Old Guns and Other Stuff Newsletter for October 2024

 

 

 

Most Internet Browsers – Firefox, Edge, Opera etc – have decided to truncate, or cut off, the bottoms of long emails like this one. There is a tiny note at the bottom allowing you to retrieve the rest of the email. Rob and Abby

Please forward this letter to your friends.

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Investors who jumped into the latest GameStop stock frenzy lost $13.1 billion in just three days. After a 271%  drop from its high.

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• Every box of raisins is a tragic tale of grapes that could have been wine.
• Theme parks can snap a crystal-clear picture of you on a roller coaster going 70 mph,  but bank cameras can’t get a clear shot of a robber standing still.
• Dear paranoid people who check behind their shower curtains for murderers … if you do find one, what’s your plan?
• The more I get to know people, the more I realize why Noah let only animals on the boat.
• I never make the same mistake twice.  I do it like, five or six times, you know, to make sure.
• Some people seem to have aged like fine wine.  I aged like milk … I got sour and chunky.      
• Vegetarians live up to nine years longer than meat-eaters.  Nine horrible, worthless, bacon-less years.
• I still have a full deck… I just shuffle slower.

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A New York City couple whose hobby is “magnet fishing” in local waters reeled in a safe containing an estimated $100,000 in waterlogged $100 bills. Barbi Agostini thought boyfriend James Kane was joking when he pulled the safe from a lake in Queens and shouted he’d found “stacks of bills, dude!” Once she saw “the actual dollars” she said ” I lost it.” Unable to identify the safe’s owner, police said they’re free to keep it, but the bills are “pretty much destroyed.” said Kane. He plans to consult with specialists  at the federal Bureau of Engraving and Printing to see how much can be recovered.

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 Dustbusting, after an Indian college student set a new Guinness World Record by building the world’s smallest vacuum cleaner. Tapala Nadamuni said facility at this college called the device, fashioned from a ballpoint pen and measuring a quarter-inch wide, “the most beautiful creation they’ve ever seen”.

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Scarfers, after New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu used the Heimlich maneuver to save a choking participant at a lobster-roll eating contest. “He went right back to the contest,” said Sununu. “He ate another seven lobster rolls. Right down the gullet.”

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Good Team Building after an injured Colorado man was abandoned by co-workers on a mountain during a corporate retreat in the Rockies. Rescue workers, who found the unnamed man the next day, predicted “some awkward encounters at the office.”

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High School Student scores on the ACT college admissions test have dropped to their lowest since 1991. Scores have been dipping for the past six years but the fall accelerated sharply during the pandemic. Only one-fifth of the class of 2023 met all college-readiness benchmarks in English, math, reading and science.
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BAD TASTE with reports that the heirs of late Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi have no idea what to do with his huge collection of terrible art. His 25,000 paintings have an estimate average value of $800: Berlusconi bought many from late-night TV auctions.
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CONFUSING WEEK FOR PRANTS after Charles Mister Jr., a school-board candidate in Everett, Wash., released an error filled pledge vowing to “make our children future my priority.” What’s needed, he wrote, is “quality leaming enviarments” where decisions are made by “techers and prants.”

 

Everett Herald: “You can print what you want in your newspaper, because I’m going to win this election,” Mister said. “I hope we’ll be friends when I win it. I want you to keep that in mind. You’re talking to Charles Mister on this day — cloudy, rainy day. Don’t double cross me. Because if you do, and I win that election, then you got a problem.”

 

Week

 

 

 

 Ref: Colt 1941 MG40-2 Light Aircraft Machine Gun Manual Hi, I am a Gun Collector and just got a M40 (Browning MG). Can we arrange Shipping by US mail to my Country ? Best regards, Gijs, The Netherlands ebay

 

Ref: Sheridan Nov. 1970 Blue Streak and Silver Streak Air Gun Manual, Is the picture in the listing a picture of your reprint? Or is this the manual you scanned for the print? Do you add the hole in the upper left? Vidbelly, Ebay

 

Ref: Rifle, M16A1 5.56MM 1970 Field-Manual F.M. 23-9 Hi, I am interested in this manual and another oneyou have listed. However this manual you say that you do not post to the UK, is there any chance you could ship this one to me as well? Thanks, Paul (Pathic – ebay)

 

Ref: Sturmgewehr 44 (MP-44) Manual StG 44 Gebrauchanleitung MP 44 StG-44 MP44 StG44  Good morning! Received book yesterday and did not expect the cover logo and shooters notes!!! Was planning on using this as a display and was lead to believe the cover would look as depicted. Not happy with the way it was shown in the advertisement. Would like one with the cover as advertised. Mike    flyups, ebay

 

Thank you Rob… Looking to make this part of a display with the gun crate! Thank you, Will definitely make sure I advertise your product

Hi, I ordered pdf book at your website but haven’t received anything. Could you check please? Liudmila Rak

 

 

 

Good afternoon, The pdf is received. Thank you. Liudmila, Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone

Webley c1960 Target Mk3 Pistol & Mk4 Revolver Manual/Flyer Good Evening, Just to let you know that the item arrived safe and sound this afternoon and I am very pleased with it indeed. I have already left positive feedback for you. I hope that we can do business again in the future. Thank you very much, David. ebay

Sheridan Nov. 1970 Blue Streak and Silver Streak Air Gun Manual, I bought a Sheridan Blue Streak manual from you on eBay. It wouldn’t let me buy the Crosman manual for “10 days”. It’s been 10 days. Could I buy it directly from you? I didn’t see it in your catalog: Crosman Model V-350 Manual, 1968. Thank you for your help, Mark

 

Ref: Stevens Arms Company History by Joe Vorisek. October 2, 2024. Has this been shipped ?  Tracking info please. Marc

 

 

Yes it was! Thank you very much! Marc

Ref: Remington Model 700 ml Owner’s Manual, Does this version include load data for .45? Or only .50 and .54,  offroad_boy (ebay)

 

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My father passed away and left me a 12 gauge double barrel, double trigger break down barrel. With serial number 380069z I was trying to find the year of this gun was manufactured and the possible value of this gun. I would greatly appreciate any thing you could tell me about this gun. It is in gun working condition. Thanks, Eunice

 

The Lyman 1980 Cast Bullet Handbook 3rd Edition does this handbook include reloading data ? Greg, Australia

 

Dear Abby, Thank you for your e-mail newsletter of 09/12/24 and for all that we’ve received previously since subscribing to it. I receive them thru my wife’s internet business e-mail address and I really enjoy reading them. I’ve been wanting to write you for a number of years about a certain merchandise catalog from days gone by. When I was about 12 yrs old back in the early 1960’s; I used to look forward to going to the
neighborhood barber shop for my haircut. It was always on a busy Saturday morning however I never minded the wait as I enjoyed looking thru the stacks of men’s sports magazines that were available for waiting customers (i.e. Field & Stream, Argosy, Guns & Ammo etc.). I’m attaching an image of a small advertisement that used to appear in the back pages of some of those magazines. I was utterly mesmerized by that ad and saved up my nickels & dimes until I had enough to purchase the money order to send in for one of those fabulous Italian knives. The company was “Florida Imports” out of Jacksonville and accompanying my order in return mail was a fascinating illustrated catalog of their product offerings. There was all manner of imported knives, sporting blades, exotic collectibles and related items etc. that were the stuff an adolescent boy’s dreams were made of. Anyway, I was wondering if you might have one of these catalogs somewhere in your inventory from which a re-print could be made. It would be a miracle but I’d love to have one. I’m 75 yrs old now, long retired and probably spend too much time reminiscing. Flipping thru one of those long lost catalogs again would be a dream come true for me and one less line item on my bucket list. Thank you for the unique service you provide. My best regards, Stanley

 

 

Hi Rob, Thanks for a timely response. Best regards, Stan

Parts available or? Does this give breakdown instructions with pictures? Thank you Brad

 

Ref: Speer 1956 Wildcat Rifle Loads Volume 2,  K k k. K ok, o k alp – ken51 (ebay)

 

Hello. I have found a book on your website that is available in PDF format. If I buy it, is it emailed to me?
The book is: The Douglas Score 1959. Thanks, Hannah

 

Ref: H & D Folsom c1938 Gun Catalog #50, Are there any Heddon Bamboo fly rods listed in the Catalog? Thanks, walleye22 (ebay)

 

Last month I purchased two reprint copies of what you described as a Maxim 1925 manual (your item number 482).  Unfortunately, your reprint is not a 1925 manual.  The manual is circa early 1913, because the company had moved to the Hartford address at the beginning of 1913, and then the company name was changed from Maxim Silent Firearms Company to the Maxim Silencer Company no later than June of 1913.  All later manuals use the Maxim Silencer Company name, as shown in your other manual that I purchased, so your “1925” manual cannot be from beyond 1913. I realize that you may be relying on others telling you that it is a 1925 manual, and I am not looking for a refund, but I wanted to make you aware of the discrepancy. Best Regards, Roger