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Over the weekend, my uncle showed me his gun collection. He's got a lot of very nice selection of turn-of-the-last-century rifles, including about 3 Stevens Ideals, a Spencer Repeater, and an old sporterized Mauser etc. He's got a shotgun that belonged to his Uncle, and a pump action .22 that I didn't identify that belonged to my Grandpa. I was kind of overwhelmed, and didn't get a chance to scrutinize any of them. He's recently gotten caught up in the gun-buying panic of '09 and purchased two new Ruger Mini-14s. The NRA special, and the new Tactical model. They're nice, but they're not AR15s. I prepared for '09, and did all my gun buying last year when stuff was available.



I recently got a Curio & Relic Firearms license, which allows me to have Curio & Relic firearms shipped directly to me if I were to order one from an online vendor, or win one at auction. I primarily got it because I like mil-surp rifles. But I ought to start looking at some Americana pieces as well. It might be kind of fun to have a Stevens ideal, or Spencer Repeater. Oh, and he has a pre-'64 Winchester Mod 94 in .30-30. That's a gem.

Beer is wonderful. The piss-water that you can get in the grocery stores here in Utah is terrible.

I'm going to start homebrewing. I've ordered this:



I also ordered 48 bottles and a recipe kit for an Oktoberfest Ale. I'm reserving the 18th for boiling up a batch of wort!

Oh yeah!

(I wonder if this hobby is my next obsession?)

My wife got Jerzy as a puppy 14 years ago. I came into her life seven years ago. It was very sad all around. She was a sweet little dog and we'll miss her.

Today is a great day for law-abiding gun owners in the U.S. of A.

This is an Evil Black Rifle. It's so retro however, it almost looks kind of sweet and innocent to me.

It's my latest acquisition.

It's going to be joined by an "A2" style AR-15 next week. :)

A bunch of news stories by unbelievably ill-informed newspaper writers lately has me just disgusted. They call AR-15s "high powered rifles" with stunning regularity.

Ok. Here it is for all to see:


Guess which of these cartridges is fired by the AR-15/M-16? I'll answer in the replies section.

Australia's draconian gun ban has had little to no effect on the incidence of gun crime in that country.

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