Neanderpundit

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Hat tip Rachel Lucas who, by the way, finished her degree and is blogging again.

Spent a bit of time this afternoon with partner and Ed Hering. We hit the Crown Point gun show, then came back and went to the range. Ed brought to shoot a positively pristine Mossy 44, which makes me insanely jealous, and he can shoot it pretty well; offhand at 50 yards he was keeping them all in the 7 ring or below, having hardly ever shot a firearm in his life. He even did OK with his little Astra. He will need a lot more remedial range time, but i think he’ll do fine. He sure did the “beginner’s luck” thing all too painfully well, I wish when I started I could shoot as well as he did out of the gate.

Of course he has eyes several years younger than mine, so I’m sure that didn’t hurt either. All in all, a nice day. partner and I assailed him at times with our wicked wierd sense of humor, but he didn’t jump out of the car screaming, so I guess it must not have been too bad. It’s always nice to have a new shooter, and Ed is a natural born gun nut. We take Partner’s girlfriend next weekend, we hope, and we’ll see how things go there.

Thank god for pick&pull. Nephew has been out of work for a while and has a small child, so when prospects of a new gig reared their head, of course, his truck died. So he called his uncle.

I don’t have $300 to put in parts at the moment either, but I went to the Hammond Pick&Pull and looked for a starter and an alternator. $64 later, I’m in the car with them in my toolbag. I found a relatively low mileage starter that came off a Clunkers car (they have orange spray paint on the engine, lest you try to reuse any internal engine parts) and an alternator that was rebuilt apparently four days before it’s donor car was t-boned. Hope they work and give him some good service.

Remember crawling through puddles of antifreeze covered with a rainbow sheen of foul oil? Chasing the snakes out of the car to get the part you need? Remember when you could look at the taillight to determine the car’s age? when did THAT stop?

Anyway, I got the parts, even a 1 year warranty (though you have to go into the yard to get another part and take it out yourself) so I can’t complain too much. And I’ll probably take it out of the nephew in mowed lawns, which, to anyone who has seen my lawn, is a good idea.