Finally got home, overall good trip, and productive in a couple of ways…LOL
One image from my trip for y’all. This is the view from my hotel room at Haneda Airport, it’s LITERALLY in the airport, and the view is of the check-in counters…
At least I didn’t have to go out in the rain to get there…LOL
And in the ye Gods and little fishes category, one more price from Tulsa.
$225,000 for a shotgun…
Not just ANY shotgun mind you, but an unfired 1930’s Purdy BEST Grade double in .410!!!
Anyhoo, I got my M-1 NM back, and it turns out the ejection problem was, of all things, a kinked spring holding the ejector! So now the safe is full again 🙂
Left is my 1953 HRA, right is my Springfield Type 2 NM. Now I just have to be home long enough to actually SHOOT em…
Sigh… Y’all have a good week!
I’ve always wanted an M1 Garand.
And I’m on the road again, too. Just got settled in to the hotel in Lancaster for the seminar I’ll be at this week.
The seminar should be fun, but I’m really looking forward to the tour of the Edwards Flight Test Facility on Thursday!
What is a Springfield HRA? I’m unfamiliar with that Garand variant.
Glad ya made it home safe.
The closest I get to a Garand is my M-14. However, that’s quite close. I love the heft, the general nomenclature of the weapon, etc.
I’ve been gone too, and heading back out to the wilds this week.
Finally added the M1 to my life list over the weekend. I had no particular desire for except as a cool peice of memorabelia, until I shot it. Yeah now I kinda want one. I just wish it was cheaper to feed.
drjim- At least yours is ‘semi’ local…LOL
Andy- My bad, two different guns, the HRA is a Harrington Richardson Arms, all original, the Springer is an arsenal built NM Type 1, updated to Type 2 in 1963.
Michael- you and me both!
LL- I don’t have an M-14, keep missing the few ‘real’ ones that pop up. Travel safe my friend!
45- CMP has cheap ball ammo 🙂 Join Garand Collectors Assn, http://www.thegca.org/ and that will qualify you to buy ammo from CMP.
The “Hotel in the Terminal” thing makes me nervous. Orlando has one, as does (IIRC, may be a different European airport) Frankfurt.
The security screening causes large nu7mbers of people to line up, and the balcony gives an aggressor a handy place to lay down fire.
I’m a little paranoid sometimes. All I can say is that I was trained to be so by the finest minds in the Free World.
“Now I just have to be home long enough to actually SHOOT em…”
Ain’t that the truth. Now that it gets dark earlier, it’ll be tough to make it home from work with enough light to do any shooting.
I’m working on creating a day-stretcher so that mankind will have enough time for fun, although someone will figure out how to squeeze more work out of that extra time.
BP- I know, but this hotel has NO balconies and the windows are double pane and key locked. I’d be more worried about somebody with a bomb at a counter, but I wasn’t about to pay $250 for a taxi up to Narita at that time of night.
CT- the ONLY day stretcher I can come up with is to RETIRE, so one can do what ever one wants with the daylight 🙂
Retirement is good.
But, with the three days a week on the grand jury, reloading two days a week, and honey-do’s from a high maintenance bride, a feller is lucky to get to his pistol/rifle club on one day and his trap club on another.
Sigh…
Skip- Um… that ain’t retirement 🙂 Retirement is when you flip a coin as to whether to go play golf or go shoot every day! 🙂
If you have a KC stopover sometime, we can add my 1943 Springfield Garand and trek out to my gun club for some fun.
Glad you are home (stay away from the Chicken Pot Pies now). Hope to see you again soon, don’t wait til Spring to head on over. You’re always welcome to bunk here.
Crucis- Sounds like a plan!!!
Brigid- WIll do, if I can unscrew my schedule long enough… As I write this I’m sitting in Whidbey Island for 1 day of meetings…
Glad ya made it home safe.