My Pet Peeve

[smellie]

Oh, of course. I bought it ($60 at auction) because I needed the rear sight as a pattern for my original Kar. 71, so I can make a rear sight for it. Bore is okay but not as good as my original (which was a $3 rifle back when I was in school; it had spent a number of years in a chicken-coop, so zero finish. Stock was cut, too.) Neither is what you would call collector-grade, of course. Between them, I could use 1 buttplate, 2 nosecaps, 2 stocks and a few other bits. They are survivors and so must be respected as such.

They show up here at gun shows and country auctionsat prices from $60 or so, up to about $1100. The $1100 ones are REALLY nice, all matching, never cut, decent finish. I have a friend who deals in really good ones, but I can't afford them, so I go for the cast-offs, which are just as much fun and just as much history.

I shot my original until CIL stopped making shells, recently have got out my old brass and got a set of dies, waiting for a mould. Right now, looking for more brass. Should have them both barking next Summer.

Especially cut-down, these are fun rifles. When cut, they look like a regular single-shot .22, just a bit beefier. It's when you drop in that HUGE cartridge and touch it off that everybody else on the range really looks at you. But it's fun.

When I grow up, I'm gonna get a ticket to Tabora and join the Kaiserliche Schutztruppe, then we're gonna invade Mozambique again! Only problem is that this new map doesn't show it! Must be defective.

Lota funs!

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