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The Arsenal in Motion.

Construction proceeds apace, with painting finished yesterday, carpeting going in today, satellite TV going in today, and Internet access next week (when I'll be gone on the road, anyway), hence why blogging by me is sporadic, despite all the stuff going on.

If the schedule holds, the cabinets will go in tomorrow, and the seals will be in place on Friday.

Accordingly, the Arsenal is in motion, changing from one site to the other, via different routes and at different times, natch. Not for nothing did I take those counter-terrorism classes with the driving lessons!

Arsenal staging.

For those who want to figure out what's in there - click here.

Notice Sergeant Barnacle keeping a [glowing] eye on things. Or izzat a BCR Labs Special Patrol 'Bot? You'll never know... until it's too late!

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There's a cat with shiney eyes. does that count?
 
via different routes and at different times, natch. Not for nothing did I take those counter-terrorism classes
....and Twinkles only smiled!!
 
I can spy with my little eye, several SKS's both pre and post ban. Looks like a Romanian or Yugo SKS? I spy a Mauser or two. Oh and is that Enfield? But a question? Where are the Black Rifles? (is this a time specific collection?)
 
There are *no* post-ban SKS's, only post-84 with the marking requirement. And there is a clean one, a Vietnam battlefield capture. The only "black rifle" in the Arsenal of Castle Argghhh! is a Brit L1A1 (pre-ban). There is a ROMAK in the Arsenal. I got into collecting for the historical connection. I do intend to get at least an M4-clone, but that hasn't been a priority. There's a Korean War capture M38 Nagant, an M44, several flavors of Mauser, including Siamese, several flavors of Enfield (including Siamese), there's a Tower 3 Band musket in there, a repro Remington Zouave (had it since I was 18), several flavors of Gew 88 and a MAS 35 in there, too. Oh, and a Springfield '03, I don't remember which one off the top of my head.
 
Oh, I meant to ask, how is the Interior Guard handling the move? I imagine y'all are a bit leery granting extraliminal privileges, 'specially after P.P. Houdini went missing, or deserted, or got waylaid or whatever.
 
Most of the Interior Guard did just fine with it. The one who didn't, the one named after the famous family member who was an explorer... Meriwether, *he* had a two-day hissy. Some have ventured out onto the deck, and the Empress, she of 16 years, has ventured into the backyard to sample the greenery. Rest Stop bolted out the front door this morning, only to realize, "Man, the world is freaking HUGE!" and scrambled back in.
 
Good move, Rest Stop - it's a big nasty world which doesn't care about kitties getting chomped or run over. Glad to hear that the Castle is getting outfitted properly, John :-)