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19148 posts		 Oct-16-17, 04:52 PM (EST)
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"bit of a drought"
 
   Sorry all; I've got a few more items in the pipeline, but I've had a lot of stuff (unfortunately, most of it not creative) going on.

However, some of you may be interested to know that the FedEx man picked up my M1 carbine today; after several months on the waiting list, it's off to the CMP custom shop to get a new barrel fitted. Which is nice.

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254 posts		 Oct-17-17, 04:20 PM (EST)
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1. "RE: bit of a drought"
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   I'm not sure why, but this post reminded me of something I've been meaning to ask. If it's been asked before and I missed it, my apologies.

Actually, it's a set of related questions, I suppose.

Anyway! What I was wondering is, of your collection, how many would you say you actively shoot, vs. how many are there just because you like collecting them? (I'm not criticizing, I'd like to be able to collect 'em myself, even if they never fired)

And, building on that, when you do put in range time on a weapon, is it mostly fun factor or is there some goal you're trying to achieve that makes you choose that weapon over another? I presume you don't just pick randomly (I might be wrong! :D ) because... well, at least for me, some guns are just not fun to fire. For example, I dislike most revolvers -- I dunno why -- so if I'm going to a range for fun I'll avoid those, but if I'm at the range teaching firearm safety or something then it's a whole different thing.

I also wouldn't pick randomly because all ammo is not created equal, but that's a given -- and sufficiently high fun factor would trump per-shot cost, anyway. Sometimes. :D

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19148 posts		 Oct-18-17, 08:47 PM (EST)
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2. "RE: bit of a drought"
In response to message #1
 
   >Anyway! What I was wondering is, of your collection, how many would
>you say you actively shoot, vs. how many are there just because you
>like collecting them?

Well, of late it's been pretty much exclusively the latter, and will likely remain so through the winter. Under closer-to-ideal circumstances I'd (very roughly) guess the proportion would be about 60-40. I have a few I can't shoot (my Mauser broomie, for instance, is Not Serviceable) and a few others that I've never managed to get supplies for (e.g., I have neither ammunition nor one of the very rare and expensive clips for the Roth-Krnka). There's also a list of questionables, mostly older guns I've bought under conditions where I really should have them checked out by an expert before I try to use them, and a couple that aren't unserviceable, but have work that it'd be nice to get done first.

>And, building on that, when you do put in range time on a weapon, is
>it mostly fun factor or is there some goal you're trying to achieve
>that makes you choose that weapon over another?

Sometimes one, sometimes the other. A lot of the time recently, for instance, I was specifically doing research for Gun of the Week writeups, or followups thereto. Other times my selections are more or less on a whim, although because the indoor range is so far away, I'll usually take more than one to maximize the return on the drive, and often I try to take them in sets that use the same ammunition just for efficiency's sake. (The one time fairly recently that I didn't do that, I had magazine problems with one gun and little enough ammunition for the other that I wouldn't have thought it was worth making the trip just to shoot that one by itself. There's probably some kind of lesson in that. :)

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3. "RE: bit of a drought"
In response to message #0
 
   >However, some of you may be interested to know that the FedEx man
>picked up my M1 carbine today; after several months on the waiting
>list, it's off to the CMP custom shop to get a new barrel fitted.

It's back! After just about exactly a month.

I'm a little disappointed that they didn't send the old barrel back with it, but I suppose I'll accept that as part of the price of having an actually rifled barrel on my carbine. It looks nice! The new one is completely unmarked as far as I can tell (I was expecting it to say CMP or CRITERION on it someplace, but no), nicely parkerized, and a hell of a lot better-looking on the inside.

(And yes, according to the price list, the new barrels sold by the CMP custom shop are made by a company called Criterion. I am assuming it is unrelated to the one that does fancy DVD releases of notable motion pictures. :)

--G.
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Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
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