Greetings and Salutations!
Another night like tonight and I’m declaring both Bankruptcy and Obesity, all in one fell swoop. Reason being that tonight we celebrated Sapper finishing off his job with a BIG dinner out at a very Pricey Steakhouse.
Specifically the Terra Gaucha Brazilian Steakhouse in downtown Tampa. Five Stars man…
$100 a person.
MAD Pricey.
BUT
A big Celebration means a big meal at a great restaurant.
This’s one of the traditional places that it’s all you can eat meats/seafood. The servers run around with fresh skewers of meat, and carve it off onto your plate. And ALL of the meat is top-shelf stuff… I won’t even begin to describe it… let’s just say I done et five full different critters tonight: Cow, Pig, Chikin, Shrimp and Lamb.
Good thing I’m in shape.
ROUND is a shape right?
So thus is the tardiness of Ye Olde Postage tonight, for which I apologize. (That and the Crème Brule was off the motherfucking chain baby!!!!)
So I finished scrubbing the Canuckistan Enfield today.
I took off what rust I could without utilizing the usual chemistry that would have also removed everything down to the bare metal. As I said, once it’s ‘proofed’ for firing, then we’ll do the raffle. This is the BEFORE cleaning, just as I had received it from GunGirl last week:
And then, the AFTER Cleaning, with the wood completely refurbished, but still with it’s ‘battle scars’ and personality:
Noticeable difference Aye?
It’s a LOT cleaner
The wood is by far in better shape than I originally expected, what with the Ethernopian Infestation. As you can see, the butt came out really well as you can see before and after:
I left the bore-holes intact, as they are part of the history of this thing. And the front? Well, I added a toy for it:
Part of the various changes that were done going from the Mod3, the SMLE, one of them was they got rid of the horse-killing extra HUUUUGE bayonet. Instead they ‘went cheap’ and introduced the spike bayonet. The one above is an early single-piece milled McStabby Stabber. Later they went with welded two-piecers that were cheaper and faster to make.
And yes, it fits:
The bayonet was actually WAAAY grosser to clean than the rifle. THAT was in a BLOCK of Cosmo I swear. It STILL has some oozing out from the nooks and crannies. It is however, fully operational and a legit milled 1942 produced spike. It’ll go to the winner of the Raffle, as well as some speed loaders, and a sling. I can’t send one of these babies out under-equipped.
So yep.
Gonna try to go and test ALL three tomorrow if I have MY way about it. The one I’m truly excited for is the Springfield. THAT smoke pole looks to be just vicious fun. I may even bring a pineapple or something to the affect to see if I can hit it and blow it the hell up.
So that’s it for tonight.
I swear I’m in a meat -coma.
More Later
Big Country
Lovely job on the old Enfield. I find it very interesting that a pass through a dishwasher is so effective at cleaning up the very grubby stock. Gonna be fun seeing how well she shoots
The big , fat, and slow Trapdoor-safe slugs from the 45-70 penetrate remarkably well. I’ve had them go through 20” of log at modest ranges and they’ll really splash large fruit.
Or a large can of tomato juice.
Looking forward to the mayhem!
Coelacanth
We get out to a Brazilian steakhouse once in a blue moon. I always feel optimistic about victory but inevitably end up turning the little wheel to red and surrendering unconditionally. Worth doing once every few years.
Where do you find all those cool classic guns?
When someone says “super-pricey steakhouse in Tampa,” Bern’s is the first place I think of. EVERYTHING about the place is totally over the top. If you ever go, take the kitchen tour!
I really like a Brazilian-style churrascaria when I’m hungry enough to make it worth the money.
The salad bar at the Brazilian steakhouse is a jew plot to make you eat less meat.
The trick is to put 3 or 4 pao do queso, the cheese bread balls, on your plate to sop up the juices.
If you dont get the meat sweats then you didnt do it right
Sweats and shits or it didn’t happen.
I’d be in on that raffle, what history buff and shooter wouldn’t? I have a “bucket list” of historical firearms, be they wall hangers or shooters, I have a list. Enfield, Garand, Mauser… you get it.
BCE, that rifle came out really nice. I agree with you by not doing a restomod on it.
She looks just fine for an old war torn gal!
I’d be interested in a raffle.
You could always put a blue RAF sling on it if you want to be different.