Neanderpundit

When I got my first deer, years back, I had sat in a tree stand so long my hands were ice cold, I feared they’d get frostbite and I’d lose fingers.

At the time, the knife I had was a Schrade Sharpfinger. It did a very good job of opening up the deer, and I immediately sat on the ground in the snow and jammed my hands into the deer up to the elbows. It took a good long time for the feeling to return to my fingers, but they did, and eventually I got the deer dressed and home.

The Sharpfinger is a great blade, because it’s shape was such that with even frozen fingers I was able to get the deer unzipped and into it without cutting the gut.

Had I not purchased the White Hunter a couple of years back, I’d still be using the Sharpfinger. As it was I gave it to a friend who uses it still. it’s a knife I highly reccomend for it’s shape and size and quality. Better still if you can find one of the early carbon steel ones.

as my uncle used to say, made you glad you didn’t winter kill.

Easter is the most important holiday to Christians, because it is the moment of our redemption. A lot of people have issues with Easter because it is based on a saxon pagan holiday- but if you look at the roots of Christianity, there is plenty of good reason for the integration of the so called “pagan” holidays into the Christian holidays. The idea of a “Gospel” account is in fact a pagan invention, just borrowed by the authors of the gospels. Likewise, the Pagan rites of spring were so embedded in the culture of the time, and they were so important to the people of the time, the Church wisely integrated them and taught, correctly so, that the celebrations they integrated were simply celebrations of Christianity before the arrival of Christ. So Easter, which was originally Oestre, the Saxon Goddess of Fertility, became integrated and is celebrated today both as a rite of spring and the moment of our redemption, which gave a sense of solidity and continuity to Christianity that it would have lacked otherwise. The history and tradition of the Catholic Church have always been steeped in formerly pagan rituals for very good reasons that I’m perfectly OK with because I know them and understand them, because they came from the Creator to people ignorant of Christ at the time.

Below the fold is a discussion of the Cantalamessa dustup, if you don’t want to read a long preachy post you might want to leave and go see what Brigid is up to.
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OK, I didn’t actually get to shoot anything.

Firstly, it was raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock when I rolled my ass outa bed, and we decided to go for the shopping side of gun ownership instead.

Partner is a serious collector in the making, and while I do not have the disposable income to collect, he sometimes does.

This has a couple of effects. 1: I get to ogle nice antique arms with him. 2: He sometimes buys them. 3: I help him haggle price- we do a kind of a good cop/bad cop thing that usually gets him at least ten percent. 4: I often get to operate said ordnance, which is a total hoot.

Today we stopped in at Cabelas and looked at acouple of rifles he’s been ogling Managed to get a decent markdown on a Marine Corps 03 with an oddly nickel plated bolt, and a very lovely Enfield which has the nicest furniture of any enfield I think I’ve ever seen, walnut forestock and matching numbers, and all the better quality stuff without any of the wartime expedient stuff. (sights, etc)

We then visited Blythes which has a new toy that Partner is very interested in, which shall remain nameless since he fears someone else will take it home before he can; therefore a report on that utensil will have to wait until next week; for if it is there, he will surely take it home and call it George.

Lastly, instead of hitting the range, I made email arrangements to go meet with Mr B, and picked up a couple of Gamma seal lids and a couple cans of Strike hold

I’ve been using the Strike Hold stuff for a while, and I like it a great deal. They don’t show it on the website yet but they have little non-aerosol squirt bottles now, and i immediatly filled the oiler in my M1 carbine with mine. It’s awesome to be able to use it and not have to spray it in a cup first.

Mr B has a boatload of way cool toys, and I am utterly envious; however like all entrepreneurs he makes his own hours; all of them. I do not envy him that.

And Midwest Chick makes a mean chocolate chip cookie, yes indeedy she does.