Santa Took a Rimfire Poop on One of My Workbenches...
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You forgot you had a NAA Mini-Revolver and a 3-1/2" 27 barrel???
Finding things you forget you own is one of the few pleasant aspects of getting old!
Finding things you forget you own is one of the few pleasant aspects of getting old!
Looks like a pre-war bbl. RM? I wish Santa would take a dump like that at my place! 
Looks like a pre-war bbl. RM? I wish Santa would take a dump like that at my place!
What?!
I was looking for that pesky corkscrew, its got a King sight on it. Whew... thought I lost it.
I had one of those moments a few weeks ago, I keep my percussion caps in a fire-proof lock box that is cumbersome to easily get at. I wasn't sure how many caps I had in there but knew I had picked up some from a friend of mine that was going out of business. Another friend had died and his wife wanted to know if I needed any caps, I told her that I could always use a few extra caps especially if I could help her out. I bought an old stock box of 5000 CCI #11 from her and was trying to put them away, drug out the fire safe, opened it up and found that I probably have enough #11 caps to last a couple lifetimes of active shooting, not including the rolls or RWS #11 and RWS musket caps in cans of 250. Part of this stems from the shortage we experienced a few years back when CCI was trying to keep up with the demand for .22 ammo and short-changed us percussion shooters in the process. I vowed I would never get myself into that pickle again. We were getting desperate enough that one of the guys figured out how to make caps out of beer cans and stick-on cap gun caps, a lousy system at best but one that worked. That was one of the reasons that I switched over to flintlock for a period of time, which has had its own problems since it is dying out and we have lost major suppliers from England. Good flints can cost around $2 a piece and depending on your lock can be good for as few as a couple dozen shots to as many as a hundred. I have a friend that is so good at knapping flints that he shoots them until they won't clamp down in the jaws of his hammer (cock). He is so cheap that when my rifle will no longer be able to use a flint, I give it to him and he gets another week of shooting out of it. He has handed me back a flint when he is done with it and I swear they are 3/8" square and sharp on all edges, they just won't clamp into his jaws anymore.
Thank you!
This might be one of the best posts I have ever read!
I was reticent to post the picture of my mess-in-progress, such is life... By the way, did I mention that I really like your post!!!
All the best,
Michael
Kobold, lets get that workbench under control! Tidy up soldier. Wink!
Roger that. My job has me traveling away from home for months at at time. Stuff piles up like crazy. Wrokring ron it... Working on it.
Lost a very dear RWS model 36 awhile back. Had a really nice scope on it too. I ordered a new one but the order was never filled so I forgot about it. My rifle went missing for well over a year. I keep all of my rifles in my safe. Well, a few days ago my wife moved the couch in the TV room and she said "whats this rifle doing under the couch"? I put it there because I had some people working in the house and wanted it out of sight. I remember that I was late for an appointment and didn't want to take the time to unlock the safe. Then I totally forgot where I put it. I looked for weeks for that thing and never found it. Finally figured it was stolen but had a very hard time believing that.
Memory is the second thing that goes. I can't remember what the first thing is.
Memory is the second thing that goes. I can't remember what the first thing is.
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Am I missing something?? All I see is an ammo can full of 22s on a very messy bench. What's the joke I'm clearly not getting?
Kinman, iffin' you have too many percussion caps, I'll help you store them.
4" pre war 357 Mag barrel... How fun!
Yes, in fact possibly from a Kansas City PD .357 Magnum.....a 4" barrel with a Baughman Quick Draw front sight on a King ramp base - the KCPD configuration! The serial number would be another good clue - a serial number between 59000 - 62000 would be in the prime KCPD range.
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Aside from that .357 barrel thing, I see a small roll of toilet paper peeking out. Let's not forget the important stuff.
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This photo reminds me of "Where's Waldo?". And I still don't see the NAA revolver. 
I only have one .22, a 10/22 and only a few hundred rounds.
Just enough to keep the rodents at bay that are too big for my feral cats to control.
I need to do that. Wife wants to move to a condo so I'm going to have to shed some guns and reloading gear. I have 2 years worth of reloading components and 5K of .22 ammo. I think I have a few years at best but I know what's around the corner. Just sold my Duramax and selling the trailer in the spring.
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4" pre war 357 Mag barrel... How fun!
Is this THE RKMESA?
Glad to hear you got a whole bunch of scratched up old Smiths.
Yeah, the important stuff. I ran out of kleenex, had to grab the stuff for the other end, but, it was a fresh roll. I think...
This photo reminds me of "Where's Waldo?". And I still don't see the NAA revolver.
It might be in that white box marked "North American Arm."
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