Neanderpundit

bad enough that I was cropdusting all day, the gyros (or the mushrooms, I dont know which) caused me to have some wild ass dreams.

The dream centered around the weekend’s blogmeet; the waiter with the multiple face piercings and odd aroma came in screaming about “The incessant order changes” and shooting away; I collected some birdshot but Tam took a good center mass hit before Joanna pulled a Mossberg 500 with a black pistol grip and pistol grip forend out of her purse and took the guy out pretty decisively. (What, she said, it’s a tardis purse) Anyway the paramedics were working furiously at Tam, and she looked to be slipping away, just as a cop picked up the shooters weapon, and Tam caught a glimpse.

‘WHAT!!!!!” she sat bolt upright, throwing the paramedics aside “A FUCKING JUDGE? I AM NOT GOING TO FALL VICTIM TO A TAURUS JUDGE!!!”

Rage alone got her to the hospital where they were able to patch her up nicely. For some reason I rode in the passenger seat of the ambulance, using a nail file to pick birdshot out of my scalp. After dealing with Tam, the ER doc looked at my head, poured some cheap vodka on my little pinpricks, and told me not to get a haircut for a while until they all healed.

Busy as a three peckered goat at the moment, so I couldn’t make it to the blogmeet in any event. And I regularly dream about winning the lottery so you are all safe.  Still. I’m gonna try eating the gyros by themselves and the mushrooms by themselves and see which one causes the dreams. I bet it’s the mushrooms, now I think about it.

Does little to stem the tide of my hibernation instinct. Nearly had the Oglet to school late today, and I was myself late arriving at the orifice. The rain doesn’t help either.

Saturday we looked at a remington 1895 double, a 12 gauge in really beautiful shape, with ejectors. it was $250.

I’m not as afraid of shooting Damascus barrels as others, and these were in pristine condition, with wonderfully smooth and clean bores. The pattern was also spectacular. I couldn’t confirm if the ejectors worked because they didn’t have a pair of 12 gauge snapcaps.

I have to tell you, I lusted after it. And then I thought about the lefever in the cabinet back home.

Dad’s shotgun, the 20 I bought for him all those years ago. metal great, stock OK but not great. So I though, rather than add a shotgun to my already burgeoning collection I would put mine back right. I ordered new wood from Gunstocks inc, and last night I disassembled the action to confirm it’s function. This generation of LeFever is actually ithaca, which is a well made middle of the road gun. I intend to spend some time making the mechanicals perfect, and I will go on from there. I may post youtube video, I may just post some pictures of the work I do to it to get it functional.

the damnedest things happen to you.

I was walking around the SHOT show and came on the little group of booths that represent the consortium of the midline Italian makers- Uberti, Pedersoli, Chiappa, Sabatti. I wandered in to drool at the new Sabatti doubles and a voice over my shoulder says “Do you have any questions I can answer for you?” and I turn to face Gabriele Sabatti.

What a lovely man. I told him of my love for my 45-70, and told him that I wanted a 500 nitro with a set of interchangeable barrels in 20 gauge. He winced involuntarily. You see, it seems that when he put the contract together with Cabelas to sell the line of rifles in the US, he was told they would have to take a production rifle in 500 nitro and shoot 250 rounds through it before Cabelas would touch it. So he told his shooter, who said “no!”

So Gabriele Sabatti himself took a 500 nitro out back and put 250 rounds through it. “260, actually” he said, because Kynoch sells them in boxes of 20.

he told me that the 45-70 is the same forging and action as the heavier guns, and that the barrels are hard soldered, so I should have no issue using hard solids. he said the 8mm and 30-06 barrels were soft soldered so they could not bear solids long term. So I’m going to look at some of those barnes solids, work up some loads this summer, and see how much trouble I should be able to generate. Look for sore shoulders. (grin)