Is the wait always this bad? Wait OVER! (updated)

[Thib]

Sorry for the vague title... First C&R purchase and my first Mosin. UPS tracking says tomorrow, I feel like a kid on Christmas eve!

First time excitement? Or more of the same from each successive box I open up in the future? Is it the unknown condition/year/markings or the mysterious thoughts of "where have you been, what have you done?" history aspect?

Maybe I'm just crazy...

Thib

[desdem12]

YES

[Junk Yard Dog]

It's always the same at the unboxing

[jeremyb]

allways the same for me.. I've got a hex on the way to me now. canot wait.. What kind did you get, and where from?

JB

[popgun]

we are all crazy over are mosins here! you will realy be crazy when you ope the box and pick it up. have fun! popgun

[Thib]

allways the same for me.. I've got a hex on the way to me now. canot wait.. What kind did you get, and where from?

JB

Hex from AIM... I even splurged on the hand select if that even matters.

[desertgunner]

Simple answer:
Welcome to MM , Mosinitis Madness!

Wait until you get adicted to the perfume of the rifle: Cosmoline and No 9 oil, it will rip your heart out, if you can't have it.....

[desertgunner]

in addition:
The AIM should be good, show us pix when you opened the box!!!
Keep her under your bed....when you open the door, the smell of cosmoline and No9 oil will soothe you and make you sleep well

[Teleoceras]

Oh yeah, it will get worse! Before you know it, you will be looking for all of the rare Mosins.....

[Thib]

I promise to post pics.

Hhhhhmn, Cosmoline and Hoppes 9... we may be on to something here! Picture a Chanel bottle with a label "Cosmoline #9" You'd buy it... Just not sure how the "Happy Anniversary Honey" would go over!

[Longcolt44]

Prepare to become best friends with your UPS driver. Until you start ordering ammo by the case. I always warn my regular driver and if he can he has another driver take his route that day.

[Junk Yard Dog]

My old driver from ten years back was complaining non stop that I was breaking his back. He left on a medical ( his back) and the new guy always seems to be off sick on the days I get crates of ammo delivered

[Jumperwire]

Prepare to become best friends with your UPS driver. Until you start ordering ammo by the case. I always warn my regular driver and if he can he has another driver take his route that day.

Friends Ha! MIne Quit

My first few, drove me crazy. The wait was unbearable, but as you buy more, it will get better. That is my secret for you. Buy more and it gets easier.

[desertgunner]

Thanks, Thib, you got it.....
...the right attitude for in here.....
There may be buyers, yes, with all their rifles in oil only like sardines, remembering the time....when the box was unopened....

Well, I guess i'm not gonna need it, I always keep a new one, not force-decosmolined yet, but partially done with No 9 under my bed....

Hon, do we have to have this gun smell in here all the time? No, only until she is ready to go into the safe! Yeah right, and then there is a new one already there? Maybe, Hon.......

[desertgunner]

my last one for today:
Thib, your's will be in your hot, sweatty hands tomorrow to hold for good.....
I have a 32 Ishevsk Hex sweatting in quarantine (CA law required) not far away, calling out for her owner alone in the night....
to wait for another 9 days...

That's heart-breaking for me.....


Yeah, age makes you go on the sentimental journey....more often

[Three_Dogs]

The wait to get one is the exciting part of Mosinitis syndrome for me.

[Hombre]

Welcome aboard Thib. It is nice to see that USAF logo. Not many members here have indicated that they are Air Force associated.

Clint
USAF 1955-1959 AFSC 43151C

[jeremyb]

allways the same for me.. I've got a hex on the way to me now. canot wait.. What kind did you get, and where from?

JB

Hex from AIM... I even splurged on the hand select if that even matters.

I have the same thing coming in the next few days from the same place. Maybe from the same crate. Post some pics when u get it.

JB

[Thib]

Welcome aboard Thib. It is nice to see that USAF logo. Not many members here have indicated that they are Air Force associated.

Clint
USAF 1955-1959 AFSC 43151C

Clint,

21 years, all National Guard, just retired 2 months ago. Combat Comm / Satcom.

That 431 AFSC of yours relates to Aircraft if my memory serves me right.

my last one for today:
Thib, your's will be in your hot, sweatty hands tomorrow to hold for good.....
I have a 32 Ishevsk Hex sweatting in quarantine (CA law required) not far away, calling out for her owner alone in the night....
to wait for another 9 days...

That is just sad. California law is lovely...

[Hombre]

....That 431 AFSC of yours relates to Aircraft if my memory serves me right.

The way I recall it, AFSC 43151C indicated Aircraft mechanic, single engine jet, Skill level 5.

I worked as a crew chief on F-84F and F-100D. I still have orders permitting me to start up, run, and taxi those aircraft. I thought about taking those orders out to nearby Ellsworth AFB and see if they would let me fire up the old F-84F they have there. (Just a pipe dream of course.)