Is it just me
or is it particularly soothing to have a rifle in your lap, polishing the stock with linseed oil, swabbing the bore with Rem oil? This is like chicken soup for my soul- the act of cleaning a rifle I particularly love.
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It always gave me a warm pudgy back in the old days whenever I tapped a thirty round clip (to seat the rounds) against my head gear.
Of course, it equally sucked when I conveniently forgot that I was wearing my boonie cap. Smacking yourself in the top of the head with a full 30 round clip of .223 fmj is a painful thing.
It’s not just you. Happiness is a warm gun of any kind.
oh no. that is nice. i enjoy it too.
Waiting for “them” to give me ONE good (or even fair to middlin’) reason to use it.
No, it’s not just you.
It’s particularly wuffiful if said firearm has a real wood stock and blued barrel. Dunno why, but the combination of tactile and olfactory is just heavenly.
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The cleaning of parts, the solid clicks or snaps as they fit together, the satisfaction of a mechanism working smoothly when reassembled… it is nice.
“Smacking yourself in the top of the head with a full 30 round clip of .223 fmj is a painful thing. ”
That explains a few things about you, Dick.
YEEESSSSS…I am guilty of just sitting down with my M1A and just holding it. Memories of the good days on the range and good friends and good company. I wish I was able to compete again. You will not meet better folks than the ones that compete in rifle matches. Damn, I may have to get one out of the safe now and just hold it. See what you started?
Maybe we should have “national hug your rifle” day.
As has been said before, it is not just you. Firehand said it best – the sound of a properly-working well-designed mechanism doing its thing after having been lovingly maintained. I especially enjoy the sounds that a revolver action makes as it does its dance.
Firehand and Slash are right, it is the feeling of holding a well-designed mechanism and hearing and feeling the clicks and whirrs. It is a similar feeling if you have a car with soul, not one of the modern plastic McCars.
Well tuned V8’s, V-twin with drag pipes, P51 Mustang Merlin engine, shortwave radio, exceptional brandy, a real Cuban cigar, and a precision built rifle, freshly cleaned with Hoppes and gently oiled…