Today I done naughty

Rusty Hinge

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Dec 11, 2009, 9:51:39 AM12/11/09

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...and bought a bottle of Big Peat.

Divine, and for a blend of Islay malts, not expensive at �35

Then, stupidly, I entered the portals of my local
friendly^h^h^h^fiendish antique shop.

"Anything interesting?" I asked.

Knowing *EXACTLY* what I meant, he brought out a heavy double-barrelled
percussion wossname, tatty, but more-or-less in good order. Somewhere
round half an inch bore, it was probably a deer gun, Can't see any
rifling, but there might be some.

Trouble is, I will now be looking for a cap-box, nipple key (Terwur?),
ball mould, etc to go with it, along with
the other tools which it should have in its case. And I shall have to
make a case...

So I left a (cash!) deposit on it, and wandered away muttering. It will
be a hard Chrimble this year, huddled round the candle, carving the
Brussels sprout, but with the upside, toasting the season with Big Peat.

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Rusty

Richard Robinson

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Dec 11, 2009, 10:47:02 AM12/11/09

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Not to mention the prospect of new BNAG!s to look forward to.

--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://www.qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

bobharvey

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Dec 13, 2009, 6:04:40 AM12/13/09

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On 11 Dec, 14:51, Rusty Hinge <rusty.hi...@foobar.girolle.co.uk>
wrote:
> knowing *EXACTLY* what I meant, he brought out a heavy double-barrelled

> percussion wossname, tatty, but more-or-less in good order. Somewhere
> round half an inch bore, it was probably a deer gun, Can't see any
> rifling, but there might be some.

umm. Is this a special type of antiqyue shoppe that is allowed to
fryy firearms?

Rusty Hinge

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Dec 13, 2009, 7:03:37 PM12/13/09

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bobharvey wrote:
> On 11 Dec, 14:51, Rusty Hinge <rusty.hi...@foobar.girolle.co.uk>
> wrote:
>> knowing *EXACTLY* what I meant, he brought out a heavy double-barrelled

<edit>

>> percussion

</edit>

>> wossname, tatty, but more-or-less in good order. Somewhere
>> round half an inch bore, it was probably a deer gun, Can't see any
>> rifling, but there might be some.
>
>
> umm. Is this a special type of antiqyue shoppe that is allowed to
> fryy firearms?

See edit

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Rusty

bobharvey

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Dec 13, 2009, 8:02:36 PM12/13/09

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On 14 Dec, 00:03, Rusty Hinge <rusty.hi...@foobar.girolle.co.uk>
wrote:
> <edit>
> >> percussion
> </edit>
...
> > fryy firearms?
>
> See edit

Fairy nuff. Now I unmisunderstand

Rusty Hinge

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Dec 14, 2009, 2:53:44 PM12/14/09

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Ohled - sorry Miscreants, bought - a horn-handled stick with a
gold-plated ferrule (if that's not a contradiction in terms) in a
charidee shop a while back. Cleaned-off all the chipped, flaking and
scraped back laquer from the shaft, coloured the wood with ebony dye,
and gave it many coats of home-moished polish, and today, exchanged it
for a pair of bar-locks from a good double-barrelled percussion or
hammer gun.

I haven't got an immediate use for the locks, but to use the stick on an
even keel I'd have had to have shortened my legs a few inches.

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Rusty