Ice Storm 2
Dec17
Oh yeah, the party keeps going. THE COMMUNIST PARTY!
BEST RIFLE IS BEST RIFLE!
EDIT: Woops. Sorry about the texas-sized strip.
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Shot my M44 for the first time in a blizzard up here in PA and I daresay that if she could smile; she came as close as ever that day.
loving the last 2 days, not sure if chan-elling any websites weapon boards with all the hilarious Russian speakings, komrades, and mosin love or not though.
Nah. About a year ago, I had Omar and Mick speaking in BAD RUSSIAN ACCENT WITH BEST RIFLE. It just made sense for them to do so during a Texas ice storm. Kinda.
Oh I know, just wondered if it was a reference. it was about a year ago on that site that someone posted a thread about this site. people really fixate on mosins (with good reason) I would give my left nut to get deals like clean a crate of nuggets and pick the one you like the most.
“Filled up the case, scraped it off level, then stuffed the bullet in on top.”
…there is not enough D: in the entire multiverse to denote that level of sheer brass-balls idiocy.
Do NOT get me started on reloading stupidities…
Don’t I know it. The worst I ever did was forgetting to taper crimp a run of 10mm before a range visit with my G20. As anal as I am about maintenance, I’m completely godsdamn paranoid about my reloads.
Might go a ways toward explaining why even my old beater guns run perfectly and I’ve never had an ammo-related malf in 20 years and FSM knows how many rounds fired.
I physically cringed when he said that.
We had a twofer here; I started watching from our loveseat and my husband, hearing guntalk going on from my computer, came over to watch. When we got to that point the recoil almost shifted the loveseat. Still not as bad as the recoil was on that poor rifle.
Don’t forget the French toast supplies: milk, bread, eggs. I swear, happens every time they forecast snow in New England.
Yup. Predictable, like clockwork: News announcemtn, half hour later the stores will be mobbed.
The hell of it is, I normally only keep about three days of perishables in my house, so often as not, I’m going out on a scheduled shopping trip right into the teeth of the frenzy – thus adding to the mess.
My comment exactly. Texas guys are obviously snowstorm newbies. They haven’t yet absorbed the Holy Trinity of milk, bread, and eggs.
So, is there an artistic reason for the picture to be about twice as big as it should be, or is there an autistic one?
In Russia everything is bigger! (was wondering that as well….)
I washed it in the wrong temp.
Shoulda used Woolite.
Olga loves the winter shooting when I take her out in Dec/Jan/Feb. I know it’s my imagination but she seems to shoot better in the cold. Olga is my original 1941 91/30 sniper variant with PU scope for the record lol
In regards to your alt text, 3-5 days in your state and 3-5 months in mine.
“I’ll give you a winter prediction: It’s gonna be cold, it’s gonna be grey, and it’s gonna last you for the rest of your life.“
Name that quote!
Groundhog Day. Right before he kidnaps Phil and drives off the quarry, IIRC.
Bing!
Beat’n on that Mosin like a mail order bride.
First, if Mick thinks that he’s not gonna have any running water, how does he expect to flush?
Second, I approve of unresized comic.
Third, Mosin is best rifle!
You fill everything that will hold water before the freeze hits. When it gets really cold, you heat the water before you flush with it, so it doesn’t freeze in the pipe before it gets to the septic tank.
Been There Froze That. (and those, when we had to resort to the one-holer because the septic line froze.)
Dogs have to be walked, even after an ice storm. After one December storm, here was two inches of ice over 6 inches of snow. It was a chainsaw and shovel holiday with broken branches and trees down everywhere, blocking icy unplowed, untreated streets. The world had shut down after everyone had pillaged the grocery and hardware stores clean. (The hardware has a decent jerky and candy supply by the register.) The frozen 5F night air had stripped out all of the clouds and it was a beautiful sky with stars and a full moon clearly visible. The clear ice on the remaining trees was a kaleidoscope of night sky, street lights, stop lights, flashing Christmas lights, and green exploding power line transformers. My power was out for a week.
Driving is much better after a major ice storm. Slick roads does a lot of Darwinian selection of bad drivers.
If we’re being all Soviet here, shouldn’t that be ‘Godless speed?’ 🙂
The Mosin was a Russian rifle long before it was a Soviet rifle!
This is easily my favorite so far. We need to see more of these.
Also, I feel like the frame of Mick and Omar crouching behind the counter could be used for some awesome one-frame jokes.
M91/30 Mosin Nagant. The perfect peasant’s rifle.
Hey Jay, is there a difference between your commissions on Kindle v. Dead Tree versions?
Extremely negligible. Seriously, pick whichever format you like – I make about the same either way.
Someone is clearly putting illicit substances into the air/water supply at CTYM. Periodically the employees suffer psychotic episodes as a result.
Naw, that’s just the residual vapors from the WW2-era Soviet cosmoline still seeping from the Mosin-Nagant stocks! There’s NO international communist conspiracy to impurify and contaminate their precious bodily fluids.
Tho I wonder, if by it’s omission from his shopping list, does this mean they’re already well-stocked in vodka? Can’t celebrate a miserable winter hell without it!
mattexian: I see what you did there.
What do you mean, periodically? And who says their suffering, they appear to be reveling in they’re psychosis.
I meant they’re and their not their and they’re.
Glad I live in Arizona. There is no snow in Arizona lower than the mountains. Sometimes we get rain but from snow to heat that is stupid weather. I prefer the mild cold of an Arizona winter. Sometimes I lose a plant to frost but its easy to replace.
Every snowstorm, I wonder what the hell people are making that they’ve bought all the milk, eggs, and toilet paper.
Using a 2×4 on a Mosin bolt is such a cliche…