Sovblocgunfan
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I had a buddy who had a 1971 Cessna 172. He bought it with money he’d won in a poker game.
Plane was perfectly safe, but wasn’t much in the looks department. It was painted with a brush and bucket. It passed its inspections and he replaced things as necessary with utilitarian parts to keep it flying.
But he spared NO expense on avionics and instrumentation. The plane was nice where it needed to be. In his mind, all of that made flying easier and more pleasurable. Hard to argue with. And he loved that plane like a kid does a raggedy teddy bear.
My guns aren’t “nice”. They are well-kept tools. They are all perfectly serviceable and do their job if I do mine. I don’t bother with spending a lot of money on cosmetics. But am interested in doing certain things to my guns if they help me shoot them better.
Plane was perfectly safe, but wasn’t much in the looks department. It was painted with a brush and bucket. It passed its inspections and he replaced things as necessary with utilitarian parts to keep it flying.
But he spared NO expense on avionics and instrumentation. The plane was nice where it needed to be. In his mind, all of that made flying easier and more pleasurable. Hard to argue with. And he loved that plane like a kid does a raggedy teddy bear.
My guns aren’t “nice”. They are well-kept tools. They are all perfectly serviceable and do their job if I do mine. I don’t bother with spending a lot of money on cosmetics. But am interested in doing certain things to my guns if they help me shoot them better.