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Hey, this one will be practical! It's accurate, reliable, and you couldn't break it with a hammer. (Well, maybe if you used a big hammer.)

And even if she just carries it as a backup when hunting, or when hiking out where it gets dark-and-scary, it will serve her well. (But if the little twerp can figure out a way to carry it as her EDC piece, she will! I've got faith in her!)
But there ain't many troubles that a man caint fix, with seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six."
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First Shirt wrote:The grandpa part was already convinced, just had to convince the skeptical shooter, I suppose.
First Shirt wrote:Hey, this one will be practical! It's accurate, reliable, and you couldn't break it with a hammer. (Well, maybe if you used a big hammer.)
I think we're done here. :D
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Well, now you've done it! You were supposed to talk me down from this ledge, not encourage me to jump off of it!

Got the parts on order, found a beater old-style Vaquero at a local pawn shop (I love my cousin, she always gives me a break on Minion-related projects) and will hopefully have all the parts in the same zip code in time to get them assembled into a simulacrum of a working firearm, and off to be refinished, all before Christmas! There may be a leather cross-draw holster involved, and some scrimshawed grips, as well.

And some time at the lead pot, so I can get a 100 or so (okay, 200, but that's my final offer!) bullets cast, lubed, and loaded.

Damn, Minions are a lot of work!
But there ain't many troubles that a man caint fix, with seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six."
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First Shirt wrote:Well, now you've done it! You were supposed to talk me down from this ledge, not encourage me to jump off of it!
We're here for you, First Shirt.

And... never ask a question you don't already know the answer to? ;)
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I've told The Minions: The definition of a stupid question is one where you already know the answer.
But there ain't many troubles that a man caint fix, with seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six."
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First Shirt wrote:Well, now you've done it! You were supposed to talk me down from this ledge, not encourage me to jump off of it!
But where's the fun in that? :twisted:
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I would even volunteer to hold your beer.
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Rumpshot wrote:I would even volunteer to hold your beer.
I have a host of friends. Yes, indeed, a host of friends!
But there ain't many troubles that a man caint fix, with seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six."
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You are raising them well.
Buy ammunition and magazines.

You'll shoot your eye out!

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Thank you! I think grandchildren are G-d's way of rewarding us for all the crap we went through with our kids, in which case, it was totally worth it!

Got the parts from Midway, now just have to get the beater off layaway, and start putting the whole thing together. (The scariest words in the English language: "Some assembly required.")
But there ain't many troubles that a man caint fix, with seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six."
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