Saturday, September 24, 2011

GIDDY UP!

So look at my new hobby, Its called cowboy action shooting! Its a bunch of grown men, women and entire families that get together dressed up like they're starring in the latest box office western flick. Everyone brings there own grip of pistols, rifle and shotgun along with a horse-butt load of ammunition. It literally 100s of normal folk gathered once or more per month with enough fire power to overthrow Africa... and its all for fun!
Its surely something your average football watching DUDE would call dorky at best. Lets think about it for a moment...guns, knives, cowboys & characters and women in 1800's prostitute outfits, or a couch, big screen TV, and grown men that couldn't play football past high school slapping ass cheering other grown men handling there ball's pretending to own a team of fantasy players.
Looking at it that way fantasy football seems a little, I don't know "GAY"
Well any way this photo is to show you the Winchester model 1897 pump action 12 gauge shotgun we found for about $300.
when we found it it was in only fair condition, with a full length barrel, no butt plate and no original finish left on the metal parts.
COUPLE OF CHEAP BEERS LATER...I had sanded and refinished all the furniture with linseed oil (same as used in the 1800s), cleaned and re-blued all metal parts, cut the barrel down too 18.5", and made a custom 2/layer leather butt pad and grip all held in place with bronze dome head furniture nails. Well after that we now own a sawed off shotgun that can put 7 round of buckshot down range in about 2 seconds or less (no safety on this model so you can hold the trigger and rack the slide, "slap shot")
So if your hobby IS fantasy football and your slightly offended, well too bad you have a football and TV remote I have a shotgun....LATER
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  1. Bravo!!! Even George is reading and enjoying your posts. nice photo set up!

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