If You Want Americana....

Go here. You will spend a great deal of time there. He is an accomplished writer and has spent a great deal of time researching our past. Americana. Before anywhere you go it all looks the same.

Oh, and if he can whip old photos and illustrations like this out with his captions added, so much the better!

I hoped that in his postcards of motels he had The Blu-Vue from my home town. Sadly he did not. I think a Costco or some such is there now. 


You will go down the rabbit hole and you will be impressed! 


 

So the Cool Kids Have Fun....

Murphy's Law and OldNFO get together to shoot some really great looking hardware. A great tribute for Memorial Day. Anytime these two Gentlemen whip a Firearm out it is always interesting. I need to get back up there!

Me? A simple task that reminds me of the incredible price paid in blood for me to do it. I gave the new ride its first bath and polish. Why does this remind me of the huge sacrifice of our Military? Because. A famous quote: "The Ford Mustang is American as hell. No other Country would have produced it, and its slavish love of it's antiquated rear axle pushed with obscene horsepower proves it." Heh. Much like the 1911 or M1 huh?

So we get to it. 

 



 







I don't wax cars. I polish them with Zaino. Much easier to apply, longer lasting, and without the flaky crap to get stuck everywhere. The right shoulder is for absorbing recoil, not the "Wax on wax off" workout. Of course I can whip out the Porter Cable random orbital buffer, the air chisel, air grinder, or the bondo depending on how bad it gets, but this was a cake walk.

So of course while I'm taking a break someone stops by to comment on my work. 

 
 










 Thanks!

So I need to take the new ride on a road trip soon. Stretch my long gun game out. 

See some friends. I can't wait! 

You Don't See These Every Day

So at the range today my friend whips this out:

Sorry about the crappy iThing photo, but it's a Smith and Wesson Model 622. This .22LR was made from 1989-1996. Single action stainless alloy with 10 round magazine. A great little pistol! This one seems to be from the first of the run with a mfg date of 1990.

Back In the Day

I met two woman the day before. I had to be at a training class at 0800 hours the next day for the new job. What do I do? Well travel oh an hour or so to meet them. Then it got to well, lets say I don't dance. I did to this though. At some bar.



I have two steps and I have them down pat! I Stayed uh somewhere that night. 

Oh crap! At o'dark thirty I had to leave them to well uh, go back to work! 

I get in the really crappy Mid 80's Mustang (4 banger, really) and driving straight for work. After 3 hours of sleep. The Stereo in the car plays this as I am wishing I could sleep! 



That pretty much sums it up. I used to be happy to shut the clubs down. I'm now happy if I can shut the Cracker Barrel down! 
  

Congrats To My Friend!

This person is special to me. I have worked with him for over 20 years. I have watched his children grow up. I had his Daughter in my Basic Pistol class. A couple of weekends ago this happened.

Congratulations to the new couple and +1 for my friend for whipping out a Shotgun! It was not a Shotgun wedding, his daughter requested the pic! 

Oh. It's his Fathers shotty. He passed away a long time ago. These things are important. Generation to generation. We cannot forget. We must pass it down. It's a Winchester of course. We just have them laying around down here in the south =). 

Yep!

Well When I Worked for The Bell System....

Calls of this nature never happened!

Sigh...... An Illustration from 1938. I think Esquire. I'm not sure.