"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

[Humppa]

I´m with several others here - if I would have a GEC or CASE shirt, I´d wear it. The same with hats etc. The same is with firearms. But if it gets too much, I just wear it at home. I have a Heckler & Koch hat that I use to wear quite often. It´s just a great hat - if Paul Panther would have been stiched on it, I would wear it as well

I just got my first own gun this week. It´s a lever action rifle - Marlin 39 AS in .22lr - and I really love this great gun. Spent the whole afternoon on the range today and it was such a wonderful time.

It would be glad if I had more time going there. I´m still searching after .30-30 or a .44-40 - a man can dream, isn´t it ?

 

[leghog]

I´m with several others here - if I would have a GEC or CASE shirt, I´d wear it. The same with hats etc. The same is with firearms. But if it gets too much, I just wear it at home. I have a Heckler & Koch hat that I use to wear quite often. It´s just a great hat - if Paul Panther would have been stiched on it, I would wear it as well

I just got my first own gun this week. It´s a lever action rifle - Marlin 39 AS in .22lr - and I really love this great gun. Spent the whole afternoon on the range today and it was such a wonderful time.

It would be glad if I had more time going there. I´m still searching after .30-30 or a .44-40 - a man can dream, isn´t it ?

The Marlin M39 is a classic. Here's my son's Marling M336 in .30-30 (from 1978) and its little brother, a M39 (from 1979). The M39 is from his grandfather, and the M336 is the first rifle he bought himself.

 

[Humppa]

Great rifles, leghog. I like looking at these old classics. Wonderful pieces of craftmanship!

In Germany it´s quite difficult to get a weapon and you may not carry it in 99% at all (only on the fire ranges or while hunting - which is really a pain to get the documents).

I have to store mine away in a safe as well as the ammunition - it doesn´t matter if it is .22lr or .45-70 or whatever.

And here are the regular bolt-action repeaters pretty common. Mauser K98 or Sweden Mauser or Schmidt Rubin or Mosin Nagant etc etc gets a lot of use in the ranges.

The wooden shafts (I don´t know the english word) on the two you´ve shown are quite different from the one I got.

I´m almost saving my change-coins

 

[leghog]

I like my German .22LR rifles too. Vintage .22LR rifles are one of my passions.

Mauser ES340B from the 1930s

Mauser/MAS M45 training rifle (Mauser banner, no MAS markings)

Walther KKJ from 1968

 

[leghog]

The wooden shafts (I don´t know the english word) on the two you´ve shown are quite different from the one I got.

The word is STOCKS. You may have pressed checkering and a diamond and birch stocks which are on later Marlin rifles.

 

[jackknife]

Great rifles, leghog. I like looking at these old classics. Wonderful pieces of craftmanship!

In Germany it´s quite difficult to get a weapon and you may not carry it in 99% at all (only on the fire ranges or while hunting - which is really a pain to get the documents).

I have to store mine away in a safe as well as the ammunition - it doesn´t matter if it is .22lr or .45-70 or whatever.

And here are the regular bolt-action repeaters pretty common. Mauser K98 or Sweden Mauser or Schmidt Rubin or Mosin Nagant etc etc gets a lot of use in the ranges.

The wooden shafts (I don´t know the english word) on the two you´ve shown are quite different from the one I got.

I´m almost saving my change-coins

Andi, I had no idea that Germany had become that strict on guns. Was this a recent development, or a slow process over many years?

 

[jackknife]

Enjoying some of Jack's treasures that was sent by Royal Mial carrier pigeon. First up was popping the top on a bottle of some nice hard cider we picked up while down in the mountains in Virginia last weekend. They have a lot of new distilleries making hard cider form Virginia apples, and I'm all of fit. Any fool can eat an apple, but making some nice grade hooch is a good thing.

I figured as long as I was having a nice drink, I may as well enjoy a pipe to go with it. I used Jack's pipe cover for the breezy night, and it worked great. Kept the ashes where they belonged.

 

[Woodrow F Call]

I´m with several others here - if I would have a GEC or CASE shirt, I´d wear it. The same with hats etc. The same is with firearms. But if it gets too much, I just wear it at home. I have a Heckler & Koch hat that I use to wear quite often. It´s just a great hat - if Paul Panther would have been stiched on it, I would wear it as well

I just got my first own gun this week. It´s a lever action rifle - Marlin 39 AS in .22lr - and I really love this great gun. Spent the whole afternoon on the range today and it was such a wonderful time.

It would be glad if I had more time going there. I´m still searching after .30-30 or a .44-40 - a man can dream, isn´t it ?

I inherited my old man's Winchester 1894. I took my first deer with it last season. A real joy to carry in the woods. I don't even like to use a sling because it's so nice to carry using just the receiver. I've had both Marlins and Winchesters, I like the Winchesters in this caliber because they are lighter and slimmer..... I think my next will be an old Savage 99 though.

 

[hunterjrg]

I like Winchesters just because of the Winchester name. My father has a 94 musket that I fitted a peep sight and beaded front. Lovely rifle. I laid claim to it when he goes to the happy hunting grounds.

But I feel the Marlins to be superior to the Wins. Smoother,easier to disassemble,ability to mount a scope,and generally more accurate. The only Marlin currently in my safe is chambered for the 375 Win.

 

[Humppa]

Andi, I had no idea that Germany had become that strict on guns. Was this a recent development, or a slow process over many years?

Well, until the 1970s every adult could buy single load guns like rifles or shotguns and the small catridge rimfire guns like .22lr or Flobert. But then the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction ) was active on murder and other crime. So the weapon laws became stricter and only people with a need for guns can buy them. People that need guns are hunters (with the permission by authority) and sport shooters (with a permission as well). All other people can´t buy guns at all (at least the ones that actually fire).

I had to go shooting once a month (or more) for a whole year, had to make a examina on weapon technics and catridges and the requiring results in shooting to get my own permission on guns. So I can go to the fire range and shoot at different distances. Still a great fun But it´s prohibited for me to go hunting at all - because I have no diploma on that. For every gun I buy I need an extra permission by authority.

So you see, here it is difficult and many people would like to shoot but it´s hard to get the papers all together.

Have a nice weekend, fellows

 

[Jack Black]

Enjoying some of Jack's treasures that was sent by Royal Mial carrier pigeon. First up was popping the top on a bottle of some nice hard cider we picked up while down in the mountains in Virginia last weekend. They have a lot of new distilleries making hard cider form Virginia apples, and I'm all of fit. Any fool can eat an apple, but making some nice grade hooch is a good thing.

I figured as long as I was having a nice drink, I may as well enjoy a pipe to go with it. I used Jack's pipe cover for the breezy night, and it worked great. Kept the ashes where they belonged.

Great pics Carl, and I'm glad you're finding a use for the bits and bobs. I remember buying the windscreens as presents for my dad when I was a boy

 

[jackknife]

Well, until the 1970s every adult could buy single load guns like rifles or shotguns and the small catridge rimfire guns like .22lr or Flobert. But then the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction ) was active on murder and other crime. So the weapon laws became stricter and only people with a need for guns can buy them. People that need guns are hunters (with the permission by authority) and sport shooters (with a permission as well). All other people can´t buy guns at all (at least the ones that actually fire).

I had to go shooting once a month (or more) for a whole year, had to make a examina on weapon technics and catridges and the requiring results in shooting to get my own permission on guns. So I can go to the fire range and shoot at different distances. Still a great fun But it´s prohibited for me to go hunting at all - because I have no diploma on that. For every gun I buy I need an extra permission by authority.

So you see, here it is difficult and many people would like to shoot but it´s hard to get the papers all together.

Have a nice weekend, fellows

Wow Andi, I had no idea that it had got that tight. I remember being in Southern Germany down in Bavaria in the 1960's, and waking up in a Zimmer Frei on a Sunday boring and hearing gunfire outside. Bright sunny cold water day. It was the local rifle club meeting and having a shoot. Mostly .22's, with a few old Mauser 98's and Mosin's. Some of the shops I browsed had rifles or shotguns for sale, and there were some very nice examples of German gun working craftsmanship at it's best. Old Drillings and such that I drooled over, but could not afford on a GI's paycheck.

How about air gun shooting? We have an adult air gun group at our gun club for winter when it's too cold or nasty for outdoor shooting. The basement of the chapter house is set up for 10 meter air gun meets for both pistol and rifle. Most of the guys use the German made Feinwerkbau made airguns. I am always so impressed with the precision of the Feinerkbau guns that they cloverleaf the five shot groups in the target. I love that I can use the airguns anywhere, even down in Washington D.C. at a friends house during a backyard BBQ to plink at some beer cans set out at the other end of the yard.

Lower gun is a English Webley that is sort of a field/woods plinking gun for suburban shooting. My neighbors are none the wiser for the lack of noise.

 

[knarfeng]

I inherited my old man's Winchester 1894. I took my first deer with it last season. A real joy to carry in the woods. I don't even like to use a sling because it's so nice to carry using just the receiver. I've had both Marlins and Winchesters, I like the Winchesters in this caliber because they are lighter and slimmer..... I think my next will be an old Savage 99 though.

I have a Winchester '94. Took it as part of a trade in '79. I'd bought an AR-15, which was very fun to have. But I wasn't making a whole lot of money back then and the AR went through ammo at a prodigious rate, which made it expensive to own. So I traded it for an old Winchester, a Ruger Bearcat (made prior to Ruger's improvement. Have to leave the hammer over an empty cylinder), and a Ruger single six with cylinders for 22LR and 22Mag. Plus some folding green, which I disremember how much it was. Of all my guns, the Single Six has been my favorite ever since. But I still have the Winchester, which your picture reminded me about.

 

[Modoc ED]

This has nothing to do with guns but I've been wanting something to use to surf the web with but didn't want another computer with an OS and all that would go with one so, I bought a Kindle. Works great for surfing, getting on sites, and buying stuff (say from AMAZON) but it has taken dang near forever to punch all these letters, punctuation marks, etc., into this message. How you guys/gals do it on those itty bitty phones is a puzzle to me.

Don't look for me to be messaging with this thing much and for sure don't expect spelling and grammar checks.

As I said, this post has nothing to do with guns. It's just been an excuse to test out my new KINDLE.

That is all.

 

[Modoc ED]

Back to my computer.

Here's a my Marlin 444S manufactured in 1977 on my reloading bench.

 

[Modoc ED]

Double post.

 

[Humppa]

Carl, airguns are easy to get. The bullets are free to get (i.e. without permission). They can even be fired in an own property, at least when the bullets can´t leave the property. So a basement or cellar can be the range get When we were youngsters, I had a friend who was living on a farm and his dad gave him an airgun (Anschütz I think) and some ammunition. So we used to paint our own sheets with the targets and shot on them. This was in the midth 90s, but at that time laws weren´t so strict here.

But if it fires a bullet or a round, you have to go a fire range, nothing in the backyard anywhere else.

Feinwerkbau airguns are great in every way. A little expensive though.

Ed - that is a great looking gun, a great reloading bench and a mighty catridge. Congratz, my friend!

I´m almost saving my change coins to get a K98 in 8 x 57 IS or a swedish Mauser Carl Gustav in 6.5 x 55 mm ...

 

[leghog]

I like Winchesters just because of the Winchester name. My father has a 94 musket that I fitted a peep sight and beaded front. Lovely rifle. I laid claim to it when he goes to the happy hunting grounds.

But I feel the Marlins to be superior to the Wins. Smoother,easier to disassemble,ability to mount a scope,and generally more accurate. The only Marlin currently in my safe is chambered for the 375 Win.

In some cases Winchesters just made better rifles.

Here are three Winchesters. Got them and a wad of cash ($850) in trade for a Colts M1911 from December 1913. Went to the gunhshow to get rid of some firearms. Wife wasn't too happy I returned with three more until I counted out the cash then handed her that wad of cash. From top: Winchester Mod 69 (gave this to a friend of mine with the caveat he not sell or trade it but keep it in the family - it's an heirloom quality rifle), Winchester M57, and Winchester 04-22

I have a Winchester '94. Took it as part of a trade in '79. I'd bought an AR-15, which was very fun to have. But I wasn't making a whole lot of money back then and the AR went through ammo at a prodigious rate, which made it expensive to own. So I traded it for an old Winchester, a Ruger Bearcat (made prior to Ruger's improvement. Have to leave the hammer over an empty cylinder), and a Ruger single six with cylinders for 22LR and 22Mag. Plus some folding green, which I disremember how much it was. Of all my guns, the Single Six has been my favorite ever since. But I still have the Winchester, which your picture reminded me about.

Do not ever send those revolvers to Ruger or they will be returned with the transfer bar safety (for idiots who insist on regularly loading the cylinder under the hammer of single action revolvers.

I too have an unmodified (no transfer bar safeties) Single Six and an unmodified Bearcat. The transfer bar safeties just screw up a good single action trigger pull.

 

[Jack Black]

This has nothing to do with guns but I've been wanting something to use to surf the web with but didn't want another computer with an OS and all that would go with one so, I bought a Kindle. Works great for surfing, getting on sites, and buying stuff (say from AMAZON) but it has taken dang near forever to punch all these letters, punctuation marks, etc., into this message. How you guys/gals do it on those itty bitty phones is a puzzle to me.

I know the feeling Ed, I got an IPad a few months ago, and it was a steep learning curve. All I'd say is, it gets easier, and buy yourself a soft tip stylus :thumbup:

Jack

 

[Modoc ED]

I know the feeling Ed, I got an IPad a few months ago, and it was a steep learning curve. All I'd say is, it gets easier, and buy yourself a soft tip stylus :thumbup:

Jack

I have the soft tip sytlus Jack. One thing that's taking getting use to is the really sensitive touch screen. Yeah, I'll keep at it and will get the swing of it pretty soon. It's nice to sit in my easy chair and surf the web rather than at my desk.