Friday, April 28, 2006

Boomsticks: I don't have a mantel...

...to hang a mantelpiece gun over, but I do have a large, disused storage closet.


A friend calls it "the museum". What doesn't show well in the photo is that there's a thumbtack in the map corresponding to the country of origin for each of those rifles.

Milsurp collecting: It's a disease.
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9 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:47 AM, April 28, 2006

    I can understand "collecting" what I don't understand is "disused storage closet." Now that's something you don't see often.

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  2. Dr. StrangeGun10:57 AM, April 28, 2006

    Dammit Tam, that's brilliant.

    Now you'll have me searching for a wallworthy world map and a corkboard that size.

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  3. Anonymous11:23 AM, April 28, 2006

    Milsurp Collecting Disease!


    If someone comes up with a cure, they'd better stay away from me! Or I'll buttstroke them with one of my Mosin-Nagants.

    (Actually, it would take me awhile to figure out which one to use. Hmm, maybe with a Smle? English or Indian? Oh, hell! Just keep the damn cure away!)

    Tokarev

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  4. BobG11:35 AM, April 28, 2006

    Now that is beautiful...

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  5. Tam3:59 PM, April 28, 2006

    That's all the smokeless bolt-actions. I have to store autochuckers and black powder cartridge breechloaders elswhere...

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  6. Goldwater's Ghost11:47 PM, April 28, 2006

    Now, there's one type of rifle (I think they're rifles, they may be muskets) I want to hang over my mantle.

    I believe they're 1795 Springfield rifles...first rifles made for the US Army in the US, at Springfield Arsenal.

    These are the type used on the branch insignia of the US Army Infantry. I'd put two, crossed, over the mantle

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  7. Dr. StrangeGun10:55 AM, April 29, 2006

    "(I think they're rifles, they may be muskets)"

    Heh, over 210 years, a rifle can transmutate into a musket rather easily :)

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  8. phlegmfatale5:50 PM, April 29, 2006

    lovely collection.

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  9. Tam11:04 PM, April 30, 2006

    "lovely collection."

    I keep trying to convince myself that it's not a "collection", it's a "retirement fund". ;)

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