Neanderpundit

I grabbed my small hemostats- the good ones, not the made in india roachclip types- and stopped at a rest area along the way.

I did this because I didn’t want to startle the ogwife and the oglet too badly.

Once safely parked far from the madding crowd, I used the hemostats to grab large tufts of nose hair and yank them out. I swear, I’m gonna start saving them in a ziploc and make a damned pillow out of them, or failing that, weave a blanket.

between the sneezing and screaming like a girl in a horror film, I managed to flush a covey of quali in a field some distance out, and scare up a couple deer, all of which were last seen moving southwest at a fair clip.

I’d sure love to understand what the fuck this is all about. No hair on head, wads of hair in nose and ears.

You can click this one to embiggen it. it’s a full length pic that should show off the proportions of the rifle well.

Since it’s not exactly horizontal, it’s hard to see just how much it drops at the heel- it’s a LOT. The buttplate is also at something of an unusual angle, and the combination of these measurements fits me remarkably well. And I can shoot it, which I attribute at least partially to the fact that the stock fits.

These are the issues that prevent it from being complete- though it is eminently shootable now.

1:The little notch in the wood in front of the bolt handle is where they gouged out the stock for the old williams sight. I would fill this, if I though I could match the wood, but in fact I may sand below the notch and call it good. I think I can do that and not damage the look of the stock.

The safety knob needs to be cleaned and polished, the mum on the back of that (actually just a checkering pattern that looks like the pattern of seeds on a sunflower) is sharp but dirty, and a little careful brushing and a dip in muratic acid will prep that for bluing.

The new quarter rib needs to be silver soldered on. The original sight was chiseled off, and the barrel has some nicks from that operation. So the barrel will probably be garnet blasted before bluing. If I can find a checkering file at the show tomorrow, I may groove the top of the rib.

The stock needs to be finished. I may put a recoil pad on it, if I can find someone to teach me how to stretch goatskin on one, so it’s not just a piece of ugly rubber.

The floorplate and latch are crudely finished, and I’ll clean them and polish them before I blue them. I may have someone laser the Kanji for “Iron uncle” on the bottom of the floorplate.

And I may- may, mind you, find a timney trigger to put on it. I say may, because the original two-stage is not too damned bad.

And then it will be ready for anything anyone can throw at it.

and this is how it went down.

Unprovoked, conservatives suffered the slings and arrows and outrageous lies of the commentators on the left. Now, we even have useful idiots agreeing with us- this was uncalled for, and wrong.

While nobody actually SHOT Sarah palin, many people wished for it. And the ten million candlepower torch of awareness shone bright upon their deeds, and showed them for what they are.

This is how it’s done. This is how to manage a “crisis” as Deadfish says. At every turn, expose the retards for what they are.

We could try to find derogatory names to call these fools, like “birthers” or “Truthers” but the actual truth is, that sort of playground name calling is almost the exclusive property of the left. It’s what they have instead of reason.

No. What we have to do is calmly and collectedly and collectively point out the actual truth.

Many will not listen. But some will. And when they view the left under the naked glare of the ten million candlepower glow of the Truth, they will see them for who they are. We can’t let their challenges stand anymore, we have to expose them for what they are, for as many to see as will see. And the more violent and steeped in rhetoric they are, the more we have to be the adults.

I have- for the first time in a very long time, the faintest glimmer of hope that there is a chance for decency to exist in the world.