December 2012 - Argghhh!

Riffin' off the "Ignoring Human Nature" aspect of Bad Navy Leadership in Japan that CDR Salamander talks about and I linked in my previous post, I will now backslide, and gripe about... human nature.Jovan Belcher murdered his girlfriend (whom he'd fathered a child with but hadn't bothered to get married or anything) and then killed himself. Got it. Sad. Bad. Destroyed a family. Actually, several families.And the local media is just lovin' it. It's about all they talk...

One nice thing about living right.next.door (in delivery terms) to MidwayUSA is that it never takes more than two days for the goodies to arrive. I have my Rennaissance Wax, cleaning pad, and optics batteries. Heh. I knew them when they were still a retail operation out by Midway truck stop. They were specializing in making reloading kit and ammo for uncommon calibers, and when they were done developing, they'd retail out the guns. The Castle's MAS36 and Danish Rolling Block came to us from...

...without any real verbiage? And such crappy pics? With no embiggenation? Easy. Just to see what you'd do. And you didn't disappoint, you figured it out. +10 to Raging Tachikoma for his perspicacity and snarkage. John (JPJ) did ID the M1903, but quit too early to qualify for any prizes... ;^ ) And J(NTA) even provided the snark about the Navy not trusting sailors with firearms! Collectively, you guys embraced your inner Armorer. The top picture was indeed, a Parris-Dunn Mark 1 USN training...