4/9/14

Calling the CBRPS Bullpup stock for the Mosin Nagant a piece of shit would be an insult… to SHIT!  I know that is an old joke, but hell’s bells if it ain’t true in this case.  First off, half of the parts are that dense fiberboard material, something like “melamine” I think it’s called, with a smattering of thin ABS plastic, and the balance aluminum.  Secondly, most of the screws screwed INTO threads in the “melamine” parts so there is no way to tighten them sufficiently.  Thirdly, nothing fit or lined up properly… ok, that might not be fair, SOME things lined up, but not enough things to make the thing work.  And finally, the “instructions” were so cryptic and obfuscated that… hell, I don’t even know to what I could compare them!  Then, if you did manage to assemble the thing, the bolt hits you in the shoulder when cycling the action so there is no way to stay on target for a follow up shot.  And the butt pad area is woefully small for a full-power rifle round like 7.26x54r!  I came so close to packing it back into the box in which it came, writing “Calling this a piece of shit would be an insult to shit!” on the “instructions,” and sending it right back to the manufacturer.  I was so pissed off that I wasn’t even going to ask for my money back, just leave him with the passive-aggressive jab of “I hope you can sleep at night, you blackguard charlatan snake-oil salesman.”  It does look cool though, so I'm going to take it to the shop Saturday and force-fit everything.  I'm not sure I'll ever try to fire it though.  I'm not sure it will actually withstand the recoil.  Of course, it does look cool.  I'll probably finish it out and drag it to the next gun show to try and offload it on some poor sucker.  Then again, it does look cool, I might keep it.  Yeah, I'll put a $600.00 price tag on it, which is about a $150.00 loss before ammo, but plan on keeping it when no one goes for that amount because, say it with me, it does look cool.  We’ll see.  In other news, I believe John has my trailer sold.  Juan could look at it as a $600.00 loss… or we could consider that I got $600.00+ usage over the course of the last fifteen years.  Yeah, six Benjamins in hand and six bones worth of use… I think I can live with that logic.  Besides, it was too small and too heavy.  When I go to replace it one day, I'll get a nice aluminum one with a tad more length… or not, as the case may be.  In “But, didn’t you just sell one of those?” news, I was watching “Wheeler Dealers” on Velocity last night and they were doing a Mini.  I have decided that I AM going to have a Mini in the near future but the next one will be a runner, not a project.  John has already found a few on e-Bay UK and we finger $3,000.00 to $3,500.00 to buy it plus another $2,000.00 to get it over here and licensed puts us in one reasonably cheap.  Oh, did I mention I really want right hand drive?  Well, I do.  So there.  Crap, there is one on Craigslist in Oklahomo for $4,500.00, RHD, runs but needs front sheet metal.  Crap, crap, crapity, crap, crap!  I'd be a monumental dumbass to… I'm not even going to finish that because we all know I AM a monumental dumbass.  I'm going to try and forget about that and wait for the right one to come along.  Yes, that is the smart thing to do.  Well, I think I'm just about chatted out for today so I'm going to call it a rant and go do something else.