my-rifle
Interesting guy. I think I'd like to spend a few days talking with him. I called him to ask about the reports I'd heard about him having Chiang Kai Shek Mausers. He said not to count on the ones he had as they were rusty and cracked. We got to talking though, and he told me about the old days when he went to China to buy the containers of guns he has (and has yet to sort, poor old guy). He told me a story about the general he'd bribed to sell him the guns. He said the guy took him down into a cave (mine?) that stretched for more than a mile underground. He said there were tunnels branching off every few feet, and in each one guns were piled to the ceiling as far as he could see. Not stacked, mind you, but thrown in piles.
For more than a mile.
Wow.
He said the guy offered to sell him 100,000 broomhandle Mausers, at $1 each, but he had to come up with all the money to buy all of them - no partitioning the lot. He said he couldn't raise that kind of money, and the deal fell through. Such a shame. He said when he bought the container of T53s that he sells on his site, the Chinese met him at a loading point where they stacked the rifles on palettes about six feet high with each layer of rifles crossed on top of the one below. When they were stacked, the Chinese wrapped them with baling wire and twisted the wire to tighten it. He said when we get stocks that are cut up, this is why. The Chinese have no use for the guns, so they don't value them. He said he wasn't going to argue with them even if he could talk to the monkeys baling up the rifles. This is why he has so many, and why the Chines T53s are all in such terrible condition.
Great guy. If you ever get cause to call him, talk to him. He acts like he has all the time in the world to hang out.
For more than a mile.
Wow.
He said the guy offered to sell him 100,000 broomhandle Mausers, at $1 each, but he had to come up with all the money to buy all of them - no partitioning the lot. He said he couldn't raise that kind of money, and the deal fell through. Such a shame. He said when he bought the container of T53s that he sells on his site, the Chinese met him at a loading point where they stacked the rifles on palettes about six feet high with each layer of rifles crossed on top of the one below. When they were stacked, the Chinese wrapped them with baling wire and twisted the wire to tighten it. He said when we get stocks that are cut up, this is why. The Chinese have no use for the guns, so they don't value them. He said he wasn't going to argue with them even if he could talk to the monkeys baling up the rifles. This is why he has so many, and why the Chines T53s are all in such terrible condition.
Great guy. If you ever get cause to call him, talk to him. He acts like he has all the time in the world to hang out.