Hap-Hap-Happy Halloween

Greetings all, and I hope we are all having a Happy Halloween. I hope you do not mind, I decided to take a minute to do some house-cleaning type stuff and give a state-of-the-ammocan brief. If you follow us on twitter you may well know by now that we had 500 blog views this week, pretty cool for just being a couple of months old and starting from scratch with no contacts and nobody to follow us. This being said, I would like to take a moment from the bottom of that fleshy organ called a heart to thank each and everyone of you for choosing to waste your time with us!

We have a new firearm of the week this week, the Ruby pistol–a unique little handgun. Also later this week, I have plans to finish the page on the 91/30 Mosin Nagant, complete with some pictures from my own collection. This may not be too terribly exciting to anyone but me, but I plan to create pages for the big bolt-action, semi-auto, full-auto, and handguns of at least the WWI-WWII era. This will be a lengthy and time consuming process so I appreciate any and all patience that anyone is willing to give me. These documents will serve as a sort of living document, available to be updated for price changes, and changes in availability. When I mention in specific the Mosin, I will have sub pages for the various model differentiations under that name as well.

Also in the works is a write-up/review for ammo cans, not the sexiest thing in the world but they have a variety of very helpful uses, think first aid kit-lunch box-boat box-etc. In addition to this write-up I also plan on doing a review of Herter’s 7.62x39mm steel cased rounds in both HP and SP. Anyone who shoots much surplus knows that between Prvi Partizan and Herter’s that there is some very affordable and often questioned ammo out on the market to be taken advantage of.

So, without further ado I am going to post this rambling non-sense and get on with the business of actually writing half-way useful information. Please, be safe this Halloween, do not use live-firearms as a costume prop, and check your children’s candy to make sure there is no glass, razors, etc. in it (happened when I was a kid).
Stay safe and Keep Shooting,
C.

 

A Brief Hiatus

Hello again one and all, well any of you that may be so kind to still be following this little page of mine and actually reading any of the material that I have post on here. As you may have noticed I disappeared from doing updates on this page for a little while, a little longer than intended, but I have found some good in all of this. Originally my intent was to be gone for a little more than a week as I prepared to move myself and belongings to a new city and set up shop there…that is not, in fact, what panned out. I did move, to a different region of the state of Texas, but once I got settled in I decided to do a little reflection about what I wanted for this blog and ways to make posts more regular. The first thing I came up with, and a new weekly addition to this blog, will be a gun of the week. These firearms will only consist of military surplus weapons, and the aim is to introduce a firearm on small scale and give some background information about a firearm that you may know little about. These will be posted every Tuesday, the first one today about the 6mm Lee Navy, and will not be more than a couple of paragraphs long–usually with an image provided by the internet (not from my collection). I have a few other ideas along similar lines, picture of the week (with some artistic flair), a movie of the month (think Enemy at the Gates or Seargant York), and reviews of TV shows and magazines (check out the last post) that pertain to this same interest. Once again, thank you for being patient and positive as everything I am doing on here is currently financed by my measly finances and for the love of the hobby that is: Military Surplus and Curio and Relic. Welcome back, send your friends, ask questions, and most importantly I hope you enjoy the material.

C