Thursday, August 15, 2019

A fine night in New Orleans

Sitting in my living room, watching A Bridge Too Far on the TV while I drink a nice red wine and clean rifles. So far I've done eight M1 Carbines and I'm on the second Garand now. Most just need a maintenance cleaning, swapping old lubricant for new, but shame on me, I've hit on a couple that were apparently fired and put up dirty. These are getting worked over until they shine while I curse myself for being sloppy with my post-range cleaning. But this is why I try to go through them all every once in a while...just to catch the ones that I might have missed. Every one of these WW2 guns is coming onto eighty years of age, although some were rebuilt as recently as the mid-1960's. Lot of history getting cleaned tonight, while I watch a period film about the battles these guns were made for and used in.

And the lazy dogs nap as the wine level goes lower in the bottle. A perfect night indeed, even with Murphy popping the window blinds up every time he hears something outside. But that's Murphy, so it's not going to stop. I keep telling him that passers-by don't need to see me working on guns, but it's Murphy and he marches to his own drum. After all these years I'd worry if he didn't.

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  1. Ah, quiet time. Must be nice after the weeks of serious head-on-a-swivel time.

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    1. It's nice to have a relaxing down night. But the movie is almost over, the wine is gone,and the last Garand didn't go back together quite nearly as smoothly as the earlier ones did so I think I'm fixing to call it a night soon. It's been a good one though.

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  2. Yeah, welcome home, Murph!

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  3. Give Murph a treat for us.

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  4. Hey Murphy;

    Still one of my favorite movies and the soundtrack is killer. I need to find time to work my rifles in and watch a "period" movie...Kinda long so I can clean or at least rod all of them. Bet the heckhounds were glad to see you.

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  5. Glad to see that even if he is slowing down, he's STILL guarding the house!

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    1. Yeah, I have to hand it to him. Even after all these years he never lets his guard down for a second.

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