Had a friend in town from Upstate NY and he wanted to shoot. A couple Brooklyn Goombas (hey, I'm 100% Italian) wanted to join (haven't been in 5 years). "Eaa, this gun is a piece of ****!" Well it is a Taurus .22, I got it to work for the most part. Then the magazine retention assembly disassembled. Spent 10 minutes hunting up the 3 parts. Wasn't much better with 2 .380's and a SW SVE .40. The guy is a Luca Brasi clone with ham hands. "Dis Bodyguard is too small." Really? Thought it was for pocket carry. Cold range and zero guns slide open. So I lock 3 open and never handled a .380 Bodyguard, I could have spent the morning trying to get the bolt hold-open in the usual slot. Except it don't go there with that gun. RSO showed how it's done, now I know. Some Improvement. I was trying to shoot while looking to my left "just in case." Guy just about lost thumb with recoiling slide. Blood everywhere. They packed up, "Time to go eat. Didjaeet?" "Joe if I leave the Taurus with you can you fix it?" "Sure", only took half an hour. Like I have so much luck fixing guns; before the pistol range I took the Mini MkX that I worked on last week to the rifle range. It set off exactly 1 cartridge out of a magazine of 5. I guess that is a 100% improvement. At least it only took a couple minutes to disassemble the bolt this time. And what an "aha moment" getting a narrow beam light down the body and surprise, coated with rust. I mean this rifle looks new, never been wet, has zero rust anywhere, stored in a "Goldenrodded" safe yet the inside of the bolt is heavily rusted (surface rust looks like). Scrubbed it with a Breakfree coated .40 cal brush and reassembled. Since it's already almost Summer hot I'm in no hurry to test it, again. I'm glad the Governor signed the "Constitutional Carry" bill into law but all of a sudden everybody wants to shoot. Lotsa comedy moments but I'm exhausted. Joe
