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4. "RE: Gun of the Week: Steyr M1912"
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   LAST EDITED ON Feb-14-17 AT 09:06 PM (EST)
 
>Heh, C&Rsenal recently started a second video series featuring their
>resident gunsmith, talking about what he has to do to inspect and prep
>the guns they shoot for filming. In the
>first episode, he's taken the furniture off a Lee-Enfield rifle and
>discovered that it's very rusty underneath the wood, and he goes off
>on the most delightful little side rant. "We're not gonna refinish
>it—God forbid! Someone's gonna have to tell me when a lack of
>maintenance becomes patina," he says, investing the last word
>with such audible disdain that some of it drips out and burns little
>sizzling holes in the floor. :)

Well, to be fair, I can understand where he's coming from. That gun has NOT been loved, just sat on a shelf to look pretty, which to me is the worst sort of collector. Kind of like the person who buys a first edition book just to have it on the shelf as a bragging instrument, and never reading it.





Jeffrey 'JFerio' Crouch
'It'll be all right... I think.' - Nene Romanova



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