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Author: Sebastian
Vintage Rifle Bleg
I have a guy at the club looking to sell an M1903-A3 Springfield, manufactured by Remington. The furniture on it looks to be pristine, and it looks like it’s in really good shape. Asking price is $675. Good price for an M1903-A3 in good condition?
Hot Match
You could say I was on fire this match. It sure felt that way with the 92 degree temperatures, with humidity to match. After a really rocky start in the morning, which I will blame on the wonderful smell of Larry’s bratwursts on the grill distracting me, I shot a master score open sights. 35 out of 40. Going into rams, I only dropped three animals, then dropped two rams. That’s my third master score this year, which means I move from AAA to Master in open sight air pistol silhouette.
Any sights scores are still trailing. 27 out of 40 with the Mata Gallina. On my open sight pistol, I have the trigger to the point where it’s decent. I polished up all the surfaces on the .22, and cut the spring a little, but it’s still too damned heavy and creepy. Crosman triggers are awful from the factory, but they improve with use even if you don’t do anything to them. If you experiment a bit, you can generally get the trigger’s on them at least halfway nice. As good as you can expect from a pistol which costs 150 bucks.
Larry’s brats were fantastic this match. He got them from Rieker’s German Butcher in the Northeast part of Philadelphia. I am definitely heading there next time Bitter and I have a cookout.
Tired
Helped my dad move into his new house today near Reading, PA. It’s a nice area, and a nice house. Plenty of room in the basement for a decent air gun range. I miss having a basement. My current house sort of has one, but it’s small and finished. I won’t buy another house without one. There’s an air gun silhouette match tomorrow morning. Hopefully I’ll be able to drag myself out of bed in time.
That Rust Thing
Cemetery comes across a problem we’ve all dealt with at one time or another. Rust. There’s three ways you can deal with rust. One is to keep a coat of oil on your guns, and make sure you wipe them down before you put them away. The other is to keep moisture away from the gun. There are a few ways to do that.
Even thought I love the fact that, as a cowboy shooter that goes by the name of Cemetery, his pistol case is a little coffin, the first piece of advice is not to keep them in the case unless you’re transporting them. This is a surefire way to promote rust. Cases are magnets for moisture.
The second way to prevent rust is to decrease relative humidity. One way you can do that is to increase the temperature within a confined space, thus reducing the relative humidity. This is how a Golden Rod works within the confines of a safe or gun cabinet. Generally speaking, a Golden Rod is the easiest and most maintenance free way to combat rust.
The third way is to actually remove water from air within a confined, largely airtight space. This is what dessicants do. This is the solution I use, because the safe I got a good deal on didn’t have the electrical hookup, and I didn’t have an outlet near where I wanted to put it. Desiccants are effective, but you have to watch them, and they need to be reactivated. Get one that had an indicator compound in them, usually cobalt chloride, which is deep blue when dry, but turns pink as it becomes saturated with water. You can reactivate desiccants by increasing their temperature to 250 degrees. I do my two canisters in the toaster oven at 325 degrees for a few hours. You typically have to recharge once a month in the winter, and once every two weeks or so in the summer. The great thing about desiccants is that you don’t even really need a safe. Any closed, airtight container with a desiccant thrown in will put a stop to rust.
Contradict Much?
Specter Getting Hammered at More Town Halls
Looks like Arlen is really feeling the heat.
“You have great income, power and prestige, and you are using that on the backs of the American people,” Phillips said as the crowd erupted in cheers. “You are talking down to the American people if you think we are that stupid.”
Specter rejected the man’s suggestions that he has lost touch with the American people. He said he hosts town meetings in Kittanning every year and tries to respond to constituents’ concerns.
“I know how much anger there is,” he said. “It’s about 231 degrees Fahrenheit in Kittanning.”
After the meeting concluded, Specter told about two dozen reporters that he has been surprised at the rising anger and the number of people attending the meetings. As Democrats on break hold similar town hall meetings across the nation, the angry crowds have garnered headlines and some live TV coverage.
Arlen is also trying to make his case to Pennsylvania bloggers. You can bet yours truly isn’t going to be invited to any such pow wow. In another bit of Specter hilarity, he apparently called up Senator Grassley, ready to give him a piece of his mind, and instead got his voice mail.
Time to go Arlen. Time to go.
A John Kerry Moment?
Everyone remembers these imagine from the 2004 election that some say ruined Kerry’s shot at the presidency. Looks like Obama is looking for his John Kerry moment now. And really, we were harder on Kerry than we should be have been, because Kerry actually was a hunter and a gun owner, he was just a gun owner and bird hunter who supports gun control. I doubt Obama has spent much time fishing, and I’d be surprised if he knew what to do with a fish if he caught it. This should prove to be awkward.
Battle of the Rigby’s
You how we all said …
… if they passed one-gun-a-month you’d have people suggesting that it doesn’t go nearly far enough? Like, next would be one gun a year? One gun per person? How about this — no guns? When we say things like that, we’re told we’re paranoid and delusional. Well, sorry, no we’re not.
Hat tip to Cemetery