Why I'm here.

I grew up in a somewhat liberal, extremely pacifist household in the equally liberal Washington state. I had some good friends who introduced me to the errors of my upbringing. Guns (any weapons really) were a forbidden topic in my house, so when I was first introduced to shooting sports I fell in love- kind of a forbidden fruit thing I think. My mother still wonders where she went so wrong.
Because of my upbringing, and my poverty in college, I am not your average gun guy. Most “gun people” buy a gun and it stays in the family, passed on through generations when the owner goes to their heavenly reward. I, on the other hand, go through guns like they were work pants. I get bored, or I look too close, or I shoot them till I don’t like them anymore. Over the past five years I have bought, shot, and sold or traded More than 50 firearms. Along the way I have learned TONS, established opinions, and had a great time. Now some will ask, “Why” ? It all comes down to a deal I made with my incredibly beautiful, and patient wife. When we were first engaged we talked about lots of important things in great detail, and one of those was firearms. She knew I liked guns and enjoyed shooting (though at the time neither of us had any idea how big this would become). She was worried about having hundreds of guns strewn everywhere around the house. We set a four gun limit at any given time. Over the years that deal has been revisited and modified, but the rule made me sell a gun before I could get a new one. It also has led me to play with a ton of platforms and a ton of accessories. This review blog is based on the experience gathered along the way. I have also figured out how to self-fund my gun addiction. In our house “gun money” is a separate entity, though I have on occasion used it to spoil my wife. “Gun money” is money made from a gun sale that is used for buying another gun or ammo. (Gun money also magically accumulates when I let my wife pick our sons names). Guns have become a real investment to mee, they hold their value very well. I have made a lot of additional “gun money” along the way. My addiction started with a $550 initial investment and has grown to around $15,000 in guns, and around $8000 in ammo (though little of that is left) in the course of five years.

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The mini 30 (7.62x39)


I needed to try this action type, yes I know it Is not really a descendant of the m1 Garand, but it was a copy of sorts, also I do like a pretty gun, and my neighbor had done a lot to make the gun shine. The stock was maple and had been sanded down to a 2000 grit, the stain he used was very mild and showed off the wood grain perfectly, it had a cabalas pine ridge scope on it already, and it came with 5 30 round mags, which was a plus. All in all it needed almost nothing. It shot great, not very accurate but it was reliable. I knew from the start it wasn’t to be a keeper, but I shot it tore it apart and learned it, and tried to give it a fair chance of wooing me. It in the end did nothing for me, and it was traded for a cool pistol.

THE GOOD:
It was a good looking gun,
It worked great, though most piston driven guns do.
 THE BAD:
It was never destined to be a very nice gun, or even a battle rifle.
The scope mount was cheesy and inadequate.
The trigger had a good inch of travel, it was way too long.
FINAL THOUGHTS:

 I really want a m1 garand, that said this is not one, though I did watch the movie “The Host” and thought the scene where the unimogs were battling the chrome helicopter was cool. While trying to escape the passenger in the unimog had a mini 14 and was peppering the crap out of the chopper with it, for some reason all the bullets bounced off, but it was still a rather cool sequence, right up to the point where they smashed the unimog into a concrete wall at speed. (I so love unimogs…)




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