My local gang of loopholers totalled six, spread out over three generations. The youngest came home with a tactical pocket knife and a nicely carved sling shot, featuring a bear's head fashioned from a nub where the forks joined. The poor kid had to listen to the grandpas tease him about taking them to school for show and tell like we used to do.
Perhaps a stainless steel object which could have been -- but wasn't -- fitted with a shoulder thingy that goes up might have found its way into a certain vehicle. (My, don't we get weasel wordy in these days when we suspect the gendarmery trolls the internet, tirelessly alert for words suggesting badthink among the proles.)
Anyway, us older proles settled for non-bangables. In the trove is an early-1940s book co-written by Melvin Johnson (
yep, that Johnson). It's a detailed guide to ammunition of the world as it existed before John F. Kennedy was (allegedly) suspected of balling a German spy and sent off to wreck PT boats in the Solomons. The book went to a comrade, and I am jealous...
...Jealous but content, satisfied with seeing old acquaintances, having a few laughs, and scoring exactly $10 worth parts which solved a cursing, hair-pulling problem. I recently wrote a bit here about scoping that Mossberg/Varberger .30-06. I'd have sworn I had the correct parts on hand, so I screwed them on. Lovely except for the bolt making minute contact with the scope. Teeth gnashed, and I was frustrated enough to consider dragging out the angle grinder and butchering the offending 1/16th inch from the bolt handle. Or, Hell, maybe the scope. I had a tot of Tullamore Dew instead.
That rare, correct judgement was rewarded in Wells. A dealer's junk box yielded a ring and base set which looked right, and was. That helped pass an internet-free day yesterday, and I happily report the Mossy is now reliably scoped and bore-sighted. Just in time for spring gopher season. Always use enough gun.
