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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Nice kids, ain’t they? :~\
This is how I prefer to see them:
This is one of my "mystery weapons", bought on the spur of the moment at a gun show, on the hunch I might never see one again. I think I was right. It's a genuine USAF M6 survival rifle-shotgun, but with a legal length (20" in this case) barrel. Next to it is the Springfield Armory "Scout", made by CZ, and no longer in production. That was bought on a hunch, too.
As near as I can tell, the M6 came from a scrapped 1950's era bomber. They had more crew, and more room, so there were separate survival kits that would be thrown out if the crew had to escape. My guess is this M6 was still in the scrapped aircraft (stranger things have been known to happen), but the purchaser couldn't take it out of the boneyard with the 14" barrels intact. A cutoff saw took quick work of that, and there would be plenty of those around.
A shadetree gunsmith then installed a 20" barrel (18" would still have been legal) for the .410 and .22 Hornet. It's a pretty simple procedure, since the barrels are just pinned inside the monobloc. It's a pity they didn't salvage the special front sight, but instead used something hokey like a barrel band from a tubular-magazine .22.
The weapon has seen a rough life. The finish appears to be lacquer over parkerizing, and even that's gone in many places. There are a couple of horseshoe clips missing, and the pivot pin is a bit bashed, but everything still works.
The major difference between the M6 and the Scout, aside from barrel length, is the stock. The pattern of holes is completely different, so it would be impossible to fake a real M6, even if you weren't worried about the markings.
Actually, the Scout has several refinements over the M6, and is a better weapon, although both are a bit crude. The mechanism is completely different inside, and the M6 has an unobtrusive safety, as opposed to no safety on the M6. The knob on both hammers is the "selector" that is pulled up or pushed down to select the upper (rifle), or lower (shotgun) barrel. On the M6, there is a middle "neutral" position where neither firing pin can be contacted, and the selector can be locked in that position with a quarter turn of the knob. In the interest of full disclosure, I removed the nanny-state trigger guard that came with the Scout.
The Scout had a choice of .22LR, .22WMR, or the original .22 Hornet for the rifle barrel. I chose the .22LR just because it would be cheaper to shoot than .22 Hornet. This resulted in a slightly different ammo compartment inside the stock.
This view also shows the one place where the original Ithaca has the Scout beat on cosmetics. The seam where the stamped stock meet, just ahead of the ammo compartment, is filled in and ground smooth on the M6, and untouched on the Scout.
Despite the crudeness, people who own the M6 say it's quite effective, especially in .22 Hornet, at ranges that might be encountered in a survival situation. It's also light and flat, and can be taken down into two parts, and stowed very conveniently.
And I have a military M6 with "Frankenstein" barrels grafted on. Well, Michigan is a NFA-unfriendly state, and this is the only way I could own one. The correct M6s, sold as SBRs, are few and far between, and can bring up to $3500. Not bad for something that probably originally cost the taxpayer about $50.
Heh...I shouldn’t even be up this late, but I just had an “if I’d only had a video camera” moment.
Halvah was trying to drink some water from the very bottom of a plastic cup, and, as one would expect from Halvah, got her head stuck. Then as she was trying to back out of it, she tipped it up so it splooshed her right in the face before it fell off.
She had a heck of a time pretending she’d meant to do *that*.
Thanks for bringing back some fantastic memories 300winmag. Back when a fat gray squirrel or a small partridge was "big game".
I don't think a strike could make the plot any worse than last season's.
To our many veterans, heartfelt gratitude for your service.
I’ve still not seen the last 5 episodes of last season’s show. We lost interest, and watched “Heroes” instead, but still put it on the Dish Network DVR. When we switched back to Cable, I just never got around to watching them. I’ll have to wait for it to come out on DVD, I guess, and get it from Netflix.
If ya need something at Home Depot, today's the day to go. They're giving a 10% veterans/military discount and having a father and brother-in-law as a veteran is good enough to qualify.
Dunno if "Happy" is the proper salutation for Veteran's Day.
Yawn.
Didn’t get in from our rpg until 3:30! I have really pretty dice we got me for this game, blue marbled and gold. They were pretty decent dice too. It was very fun, first pen and paper rpg we’ve done in forever.
Heh... just reading about Halvah’s rookie move.
I’m in busy mode this morning... We have a potential storm tonight with high winds possible. I would go around and batten down your hatches best you can today! Fill some water buckets, know where your flashlight is... you know the drill!
Morning OT - “In Flanders fields, where popies grow...”.
Only flag flying on our street is ours, wish that wasn’t the case.
Just taking a break from the yard work, trying to get ahead of it again. Sixty one degrees this morning, my kind of fall.
I was late getting to bed, too, and woke up with half a lung of air. Needless to say, I blew off choir. Wouldn’t have been an asset today. ;o) We’ll go to 5:30 Mass.
This weather makes me nervous when it comes in November.
It was a warm, muggy November day like this before the monster tornado trashed North Raleigh.
Can’t say for Perfect Village, but Overland Park has flags all up and down Metcalf.
Excellent Graphic, our sentiments exactly.
I had a .22/20g for a short while, excellent all-around gun. With slugs suitable for MO whitetail, shot a number of birds and small game with it. Traded for a 20ga double, still have that one.
As always, great Saturday Nite Gun Pron (tm). I’ve seen the reproductions one in a great while at shows. Never shot one. Didn’t they make one with a ‘trigger’ guard for a while. I’ve handled a similar type weapon, ‘Bronco’? think it was made in Brazil, not sure on that. Didn’t inspire confidence. The ‘snake charmer’ .410 enjoyed popularity for a while round these parts. Not sure if that’s still made.
Well, that would make anyone a bit nervous, having had that experience.
The cemetery is likely surrounded by flags. There used to be sockets for flags in the sidewalk throughout downtown but since the ‘renovation’ there doesn’t appear to be any sockets or provisions for them.
Commies!
I’m not as productive as you are. I got the furnace filter changed (big deal ‘cause you have to go into the crawlspace to do it), put a cord switch in the light over the stove, and am (finally) putting in a light fixture over the kitchen sink.
I thought last weekend was the last weekend for barbecue, but I think I’ll grill the steak outside today.
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