I shouldn’t be a dink making rude jokes because I see it all the time - people from warmer climes screaming bloody murder in temps that me n’ the Niglet go outside to play in… but (so I’m told) it’s not so much the temp kicking the stuffing out of them - it’s the humidity. If it’s humid, cold temps are 10 times worse than the same temps up here in relatively dry Alberta. I’ve personally never experienced that…but I have with hot temps. Humidity makes them worse too.
I see Tiny is also been bitten by the milsurp bug. Those bloody old rifles are addictive too. When I was a kid I had a pristine .303 that I foolishly traded away. Then I got a k98 Mauser that shot like a house on fire… and a couple years later I’d made a bandolier with leather pouches for 5 round stripper clips, a belt with more ammo pouches, and a scabbard for the bayonet. I hardly ever got to shoot it because when I showed up at the range it would walk away and I’d not get to lay hands on it until the ammo ran out. We had a milsurp revival of sorts after that and then everyone was bringing their clunkers from home and we were all shooting war horses. Nothing is funner to shoot than the iron sighted milsurps.
You're absolutely right about the humidity. I lived most of my life in Texas but spent time in West Virginia. Up there, 20 F, it could be dry and sunny, I'd be outside working in a T-shirt. Down in Texas, 20 F would mean overcast, wet, icy, and still as much humidity as the cold air would carry - completely miserable. Once the clouds cleared and the sun came out in Texas, it would instantly go from 20 F to 70 F in 10 minutes. We just don't stay cold down here when the sun comes out.
ReplyDeleteAdd to that we don't have snow plows, salt trucks, salt storage, or winter tires, it's easy to understand why we generally shut down the entire state for a day or two. The amount of infrastructure we'd have to add to handle a snow event once or twice a decade just doesn't make sense.
I just took inventory of my supplies, got maybe 7000 primers divvied up between large rifle, large pistol and small pistol magnum. Need to be on the lookout for small pistol regulars. Just deprimed and sized several hundred 38 rounds and threw them in the polisher. Fun times.
Somehow I don't think those guns are "beaters". Worth their weight in Iridium, I'd say...
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ReplyDeleteHang on to yer chit man! Any squadies that become YOUR squadies, you can supply.
ReplyDeleteIn today's world, how much would an early was Mauser cost to reproduce? $3000, $5000? Looking at my 1943 Swedish Mauser, I'm amazed at the machine work, finish, workmanship. Then, for no reason at all, it shoots right on!
I had a very nice 1943 No.4 Mk1, Long Branch, (back when they were $250) that got traded away because 303 in Southern California, was neither plentiful nor cheap. That was before I figured out you should NEVER get rid of ANY guns. I'm not a retarded, stubfart, patch holder for nothing! I earned it!