RANGE DAY!
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.
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Yeah, shopping the old-stuff store areas can be a lot of (expensive) fun. At the moment I am trying to convince myself that I shouldn’t buy the Winchester 70 in .22 Hornet that I recently came across…
If you want to collect it and it’s in excellent condition, go for it. if it’s not in perfect condition- but you like it anyhow,consider having it reamed out to 218 Bee, whcih is a better cartridge with better ballistics.
The 22 hornet may be the worst cartridge of its type on earth, the ballistics are outdone by your basic 22 long rifle.
Glad Strike Hold is in bottle form now, seems to be pretty good stuff but I hate the waste of most aerosol cans.
Still like Eezox for rust protection, though.
The nice thing is that, unlike other visitors, when you show up early, you aren’t unsettled by the partially disassembled 1911A1 on the kitchen table…..
Come again and we can shoot from the back porch.
Or play with other toys.
I’m unsettled when I find people without firearms. I especially liked the dog treat anti theft system, and I look forward to duplicating it soon.
Partner says there are three rifles in pieces on the floor of his dining room, you should see the carnage.
Og
“I’m unsettled when I find people without firearms. I especially liked the dog treat anti theft system, and I look forward to duplicating it soon.”
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It’s crude, yet effective. Glad you both liked the cookies–I followed Brigid’s advice and used the basic Tollhouse recipe with tweaks suggested by Mr. B.
We gon’ have to have a long conversation vis-a-vis the Hornet one of these days, heh.(ducks head and prepares for return volley)
The short version of which is that it will do what it was designed to do better(and cheaper) then any other cartridge in its class IF the shooter is up to the job.
Jist one man’s opinion and all that.
LOL! Emdfl: Numbers don’t lie. The 22 long rifle will beat the pants off of any SAAMI spec Hornet load. If you’re talking about hot loads, of course, that’s a different thing altogether.
I want some of those LR’s you are shooting. Slowest velocity .22Hornet out of the Horndey book is 2300fps… And my mil spec surplus loads from the 50’s are somewhat warmer then that(45gr FMJ), but this is your house so I’ll just say that I really don’t know if I want another Hornet THAT bad, heh – not to mention what would happen if the household bookkeeper caught up with that purchase.
So hot loads. I’m still used to 22 hornet loads in the 1700 range. Didn’t know the SAAMI specs had been revised up.
This is a collectible thing, I get that. If shooting things is your aim, this is not the rifle you want, as I say. There are any number of gilt-edged barrels of modern, useful calibers that will do a better job for less effort and with better results.