This weekend I spent a good deal of time out in my garage which houses my workbenches, toolboxes, reloading supplies, gun related item storage, and like many garages a small mountain of “stuff” that we don’t use but don’t ever seem to get rid of either. Suprisingly enough my garage still is capable of housing a Ford Expedition, so I call the storage issue bordering upon hordeing as a win for us...
As I dug through old stuff and threw away a good percentage of all of the items I touched I came across a box that I had been wondering where it was. I hadn’t seen it in about 5 years since I moved to Tennessee and although I knew the basic contents of the box, I had forgotten what specific items were there. Pocket knives from my grandfathers junk drawer, spent brass from several guns, cleaning kits long since replaced and forgotten, and a USPS envelope that I had never opened. I had no clue, so in curiosity I opened it. I have a complete gun less frame for one of the revolvers I got from my grandma before she passed. I have always shot the gun periodically but also always babied it because it is a known poor quality gun and subject to breakage. I seem to remember catching this parts kit at an online auction for nearly nothing, and apparently I stashed it away and forgot I had it. Cool find!!! Then there was another box, more spare parts to other guns I had inherited. Cooler still! Thankfully I haven’t had to perform surgery on any of my ancestors guns, but have taken note of what I have, and now have a target list of guns to snag spare parts for when I find them cheap enough to do so.
Does anybody else go ahead and stock parts for their guns that have sentimental value? If it weren’t for sentimental reasons I would never have bothered buying spare parts for an RG or a FIE gun, but by darn I will be able to keep my ancestors guns going as long as I live, and I hope my daughters learn a bit by working with me. My 8 yr old already wants to help me work on guns, and has laid claim to the 32 safety hammerless I just recently bought, because I had her little fingers at work and she claims that SHE fixed it. I guess she did, my fat fingers could never get the tiny trigger dear and spring back in place...
As I dug through old stuff and threw away a good percentage of all of the items I touched I came across a box that I had been wondering where it was. I hadn’t seen it in about 5 years since I moved to Tennessee and although I knew the basic contents of the box, I had forgotten what specific items were there. Pocket knives from my grandfathers junk drawer, spent brass from several guns, cleaning kits long since replaced and forgotten, and a USPS envelope that I had never opened. I had no clue, so in curiosity I opened it. I have a complete gun less frame for one of the revolvers I got from my grandma before she passed. I have always shot the gun periodically but also always babied it because it is a known poor quality gun and subject to breakage. I seem to remember catching this parts kit at an online auction for nearly nothing, and apparently I stashed it away and forgot I had it. Cool find!!! Then there was another box, more spare parts to other guns I had inherited. Cooler still! Thankfully I haven’t had to perform surgery on any of my ancestors guns, but have taken note of what I have, and now have a target list of guns to snag spare parts for when I find them cheap enough to do so.
Does anybody else go ahead and stock parts for their guns that have sentimental value? If it weren’t for sentimental reasons I would never have bothered buying spare parts for an RG or a FIE gun, but by darn I will be able to keep my ancestors guns going as long as I live, and I hope my daughters learn a bit by working with me. My 8 yr old already wants to help me work on guns, and has laid claim to the 32 safety hammerless I just recently bought, because I had her little fingers at work and she claims that SHE fixed it. I guess she did, my fat fingers could never get the tiny trigger dear and spring back in place...
