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You married guys have to master this method for getting rifles into and out of the house.
First you carry empty rifle boxes out to the car through the kitchen when going to a rifle show like they had something in them. This may entail loading the car the night before because she has to see them go out the door. If she asks you say well I have some candidates for trading.
Next when you come home with anything new she has to see the now heavy rifle box come back in the door. If she asks how did you do you look glum and say not too good. This is only good if you have your own money source which she can not normally see. Now if she does you bought a bayonet or two for trade fodder. She has to also see this big backpack you carry in with nothing in it to explain where the bayonets were upon coming home. So every bit of ammo you buy has to go in there too.
You need a couple of safes to move things around in and they have to be where you only have can get into them. Periodically you overload one and leave the door open so she sees that so she thinks all of them are full. You have to buy at least one safe ahead to make sure you have space to put the new purchases. When she catches on you plead insanity or get a divorce. This has worked for me so it is battle tested! Did I mention I am single now by the way? This is one of the major reasons I no longer have a C&R license too because she can ask for and get the logbook when she says that is enough. Now she knows the reason you are always broke and can take half of your collections values in straight cash.
As I said this method works and is battle tested! Bill
Last edited by zeebill on Mon Dec 31, 2012 6:30 am, edited 1 time in total.
Crafty idea, all I do is carry the new rifle into the house and set it on the table, depending on how busy/lazy I am it might still be there two weeks later
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Junk Yard Dog wrote:Crafty idea, all I do is carry the new rifle into the house and set it on the table, depending on how busy/lazy I am it might still be there two weeks later
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Junk Yard Dog wrote:Crafty idea, all I do is carry the new rifle into the house and set it on the table, depending on how busy/lazy I am it might still be there two weeks later
Or even two months later if I have room to eat around it
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
nice first rifle but get ready for more,it turns into a sickness.you will need lots of ammo so start srocking up while you can. copes at the top of the home page has a good deal on it.
The commerce which maybe carried on with the people inhabiting the line you will pursue renders a knowledge of these people important ~Thomas Jefferson~ (to- Lewis and Clark)
A very nice pre-war Izhevsk M91/30. I can't tell if it is a pre-war stock from the photos. The bore, what I can see, looks good and is not counter-bored. Congratulations! You will find the Okie gauges easy to use. Directions should be included. As you collect a few more of these, the Okie gauges will come in handy. The gauges themselves are very small, so make a place in your tool kit for them, so you don't lose them.
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Oh yeah, two things to do. Check the headspace, as recommended. But, also use your handy mosin tool to be sure the firing pin is in spec. Don't want to rupture a primer...
Thanks for the tip on checking the firing pin. I didn't get the tool with the gun so checked it with a dial calipier and it was right at .095+. I looked up how to adjust it and have it now adjusted to .085. Should be good to go now as long as the head space checks out (Crossing fingers).
I didn't buy this to be a wall hanger, I really do want to shoot it. At some point I'd like to add a scout scope to it for shooting but not alter the gun in anyway so I can remove it to keep it's historic value.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Just got my Okie head space No-Go gauge in the mail today. Bolt wont close on it so looks like I'm good to feed it some amo next chance I get to go shooting.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
nice first rifle but get ready for more,it turns into a sickness.you will need lots of ammo so start srocking up while you can. copes at the top of the home page has a good deal on it.
Another fine example of mosin porn 
