A Bit of Rifle Work and Say a Few Prayers For Us Please

Greetings and Salutations!
Happy Easter!
Hope everyone had a relaxing day communing with The Lord in whatever way you feel most comfortable with. For me, well Gretchen came back and well…

She’s flying out tomorrow to get checked by Doc Samizdat.
There’s a significant lump in her right boobie that has me highly concerned. She’s headed back there and Doc has a slot scheduled for surgery IF it’s needed.

We’re hoping it’s a fluid buildup.
If not?
Well… I’ll just leave it all in The Lord’s hands and hopefully things will work out the way they need to His Will Be Done.

So yeah… this sort of news/stuff leaves me sort of just drained. Like I haven’t had enough horseshit to deal with on the regular. I will say I do grow weary of being a metaphysical shit-magnet for real. I mean quite literally I haven’t (as far as I know) done something Karmatically speaking that should be bringing this near-constant heat on to me.

It’s enough for me to chuck it all and decide that it’s time to go “Full Retard”… and if such a time does in fact come, y’all will hear it here first.

Now, the rest of the 2A1 is currently hanging on the drying rack. Like I said, because of the various metal impurities I discovered, and by deeper research, I found that a painted-on grey-ish Parkerized finish IS one of the ones that the Hindus used when building these out. It depended on when the particular rifle was converted from .303 Brit to 7.62/.308 NATO. The later variants were done in the grey, and as this one was made in 1966, then the grey it shall be.

Here endth that lersson.

What I did do however was start fitting the lower main stock piece to the receive and barrel. The ‘donor rifle’… that nasty DP .303 that I started with?

As you know I refinished the HELL out of it.
It still needs to be fitted to the ‘new’ .308 receiver and barrel that’s what tonight’s adventure has been all about.

Some time ago I picked up (I think at a Ren-Faire) a small wood carving kit. I think I wanted to start playing around with doing some projects like that or something… too many years/beers to properly remember. Either way, it’s a nice lil kit:

Very ‘Ren-Faire-ish’ in it’s presentation. However the tools themselves are fantastic:

10 Chisels of various sizes and angles.
VERY sharp.
So much so I only need a little bit of hand pressure to carve, and even then I have to go very lightly lest I take too large a chuck of wood out. Using these, I spent the better part of the night

c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y

carving out the areas on the lower stock that were too tight for the action/receiver to slide in:

I took my time…
Like a LOT of time.
A wee bit of carving at a time. Teeny bits of wood.
No rush. Just accuracy and care.

Too many people rush things.
THIS is a game of ‘slow walking’ to get the best result.
Two hours of labor later:

It fits like a glove.
And the next step will be to bed and float the barrel. That’s on the list, but if I can’t get to it, it is what it is.

So that’s it for tonight. Gretchen leaves tomorrow and Sapper is punching on a Recon Mission on Thursday, so as of Thursday, I’ll be an all Ugly One-Man Band.

Me, the two doggos and the fucking cats.
It should be cool.

I hope.
So More Later
Big Country