Posted on 05/08/2010 5:33:06 PM PDT by 2aberro
wow! Lake Tahoe is a cold lake. Too bad about the loss.
Put her, (or yourself) at the end of a 1/4 mile driveway, in the woods, with no neighbors, and the law is at least 1/2 hr away.
Now have someone knock on the door at 1am,, it happened.(turned out to be the law)
After that, how would your wife feel at night? (PS,, coyotes killed the dog.)
I recently discovered our local CMP Garand Match group. While I save up my allowance to purchase a Garand, I've been using my Mosin-Nagant M38 to compete. Other than some stripper clip hang issues during the rapid fire sessions, I've really been impressed with that 68 year-old rifle and the 26 year-old surpluss ammo I've been running through it. I think that rifle could hit the black every time at 200 yards if I could get settled in.
I replaced the original stock with a synthetic "Monte Carlo" version after the original cracked on me. The synthetic stock is not legal for formal matches, but the local group just wants folks to come out and shoot.
That stock makes a world of difference for the feel and recoil of that M38. I can run 55 rounds through it at a shoot and not feel it at all.
If you read the history of the firearm, it was made to be simple, yet tough. I have read stories about it being dropped, run over, blown up and still working.
I also have had problems with the stripper clip.
We currently also own a carbine and when we got it, I had to re seat the firing pin and the spring. It was a simple operation.
As was mine. But if she found a rat snake or a king snake, she'd put it out by the corn crib where it could do some work.
That was too close to her chickens. Grandma did not like snakes around her chickens. Maybe if she'd had a different layout on the farmstead. But they bought that one, having lived at another location until not long after I was born. I have no memory of the farm where my Mom grew up.
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