6/27/12

I promised to tell y'all about how this SKS I just bought is almost how I want it set up.  First off, it is a Chinese Norinco with mismatched… well, pretty much everything.  It does not have the original wood stock.  It does not have the bayonet.  And, as I just said, everything is mismatched as far as the serial numbers go.  It is, for all intensive porpoises, a junk gun… a mutt if you will.  Of course were it a numbers matching gun with all of its parts, it would still not be worth all that much and I'd probably have modified it to my taste anyway.  This way though, I don’t have to feel guilty for “bastardizing” anything… as if I WOULD have felt guilty.  Anyhoo, it came to me with an ATI Dragunov style stock, which is what I thought I wanted on an SKS.  However, after fiddling with it for a few days now, I think I'm going to get an ATI Monte Carlo stock for it.  The Dragunov stock that it has… well, there’s just something about it I don’t like.  It seems like it is… not “wrong” exactly, but it is not “right” either.  I can't quite put my finger on what it is I don’t like though.  I had a look at the Monte Carlo stock at Bloodbath & Beyond last night but don’t have the funds for it until Friday when I get paid.  I will probably get one then.  I just heard from John that he wants to move our shop day to Sunday so I will probably be doing some amateur gunsmithery at the shop on Saturday.  Hell, I might even take it to the range and shoost the thing.  I found on line a place in Bowie, Texas who will install a US made trigger, sear, and hammer then “tune” them to a nice smooth trigger pull.  I sent him an e-mail asking if it were a “Stand by and wait while you do it” job, or if it would be better to send it in.  He said to send it in and then come up with the rest of the gun in a week or two.  He’d then reinstall the trigger group and we can “Go out back and shoot it.”  I'm looking forward to that.  Oh, on another front, I just won an auction for an AK-47 magazine stripper clip guide so hopefully I will be able to use them for the Saigas as well as the SKS.  And on yet another front, Nissan of Fort Worth called me last night to see if I found a car I liked at the big liquidation sale the other day.  I said I did but that they wouldn’t take my offer on it.  He asked which car and how much I was offering.  I told him and he said he would look into it and call me back.  I may be getting the MINI after all.  I'm not going to hold my breath though since they seemed pretty Adam Ant on Saturday that they needed to get their $6,500.00 back out of it.  If it happens, it happens.  With a MINI, I'd be the coolest girl in my sorority!  Ha!  Beat you to it!  I wonder if I otter put a giant green Hello Kitty on the white roof.  Yeah, probably.  I think the thing I dig the most about this particular car is the white wheels… are the white wheels?  Hmm, which is grammatically correct?  Like I care.  So, what else is there to say?  Oh, when I got in Fiona the other day, it took the usual minute or so for the damned Bluetooth to connect.  When it looked like it wasn’t going to, I hooked up the phone to the i-Pod cable just as it DID connect.  Of course if the cable is connected before the Bluetooth, the motherfucking i-Pod plays but no goddamned sound comes out.  This was the last fucking straw.  I ripped the fucking i-Pod cable out of the car and threw it out the window.  I then turned the fucking Bluetooth off on the radio and tried the volume control on the steering wheel.  As soon as I hit the “Volume Down” button the motherfucking car went “Bing!  Bluetooth on!”  I am so goddamned sick of that motherfucking bullshit that I sent John a message asking if it were possible to replace the fucking steering wheel.  Turns out it is but the motherfucking “Air Bag” light will be on all the motherfucking time.  So I am probably NOT going to replace the wheel unless there is a Genesis Coupe out there with NO steering wheel controls.  I am also going to go see if I can reactivate an old Blackberry I found in my room so I can throw this motherfucking piece of shit i-Phone out the goddamned window.  As soon as I am able to get a new phone, I'm probably going to get a regular “Dumb Phone” and cancel all of this data bullshit I'm paying for as well.  John, be ready for that in a year and a half if you want to keep drinking the fucking Apple Kool Ade.