Blackout: Investigation
I’ll admit I laughed way harder than I should have, while doing this strip. I knew what the punchline would involve, as is my usual bent, but until I started lettering the dialogue, I didn’t know how the joke would exactly be delivered. The characters in my head wrote their own words here.
Some of you have pinged me on Faces of Books and other media, asking me if I’m going to do a strip about Feinstein’s childish hissy fit. The answer is: no. She’s already embarrassed herself more than I could hope to in a comic. Her political career is coasting on fumes now, and her impotence in Washington is perfectly delicious. She is fading out. Good riddance.
Hopefully ammo will be available again by August, so I can get out to the Ranch and blow some shit up on video. Right now the only ammo I have in excess is either 7.62x54r, or various 12 ga buck. I don’t mind firing either of those, but they’re not my favorites.
Speaking of Mosins, I’m unsure of whether I want to get one of these new Archangel stocks. On the one hand, I like my dirty old stock. It’s got character and history. On the other… that grip looks sweet, and a ten round mag? Woof. Thoughts?
One bubba, one classic.
Shame it’s not a fixed mag, that’d be totaly legal in Aus otherwise too. 10 roos, or goats, 5 pigs. Wooty, I’d like one.
And, being a Mosin, people won’t whinge at you about a Bubba job.
I will.
Yes, there are a lot of Mosins out there. There used to be a lot of cheap M1903s, Mausers, Enfields, etc. out there as well.
If you want a cheap “sportirized” Bolt-action out there, buy a Ruger or Savage or Mossberg.
It’s not a sporterized job though. The stock is made as a drop in replacement. Take out your two action screws, remove trigger guard and the magazine follower, pull the action, trigger and barrel out, drop into new stock, tighten and done.
You put your old stock in the safe or out of harms way with the other hardware and go have fun.
That is unless the “bubba” or sporterized definition changed since I’ve gotten into everything. Those terms usually meant taking a rifle and then permanently modifying it to a point where it couldn’t be returned to it’s original military configuration. So removing the rear leaf sight on a K98 and using a scout scope mount that clamps on and can be easily removed is one thing. But threading the barrel shortening the barrel, adding etching and scrollwork to the wood and adding a muzzle break is another.
That said and done if the company would ever answer any of my e-mails about the stock I’d buy it in a heartbeat.
I’ve got an original Mosin 91/30 with PU Scope that I’d love to throw in that stock. It accommodates straight or bent bolts but I haven’t seen anything on it if it’s compatible with the Mosin side mount without modification.
The question is, how many people will put their old stock in the safe, and how many will put it in the trash? I’d guess that there are more than a few people who will go with the second option. For somebody who doesn’t care about military history, it looks like a sweet deal–for $300, you get a sturdy gun with a powerful cartridge, modern ergonomics, and as a bonus, some cosmoline-soaked firewood.
I’m thinking about making a muzzle brake for one of my Mosins, I would like to be able to shoot an Appleseed weekend with it. These things were manufactured by the 10s of millions, why should I consider a $100 rifle to be collectable?
See MountainSquid’s comment above.
I have predicted that someday, maybe in 2150 or thereabouts, factory-original Mosins will be rare and highly sought after because everyone kept sneering at the “Hundred-dollar rifle” and bubba-izing the hell out of them.
Note: going price for Mosins is now well above a hundred dollars and rising. “Cheap” and “sale” prices are up to $120 in our neck of the woods, with “normal” prices at $140-150.
You are the problem. millions of enfields, garands, springfields, K98s, etc etc were made too, then bubba (you) ‘sporterize’ it making it nothing more than an ugly piece of crap fudd gun “fer huntin durr” or whatever you like to destroy old guns for. not only do you rape the gun of any historical value, you destroy any monetary value it has too. also please find me some mosins being sold for 100 dollars. and you can by clamp on brakes that don’t suck for cheap anyways, and you don’t destroy the rifle either. I dont know why you need a muzzle break for a mosin anyways, they dont kick hard at all.
Just a note, but my Mosin was $102 in 2011.
Nice looking rifle with reasonable ballistics, I still prefer my USMC M1903A1 rifle with an original Unertl 8x target sight. I bought it back in the early 1980’s and played with my own reloads for different deer performances best rifle that I ever purchased. Stay away from hotloads unless you are going for bear or someone hiding behind concrete blocks with vests. A 100+ year old technology that can hang with modern day equivalents, I stand in awe of it and the M1911.
Which modern-day equivalents does it hang with? Whether you’re considering it a service rifle, designated-marksman rifle, or sniper rifle, I can’t think of a modern equivalent I’d forgo in favor of any M1903. I could see it competing with a modern hunting rifle, but modern hunting rifles, for the most part, are the same 110-year-old technology.
The look on his face in both panels 3 and 4…priceless, just priceless. I haven’t laughed that hard in a while, either.
I have one of their stocks for my M1A1. It’s a nice piece of work in spite of having to do some serious hogging to make the NM receiver fit the stock.
The price is right though and it’s one tough puppy. Only other issue you may have is that the composite stock weighs less than the original wood, shifting the balance point of the piece forward. Well, that and the accessory compartment in the grip is LOTS smaller than the original in the butt.
Overall, a worthwhile gizmo but I didn’t toss my walnut stock either.
YMMV
Want. WANT.
I have a 1937 tula, but stock is refurb anyway, so…may have to see about getting that.
My only concern would be the reduction of weight creating an increase of recoil. Granted, a 91/30 is a puppy, I can shoot one of those things all day long, and if I had the upper-body strength to hold the thing up, it MIGHT be possible to shoot one-handed (Kids: DO NOT TRY AT HOME!!!)…..but, an M44? That muzzle blast turns the thing into a rocket with a trajectory straight into your shoulder. I DO like that it has an integral recoil pad, the adjustable length of pull, et al.
Aesthetically….eh, I still like my wood and brass, but I see the practicality of this stock. Only thing it’d really need is a no-mod scope mount, and I could see 91/30 owners clamoring for a way to turn their rifle into a modern-looking “sniper” rifle without permanently doing anything to the old girl.
At least with my M1/Archangel combination, the recoil is more manageable, the straighter geometry of the stock makes it more comfortable to shoot in spite of the weight reduction.
If I could find a decent PU scope, scope mount, and mount base (the part that got physically bolted onto the receiver) with a bent bolt handle that doesn’t look like poo, from a retailer I trusted, I wouldn’t make a modern sniper rifle… I’d go old school. It was good enough for Vasily Zaitsaiev, and it’s good enough for me.
The link to Feinstein’s hissy wasn’t about Feinstein at all. On the ArchAngel, they’re still in pre-sale… with no statement on when they begin shipping. That’s a little annoying. But it looks like a fun toy, and will not destroy the rifle to do it. And I think I’ll get the trigger group as well.
What, people don’t just pull it out and lift it towards their face?
Well played.
If they had the Archangel stock 20 years ago, I wouldn’t have sold my Finish Mosin Nagant. That looks sweet and much more comfortable. I would have loved the extended magazine too.
By the way, if you’re just shooting to shoot, and want to use the shotgun, don’t forget about birdshot, which is usually cheap and plentiful.
And I’m finding it interesting Joe is stunned in TMI mode where he could be cracking jokes asking Mick give more details about the smell of his crockery.
I say this not with pride but as someone who is a lifelong California Bay Area resident – I think you’re overestimating us. I have very little doubt that if Feinstein runs again, she will be re-elected. And if you want evidence – just look at the other politicians we elect.
Hmm. That stock looks like an option. Personaly i would only use it if i found a MN with an unsalvagable stock, give an old warrior a new leas on life and that. But if the original stock is still servicable, it should remain imo, in respect of the rifles history. Or at least keep the old stock so the rifle can be restored to original state.
But with this stock, as mentioned earlier, you can keep your original, and switch back at will. Nothing is permanently modified to drop into the ArchAngel.