Neanderpundit

The Arisaka I’ve been playing with for some time now is nearing the end of the line, project wise.

I found a nice three leaf express sight, and removed the funky and cheap Williams sight. The express sight wasn’t going to fit, given its original octagon-barrel base, so I ended up making a ramp to park it on the Ari. Here’s a picture:

I patterned the ramp after the classic Rigby rifles in size, though I don’t have the abilty to make the graceful curves the size and shape is basically the same. I had to buy a little dovetail cutter to fit the sight in. Sorry about the crappy quality of the picture, my camera sucks at close range.

Now all I need to do is silver solder it down, regulate and file the sight, and blue the whole thing. A little stock sanding and some boiled linseed oil and it will be a fine, handsome, serviceable rifle.

all the KOS kids, all the HuffBlow morons, all the rest of them out fearmongering:

Don’t sweat it. If killing you would have fixed this, you would all already be dead.

Just saying.

Yesterday I counseled hatred for Jared Lee Loughner, and I have to retract that- I dislike and don’t do hatred. At least, I work very hard to try to avoid it.

See, if I had a houseful of cats, or a barnload of chickens, and there was a coyote and a fox, I’d shoot them both in a new york minute. But I wouldn’t hate them- in fact, I love dogs, and would be sad to have to destroy them- but the good of my chickens comes before the predator.

I’m not going to counsel hatred; instead, I’d like for this guy to be taken down like a mad dog, like a predator in a target rich environment. To hate someone- anyone, I think- is wrong. Better to dispassionately eliminate the threat from our society and thus be shut of the whole menace.