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I was looking at the post I did for removing cosmoline and I noticed that I misspelled the link for the site that has the all the info for getting this stuff off of your weapon of choice it is www.surplusrifles.com. Why did I even bother posting this information anyways, nobody reads this fucking blog anyways.

Since no one reads this thing. Obama is a jackass, he is the devil that will take all my shit he is the reason for long distance shooting. He is also the reason the secret service conducts ducking exercises. The dude should change his name to Snap-on, Matco or Craftsman since he is such a tool or better yet a tool box. The dude has no original ideas such as "yo, hey! lets create a million man youth brigade". Hitler is rolling in his grave on that one. Not in my life time has anyone referred to the president as "the one", what do they think this guy is? the Highlander or Neo from the Matrix. Is this mofo gonna give his inaugural speech and then blast off into the sky like Neo. The secret service wishes he was Neo from the Matrix for other reasons. The one my ass. By this time next year I will be living in the mountains talking to bears and typing my blog manually the old fashion way on paper since there would be no good Internet so it would no longer be called a blog it would be called a book or a journal. And I get a feeling that the mountain I will be calling home is gonna get crowded as fuck since there is this concept called other people and they will be doing the same and all I can say is "Back off biotch, this is my corner of the creek". Another reason to head for the hills is that I am a gun owner public enemy number one. Look ma I'm on top of the world. Oh and he even wants me to quit reloading, I have no problem turning in my unserialized ammo (one well placed shot at a time). What next, oh you want to put my DNA on the ammunition alright give that box of cartridges and I'll step out back and flog the dolphin for yah. I can see Winchesters or Remington's new add for these things "there is no shot like a money shot" gives a new meaning to the term "Hot loads". The country is gone to hell and the one is gonna lead us further into the rabbit hole.

Well I am not going to quit reloading, not going to give up my arms, not gonna let you arrest me just because, not gonna let some us troops harass me at check points, not gonna let some youth brigade punks tell me what to do, not gonna be told you cannot camp there, not gonna have some dickless, shitless, brainless, thoughtless, sack of monkeyshit leader tell me how to invest and spend my hard earned cash who does he think we are Great Britain holy shit where is the Tylenol.

Snow day.

Last week was fun here in my little village in Oregon. Since it snowed really bad the railroad called me up and asked if I would come to work and shovel snow out of switches and so I accepted the mission and then the phone exploded. As for today it looks like I am snowed in again with very few things to do (when your poor your options are limited) so I decided to finish scrubbing out and cleaning my rifles that I took to the range before the snow flew. First on the list to be cleaned is my 91/30 mosin nagant followed by the M95 Steyr (Austrian) then the Yugo Mauser and bringing up the rear would be the awesome Marlin guide gun in 45-70. Now that thing is a hoot to shoot and it is small enough that I take it hiking and camping with me all the time. You can never me too careful these days.

Cosmoline yummmy.

Tis the season when you go to the local gun or sporting good store and purchase a new firearm. Some of you will go out and purchase a surplus military firearm and learning how to clean that stuff that looks like grease or sometimes if it has been on the rifle since the end of the second world war, hard varnish looking stuff. The stuff described above is called cosmoline a preservative that helps prevent corrosion and it is not just used in guns it can be found all over the place where machinery and equipment may sit idle for long times in harsh environments such as ocean going vessels. My first encounter with this stuff was in the navy when I went to pull a part out of storage and it was covered in this crap.

The main thing when you first get your rifle is to try to take it apart as best you can or as far as the cosmoline will let you. I have a 303. British lee enfield and I had a very hard time taking it apart because the cosmoline hardened. I have heard of many ways to take this stuff off such as using gasoline or diesel (dangerous but works), commercially available cleaners ($$$), and hot boiling water. I like the hot boiling water method since it is cheap and that is the whole point of me buying surplus rifles, but if you don't have the time or will power to clean the cosmoline off of your rifle you can always take it to a gunsmith and he'll probably charge you quite a bit if you find one that hates to work on old military rifles (I found out once). What I did to clean my rifle is that I built a small camp fire behind the house and used half of a 55 gallon metal drum to boil the water in plus some beer (for me). Then I took the rifle apart into different components such as bolt, barrel, stock and small metal parts. I then soaked the barrel in the water for a little bit while I put the smaller parts into metal baskets. After lowering the baskets in the water I pulled the barrel out and started to scrub the areas that still had cosmoline in it with a fine tooth brush. I wear thick rubber gloves since I do not like to get this stuff on my hands and it helps protect them from the hot water. It will take awhile to clean these parts since this stuff gets everywhere you think it wouldn't just be patient and consume beer. This little task last me all afternoon but hey what else is there to do and I am saving money. AS for the stock I just cover it with clean cloths and take and old clothes iron and try to steam out the greasy stuff. From what I learned not all of it will ever come out at least for me it didn't but I liked the results. Ohhh and do not forget to oil all the parts that you soked in the water to get the grease off. If you are still sober put rifle back together and admire your handy work.

If doing it this way ain't your thing then I suggest going to militarysurplusrifle.com and check their article on getting this crap off of your weapon of choice. They have some cool ones like using steam or if you are into solvents they have a recipe to make your own gun cleaner called Reds gun cleaner and it is cheap to make too. Whatever you do keep safe, fun and enjoy your new /old rifle. Beer is optional, but really helps.

window shopping.

I was window shopping back in my home town in North Idaho last weekend (sister was getting hitched) and decided to stop by some gun shops and see what was going on. All I can say if you like AK SK or AR you are shit out of luck when trying to find a good deal. The gun shop owners tell me that if I want an AK or SK that I have to buy one now this very minute cause the price will go up. So I looked at the prices and ooooh my god are you kidding me over four hundred for an SKS or almost a thousand for a AK ( not a true AK). I like these rifles but that is way too much for what they are or are not. The AK I was looking at was not really an AK, but to me just US made knock off of the real thing and who knows what kind of parts or workmanship went into building this thing. Then the shop owner was like well what would you pay for a AK-47. I thought hard back to the times I was working for Uncle Sam and was stomping around the world and every where else in the world these things were going for dirt cheap and I mean dirt cheap. So I told him forty dollars and he bout shit his pants "what makes you think forty dollars is a fare price!" he said. I went on to tell him that I could probably pick up a fully auto true Russian AK-47 for less than one hundred dollars in some of the countries that I have been in and that what makes you think that a 10 year old in Africa who totes one around had the thousands of US dollars to buy his, he probably got it for the price of a few chickens. He thought about it and said "true, but this ain't Africa". So I am pretty content with what I have for now. If the shit hits the fan and I need to move out well I got my trusty lever guide gun chambered in 45-70 to survive with and take down nasty UN troops or one of the many surplus bolt action rifles I have acquired they did the job before and can do it again. But unless the prices become realistic on these semi auto rifles like the AK then I would rather spend my money on something worth it like a M1 Garand fitted with a Douglas barrel. If General Patton endorsed it you couldn't go wrong.

Missing some salt.

When I look at the drab cold environment that I live in now it sometimes makes me wish I was back on a tin can taking in the fresh air the warm sun and clear skies of the south pacific. Then I start to hear needle guns and the chipping off of the rust and working parties and the never ending process of painting the darn thing and I am swooshed back to reality.

Nice one.

So if Illinois isn't messed up enough already with the CAGE Nazis coming to your house and demanding your firearms by order of the son of the mob boss mayor, the Governor was caught selling seats for the Senate and his ass is off to prison or at least they think he is off to prison unless his buddy Ol' OB gets him pardoned. Hey maybe since this Governor seems "connected" maybe he has or can obtain Obamas birth certificate.

Overheard.....

So I was at the local gun spot just hanging out and being a total parasite when a couple walked in and decided to look at some handguns for self defense. They didn't look like the type to want to own hand guns. I imagined then holding up protest signs saying free Attica, But you can never tell. Anyways the husband wanted a 45 cal handgun which I thought was perfect for self defense, but the wife chimed in and said that it was too big to carry all the time (which is a good point if you are really trying to conceal it) and that she didn't want something that would kill just wound. Ssssssssccccccrrrrreeeeeccchhhhh stop the truck what did that bitch say, wound? WTF mate. This is the problem with America today. We are too politically correct we are afraid of hurting some body's or some other countries feelings. This shit has got to stop now. If you take a few modern Americans and time warp their asses back to lets say the late 1800's or even early 1900's there is a good chance not one of them would make it a few days add some trips to the local saloon the odds just greatly went down. You see we try to talk our way out of every situation which makes us non violent, but there are times (these days almost all of the time) that the only way to get out of a situation is serve up a steaming hot dish of whoop ass. I know it requires fishing deep into the gene pool for that long lost we take no BS gene that was supposedly put away in the closet after the west was settled and finally thrown out in the late sixties by the hippies peace movement. We need to quit being wussies and the rest of the world will take us seriously (who cares about the rest of the world anyway). It is okay to be peaceful and fair, but too much of it can kill us as individuals and a nation. What I mean is other people can sense your willingness not to fight ( like some predators do) and use that to gauge their attack same goes for a foreign country, they can sense a nations willingness not too fight and use that to their advantage. We need to become tough again. Oh as for the gun the couple was shopping for they ended up buying a 25 cal handgun. It was like watching a train wreck in slow motion.