Kevin's Watch

Aye it will pass

Yeah it better...I'm actually meh with being meh...

Re cats stalking...the stalk is always done with the head held almost motionless, so bells are often "negated" as it were. I cut them off mine's collars because I got sick of them waking each other up and setting each other off whenever one came in.

(It's getting more and more difficult to keep Harley in as she gains better use of her leg... )

--A

Kara is the only cat I keep a bell on, and that's so she can't sneak up on her sisters. She has mastered the art of silent sneaking anyway, but at this point I'm used to the bell.

Yeah kitties are very good at surreptitious slinking lol

3 weeks until a check ✔ up, some x-rays and hopefully and ok to start walking on the leg. I hate using the walker. The wheelchair too. Surprisingly the doctor gave me a permanent handicapped plate 🍽 for the truck . Just four years until I can retire from the prison.

So at least four weeks until I can take the guns out to the range and get some practice in.

Wow it’s been an age since I’ve been to a firing range. Treasure Berries and my fave hang out

America. All you need is a gun and money.

It’s all you need here in fact you don’t even need a gun .. you can use whatever the gun club has

Skyweir wrote:It’s all you need here in fact you don’t even need a gun .. you can use whatever the gun club has

And give up the Mosin, the Enfield, the Turkish? The Romanian?

No thanks.

Yeah, it can be fun shooting something random from the range, but the idiosyncrasies of your own are what you learn to deal with and love.

Me, I'm knackered...work is just not letting up. Need a holiday.

--A

Av - agreed. The Romanian has a nice loose bolt action. The Mosin sticks. Etc, etc.

Our WWI rifles Turkish mouser, and pre-WWI martini henry, moison nagent and a pattern 14 British 303 all in perfect working condition and well looked after.

We had a number of standard rifles.

Honestly I loved the historicity of the military rifles and would like to still have them ... but would be limited to decommissioned.

However, cuz we had a recent awful experience with native wildlife we are now looking at getting relicensed and buying a 22. caliber bolt action .. and then we could euthanise injured wildlife and not watch them suffer till someone from 80kms away to do the deed.

Actually thinking of getting a .22 bolt action just for fun myself. Promised the guy who owns my usual range that if he opened a rifle bay I would get one.

--A

Sky & Av - it is awesome not having to ask the government permission to defend myself and Julie. Freedom rules!

Avatar wrote:Actually thinking of getting a .22 bolt action just for fun myself. Promised the guy who owns my usual range that if he opened a rifle bay I would get one.

--A

Awesome news

Null I do not need to ask anyone’s permission to defend myself that is a right protected by law

Sky - you so need permission when it comes to what you defend yourself with, no?

I can't actually imagine ever needing to defend myself like that. It's just... not a concern? At all?

right?

sgt.null wrote:Sky - you so need permission when it comes to what you defend yourself with, no?

No more than you do or maybe a tiny bit more than you do.

Do you need to be licensed? Who issues that license?

Are your firearms registered? With whom are they registered?

Two more than reasonable steps to firearms ownership here

My Dad gave me a 12 gauge and a 22 rifle that he had inherited himself. They sat in the closet for several years and I finally got rid of them. Never even owned ammo for either.

I've had guns pointed at me, knives too. If I had had a loaded gun, someone might have died. I have always managed to talk my way around it, and everyone lived.

Sometimes I think I'd feel safer with a gun, but I haven't actually needed one for 58 years. Why start now?

A question got asked today about having a Person. Someone you're not married to, who is not impressed with you, who will ask the questions, who gets your world view, etc, and is ideally your gender. That's the problem for me. I've always related to men better. In fact the only person who fits the description is a male colleague (who I'm not attracted to). But I need a girl friend. Advice?