Comments for Castle Pr0n, and answering the second whatziss first.

Castle Pr0n, and answering the second whatziss first.

2009-12-17T14:19:03Z

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.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-12-17

2009-12-18T04:04:40Z

USMC Steve - Sven is *always* up to something, and it's *never* good.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-12-17

2009-12-18T02:03:58Z

Neffi - IIRC, it's Dutch or Danish. But I don't remember.

Tim - because... um, I don't want one?

Comment from Tim on 2009-12-17

2009-12-18T00:16:18Z

Tim - Been there, photoshopped that, about a year ago...

Yeah? So why don't you have one, yet?

Comment from Neffi on 2009-12-17

2009-12-18T00:15:58Z

Oh spiffy, a foreign long-bladed fantasy copy of the KCB-77... (mollified grunt)

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-12-17

2009-12-17T22:41:11Z

It was tastefully done to a $5 bayonet, Neffi. If anything, it just made yours more valuable, neh?

Comment from Neffi on 2009-12-17

2009-12-17T22:06:35Z

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'...

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-12-17

2009-12-17T19:58:26Z

Tim - Been there, photoshopped that, about a year ago...

Comment from JamesLee on 2009-12-17

2009-12-17T19:40:57Z

Joe, I would think that within that 10-12 inches most, if not all, of the shot would still be in the wad. I would actually be surprised any pellets hit it.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-12-17

2009-12-17T19:37:14Z

The new windows have those filters, and my family has been the caretaker of that board since it was made!

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.

Comment from Tim on 2009-12-17

2009-12-17T18:36:52Z

Not bad, but if you really want to gear up you need one of these:

http://www.mopo.ca/uploaded_images/chainsaw-bayonet-734816.jpg

Comment from John (not the Armorer) on 2009-12-17

2009-12-17T18:23:38Z

Ooohhh! Nice cartridge board!

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.

Comment from USMC Steve on 2009-12-17

2009-12-17T17:56:56Z

That cat looks like he is up to somethin.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-12-17

2009-12-17T17:45:43Z

Haven't shot it yet, Joe, so I don't know. Just got it on Monday. That said, in actual use, probably won't be mounting the bayonet, that's mostly for fun.

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..."

Comment from JoeC on 2009-12-17

2009-12-17T17:34:45Z

Question: Don't you get some random pellet deflection from that bayonet? From the camera angle it appears the bayonet would intrude on the pellet flight path or be long enough that the pellets would begin spreading by the time they pass the end of the knife. It'd be a waste to have a pellet take off the tip, leave a lead smear, or be deflected away from the intended target....

Comment from JamesLee on 2009-12-17

2009-12-17T16:45:37Z

Wow. Usually when I take a wild guess on one of those, I'm nowhere near the right direction. When I start to see something in the whatzis, it then becomes nearly impossible to see anything else.

Comment from Boquisucio on 2009-12-17

2009-12-17T16:16:01Z

Sigh - Though it may make Neffi's heart a-flutter, sometimes Massa is a little hard to learn. No matter how many admonitions and warnings we may give him (I recently sent him a package with stern warnings on the outside wrapper), he just won't listen.

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.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-12-17

2009-12-17T15:31:44Z

PT Plan? Are you speaking gibberish there my good fellow?

Comment from jim b on 2009-12-17

2009-12-17T15:06:08Z

I was delighted to discover that the PX now stocks and sells guns. I't been a long time in coming back.

Comment from JW on 2009-12-17

2009-12-17T14:50:44Z

No walking to check targets? There goes the PT plan.