AAAGGGGH!

Oh noes, the killer geese are attacking the community college! I really did not expect that! Zombies maybe but not this!  I can haz hazardous duty pay?

Lawn mower lawsuit?

You have got to be kidding me! I guess it's true, you can sue anybody for anything in this country! 

From the bench

Since select family and friends are now aware of my reawakened interest in firearms, they occasionally ask if I would "take a look at something and clean it up". As I am a usually guarded person, it takes some time to reach this level with people. I guess that is why Blogging is totally different for me. Excuse my noobness at this.

But I digress. A person I care deeply about gave me this:

This is a Ruger Super Blackhawk .44 magnum revolver. According to my little NRA book: "..bears a strong resemblance to the original Colt Single Action Army and Frontier Model of 1873". I would agree and the firearm shows much holster wear, much handling wear, but very little firing wear. He told me that it had not been fired in over 30 years.

The best thing (or worst) is that it came packaged in this:

 For thirty + years. With rounds in the loops! It took some time to figure out how to clean the loops!

The knife is a German Puma and is still incredibly sharp!

The holster is a Bianchi and looks complete. The Puma knife was added to the rig later. The holster has gone through two washings with Lexol cleaner and one of Lexol preservative. It is sucking the stuff up!

Anyone have any ideas on cleaning the rounds up from the loops? Pretty ugly stuff!

The best thing about this labor of love is that I get to "test fire" this weekend!

K

Easter!

Its Easter and nothing says that here like "Filmed in VistaVision and Western Electric sound recording". I am of course referring to The Ten Commandments


Been running at Easter as long as I can remember. I have the DVD as I fear that ABC has trimmed the 3+ hour movie down to 9.25 Commandments for commercial breaks.

Trivia on the IMDB states that after the gruelling orgy filming that lasted over three weeks, one female extra wanted to know who she had to get intimate with to get off the film!

K

Retro Sunday! Updated!

I have enough people hanging around now that gave me grief about the quality of the photos on this post. Point taken! New images! Yes, the phone is a Frankenphone. Best I could do, but it works admirably in the garage! 

Used to be that you could not swing a dead cat in the US without hitting one of these:

An article from CNN details the demise of this portion of the POTS. And to be true, if you want to run one of these you need a couple of things. First the owners manual:

Then the magic occurs here:

 This little thing did stuff like off-hook detect, ring the bell, give you a dial tone, coin detect and other miscellaneous stuff.


Phone booth optional!

Happy Easter everyone!

Spring is here!

Looks like its time to put down the taticool pants and find the taticool shorts! We might break the record high here of 87 today. Nice day to go to the range!

Whoops!! Gotta go!

Well it looks like the end is near. Troubling report here on something not quite right at the Large Hadron Collider. I'm leaving the office now to hole up in the safe room and wait it out as long as I can! Anybody need a crowbar?