant truly caring intelligent people at these hospitals. They just gave my mom a very strong sedative that knocked her out then sent in a trained asswiper an aide to try to feed her and maybe help choke her on the food while they were at it to keep her healthy.
I also made my way to the local range to unwind a bit. I took along the Glock 26 and the SIG 229. I shot up 400 rounds of 9mm and another 200 rounds of .40S&W. I shot better than I have in some time too. I shot like crap while at qualifications last month so it was nice to get myself back in the groove. I guess it was just a bad range day last month and today sort of made up for that and just made me feel good as a range trip usually does for me.
All the best,
Glenn B
Then I hit Home Depot for some manure. Spring will soon be sprung and I want the garden to be ready to be planted as soon as the first few nice days in a row are upon us.
After that, I headed out to see my mom. She was zonked out when I got there - well almost anyway. She sure was trying to sleep despite the best efforts of an aide. She had been given a strong sedative not too long before I got there; yet, when I walked into her room in ICU, an aide was trying to feed her dinner. Every time the aide tried to force a spoonful of some pulpy looking gruel into my mom's mouth, my mom's head just kept lolling to one side or the other and her eyes would roll back. She was out, really out, but the darned aide kept pinching my mom's cheek trying to wake her while insisting to my mom that she positively had to eat. I told the aid to just let my mom sleep and I would feed her if she woke up. What
I also made my way to the local range to unwind a bit. I took along the Glock 26 and the SIG 229. I shot up 400 rounds of 9mm and another 200 rounds of .40S&W. I shot better than I have in some time too. I shot like crap while at qualifications last month so it was nice to get myself back in the groove. I guess it was just a bad range day last month and today sort of made up for that and just made me feel good as a range trip usually does for me.
All the best,
Glenn B
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Thank Goodness For My Mom's Hard Head and a Great Sister
My mom took a fall, hit her dome, got some stitches, was about to be released from the ER when they realized she also had a subdural hematoma. In other words she has a blood vessel leaking in her brain and blood is or was building up between the brain and skull. It supposedly is only a slight one and they expect it will stop bleeding by tomorrow (otherwise they may have to operate). My sister spent most of the wee hours of the morning taking care of things with the ER, then went to work, then was back at the hospital after my mom got admitted. I went there too but only got there at 8PM because even though I left work early, I had to wait my wife to get home with our car before I could drive to the hospital. Mom seems to be doing better than I would have expected, probably a little bit due to a very hard head and a lot due to a good daughter, my sister.
Thanks sister dear!
All the best,
GB
Thanks sister dear!
All the best,
GB
Monday, March 7, 2011
Knappogue Castle Aged 12 Years Irish Whiskey
My favorite hard spirit, as of late, has been Knappogue Castle Whiskey, 1995 vintage. It is one of the smoothest single malt whiskeys I have ever drank and besides that it is Irish. I prefer the Irish much more than Scotch, what with the peat flavor Scotch often leaves in my mouth. Bad enough I get a mouthful of it each year out in the garden, I do not need the taste of it when I am drinking. Add to that the fact that Irish Whiskey is thrice distilled and it just comes out the winner with my taste buds. Of course, I knock back some good single malt and single barrel Scotch now and again, I just prefer the mellower taste of the Irish.
I went to the liquor store a couple of nights ago and grabbed a bottle, or should I call it 'the' bottle of Knappogue Irish Castle 1995 they had on the shelves. Sadly and surprisingly, it was the only one there and I had wanted to buy 2 because I had a bit of extra cash. Well, I guess the reason there was only a single bottle was because they had many bottles of newly labeled bottles saying ‘Aged 12 Years’ Knappogue Irish Whiskey. Seems the folks at the castle have decided to do away with the vintage year, for the most part except for special batches, and now put the age of the booze on the bottle. If they had to put the age on the bottle, I wish they would have also kept the year of production. I went ahead and bought one of each. I'll not open the 1995 bottle until a special occasion, maybe like being thirsty someday, and for now have only cracked the seal the one labeled ‘Aged 12 Years’.
Last night, I enjoyed a dollop or two of the 12 year old liquid refreshment. It isn't bad, in fact it was quite delicious, but I'll be damned if anyone thinks it tastes the same as the 1995 batch. It is harsher, more Scotch like. I imagine that the somewhat slightly darker color of the 12 year old over the 1995 pale golden nectar should have been a clue. It is not much different in color or in shade but there is a difference. Where the vintage marked potion was a pale golden yellow, the aged spirit has a slightly reddish tinge added in its look. You probably would not notice unless you held the two bottles side by side, but when I looked at the new one, I noticed it right away. Now don't get me wrong, it tastes good, looks good and is pleasant in the old sniffer.
Here is how they describe it at the Kanppogue Castle web site:
Color: Lovely pale straw/yellow color reminiscent of muscadet white wine; ideal purity.
Okay I could go with them on the color, but it definitely is a bit reddish compared to their 1995 dated whiskey.
Aroma: Opening inhalations encounter richly biscuity and malty/grainy/breakfast cereal aromas. Several minutes of air contact adds intriguing pepper/vegetal and spice notes.
I always find the descriptions of aromas and tastes rather comical to ludicrous when it comes to describing the tastes of what distillers want you to believe is a fine spirit -well maybe now I should say almost always. I think it smells like a mellow, clean tasting whiskey would smell, with a bit of the scent of the forest on a damp fall day added in. After a bit more sniffing though, I will admit, I began to enjoy the aroma of caramelized sugar atop a hot spiced bun.
Taste: Entry is balanced, focused, and integrated, slightly astringent and nicely fruity. Midpalate has delicate tastes of marshmallow, brown sugar, oaky vanilla, and marzipan.
Here is where I can start laughing, not a cynical mocking laugh but one of simple amusement because I usually find such descriptions absurd; yet, amazingly enough I can agree with them on some of what they claim. I don't know about marzipan or marshmallow but there certainly is the astringent value, or in other words a clean crisp whiskey flavor that first greets your taste buds. Then it does, if you swirl it round a bit then push it up against your palate with your tongue, change to a somewhat brown sugar or caramelized sugar flavor mixed with and earthy vanilla flavor. It is not so much oak like as it is fall forest like, but then again there are lots of oak leaves on the forest floor I'm thinking about. I have to say that for once I almost agree with the distillers claims as to aroma and taste; I find that amazing since I usually find such descriptions to be little more than the fruity opinions of fruitcakes.
Comment: A polished and mature Irish single malt whiskey selected and bottled at the ideal age. One of the best Knappogue Castle bottlings to date. Excellent Value.
As for their comment, let me add my own: It is a bit different from the 1995 but still is damned fine whiskey, worth the money, and well worth the effort to go out to find. It goes over the tongue easily and goes down just as easy, and when you wake up the next day - well it leaves me just as easy headed as did the 1995 Knappogue Castle Irish Whiskey although I truly only drank a small dollop or two. Now, for all I know, the stuff marked as 'Aged 12 Years' could be the very same stuff as that labeled '1995' and any difference I am seeing, smelling and tasting could be due to the same whiskey from different barrels. Yet, I do see, scent and taste a difference.
I think the Knappogue Castle Irish Whiskey Aged 12 Years is excellent. While I think this newer one may be almost the equal of their 1995, just having its own personality as any 12 year old is sure to have, I am fairly certain it will never replace the 1995 vintage Knappogue Castle Irish Whiskey as my favorite Irish whiskey to date. I am pretty certain though that, the Knappogue Castle Irish Whiskey, Aged 12 Years, comes as close to equaling or beating out the 1995 as is heavenly allowable.
All the best,
Glenn B
I went to the liquor store a couple of nights ago and grabbed a bottle, or should I call it 'the' bottle of Knappogue Irish Castle 1995 they had on the shelves. Sadly and surprisingly, it was the only one there and I had wanted to buy 2 because I had a bit of extra cash. Well, I guess the reason there was only a single bottle was because they had many bottles of newly labeled bottles saying ‘Aged 12 Years’ Knappogue Irish Whiskey. Seems the folks at the castle have decided to do away with the vintage year, for the most part except for special batches, and now put the age of the booze on the bottle. If they had to put the age on the bottle, I wish they would have also kept the year of production. I went ahead and bought one of each. I'll not open the 1995 bottle until a special occasion, maybe like being thirsty someday, and for now have only cracked the seal the one labeled ‘Aged 12 Years’.
Last night, I enjoyed a dollop or two of the 12 year old liquid refreshment. It isn't bad, in fact it was quite delicious, but I'll be damned if anyone thinks it tastes the same as the 1995 batch. It is harsher, more Scotch like. I imagine that the somewhat slightly darker color of the 12 year old over the 1995 pale golden nectar should have been a clue. It is not much different in color or in shade but there is a difference. Where the vintage marked potion was a pale golden yellow, the aged spirit has a slightly reddish tinge added in its look. You probably would not notice unless you held the two bottles side by side, but when I looked at the new one, I noticed it right away. Now don't get me wrong, it tastes good, looks good and is pleasant in the old sniffer.Here is how they describe it at the Kanppogue Castle web site:
Color: Lovely pale straw/yellow color reminiscent of muscadet white wine; ideal purity.
Okay I could go with them on the color, but it definitely is a bit reddish compared to their 1995 dated whiskey.
Aroma: Opening inhalations encounter richly biscuity and malty/grainy/breakfast cereal aromas. Several minutes of air contact adds intriguing pepper/vegetal and spice notes.
I always find the descriptions of aromas and tastes rather comical to ludicrous when it comes to describing the tastes of what distillers want you to believe is a fine spirit -well maybe now I should say almost always. I think it smells like a mellow, clean tasting whiskey would smell, with a bit of the scent of the forest on a damp fall day added in. After a bit more sniffing though, I will admit, I began to enjoy the aroma of caramelized sugar atop a hot spiced bun.
Taste: Entry is balanced, focused, and integrated, slightly astringent and nicely fruity. Midpalate has delicate tastes of marshmallow, brown sugar, oaky vanilla, and marzipan.
Here is where I can start laughing, not a cynical mocking laugh but one of simple amusement because I usually find such descriptions absurd; yet, amazingly enough I can agree with them on some of what they claim. I don't know about marzipan or marshmallow but there certainly is the astringent value, or in other words a clean crisp whiskey flavor that first greets your taste buds. Then it does, if you swirl it round a bit then push it up against your palate with your tongue, change to a somewhat brown sugar or caramelized sugar flavor mixed with and earthy vanilla flavor. It is not so much oak like as it is fall forest like, but then again there are lots of oak leaves on the forest floor I'm thinking about. I have to say that for once I almost agree with the distillers claims as to aroma and taste; I find that amazing since I usually find such descriptions to be little more than the fruity opinions of fruitcakes.
Comment: A polished and mature Irish single malt whiskey selected and bottled at the ideal age. One of the best Knappogue Castle bottlings to date. Excellent Value.
As for their comment, let me add my own: It is a bit different from the 1995 but still is damned fine whiskey, worth the money, and well worth the effort to go out to find. It goes over the tongue easily and goes down just as easy, and when you wake up the next day - well it leaves me just as easy headed as did the 1995 Knappogue Castle Irish Whiskey although I truly only drank a small dollop or two. Now, for all I know, the stuff marked as 'Aged 12 Years' could be the very same stuff as that labeled '1995' and any difference I am seeing, smelling and tasting could be due to the same whiskey from different barrels. Yet, I do see, scent and taste a difference.
I think the Knappogue Castle Irish Whiskey Aged 12 Years is excellent. While I think this newer one may be almost the equal of their 1995, just having its own personality as any 12 year old is sure to have, I am fairly certain it will never replace the 1995 vintage Knappogue Castle Irish Whiskey as my favorite Irish whiskey to date. I am pretty certain though that, the Knappogue Castle Irish Whiskey, Aged 12 Years, comes as close to equaling or beating out the 1995 as is heavenly allowable.
All the best,
Glenn B
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Ballseye's Gun Shots 126: The March 2011 Annual Ammo Inventory...
...has been completed - sort of anyway. I counted everything I have in my ammo locker as well as everything I had in my ammo cans; that is with the exception of 3 ammo cans that contain multiple calibers for grab go or range purposes. I am no longer going to print the amount of ammo I have on hand or picture it on my blog. Let me just suffice it to say that it took me a few hours to do the inventory. That was my inventory and did not include anything my son has set aside and I know he has at least a case of .223 that he just bought and a good amount of 7.62x39.
It may be high time to go to the range to get rid of some of it. I cannot wait until the nicer weather and good outdoor shooting days are upon us. Of course, today would have been a nice day to shoot but Brendan had to work and I would rather not go to the outdoor range alone. Maybe next weekend. Then again, I have to wonder, can one ever have too much ammo - especially if there is ever an ammo ban like was the AWB!
During my inventory, I did come up with a decent amount of ammo I decided is good to go in other ways than shooting it - or in other words - good to go as in selling or trading it. Sorry, I will not post that here either, I am only going to sell it locally if possible and will not answer online inquiries or take online offers at this time. Mostly it is stuff other individuals have given to me or traded to me or that I bought and that I no longer need because it is surplus. A small bit of it is probably collectible. I note, none of it that is for sale is government issue - some few of my readers will understand and appreciate why I added this last bit of information about it.
All the best,
Glenn B
It may be high time to go to the range to get rid of some of it. I cannot wait until the nicer weather and good outdoor shooting days are upon us. Of course, today would have been a nice day to shoot but Brendan had to work and I would rather not go to the outdoor range alone. Maybe next weekend. Then again, I have to wonder, can one ever have too much ammo - especially if there is ever an ammo ban like was the AWB!
During my inventory, I did come up with a decent amount of ammo I decided is good to go in other ways than shooting it - or in other words - good to go as in selling or trading it. Sorry, I will not post that here either, I am only going to sell it locally if possible and will not answer online inquiries or take online offers at this time. Mostly it is stuff other individuals have given to me or traded to me or that I bought and that I no longer need because it is surplus. A small bit of it is probably collectible. I note, none of it that is for sale is government issue - some few of my readers will understand and appreciate why I added this last bit of information about it.
All the best,
Glenn B
Friday, March 4, 2011
My Favorite Libation & The Walking Dead First 6 Episodes
I figured what could be better than some good stiff Irish Whiskey and a bunch of walking stiffs so, on the way home tonight, I picked up 2 bottles of Knappogue Castle Irish Whiskey. Why 2? Because there was a bottle of their 1995 labelled vintage and the new stuff labelled 12 years old. The newer stuff seems just a tad darker and I will bet it will taste just a bit different. so I got both, the 1995 labelled one for later, much much later (as maybe a keepsake for future years). I sat down several minutes ago, tuned in the tube and settled back as I turned on AMC. Great, only 2 minutes till show time. Brendan called down to me, then came down and gave me a t-shirt. I had us both pause a moment to watch the opening scene of the show, then took a good look at the shirt. I is OD and pictures Walter, one of the characters from The Big Lewbowski, in star spangled red, white & blue face. Above his head, going from ear to ear, it says:
Okay, great, I love it. What else did he say in the movie: "I'm just sittin' here drinkin' my coffee"? I think that was it. Well, I'd just be drinkin' my Irish in a moment but first I thanked Brendan. Brendan went back upstairs and I took the metal trim off of the bottle top. I was about to grab the stopper, the plastic topped cork stopper and pull it out, when it fell off. Not a good sign when the cork has dried so badly as to fall apart like that, or maybe it got broken when put into the bottle. Well anyway, and I am not about to figure which, that bottle will be headed back to the liquor store tomorrow. If it crumbled and cracked because it is dried out then chances are that the booze has been effected and not in a good way either. I have had wine bottles with dried out corks and the wine tasted like piss and vinegar. If it just broke off, well then once I get it out, with what am I supposed to seal the bottle? I will leave it just as is because I am not about to take a chance on a $41.00 bottle of whiskey and then when I try to return it maybe they will and maybe they won't take it back thinking I opened it and did something to it. This way they can see it was messed up and they can return it to the distributor as is - broken cork still in the mouth of the bottle - bottle unopened.
Shit Heck, now I either have to have some vodka or maybe the bottle of Louis Jadot beaujolais I just picked up for the wife. Wine and zombies, nah just doesn't seem as right as wine and vampires would seem. I think I'll stick with the hard stuff. I have a bottle of potato vodka somewhere around here, now to find it during the next commercial break and grab myself a small dram of those fine spirits.
By the way, he just shot bicycle girl! Great show but where in Hades is season number 2????????????
All the best,
Glenn B
"i DON'T ROLL ON SHABBAS"
Okay, great, I love it. What else did he say in the movie: "I'm just sittin' here drinkin' my coffee"? I think that was it. Well, I'd just be drinkin' my Irish in a moment but first I thanked Brendan. Brendan went back upstairs and I took the metal trim off of the bottle top. I was about to grab the stopper, the plastic topped cork stopper and pull it out, when it fell off. Not a good sign when the cork has dried so badly as to fall apart like that, or maybe it got broken when put into the bottle. Well anyway, and I am not about to figure which, that bottle will be headed back to the liquor store tomorrow. If it crumbled and cracked because it is dried out then chances are that the booze has been effected and not in a good way either. I have had wine bottles with dried out corks and the wine tasted like piss and vinegar. If it just broke off, well then once I get it out, with what am I supposed to seal the bottle? I will leave it just as is because I am not about to take a chance on a $41.00 bottle of whiskey and then when I try to return it maybe they will and maybe they won't take it back thinking I opened it and did something to it. This way they can see it was messed up and they can return it to the distributor as is - broken cork still in the mouth of the bottle - bottle unopened.
By the way, he just shot bicycle girl! Great show but where in Hades is season number 2????????????
All the best,
Glenn B
Ballseye's Gun Shots 125: Annual Ammo Inventory
Speaking of buying ammo in bulk, as I did in my blog post immediately prior to this one, I guess before I go out and buy any more of it, I should do an inventory of what I have in the ammo locker. Then I suppose I should arrange it all to store newer ammo at the bottom and older ammo at the top (or something like that) so I can use up the older stiff first. (I always set it up that way but for some reason rarely seem to shoot it that way.)
I figure it will take me at least a few hours and figure those will be hours well spent. I also figure this is about the best time of the year to do an ammo inventory. It is still fairly cold outside, I am still in the winter doldrums sort of mode, there is not much going on this month, so why not spend some time counting my ammo. Sure, even though I just mentioned why I ought to do it, I a know I could think of lots of other more exciting things, maybe even some more useful ones to do but there are some practical reasons to take an annual inventory of your ammo, especially if you have a good amount of it on hand and if you shoot on a fairly regular basis. First of all, I want to know what have on hand and want to know which types of ammo I have that may be in short supply. Those in short supply will need to be supplemented by new purchases. Secondly, it is a good idea, if you have a good amount of ammo, to document what you have for insurance purposes should something go wrong and the ammo be destroyed, ruined, stolen and so forth. Thirdly I check the condition of the ammo as I inventory. (I do not check each and every round but do a spot check on ammo from different areas of the ammo locker to see if any seem to be effected by moisture.) Fourthly, I decide which ammo I have in my collection to cull from it - either to be shot up soon, or to be sold, traded or given away.
I just rearranged my ammo locker, probably not two weeks ago, and for the life of me I don't know why I didn't take an inventory while doing it. So, I imagine that I will do it this weekend. The actual inventory will consist of me taking all of my ammo out of the foot locker and ammo cans, counting how many boxes I have of each caliber, how many of each brand, how many of each type in the same caliber such as soft point versus hollow point versus FMJ or one grain weight against another and so on. Once it is all out on the floor, I will clean out the inside of the containers that held it, getting that done before actually doing the inventory so the containers have a good amount of time to dry out. I will also make sure to turn on the oven to low heat, then to place the desiccant containers into the oven, atop a sheet of aluminum foil, to dry them out to revitalize them - so to speak. Then I will turn on the dehumidifier in the basement to dry out the air. Then I will start the count. As I count, I will be writing down the inventory count and then placing the ammo back into the ammo cans and locker. I will keep stuff I intend to cull on the side, probably going into ammo cans for easy to get hold of availability. As I go along I will also take photographs of it all, this is for insurance purposes. Once everything is packed away, I will remember to turn off the oven, retrieve the desiccant and place it back into the ammo locker. Then I will lock up the ammo locker and I will think about doing the annual firearms inventory and cleaning - that job will certainly take longer - not because I have a huge arsenal of guns but because it will include a good inspection and cleaning each one of them. That could literally be an ongoing project over several days but as I said, this is a good time of year to do it. Once the weather gets nicer, I'd rather be out shooting or gardening, or fishing, or caulking my windows (yeah right), or enjoying whatever other fun things I could be doing.
All the best,
Glenn B
I figure it will take me at least a few hours and figure those will be hours well spent. I also figure this is about the best time of the year to do an ammo inventory. It is still fairly cold outside, I am still in the winter doldrums sort of mode, there is not much going on this month, so why not spend some time counting my ammo. Sure, even though I just mentioned why I ought to do it, I a know I could think of lots of other more exciting things, maybe even some more useful ones to do but there are some practical reasons to take an annual inventory of your ammo, especially if you have a good amount of it on hand and if you shoot on a fairly regular basis. First of all, I want to know what have on hand and want to know which types of ammo I have that may be in short supply. Those in short supply will need to be supplemented by new purchases. Secondly, it is a good idea, if you have a good amount of ammo, to document what you have for insurance purposes should something go wrong and the ammo be destroyed, ruined, stolen and so forth. Thirdly I check the condition of the ammo as I inventory. (I do not check each and every round but do a spot check on ammo from different areas of the ammo locker to see if any seem to be effected by moisture.) Fourthly, I decide which ammo I have in my collection to cull from it - either to be shot up soon, or to be sold, traded or given away.
I just rearranged my ammo locker, probably not two weeks ago, and for the life of me I don't know why I didn't take an inventory while doing it. So, I imagine that I will do it this weekend. The actual inventory will consist of me taking all of my ammo out of the foot locker and ammo cans, counting how many boxes I have of each caliber, how many of each brand, how many of each type in the same caliber such as soft point versus hollow point versus FMJ or one grain weight against another and so on. Once it is all out on the floor, I will clean out the inside of the containers that held it, getting that done before actually doing the inventory so the containers have a good amount of time to dry out. I will also make sure to turn on the oven to low heat, then to place the desiccant containers into the oven, atop a sheet of aluminum foil, to dry them out to revitalize them - so to speak. Then I will turn on the dehumidifier in the basement to dry out the air. Then I will start the count. As I count, I will be writing down the inventory count and then placing the ammo back into the ammo cans and locker. I will keep stuff I intend to cull on the side, probably going into ammo cans for easy to get hold of availability. As I go along I will also take photographs of it all, this is for insurance purposes. Once everything is packed away, I will remember to turn off the oven, retrieve the desiccant and place it back into the ammo locker. Then I will lock up the ammo locker and I will think about doing the annual firearms inventory and cleaning - that job will certainly take longer - not because I have a huge arsenal of guns but because it will include a good inspection and cleaning each one of them. That could literally be an ongoing project over several days but as I said, this is a good time of year to do it. Once the weather gets nicer, I'd rather be out shooting or gardening, or fishing, or caulking my windows (yeah right), or enjoying whatever other fun things I could be doing.
All the best,
Glenn B
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Are Ammo Prices About To Rise?
With the price of gasoline approaching $4.00 a gallon, even surpassing it already in some places (I paid $3.90 per gallon tonight but passed a palce where it was over $4.00) one has to wonder:
Are the prices of just about everything to go up again because shipping companies will raise prices due to increased gasoline expenses?
It happened last time gasoline prices were this high, so I imagine it could easily happen again. The thing about it this time is that after the last price increases, the prices did not fall proportionately when fuel prices fell. So, they are already getting more than they should be for most things. While that may keep prices down for a bit, if gas remains this high for more than a few weeks, my bet is that prices will skyrocket on everything from bacon to bullets. Thanks for all the hope and change!
Might I recommend - buy ammo and other bulk commodities now.
All the best,
Glenn B
Are the prices of just about everything to go up again because shipping companies will raise prices due to increased gasoline expenses?
It happened last time gasoline prices were this high, so I imagine it could easily happen again. The thing about it this time is that after the last price increases, the prices did not fall proportionately when fuel prices fell. So, they are already getting more than they should be for most things. While that may keep prices down for a bit, if gas remains this high for more than a few weeks, my bet is that prices will skyrocket on everything from bacon to bullets. Thanks for all the hope and change!
Might I recommend - buy ammo and other bulk commodities now.
All the best,
Glenn B
Best Sick Leave Excuse Ever - Leave It To The Irish
I don't think I have ever heard a better excuse to bang in sick. If this is not the best sick excuse note you have ever heard of, then you must be Irish. The way I figure it, only another Irishman could out do this one!
All the best,
Glenn B
All the best,
Glenn B
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Close The U.S. - Mexico Border - Now
With all that has been going on in Mexico and the U.S. that is related to violence carried out by drug cartels, isn't it high time that we close the southern border. In my personal opinion, I think it is time for it. I also think it a shame we do not have anyone in government with balls enough to order it but again that is my personal opinion and I would so much like to be proven wrong. How many of our citizens or others have to die before we take this quite appropriate action. Let Mexico handle its problems by itself while we isolate ourselves from them. Put the military along the border, not to police our country but to prevent any further invasion of illegal aliens, and of drug smugglers and murderers. What has brought me to the point where I feel it necessary to close the borders. Well, to tell the truth, it was not the murder of my fellow ICE agent, nor the wounding of his partner, nor was it the killing of the Border Patrol Agent in Arizona, nor the killing of the tourist on the jet ski in Texas, nor the shooting of the missionary in Mexico, nor the killing of the Arizona rancher apparently by someone who entered illegally from Mexico then simply walked back across the border after the murder. Nope it was none of them.
It was this: Police: Arizona Beheading Incident Tied to Mexican Drug Cartel. Yeah, I realize it was probably a dirt bag, slime ball, drug smuggling illegal alienpiece of shit who was killed and beheaded but the thing is this: Now this country has become as bad as Mexico. Not yet by the number of murders but certainly in the depravity. Well, could you ever have truly been surprised that it would come to that, what with so many illegals from down there up here. Oh yeah, that's right: If you are a leftist who has bent over backwards to kiss the ass of ILLEGAL aliens (aka: criminals) from Mexico, drug smugglers from Mexico, and allies of illegal aliens in groups like La Raza, I suppose it would come as a surprise to you. I mean, after all, hasn't it been you who have been bullshitting telling us as how good for the USA is illegal entry of Mexicans into this country.
Nope, after all is said and done, it seems you were wrong. People who thought like me were right. Illegal aliens crossing our borders, almost unabated, then allowed to remain here is our death knell as a nation and will only lead to a high rate of worse and worse criminal activity committed by the illegals. We thought it was bad with gangs like MS-13, well we ain't seen nothin' yet as far as the violence of the cartels goes; they make MS-13 members look like bumbling amateurs. These recent acts of violence and deaths, and now this beheading, are only the first taste of it. That is, unless someone in DC grows a set of ballshuevos and gets them lo mas pronto posible (oh, I am so confused, which language should I use, oh that's right it's English) as soon as possible and orders the military to the southern border to stop the invasion by way of a complete border shutdown.
Again folks, THAT IS MY PERSONAL OPINION and it in no way shape or form effects how I do my job; I have to follow the rules, regulations, laws and orders without prejudice! Then again, it would not be prejudice, nor would it be a violation of any U.S. laws, to shut our borders down. The national emergency is here, the invasion has been ongoing for years, we are now reaping whatthe ultra leftists we have sown and we are, for the most part, ignoring it. The truth be told, it is not going to ignore us if we get in the way - it will just cut us down much like they cut off that guys head or killed all those others I mentioned. We really ought to shut it down and let Mexico fix itself. A border shutdown - a serious, complete and long term one - would certainly be a surefire incentive for hope and change in Mexico.
All the best,
Glenn B
It was this: Police: Arizona Beheading Incident Tied to Mexican Drug Cartel. Yeah, I realize it was probably a dirt bag, slime ball, drug smuggling illegal alien
Nope, after all is said and done, it seems you were wrong. People who thought like me were right. Illegal aliens crossing our borders, almost unabated, then allowed to remain here is our death knell as a nation and will only lead to a high rate of worse and worse criminal activity committed by the illegals. We thought it was bad with gangs like MS-13, well we ain't seen nothin' yet as far as the violence of the cartels goes; they make MS-13 members look like bumbling amateurs. These recent acts of violence and deaths, and now this beheading, are only the first taste of it. That is, unless someone in DC grows a set of balls
Again folks, THAT IS MY PERSONAL OPINION and it in no way shape or form effects how I do my job; I have to follow the rules, regulations, laws and orders without prejudice! Then again, it would not be prejudice, nor would it be a violation of any U.S. laws, to shut our borders down. The national emergency is here, the invasion has been ongoing for years, we are now reaping what
All the best,
Glenn B
Shooting About a 5" Group at 1,000 Yards - Could You Do It?
I doubt I could achieve that. I probably would be happy to shoot an approximate 5 inch group at 100 yards let alone 1,000 yards. On the other hand though, a WWII era shooter/sniper, Ted Gundy, well into his 80's, has accomplished just that. Simply amazing.
All the best,
Glenn B
All the best,
Glenn B
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
The Last Lonely Eagle...
...has taken flight, heaven bound, never to again land on this earth. Frank Woodruff Buckles, the last surviving veteran of U.S. Military forces, who served our nation in World War I, peacefully passed away at his home this past Sunday. He was truly, a man among men! He was 110 years old and was the last link to the Doughboys of WWI. To learn more about him, go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Buckles
If you would like to hear about him, in his own words, then watch these two videos:
I salute him for his service both to his nation and to all of the others who served in WWI. You see, up until the day he died he was, as the honorary chairman of the World War I Memorial Foundation, an advocate for the creation of a National WWI Memorial in our nation's capital. They hope to refurbish the existing but decrepit District of Columbia WWI memorial and have it reclassified as a National WWI Memorial. Why not honor Mr. Buckles by doing something to help end the shameful disgrace that he fought so hard to end - contact your elected officials today and demand that our government refurbish and reclassify the DC WWI Memorial as a National World War I memorial dedicated to those Americans who served during WWI.
All the best,
Glenn B
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Buckles
If you would like to hear about him, in his own words, then watch these two videos:
I salute him for his service both to his nation and to all of the others who served in WWI. You see, up until the day he died he was, as the honorary chairman of the World War I Memorial Foundation, an advocate for the creation of a National WWI Memorial in our nation's capital. They hope to refurbish the existing but decrepit District of Columbia WWI memorial and have it reclassified as a National WWI Memorial. Why not honor Mr. Buckles by doing something to help end the shameful disgrace that he fought so hard to end - contact your elected officials today and demand that our government refurbish and reclassify the DC WWI Memorial as a National World War I memorial dedicated to those Americans who served during WWI.
All the best,
Glenn B
Monday, February 28, 2011
Ballseye's Gun Shots 124 - Support Your Local Firearms Dealer or Buy Online?
I like getting a bargain on something and I will shop around, for a deal, in local shops, sometimes in distant shops (usually if traveling near one), and also at online dealers when looking to buy a firearm.
Some folks think it is best to buy from local dealers. I think it a good way to keep the local economy going and to help assure that the local dealer stays in business. Regardless of that though, sometimes still buy from an online dealer. While the reason for that can be the price, sometimes it is availability, other times it is customer service most times it is all three. It is not me doing a disservice to a local dealer by not buying from them when their prices are not competitive or are downright highly overpriced. Likewise, I am not doing a disservice to a local or online dealer when they do not offer, or will not order, a gun for which I am looking. Nor am I doing anything wrong when I avoid dealers who have less than at least good customer service.
While there are several criteria on which I base my decision to buy either from a local dealer or online dealer, one of the most important considerations is competitive pricing. I don't like getting ripped off, so I shop around to make sure the price is competitive. Included in the price are other considerations such as sales tax (locally, distant or online), shipping fees (online) and transfer fees (online). If I was going to buy a new gun online, and had to pay a transfer fee, I would shop around for the best value there too, I might even check to make sure that the shipping fee was reasonable. A few years ago, many FFL dealers or holders in my area were asking $50-$75 per transfer. I recently checked and found some, if not many, are now asking only $25-$35. I add that and shipping to the price of the firearm, from an online dealer, when I am doing price comparisons against local dealers. I will buy from a local dealer, even when paying a bit more than when buying elsewhere, but if the local dealer is still more than about 10% an online price as calculated above then guess from whom I buy.
Some of my local dealers had been selling Mosin Nagant 91/30 rifles, in very good to excellent arsenal refinish condition, for upwards of $175 each. When I inquired about buying one of those from a certain local dealer, with no other customers in the store, he acted as if I was being a pain in his backside for asking about it. That was over a year ago, I stopped shopping there since then. When I can buy the same rifle online for $100 plus about $20 shipping, from an online dealer who has given me great service in the past, which should I buy? It is easy for me to figure.
Recently though, at a gun show which I attended, one local dealer that was there had great prices on them, of $110 for hex receiver and $100 for round receiver models. I had been about to buy another online but when I saw his very competitive price, I considered buying one from the local guy. It was not price alone that got me to buying that rifle. First of all it was availability and display of them. Only after I saw them did I see the good price. When I went to the guys at the table and asked to look at one, I was a little leery of them. I had a bad experience with them, oh just over a year ago and had stopped shopping at their gun store. Yep, these were the same guys who made it seem painful when asked about a Nagant in their shop. Not only had I had a bad experience with their poor attitude but since they used to sell these rifles at inflated prices and I wondered why these were priced so competitively. Well, to my relief and surprise, I was treated attentively, respectfully and politely. They gave me time to look it over and took off the nylon tie that had been through the action and removed the bolt so I could look down the bore. They also took the time to discuss the rifle with me. So, a combination of availability, good service, and price convinced me to buy one from them. It seems they have changed their attitude toward customer service and that went a long way toward me making my purchase. They will keep me as a customer as long as they keep up the good pricing and good service. Others who had noted their deficiencies in the past have also noted their change for the better as of late. It seems their business may be improving in the near future as news of their improved service is spread by satisfied customers.
I often base my continued dealings with the local, distant and online dealers on past experience with them. If they price well is one thing but as I just pointed out, in the above example, there are other factors in my considerations. If they give good service is a big consideration. Things about their service that consider are: if they have been helpful, if they answer questions, if they are knowledgeable, if they stand behind what they sell, if online dealers ship promptly, if local dealers get something in when they say they will, return policy, if they treat the customer respectfully, if they don't act like the stereotyped pompous gun dealer, if they seem to be ethical, etc. Most dealers at which I no longer shop have not given good service in at least two or three of those areas. Why reward them with my continued patronage and my hard earned cash if they do not treat me well. I have to earn my money, so too should they and excellent customer service is one way to earn it.
So, when it comes down to it, it is not as simple as saying 'buy locally'. It is a matter of a dealer convincing me that I should buy from him other than buying from someone else. It is up to him whether or not he wants to do that convincing. That is one of the main aspects of capitalism and one of the reasons I like the capitalist system as much as I do like it. Competition is a good thing for the consumer in a free market.
All of the best,
Glenn B
Some folks think it is best to buy from local dealers. I think it a good way to keep the local economy going and to help assure that the local dealer stays in business. Regardless of that though, sometimes still buy from an online dealer. While the reason for that can be the price, sometimes it is availability, other times it is customer service most times it is all three. It is not me doing a disservice to a local dealer by not buying from them when their prices are not competitive or are downright highly overpriced. Likewise, I am not doing a disservice to a local or online dealer when they do not offer, or will not order, a gun for which I am looking. Nor am I doing anything wrong when I avoid dealers who have less than at least good customer service.
While there are several criteria on which I base my decision to buy either from a local dealer or online dealer, one of the most important considerations is competitive pricing. I don't like getting ripped off, so I shop around to make sure the price is competitive. Included in the price are other considerations such as sales tax (locally, distant or online), shipping fees (online) and transfer fees (online). If I was going to buy a new gun online, and had to pay a transfer fee, I would shop around for the best value there too, I might even check to make sure that the shipping fee was reasonable. A few years ago, many FFL dealers or holders in my area were asking $50-$75 per transfer. I recently checked and found some, if not many, are now asking only $25-$35. I add that and shipping to the price of the firearm, from an online dealer, when I am doing price comparisons against local dealers. I will buy from a local dealer, even when paying a bit more than when buying elsewhere, but if the local dealer is still more than about 10% an online price as calculated above then guess from whom I buy.
Some of my local dealers had been selling Mosin Nagant 91/30 rifles, in very good to excellent arsenal refinish condition, for upwards of $175 each. When I inquired about buying one of those from a certain local dealer, with no other customers in the store, he acted as if I was being a pain in his backside for asking about it. That was over a year ago, I stopped shopping there since then. When I can buy the same rifle online for $100 plus about $20 shipping, from an online dealer who has given me great service in the past, which should I buy? It is easy for me to figure.
Recently though, at a gun show which I attended, one local dealer that was there had great prices on them, of $110 for hex receiver and $100 for round receiver models. I had been about to buy another online but when I saw his very competitive price, I considered buying one from the local guy. It was not price alone that got me to buying that rifle. First of all it was availability and display of them. Only after I saw them did I see the good price. When I went to the guys at the table and asked to look at one, I was a little leery of them. I had a bad experience with them, oh just over a year ago and had stopped shopping at their gun store. Yep, these were the same guys who made it seem painful when asked about a Nagant in their shop. Not only had I had a bad experience with their poor attitude but since they used to sell these rifles at inflated prices and I wondered why these were priced so competitively. Well, to my relief and surprise, I was treated attentively, respectfully and politely. They gave me time to look it over and took off the nylon tie that had been through the action and removed the bolt so I could look down the bore. They also took the time to discuss the rifle with me. So, a combination of availability, good service, and price convinced me to buy one from them. It seems they have changed their attitude toward customer service and that went a long way toward me making my purchase. They will keep me as a customer as long as they keep up the good pricing and good service. Others who had noted their deficiencies in the past have also noted their change for the better as of late. It seems their business may be improving in the near future as news of their improved service is spread by satisfied customers.
I often base my continued dealings with the local, distant and online dealers on past experience with them. If they price well is one thing but as I just pointed out, in the above example, there are other factors in my considerations. If they give good service is a big consideration. Things about their service that consider are: if they have been helpful, if they answer questions, if they are knowledgeable, if they stand behind what they sell, if online dealers ship promptly, if local dealers get something in when they say they will, return policy, if they treat the customer respectfully, if they don't act like the stereotyped pompous gun dealer, if they seem to be ethical, etc. Most dealers at which I no longer shop have not given good service in at least two or three of those areas. Why reward them with my continued patronage and my hard earned cash if they do not treat me well. I have to earn my money, so too should they and excellent customer service is one way to earn it.
So, when it comes down to it, it is not as simple as saying 'buy locally'. It is a matter of a dealer convincing me that I should buy from him other than buying from someone else. It is up to him whether or not he wants to do that convincing. That is one of the main aspects of capitalism and one of the reasons I like the capitalist system as much as I do like it. Competition is a good thing for the consumer in a free market.
All of the best,
Glenn B
If This Happens In The United States...
...you can bet I will either be among the infidels victors or will go down fighting because I have been sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution. Hopefully it will never come to the way it already is in England, France, Germany and others. There is one basic law for this country as a whole and that is the Constitution of the United States of America. I believe that any system of laws and or any form of government, even one that masquerades as a religion, that opposes the Constitution and our Constitutional Republic, and tries to overthrow our form of government whether by violence, or by slow assimilation, should be abolished on our soil swiftly and permanently.
All the best,
Glenn B
All the best,
Glenn B
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Austin, TX Police Dept. Holds Gun Buy-back but Activists Buy Some of the Guns Before Police Have a Chance
No way to post the video here so I will just post the link to both the article and the video, it is the same for both. Read, watch and listen, this is a great idea where legal!
http://weareaustin.com/fulltext?nxd_id=125606
All the best,
Glenn B
http://weareaustin.com/fulltext?nxd_id=125606
All the best,
Glenn B
Where Is The Outrage?
Gasoline prices are the highest they have been in years, yet have you heard one liberal or progressive or Obama supporter complaining that it is all Barrack Hussein Obama's fault as they did to George W. Bush. What hypocrites.
Hopefully, in the 2012 elections, the outrage will out itself!
All the best,
Glenn B
Hopefully, in the 2012 elections, the outrage will out itself!
All the best,
Glenn B
Ballseye's Gun Shots 123 - Do You Have Any Guns That Are Older Than You?
I posted a pic of my C&R guns on a firearms forum last night and it got me to wondering, just how many guns I own that are older than me. I sat down with the older ones around me and looked for dates of manufacture on them. That was easy with the old combloc weapons - they were all dated. It was not so easy but still not all that difficult to determine at least a date range of manufacture for the rest of them.
PISTOLS:
1) Ortgies in .32 Auto, probably made in the late 1920's.
RIFLES: (When it came to rifles, I had some checking to do. They are listed by order of age, oldest first.)
1) Mosin Nagant 91/30 - manufactured 1939 at the Izhevzk Arsenal.
2) Mosin Nagant 91/30 - manufactured at the Izhevzk Arsenal 1943, bent bolt.
3) Mossberg 44 U.S. - these were made between 1943 - 1946 and mine has an early serial number.
4) Remington 241 Speedmaster - these were produced between 1934 - 1951. While there is no date code on the barrel, judging by the serial number and the fact it has a steel butt plate (they changed to aluminum in mid 46), I would say this one was made in early to mid 1946.
5) Mosin Nagant M44 - Hungarian manufacture in 1953.
6) Remington 513T Matchmaster - manufactured September 1963. Whoops, not older than me but I may have shot this one at summer camp since it came out the year I turned 8 and I started camp that year or next and went for 5 years. I never before realized that it could actually be one of the Remingtons we fired at summer camp. I remember they were heavy as could be and this is a fairly heavy target rifle. I wish I could find out for sure but such will probably never happen.
Well, now you know, I was born somewhere between 1953 and 1963. Am I getting old? I suppose so but thankfully not yet as old as some of those guns. Then again, all of them are in better shape than me!
All the best,
Glenn B
PISTOLS:
1) Ortgies in .32 Auto, probably made in the late 1920's.
RIFLES: (When it came to rifles, I had some checking to do. They are listed by order of age, oldest first.)
1) Mosin Nagant 91/30 - manufactured 1939 at the Izhevzk Arsenal.
2) Mosin Nagant 91/30 - manufactured at the Izhevzk Arsenal 1943, bent bolt.
3) Mossberg 44 U.S. - these were made between 1943 - 1946 and mine has an early serial number.
4) Remington 241 Speedmaster - these were produced between 1934 - 1951. While there is no date code on the barrel, judging by the serial number and the fact it has a steel butt plate (they changed to aluminum in mid 46), I would say this one was made in early to mid 1946.
5) Mosin Nagant M44 - Hungarian manufacture in 1953.
6) Remington 513T Matchmaster - manufactured September 1963. Whoops, not older than me but I may have shot this one at summer camp since it came out the year I turned 8 and I started camp that year or next and went for 5 years. I never before realized that it could actually be one of the Remingtons we fired at summer camp. I remember they were heavy as could be and this is a fairly heavy target rifle. I wish I could find out for sure but such will probably never happen.
Well, now you know, I was born somewhere between 1953 and 1963. Am I getting old? I suppose so but thankfully not yet as old as some of those guns. Then again, all of them are in better shape than me!
All the best,
Glenn B
Friday, February 25, 2011
Trojan Tri-Phoria???
Are they kidding? Does the Trojan company really believe it appropriate to advertise vibrating massagers on television? Do the stations and the cable providers think it appropriate? I am not a sexual prude, never was and never will be, but that is, in my opinion, something better kept in sex shops or behind the counter in a pharmacy.
I think that to actually advertise it, in that wedding shower commercial (yes that is a link to the commercial on YouTube but then this is not television and you can either choose to click on it or not to watch it), is one thing. I think it a bit disturbing. To show women with the with their hair 'blown' back, apparently from having used it is another also a bit disturbing. I think that for the woman to receive as gifts not only 1 but 3 of them is a third thing that, again, is to me a bit disturbing. I also think that to have her go home and tell her boyfriend or husband that they got them for a present to which he replies SWEEEEEET, in what I can only interpret as a high pitched squeal of anticipation - almost as if he anticipates having his hair blown back by his own use of one, is truly disturbing.
All the best,
GB
I think that to actually advertise it, in that wedding shower commercial (yes that is a link to the commercial on YouTube but then this is not television and you can either choose to click on it or not to watch it), is one thing. I think it a bit disturbing. To show women with the with their hair 'blown' back, apparently from having used it is another also a bit disturbing. I think that for the woman to receive as gifts not only 1 but 3 of them is a third thing that, again, is to me a bit disturbing. I also think that to have her go home and tell her boyfriend or husband that they got them for a present to which he replies SWEEEEEET, in what I can only interpret as a high pitched squeal of anticipation - almost as if he anticipates having his hair blown back by his own use of one, is truly disturbing.
All the best,
GB
The Girandoni Air Rifle - An Amazing Piece of American History
A friend of mine sent me an email link to this video. For years now, I have known about the Austrians and some others using air rifles in the military. Yet, I never knew about one being used on the Lewis & Clark Expedition. If you are interested in firearms, air guns, American History or just history in general, watch this video.
All the best,
GB
All the best,
GB
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
A Shiny Surprise
Remember that Mosin Nagant 91/30, the one I picked up about 2 1/2 weeks ago at the White Plains Gun Show? My only regret was that the bore seemed somewhat frosted looking. Well, I cleaned it, and cleaned it and cleaned it and there was some improvement but still what looked like frost in the barrel. Then went to the range and shot it and got some fairly decent results with it when using some heavier ammo, the light stuff was all over the place. Then I brought it home and gave it a quick field strip and clean.
Well, tonight I was watching Sons of Guns (a fairly to pretty interesting show, I have only seen 2 episodes) and I got to thinking about guns, particularly the ones in my house, and I decided to give the barrel of that 91/30 a good cleaning again. After about an hour of running wet patches (wetted with Windex, then Hoppes Copper Solvent, then regular Hoppes #9), dry patches and 2 different type of bore brushes through it, it came out all nice and shiny. Now I am not saying there isn't a bit of pitting down that long hole but if you took a look right now you would certainly think there was none of it. Maybe there isn't either, it is quite possible what I saw before was only surface rust. I can tell you this for sure, right now, it is almost as shiny as the day it was cut. The lands and grooves are well defined, certainly much better than my other 2 Nagants. I like it and I cannot wait to shoot it again! Sometimes, a bit of extra elbow grease pays off.
The thing is, although I like it a lot, I'll not be keeping it. Don't be sad, I am not. It will soon officially be given to my son as a gift. Of course, even then it will still be in the house and I'll be able to take it out to shoot it whenever I want - unless Brendan has it at a range somewhere and forgot to take me along for the fun.
All the best,
Glenn B
Well, tonight I was watching Sons of Guns (a fairly to pretty interesting show, I have only seen 2 episodes) and I got to thinking about guns, particularly the ones in my house, and I decided to give the barrel of that 91/30 a good cleaning again. After about an hour of running wet patches (wetted with Windex, then Hoppes Copper Solvent, then regular Hoppes #9), dry patches and 2 different type of bore brushes through it, it came out all nice and shiny. Now I am not saying there isn't a bit of pitting down that long hole but if you took a look right now you would certainly think there was none of it. Maybe there isn't either, it is quite possible what I saw before was only surface rust. I can tell you this for sure, right now, it is almost as shiny as the day it was cut. The lands and grooves are well defined, certainly much better than my other 2 Nagants. I like it and I cannot wait to shoot it again! Sometimes, a bit of extra elbow grease pays off.
The thing is, although I like it a lot, I'll not be keeping it. Don't be sad, I am not. It will soon officially be given to my son as a gift. Of course, even then it will still be in the house and I'll be able to take it out to shoot it whenever I want - unless Brendan has it at a range somewhere and forgot to take me along for the fun.
All the best,
Glenn B
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