Does your wife own a 12 ga?

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[2aberro]

To whom it may concern. If your wife does not own a 12 ga, you may need to buy her one for her birthday.

I recently took a job that keeps me away from home most of the time. My wife had many nights of sleeplessness due to fear, agnst, and lack of self confidence when she is alone at night.

Long story short. I bought her a short barreled 12ga and it is loaded with low recoil buckshot.

She and I practiced with HER shotgun with light dove loads for several weeks.

The 12ga sleeps on my side of the bed when I'm not at home and she sleeps soundly now, she fears no living being. Here is a poem I really like:

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It's all a tale of living, of what a man can be. I'll pass it on from my life, so maybe you can see. There's very few things that can't get done With five hunnerd dollars and a pump shotgun.

It's been passed on to me, from father to the kid. Sometimes you have to stand tall, sometimes you best be hid.

But a man can always stand tall, he never has to run

With five hunnerd dollars and a pump shotgun.

There's times when life is fearful, there's times that aren't so good. When a man does what he has to, when he does just what he should.

But he can keep his house warm, his place there in the sun With five hunnerd dollars and a pump shotgun.

One night the prisoners broke out, a few had rushed the gate. And Daddy heard that they were coming, heading down the interstate.

But they didn't stop at our house, they continued on the run Cause Dad was on the front porch with a pump shotgun.

Sometimes my Dad worked overtime, sometimes from out of state

My Momma didn't worry when the old man got in late She knew where Daddy kept them, could grab them on the run She had five hunnerd dollars and a pump shotgun.

It didn't matter what the trouble, didn't matter what the cause, If a kid got sick or the roof blew off, it didn't give her pause.

If a wolf got in the chickens, just trying to have some fun Mom would greet him warmly with a pump shotgun.

And when I started my house, with a baby on the way Dad came by one evening, said what he had to say "Remember all your lessons, and do what must be done.

Here's five hunnerd dollars and a pump shotgun."

[Calamari]

wow! Lake Tahoe is a cold lake. Too bad about the loss.

[2aberro]

I don’t know how I’d deal with a woman so delicate that her nights were sleepless and full of fear if not in my presence.

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.)

[IYAS9YAS]

Trust me, she rarely misses at the range. Nerves of steel, and 20/20.

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.

[alarm rider]

I am a big fan of the Mosin-Nagant.

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.

[gundog]

She was of pioneer stock. German pioneer stock.

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.

[El Gato]

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.

[Sopater]

Unfortunately, they were all lost in a tragic fishing accident.

That's a cryin' shame.

I think I'll go fishing this weekend and hope I don't have your crummy luck.

But if I do, who do I report it to?