First up - a shot of the Castle Living Room.... the bullet board, a little terrorist cat, Sven, and a mil-spec spring-back target. That's Castle-style Christmas decoration... The target will actually go out to the new backstop I had dug on the west side, where I can take longer-ranged shots and get feedback without having to dig out the spotting scopes and/or trundle down and change targets. If this has the requisite durability, there will be more.
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Answering the Whatziss - JamesLee and Og got it, though James was incorrect in his specificity. It is the magazine cap/bayonet boss to the new Castle Zombie-killer - a Mossberg M590A1. Pretty much the military issue Mossberg without the "US" marking on the receiver. Bayonet? On a shotgun? Heck yeah. Ya never know when you might need to cut off a Zombie's head while you're reloading. We like to cover all the eventualities...
Got the shotgun at the Fort Leavenworth PX. I've had the bayonet for some time. It took a little judicious fitting (removal of some of the grip rubber) to be able to get the ring over the boss, but it's a nice tight fight, suitable for slicing off zombie-heads.
The 00 buck will take care of just about anything else. I really do like the Ghost Ring sights. Very clear and easy to point sight picture.
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Answering the Whatziss - JamesLee and Og got it, though James was incorrect in his specificity. It is the magazine cap/bayonet boss to the new Castle Zombie-killer - a Mossberg M590A1. Pretty much the military issue Mossberg without the "US" marking on the receiver. Bayonet? On a shotgun? Heck yeah. Ya never know when you might need to cut off a Zombie's head while you're reloading. We like to cover all the eventualities...Got the shotgun at the Fort Leavenworth PX. I've had the bayonet for some time. It took a little judicious fitting (removal of some of the grip rubber) to be able to get the ring over the boss, but it's a nice tight fight, suitable for slicing off zombie-heads.
The 00 buck will take care of just about anything else. I really do like the Ghost Ring sights. Very clear and easy to point sight picture.
Doesn't he remember that even after five years, he's still Nº One.
Do us a favor, Boss. Next time when after a second clash with a bayo, do not drip blood over the thoroughfares of Leavenworth. It just make the jaundiced-eyed constabulary squint a bit harder.
My visual inspection shows the bayonet, while angled upward, is well clear of the bore - but you're correct, until I actually get around to shooting it a few times, we won't know if the pellets would hit the bayonet.
And frankly, I'm not sure I want to test it - I'd hate to find out the energy transfer was sufficient to knock the bayonet loose.
That would be a whole 'nother reason to be #1 in Google "I shot myself with a bayonet today..."
Might want to keep it out of direct sunlight, or get some UV filters on the windows. Sunlight will fade the board over time. Remember, we are only caretakers for these artifacts and you don't wnat future caretakers to curse you for mistreatment.
http://www.mopo.ca/uploaded_images/chainsaw-bayonet-734816.jpg
Well, except for the years it hung in the Arkansas State Capitol building, during the Clinton governorship, when the rarest of the cartridges on the board were stolen.
Oh, I can't *wait* to get home and see the pic... we bayonet collectors have a name for people that 'Turk' bayonets...
...five letters, begins with 'B', ends with 'a'...
Yeah? So why don't you have one, yet?
Tim - because... um, I don't want one?