Gun Thread: End O' June Edition!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the End O' June Edition? Have you been enjoying the heatwave on the east coast this week? What are you doing to stay cool? Has it affected your ability to go to the range and shoot?

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

You know what I am going to say. Are you an adherent of WeaselDoctrine?

Now this is cool beans! Our pal The Walking Dude shares his Persian Mauser!

With Iran in the news Here are some pix of my 8mm 98/29 Persian (Iranian) Mauser in the white (or unblued) and ammo I got from Samco decades ago. The bore is pristine and the rifle looks unissued. These rifles were from the Shah's days when the soldiers would wear white gloves and march up and down the square with them. They were made by BRNO in Czechoslovakia and are renowned for their accuracy. The lettering is all in Persian (Farsi) and this one I'm told translates to Persian year of manufacture 1317, which is 1938 in our years. The story I heard on the lack of bluing is SAMCO tried cleaning them with an aggressive solvent and it removed the bluing.

I bought a crate of ammo with it too. All were FTF's and hang-fires, so I saved the components for reloading as the brass and projectiles were salvageable.

Click here for more information on the Persian Mauser

Very nice The Walking Dude! Appreciate your sending this for us all to enjoy!

Navigating the Non-Permissive Environment
Massad Ayoob, the NPE, and you.

Here are some different online cigar vendors. You will find they not only carry different brands and different lines from those brands, but also varying selections of vitolas (sizes/shapes) of given lines. It's good to have options, especially if you're looking for a specific cigar.

Cigarsinternational.com
Cigarpage.com
Famous-smoke.com
Cigarsdaily.com
Neptunecigar.com
Smallbatchcigar.com
Bobalu Cigar Company
Cigarbid.com
Nicks Cigar World

A note about sources. The brick & mortar/online divide exists with cigars, as with guns, and most consumer products, with respect to price. As with guns - since both are "persecuted industries", basically - I make a conscious effort to source at least some of my cigars from my local store(s). It's a small thing, but the brick & mortar segment for both guns and tobacco are precious, and worth supporting where you can. And if you're lucky enough to have a good cigar store/lounge available, they're often a good social event with many dangerous people of the sort who own scary gunz, or read smart military blogs like this one. -rhomboid

Anyone have others to include? Perhaps a small local roller who makes a cigar you like? Send me your recommendation and a link to the site!

Ammo Link-O-Rama
I'm really very seriously not kidding around anymore. Buy Ammo
AmmoSeek - online ammo search tool
GunBot - online ammo search tool
SG Ammo
Palmetto State Armory
Georgia Arms
AmmoMan
Target Sports USA
Bud's Gun Shop
American Elite Ammo NEW!

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That's it for this week - have you been to the range?

posted by Weasel at 07:00 PM

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