Work has been keeping me busy, a bit too much. I am not built anymore for twelve-hour days but more like six-hour maps and it is showing. The funny part is that this is supposed to be the very slow time of the year for us and where we tap in out PTO reserves, but I am actually adding frigging hours to the account. At this rate I make take the whole week of the NRAAM rather than just three days…. belay that, nobody vacations in Atlanta if he has a lick of sense.
I am starting to get a bug about 3D printing. Not for doing gun frames, but for making my own things to fix around the house or solve a particular problem. We are now living in a very old house that will require remodeling/refitting, and I believe I can solve a lot of small headaches just making my own stuff rather than trying to find replacements online because they are no longer manufactured.
Oh, I have been meaning to make a rather long post criticizing some history writers that truly suck at narrative. I won’t mention names, but I am currently reading a Genghis Khan bio and a WWII pilots rescue-behind-enemy-lines book (yes, I can read more than one book at a time) and both books although dealing with fascinating subjects, are a drag to read. I am not saying that you should make Hollywood shit up, but just blathering repetitive facts over and over without a human context makes for boring reading. And some writers simply can’t write without sounding like an assembly instruction manual which makes you want to set the book on fire. No, I don’t burn books, I just donate them to Goodwill.
Am I the only one having issues keeping gun magazines located? I am taking the Appleseed Pistol Clinic next month and planning on using my true and tested FNP-9 with me, but learning from past experiences, I am also taking a PSA Dagger as back up and I know I bought at least 3 regular G19 mags, but I can only find the one that is in the gun right now. I have been looking and the only thing I have found is a box with a dozen AK mags I have forgotten about. And a similar problem with 10/22 mags which I am finding around in places that shouldn’t have been in the first place. I am corralling them in a couple of microphone pouches I have from my previous life as audio engineer. And no, I am not taking the P-Mag 27 rounders to the class, those are for the Ruger carbine.
A bit of dark humor because you are my readers.
And in other news, it seems Taylor Sherida shat the bed in the last season of Yellowstone.
I agree it was a dumb ending and if you had watched the Yellowstone 1883 prequel, you knew it was coming. But it is understandable because Sherida is a cowboy which is nothing more than a white nomad. Most of the Indians tribe were also nomads and contrary to the established myth, they did not love the land the way a farmer did and does. Your civilization does not advance unless you settle and dig and root in a piece of property that will eventually be spiritually fertilized with the bodies of the departed that lived in it. It is the homesteader that tamed and developed this country, not the guy in horseback driving cattle across a plain or an indian seeking a fresh piece of land after they depleted the one they were in. Land was either a pathway or a grocery store, not the sacred home the family tilling the land had created. The rugged freedom-loving Tamer of The West Cowboy is much a myth as Rousseau’ Noble Savage.
And in that vein, I reiterate that the gun that won the West was not the Colt Peacemaker or the Lever Action rifle but the humble double-barrel shotgun owned by Lord knows how many settlers and that kept them alive by both defending the land or providing meat for the table.
OK, enough cows sacrificed for one day.
Re magazine (and parts storage) I bought a variant of these:
https://www.durhammfg.com/products/industrial-storage/drawer-cabinets/drawer-cabinet-12-drawers-2/
Works great. Add a magnetic label tape label to the front, to identify contents and let you reconfigure as needed.
Well okay, I now have several variants - I had a lot of stuff to organize. And sometimes you will find a "Grainger red" variant on eBay - that one I use to hold loaded-and-ready magazines.