Active!
The tracking number has finally gone active!That only took four days.Now the interminable wait while it makes its way across the country.
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Style
I am not yet to the completist stage of Finn Mosin collecting.Martta is a '42 SAKO gun instead of a VKT because I preferred the engraving work on the older SAKO's.They change the font of the serial and...
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Sometimes it's easier to get a point across if you can find a good analogy for the situation.Would you tolerate a butler who complained that it was harder to answer the door after you installed a new...
View ArticleSeattle Math
In Seattle where $15.00 an hour will soon be the minimum wage math must work differently than I was taught.This same math is on display in Los Angeles and will soon be used in Chicago and New York...
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BAG Day Rifle (Finally)
I present a 1941 made VKT Kivääri/91.Rebekka sounds like a good Soumi name for her.Just a wee bit longer than Tatyana, who was made in 1941 too!Hang tag, faded to illegibility.Aiming machine alignment...
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Flame On
A black guy as The Human Torch in a new Fantastic Four movie?Fine.As long as Susan is black as well.Because Susan Richards nee Storm is Johnny Storm's sister.It would will be strange for her brother to...
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Close Enough
The rear sight of the Kiv/91 was originally marked in hundreds of arshini as you can see above.Finland engraved new markings in hundreds meters and added a new notch for 200m.You can tell that...
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Memorial day is not about veterans. That's Veteran's Day.Memorial day is not about those who are actively serving. That's Armed Forces Day.Memorial day is about those whom are no longer with us....
View ArticleNeed More Lyrics
For Disney's Chosin...Sung to the tune of "do you wanna build a snow man?Do you wanna dig a foxhole?A two man fighting spot...A place to check your feetFor nasty trench rot...
View ArticleMemorial Day
Today is Memorial Day in the USA.Today I remember Robert Smith, my uncle, served at the same time Korea was winding up.Today I remember William "Standing Bear" Dawkins. He served during WW2 in the...
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Stone Age Projectiles
Never underestimate primitive man.He could lob a 92,162,042,000,000,000,000,000,000 grain; 380,160.00" caliber projectile at a mammoth with moderate effort with near 100% accuracy.
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Texas and Florida both have organizations attempting to get carry on campus legalized and to get open carry allowed.The methods of the Texas folks were roundly condemned as working against the rights...
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Lanyard Ring
Just in case you were curious, here's a picture of the lanyard ring take-down took from a S&W M&P 9 compared to the no ring version that comes with the gun.The ring is metal and encapsulated by...
View ArticleMosin Nagant Trigger Return Spring
Today I bought this.Short review, don't waste your money.Longer review...My Kiv/28-30 has a very floppy trigger. It's clear that it left SAKO with the Finnish trigger return spring, but that spring...
View ArticleAccurizing Shim
Take the gun apart, put the gun back together.Find the shim on the floor hours later...Take the gun apart...Got to remember those things when taking apart a Finn.
View ArticleState Of The Art
I think the general ubiquity of the Mosin Nagant 91/30 and how clunky it seems compared to guns like the 1903 Springfield or Mauser K.98k.Truth be told, it was state of the art in 1891 and compares...
View ArticleGoing Out On A Shaky Branch
A term, gun smith, is far more apt than most people realize.They're really the last smithies.Not a bad thing.But what a gunsmith isn't is a manufacturing engineer.Lots and lots of people who learn some...
View ArticleWait What (Again)
We shouldn't use .40 S&W because it's higher pressure and wears the gun out faster.The only acceptable 9mm rounds for self defense are +P and we should use them... despite being higher pressure...
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