My mauser is more tactical then your AR...

[MikeBjerum]

You gotta love MB's family genetics ...

A shadetree gunsmith for a father and a weird sister.

Now the imagination is going on the rest that he doesn't talk about.

[PegLeg45]

Heck, we ALL have weird family members.

We need pics...(of the rifle not the family members)... ...especially if a rebuild is done (before and after, of course).
 

[Michael Bane]

FAMILY!?!?

You have no idea...I grew up in a William Faulkner novel. My father's assorted families — that's a story in and of itself — require a scorecard and a healthy sense of humor. You name it; we got it — moonshine runners, drug addicts, various and sundry levels of insanity, busted gamblers, bizarre diseases, hookers with hearts of gold, professional cockfighters, even a monkey that lived on the roof of one of my aunt's house until he "went to Atlanta," which is, I suspect a euphemism for...something. One of my relatives once shot a Winchester 30-30 at a UFO that dented the roof of his moonshine tanker; another tossed a hand grenade into a car in a little Mississippi town: "I swear, Michael...it was the funniest thing...it looked like one of them Shriner clown cars in a circus...people crawling out the windows and the back of that station wagon..." When I asked what happened, he said, "What do you mean, what happened?" With the hand grenade, I said. "Well hell, it blew up, didn't it? That's what hand grenades do." Arrested, he was "let off with a warning." Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez...

Michael B

[Hazcat]

Damn, family reunions must be a blast (literally!)  

[PegLeg45]

I can sympathize (empathize?) with you on a lot of your 'family history' with regards to my own. My in-laws ain't any better either. My wife has uncles that did time for cattle rustlin' (in the last 20 years)!

[Sponsor]

[ccd]

Marlin has finally introduced their version of the Wild West Guns lever actions(nothing like waiting 10 years to do it ) It is described on D Petzal's blog on field & stream.

http://fieldandstream.blogs.com/gunnut/2008/10/a-mighty-mini-m.html

"What grabbed me, though was the Marlin Model 1895SBL. The company has taken note of all the hot-rodded Guide Guns out there and decided to build one of their own. It’s .45/70, all stainless steel, laminated stock, heavy 18.5-inch barrel, an enlarged loop lever, a 5-shot half-magazine, and instead of the usual horrible factory sights, it’s been fitted with the XS Ghost Ring sight system. This consists of a big white post up front and a huge, adjustable-aperture rear. You look through it and the aperture seems to vanish. It’s very fast to use. There is a long rail mount that let you use long-eye-relief scopes or standard scopes."

Wish they would offer it in the take down style but I will probably end up getting one anyways.

[Hazcat]

Purty gun!  (don't like the loop)  and 45-70 is a fun round.

Now mossburg needs to offer theirs in 45-70.

BTW who won the Mossy lever gun and where are the pics and reports

[MikeBjerum]

Gun ... What Gun?  She was climbing in bed, and I didn't see any gun

[twyacht]

I'm so glad my family is not the only one worthy of a Jerry Springer episode,......

The Mauser I ended up with has a story involving my grandfather, an Austin Healey and dry ice in Sebring, Fl in the late 50's,.... Got 'em back home in the summer, (the Mauser and the Healey.),.. homemade air conditioning,....and defending one's self, he was glad to have that rifle.

Good luck with the Mauser MB. Post some pics.
Tom W

[tombogan03884]

FAMILY!?!?

You have no idea...I grew up in a William Faulkner novel. My father's assorted families — that's a story in and of itself — require a scorecard and a healthy sense of humor. You name it; we got it — moonshine runners, drug addicts, various and sundry levels of insanity, busted gamblers, bizarre diseases, hookers with hearts of gold, professional cockfighters, even a monkey that lived on the roof of one of my aunt's house until he "went to Atlanta," which is, I suspect a euphemism for...something. One of my relatives once shot a Winchester 30-30 at a UFO that dented the roof of his moonshine tanker; another tossed a hand grenade into a car in a little Mississippi town: "I swear, Michael...it was the funniest thing...it looked like one of them Shriner clown cars in a circus...people crawling out the windows and the back of that station wagon..." When I asked what happened, he said, "What do you mean, what happened?" With the hand grenade, I said. "Well hell, it blew up, didn't it? That's what hand grenades do." Arrested, he was "let off with a warning." Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez...

Michael B

Sounds like a potential book there MB  With some poetic license and changed names you could have us rolling on the floor. I would  especially like to hear the full stories on the Hand Grenade and the Monkey.
Sounds like Pegleg could give you some stuff to mix in and hopefully avoid getting your family POed at you

P.S. Which dented the moonshine tanker, the 30 / 30 or the UFO  ?