Yeah, Buddy!

I have not posted for hella long! That doesn't mean nothing has happened since my last post, but I haven't felt like posting it. That is, what's happened.

'N stuff.

Not that stuffs hasn't happened, because it has, but I can't really get up (heh!) the energy to relate what has happened (if anything really has).

Dude! Of course stuffs has happened and I have hella stuffs to tell the VR, but I lack energy. I promise to get to it ASAP (like you believe that).

One thing that I have been up to is target shooting. That has been kew. I have an old WW2 rifle that my uncle gave me years ago that I dug out and started to get interested in. Guns were not kew back in the day, and I didn't think much of it until recently. As I said, I dug it  out and I took it to the local shooting range and had a blast.. well, blasting it at some targets.

I took Rickster with me one time and they got his gun-firing cherry. The dude had never fired a gun in his life. Awesome. He thought it was OK. We fired my rifle and a guy there let us both fire his AR15 with a red dot sight. That was awesome. An AR15 is like an M16, only it's semi-auto, not automatic.

I did some "goin' to school" on Uncle Henry's rifle. It's a Finnish Mosin Nagant M39. These were rifles captured by the Finns during a couple of wars with the Russians/Soviets, including their war of independence. They decided to  standardize their arms by basing their armaments on the 7.62X54R ammunition. This was Russian ammo, and the Finns figured they'd just take the stuff away from the Russians rather than manufacture their own. Smart. If you can. They did.

So, they took all these captured Russian Mosin Nagants, bought a shitload of surplus Mosins, and built a couple of very robust and accurate modified carbines and rifles using Russian/Soviet parts with their own stocks and other refinements.

Mine is an M39 rifle made up with an 1895 Sestrovetsk receiver with a Finnish VKT barrel made in 1943 and a WW2 wartime Finnish Sako stock. This thing killed Nazis. At least, it looks like it did.

OK, so a legitimate question might be "Why, Vance? WTF? What sparked your interest in this obscure and kinda not-so-kew-gun-sorta-NRA-bidniss-kina-stuff? Well, I don't know. What sparks Vance's interests in any case?

No one knows, especially not Vance. I can relate to when Seymour says in Ghost World, "I hate my interests."

But, I've gone to the firing range and shot at targets 100 yards away with iron sights (not a scope), and found I'm good at it. I can not only hit 2'x3' paper that looks like a postage stamp at that distance, but group my shots on a circle of about 8 inches in diameter within a couple inches of each other.

Dude.

If the Zombie Apocalypse comes to pass, come on by. I'll watch out for you.