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

Castle Pr0n, and answering the second whatziss first.

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:19:03 -0600

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.

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

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:04:40 -0600

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

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

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:03:58 -0600

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

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:16:18 -0600

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

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:15:58 -0600

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

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

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:41:11 -0600

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

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:06:35 -0600

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

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:58:26 -0600

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

Comment from JamesLee on 2009-12-17

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:40:57 -0600

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

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:37:14 -0600

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

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:36:52 -0600

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

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:23:38 -0600

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

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:56:56 -0600

That cat looks like he is up to somethin.

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

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:45:43 -0600

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

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:34:45 -0600

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

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:37 -0600

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

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:16:01 -0600

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

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:31:44 -0600

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

Comment from jim b on 2009-12-17

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:06:08 -0600

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

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:50:44 -0600

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