Book Review: Molon Labe by Boston T. Party

CrashDisc ^ | 3/4/2004 | Jack Black

[blackie]

Right on Brother Brower!

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We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~

[archy]

Where was that flag used? The Alamo?

No Jack, that's the flag flown by the Gonzales Colony in Tejas when the Mexican army came to confiscate the little cannon the settlers used- probably with canister shot- to repel marauding Indian raids. And, as it worked out, Mexican federal governmental gun confiscators.

The fight over the cannon at Gonzales was the beginning of the Texan War for Independence, resulted in the following battles at Goliad, the Alamo, and eventually, the Texas victory at the Battle of San Jacinto.

*Details *here*

[jjm2111]

How far we've come.

[Doomonyou]

I'm about half way through Molon Labe and have found it to be a very enjoyable read. If you enjoyed Jeff Heads Dragons Fury series (Different subject however), John Ross' Unintended Consequences, Mathew Brackens Enemies Foreign and Domestic , or anything by L. Niel Smith, You will like this book!

Send cash and you can get an Autographed Copy by BTP.

[archy]

Hint: The $575 Winchester will shoot no better than the $400 Danish Issue/Return.

Hint: the $575 Winchesters are fought over by collectors and WWII reenactors, while the $400 Danish Issue/Returns were in many cases recently rebuilt, often with new barrels, some made by Beretta and very near match grade according to the air gauging machine at the NWSC Crane match rifle shop.

Another very good deal: a $200 Danish return barrelled receiver and an M1 Garand parts set. And for $50 more, you can have one that's been freshly Parkerized.

[MileHi]

Molon Labe!

[Blood of Tyrants]

I don't know about the Garand parts set. They have dried up recently and getting a really good one is a bit chancy as unethical people will order 20 kits and cherry pick the best and most valuable parts and send back the rest.

But why not a woodless Dane return? A $75 new stock from Boyd's and $50 for the metal and you are in business.

[Blood of Tyrants]

P.S. I'm not really into the name thing. An extra $175 won't buy you one more ounce of quality and accuracy and reliabilty than a Dane with a VAR barrel (an maybe less).

[archy]

I don't know about the Garand parts set. They have dried up recently and getting a really good one is a bit chancy as unethical people will order 20 kits and cherry pick the best and most valuable parts and send back the rest.

But why not a woodless Dane return? A $75 new stock from Boyd's and $50 for the metal and you are in business.

Not a thing wrong with that route. Funny, though that noone's reproduced the fiberglass buttstock of the M14 in an M1 Garand edition. I suppose the collectors would be outraged, but you'd thing Choate or one of the other synthetic stock manufacturers would be all over it. Maybe there's some hangup I haven't considered. The matching foreend and handguards, perhaps? But the Boyd stocks are indeed very nice; a shooting buddy of mine has one, and just for fun, we swapped stocks for one recent range session. No improvements, either way, and no problems. Just a good old day of Garand shooting.

[archy]

P.S. I'm not really into the name thing. An extra $175 won't buy you one more ounce of quality and accuracy and reliabilty than a Dane with a VAR barrel (an maybe less).

Concur, though I really prefer to avoid the H&R Garands. The best one I've ever had was a Springfield rework, with a Korean-era International Harvester as a close second. And a six-digit early WWII Springfield a close third.

I'd really, really like to have a tuned-up example of one of the recent manufacture Lithgow Garand receivers from Australia. They're not quite as they should be, but close.

-archy-/-

[Blood of Tyrants]

There are synthetic stocks available for the Garand, but it is almost heresy to put one on a Garand.

[Jack Black]

Just remember your clips boys! I went to the range on Saturday with the usual shooting partner and he brought his Garand and ammo but NO CLIPS. Oops. No clips / no bang bang!

I love my Mosin-Nagant

[Blood of Tyrants]

Is 100 clips enough?

[Blood of Tyrants]

P.S. I have a MN also (an M44 but I have been considering getting one of the Finnish M39's). I have a couple of 8mm Mausers and a Swiss K-31 (now that is one sweet rifle!)

[archy]

Just remember your clips boys! I went to the range on Saturday with the usual shooting partner and he brought his Garand and ammo but NO CLIPS. Oops. No clips / no bang bang!

I did the same thing with my #4 Lee Enfield, having driven to compete at the military rifle shoot at Knob Creek with my #4 Enfield and having left the magazines behind. I quickly hit the tables in the pole barn, looking for one I could get bt with and a couple of strippers with which to keep it fed, but no soap.

I hear that Garand clips in stainless will soon be forthcoming....

Now if we could just get some of the curved Finnish Nagant strippers, made for use with a scope mounted....

[archy]

There are synthetic stocks available for the Garand, but it is almost heresy to put one on a Garand.

I've mostly been shooting in 200-yard reduced-range Garand shoots for the last decade, and let the two Garands I've taken to Perry get away from me, one tuned by Crane armorer Glenn Nelson and the other a Ron Smith gun from my wide-open-spaces Arizona days. Both went to young shooters really building their own capabilities, one a competitive National Guard shooter on his state's *Governor's 20* team, who's now decided that maybe his match M16A2 isn't the only way to go.

I'll get along okay with my Arkansas/Marine match Garand and its original walnut okay, I expect. But if I was around Florida or the Texas Gulf I might feel otherwise.

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Don't put it on a white background, might be mistaken for a surrender.

[Who is John Galt?]

Don't put it on a white background, might be mistaken for a surrender.

I think the original was made by the citizens of Gonzales using a bed sheet - hence the white background. From what I have read of the confrontation, I doubt the Mexican troops mistook it for a surrender flag...

;>)

[Travis McGee]

Have you hooked up with the book yet?