Mags are moving muy pronto. The Steel Lips mags will be sold out in the next day or two. Still have plenty of the Hot Lips…. and at 14 for a hundred bucks, delivered!, you’ll be kicking yourself if you let this one go by.
Out of the Steel Lips but may have more in a few days. Still have plenty of the Hot Lips.
ETA: Spoke too soon. Delivery just dropped off another case of the Steel Lips. But…the Hot Lips are still an excellent value and you should get some of them too.
Man, that is a lot of Ruger mags that just moved over the last couple days. I have about 17 16 15 13 12 10 bundles of them left so if you’re wanting some magazine security in your life, now is the time. Priced to move and that’s exactly what theyve been doing. Get ’em while you can.
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Missoula gun show this weekend. I was remarkably restrained and purchased nothing except a few sets of reloading dies. But, best part, I got to meet some and greet some folks that I hardly ever see except for at these sorts of things. And that was a good experience…it’s always a joy tob e around like-minded individuals where you don’t have to hold back about your interests and beliefs. In short, its a nice thing to get to spend time around ‘your own people’.
Didnt see much at the gun show that jumped out at me. Was hoping to see some .338 Lapua Savages but…nope. Was also hoping to run into Trochmann to pick up some odds and ends…nope. But there were still a few interesting things to look at. It’s kinda strange to wander a gun show and realize “I don’t need that, I already have a dozen of them” but that’s pretty much what happened. My wallet needs the breather anyway.
Well, if you remember the deals in the past on the Butler Creek 10//22 mags you may recall that prices were…quite good. I seem to have pleased the Magazine Gods and they have granted me a boon. In addition to the deal on AK mags (which I recommend you snap up), I have a ridiculously good deal on 10/22 mags.
Snooze = lose.
ETA: The AK mags are almost gone One 10-pack of AK mags left, the Steel Lip mags are starting to run low, still have plenty of the Hot Lips mags.
Uhm…yeah….those AK mags might not be the only mags that wound up in the back of the vehicle….
#thatsalotofrugermags
Well…thats a buncha mags.
Nice 20-rd AK mags. They’re going in for the Deep Sleep. Or they’ll await the next election. But, either way, a ten-pack of AK goodness can be winging it’s way to you for $100 delivered.
Ten of ’em fit in a Medium Flat Rate box, to all 50 states..including the usually-expensive-to-ship-to Hawaii and Alaska. Email me for an invoice you can pay online and start socking ’em away.
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The old standard for guarding against hyperinflation has always been gold and, to a lesser degree, silver. But, as seen in many wartime economies, certain goods hold their value across board… most notably cigarettes, booze, and …ahem…’personal services’. There’s a handful of occupations that are, basically, recession- and depression-proof: food, medical, weapons, entertainment, and sex. Doesn’t matter if it’s a war or a depression – everyone wants to eat, everyone wants to live, everyone wants to protect themselves, everyone wants to forget, and everyone wants to get some action.
Of course it’s kinda hard to transport some of those goods in a convenient manner which is why we have a medium of exchange – gold.
About this point in the conversation the shortsighted jump in and say that if you can’t eat it or shoot it, it’s worthless. After all, they argue, if you were dropped in the middle of the Andes with a suitcase full of gold you’d starve/freeze/etc.
This is, of course, quite true. But it fails to take into account that economic disasters rarely happen overnight. They are usually a gradual-but-increasingly-steep slope. The gold gets you the things you need to survive that drop into the Andes. Somewhere between “normal” and “Mad Max” is where the gold come into play. When the local backpacking supply shop won’t accept currency, the gas stations won’t take plastic, and the gun stores won’t take a check….that’s where the metals come in handy.
But…thats my opinion. I hedge my bets….metals, ammo, fuel, food, etc.
Sometimes a deal thats too good to be true…is.
Case in point, the Mossberg 590A1 I picked up. Took it to the range today. Loaded it up, brought it up to my shoulder, pumped the action and…..a shell popped out of the mag tube, missed the carrier, and landed at my feet. Hmmm.
Apparently, every time I worked the action, the shell lifeter would go down but no shell would be released into it by the magazine. You don’t have to be a genius to figure it’s something with the shell stop tab or shell interrupter.
First things is first…hit YouTube and get a disassembly video. Pulled the gun apart, cleaned everything, light oil, and back together.
Same problem.
Now here’s where it gets interesting. One of the cool things about having redundant backups is that rather than guess what part was giving me trouble, I could simply swap parts from a gun that I knew was functioning perfectly, put them in the trouble gun, and see if that made a difference. I pulled a Mossberg 500 outta storage, disassembled it, pulled out the stop and interrupter, exchanged them, and….joy. But because I had a similar model to swap parts from, I was able to swap parts to find what was the problem part. The alternative was to guess, replace several parts, or hand the thing over to a gunsmith.
A quick trip to Mossberg’s website got me several replacement parts for $30. That puts my basis on the 590A1 to about $165. Still ahead of the game. And, as a plus, I learned how to completely take the bloody thing apart. And I picked up some spare parts.
I’ll take the 590A1 to the range again later this week to confirm function, and when the replacement parts get here I’ll put them in the ‘donor’ 500, function test it, and put it away.
Moral of the story? A handful of 12 ga. dummy snap caps would have tuned me into the situation ALOT earlier.
I bought a bloody 590A1 today and am picking up the Glock tomorrow…why must these people go to the well so often????
:::Text message:::
“..” …Actually, lemme just screencap it:
I already have a Model 12. I bought one a few years back, had the barrel chopped down, and it makes for a handy takedown shotgun that just barely fits in my backpack. But…it’s an old design that features parts that havent been made since they lit Kennedys flame at Arlington. It’s not exactly a primary, secondary, or even tertiary choice for a shotgun. BUT the fact that it takes down is handy.. so I bought one.
This one, which is actually cheaper than the first one I bought, is in pristine condition except for a hairline crack in the stock and some freckling starting to form. 1914 manufacture and it is a strong 90%+. The crack and the slight freckling are all that I can find wrong with it. All the edges are sharp and it’s a gun that looks like it rolled right off the factory floor. Too nice for me to cut down. I’ll take it to the gun show this weekend and see if someone will gimme $300-$350 for it.
But…good grief…July has been a gun heavy month…Win 1200, Win 12, Mossberg 590A1, Ruger AR, Glock .357… I really went overboard this month.
Buy some AK mags so I can keep buying guns I dont need!
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:::Making the bed::::
Phone: !beep!
:::Text message:::
“Mossberg 590 12 ga with extended tube. extendable stock. interested?”
Dammit.
Why does this happen a) right after I get paid and b) when I have to be somewhere in 15 minutes?
Short version: someone bubbatized a 590A1 with some cheapo M4-style stock and a coat of spraypaint. But..for $135 I can just rattlecan the whole thing.
Need to contact the guys at Choate and see what they have for a replacement stock/forend.
And I was just recovering from the Ruger last week.
But…then it got worse. I somehow managed to say yes to a NIB Glock 32 for …. $300.
Double dammit.
I’ll keep the 590A1 for a stash gun, but the Glock is getting swapped out for the first Glock 9mm I can find.
Reminder: AK mags
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Scenes from a classroom…….
Read the question carefully. Pay particular attention to the third part of the question. Think about the answer you’d give. As I was reading it, I was reminded of this scene from ‘Starship Troopers’:
The way she answers that question about what the city fathers of Hiroshima would think… that was pretty much the same answer I gave: an answer that ignored the question because the question was moot.
“Okay, question three, what costs are relevant in a decision of whether Bill should give up hunting?
:::crickets:::
“Anyone?”
:::raises hand:::
“Yes?”
Me in a clear, authoritative voice: “None of these costs are relevant. The only thing that’s relevant is whether Bill wants to hunt or not.”
“Exactly! Very good!”
I should also note that the original problem listed ‘whiskey’ as an expense. The teacher actually changed it to Diet Dr Pepper because she felt that encouraging alcohol consumption and hunting was a bad idea.
I was expecting that my answer would an unwelcome digression from the goal of the lesson, but there was no way I was going let go unchallenged the assumption that someone had the right to tell someone else how to live.
