8/30/2011

OK, so I've told y'all about Saturday and teased you with a hint that I bought something at the gun show. Sunday morning Larry calls at around 0845 h to go to the show. We meet at the credit onion, as usual, and head out. We are about an hour early for the doors to open so we swing by Dumb Ass Fucking Retard Burger so I can show him how ludicrous the situation there is. Of course they aren't open yet and the cones are all gathered up, but he could tell what a joke the place was to be when they did open. We headed on to the convention center. We parked in the garage and went in to wait for the doors to open. There was already a line. We sat down at the tables outside the entry and waited. The line got longer and longer. Eventually they opened the doors and began letting people in. The poor lady taking money, notice the singular there, was working furiously to get people in as fast as she could. We decided to wait out the line rather than stand in it. When it went down by a third, we got up and joined the queue. I love that word, “queue.” It is so... British. Anyhoo, we finally got to the front of the line and paid. I told her she was doing a great job but I don't think she heard me. We began walking the aisles. Remember, I was looking for a specific rifle, a .308 caliber Saiga. Yeah, there weren’t any. I passed on a few items, just in case, so I'd have enough money if I did find my rifle. We got to the middle row and decided to break for lunch. Yes, there was so little to comment on that I'm skimming over the first half of the show. We took off out of the garage and went to Benito’s. It was good, as usual. When we got back however, the dumb asses in charge had closed off the parking garage. Usually, if we have a parking pass from earlier, we drive right back in. No, the asshole manning the entrance wouldn't let us. “Parking garage is full,” he said as two cars pulled OUT of the mother fucker! Had I been driving, I wouldn't have even stopped for him. I would have waved the pass and gone on in. Larry has no balls though so we sound up parking out in the outside lot. I was pissed... no, I was fucking ANGRY! We got back in and started shopping the second half of the show. At some point, I saw a lever-action shotgun like the one Arnold used in “Terminator 2” and pointed it out to Larry. “Oh,” he says, “Like the Terminator.” I smiled because he got the reference. I think I looked at the price but I honestly don't remember if I did. We walked on. I saw a few more things which piqued my interest, but I was shopping for the .308 Saiga. About two-thirds of the way through with the second half, so about five sixths of the total show, I saw another lever-action shotgun like the first. This time I looked at the price because I was nearing the end of the show and it really interested me. It was $375.00 or so. We walked the last few aisles and I finally gave up on the .308 Saiga. Now we bagan the backtracking process to look at stuff we passed on before. I went back and bought some tritium night sights and some more two-round magazines for the Saiga 12. Oh, I also found my ammo guy and traded in the fifty rounds of hollow point ammo I'd bought which wouldn't fit in Hedley LaMarr’s magazines for fifty rounds of ball ammo. It’s a friggin’ .45, it doesn't really need to expand. Larry bought a few items he passed on as well. I tried to find the first lever-action shotgun to no avail so I went back to the second one. I fondled it for a bit and decided to wait. While Larry was looking at something, I saw what I thought was that first LA shotgun! Some dude was walking along with it. I stopped him and we spoke for a bit. He assured me he had just arrived and that the gun had, in fact, NOT been sitting on a table. I didn't believe him because it was identical to the first gun, down to the leather fringe thingy on the lever. His price was fair, $400.00, but still more than the second gun. I passed. Later I did find the original gun and it really was a different firearm, at $800.00, this one was twice as much. I went back to look at the second gun one last time but couldn't find the guy. He had already packed up. I took it as fate and... oh wait, that random dude looks familiar. “Did you have a lever-action shotgun for sale?” I asked. “Yep,” random dude replied. “It’s right there.” He opened up the case and got it back out for me to fondle again. I bummed the rest of the cash I needed from Larry and bought it. Then we went back to the table where we’d seen a Saiga 12 for... wait for it... $625.00! Yes, $125.00 less than we paid for ours at Blood Bath & Beyond. Oh, we’d also seen a few for $650.00 and $700.00 as well. I'm not sure why the price has dropped. There ain’t no tellin’. Eventually Larry bought it and we finally left. Back at the house I play with the “new” shotgun for a bit and decide I really like it. It is a Norinco model 87, a replica of the Winchester model 1887 designed by the legendary John Moses Browning. Oh, and did I mention Arnold used one in “Terminator 2”? So, as cheesy as it is, I'm calling the thing The Terminator. Yeah, I know. I'm not proud of that either. And with that gun now in my inventory, Mossy is totally superfluous. I've asked John if he’s interested in it since he’s the only other person to shoot it besides me. Hell, he’s actually shot it MORE than I have! I only have about twenty or thirty rounds through it, he’s got over 100! Usage wise, he already has a better claim to it than I do. I think he’ll gopher it. We'll see. And on that note...