I seem to be quite prolific with posts this morning as I clean my weapons and listening to Christmas music with my family in the other room (soaking barrels right now) and came up with this idea. (ah, just noticed the typo in the subject, sorry about that).
The weirdest firearm I ever had was a Thompson semi-automatic carbine that my wife bought as a surprise for me when we first met.
She bought it in pieces and on her own (she didn't know much about firearms in those days, i.e. NYC girl) sent it to a gunsmith buddy to be re-built/refinished and "gold cupped" (if you can imagine that, I had mentioned and explained how I liked my 1911s gold cupped etc.). She also had a 50 round drum put on it as well. My gunsmith buddy (who is pretty well known in the industry) still remembers her doing that. He says she was "insistent" on the gold cupping. :nono:
She packed it in a big box so I wouldn't know what it was. When I opened the box it was like getting a wierd colored tie. That thing weighed a ton. I took it once to the range with her and fired it, i.e. about as accurate as throwing rocks at 25 yards. She kept on asking me if I liked it and I said "a yeah its great honey":blink:.
She would take it out and show my USMC F.A.S.T. buddies when they came over to visit (smile and wave boys, smile and wave :wave
. Finally came up with a reason to sell it a few years later and not hurt her feelings. That thing had a trigger pull weight of about 70 pounds with more trigger creep than a night crawler.
The weirdest firearm I ever had was a Thompson semi-automatic carbine that my wife bought as a surprise for me when we first met.
She bought it in pieces and on her own (she didn't know much about firearms in those days, i.e. NYC girl) sent it to a gunsmith buddy to be re-built/refinished and "gold cupped" (if you can imagine that, I had mentioned and explained how I liked my 1911s gold cupped etc.). She also had a 50 round drum put on it as well. My gunsmith buddy (who is pretty well known in the industry) still remembers her doing that. He says she was "insistent" on the gold cupping. :nono:
She packed it in a big box so I wouldn't know what it was. When I opened the box it was like getting a wierd colored tie. That thing weighed a ton. I took it once to the range with her and fired it, i.e. about as accurate as throwing rocks at 25 yards. She kept on asking me if I liked it and I said "a yeah its great honey":blink:.
She would take it out and show my USMC F.A.S.T. buddies when they came over to visit (smile and wave boys, smile and wave :wave
. Finally came up with a reason to sell it a few years later and not hurt her feelings. That thing had a trigger pull weight of about 70 pounds with more trigger creep than a night crawler.
