Which is an improvement on the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings which were hot and muggy.
So, while SWWBO went to market with her yarns, buttons, and eggs, I fed and watered the herds and flocks, handled the newest bunnies so that they are people-tolerant, replaced the tailights in the Pick-Up of Argghhh! and did some shooting. Specifically the Winchester M1 and SIG 250, with the .40 S&W barrel installed. [Click the picture to enlarge it]
Had to take the Garand out for a test drive. It's a Winchester, one of three in the collection and is one of the ones that came in back when President Clinton *let* the South Koreans import M1s. Everyone caught the associated crime wave and acts of terrorism, right? The ones that caused President Obama to not allow the Koreans to send us any more of them, because, well, yanno that terrorists like big bulky WWII era rifles that shoot expensive ammunition and are hard to conceal and have to be reloaded a lot, but I digress.
She's an old soldier who did the war in the Pacific with the Marines, then Korea with the Marines, and then stayed behind with the ROKs.
She had a distressing tendency to drop her trigger group out, it was so worn. I finally found a virtually new WRA trigger group, swapped 'em out, and ran 13 clips through the magazine while sending their contents downrange, with nary a problem. Didja note that? I put the clips into the magazine... because that's what ya do with a Garand. And I loaded magazines into the SIG... because it doesn't use clips, just magazines Sorry, just a pet rock of mine.
Here's the new WRA-marked trigger group. For those who don't know, WRA stands for Winchester Repeating Arms. Since the trigger-group needed replacing, why not look for a matching bit of kit? No serious collector is going to mistake this rifle for an original-configuration Winchester Garand anyway - and if you're an amateur who does... well, that's part of learning how to collect. All of us have bought something that wasn't what we thought it was at one time or another. As many rebuilds as this gal has been through - and that's true of most M1s - for all practical purposes going about it this way is no different than it being done at an arsenal.
All in all, a good beginning to the weekend. I hope yours is as pleasant! I gotta go police brass now... then SWWBO has an Armorer-do list.
So, while SWWBO went to market with her yarns, buttons, and eggs, I fed and watered the herds and flocks, handled the newest bunnies so that they are people-tolerant, replaced the tailights in the Pick-Up of Argghhh! and did some shooting. Specifically the Winchester M1 and SIG 250, with the .40 S&W barrel installed. [Click the picture to enlarge it]
Had to take the Garand out for a test drive. It's a Winchester, one of three in the collection and is one of the ones that came in back when President Clinton *let* the South Koreans import M1s. Everyone caught the associated crime wave and acts of terrorism, right? The ones that caused President Obama to not allow the Koreans to send us any more of them, because, well, yanno that terrorists like big bulky WWII era rifles that shoot expensive ammunition and are hard to conceal and have to be reloaded a lot, but I digress.
She's an old soldier who did the war in the Pacific with the Marines, then Korea with the Marines, and then stayed behind with the ROKs.
She had a distressing tendency to drop her trigger group out, it was so worn. I finally found a virtually new WRA trigger group, swapped 'em out, and ran 13 clips through the magazine while sending their contents downrange, with nary a problem. Didja note that? I put the clips into the magazine... because that's what ya do with a Garand. And I loaded magazines into the SIG... because it doesn't use clips, just magazines Sorry, just a pet rock of mine.
Here's the new WRA-marked trigger group. For those who don't know, WRA stands for Winchester Repeating Arms. Since the trigger-group needed replacing, why not look for a matching bit of kit? No serious collector is going to mistake this rifle for an original-configuration Winchester Garand anyway - and if you're an amateur who does... well, that's part of learning how to collect. All of us have bought something that wasn't what we thought it was at one time or another. As many rebuilds as this gal has been through - and that's true of most M1s - for all practical purposes going about it this way is no different than it being done at an arsenal.
All in all, a good beginning to the weekend. I hope yours is as pleasant! I gotta go police brass now... then SWWBO has an Armorer-do list.
And, JTG, I couldn't care less about your pedantic tendencies.
Then there's the APDS vs APFSDS, the latter soon to be misnamed the Weiner Round.
Cheers
Just this evening I caught my pastor saying "incredible" at least 8 times in the sermon, at least once in praising the Lord. I said, "Don't you think He's credible? Otherwise we wouldn't be here. " He averred that "amazing" was a better word to describe the Deity and his works.
Got my first Garand a few months ago. Its a 55 SA with GI wood, now I want a WRA, I must control the urge though, as I don't seem to have enough time to get the one I have to the range as often as I would like.