Today is not quite as bad as the usual Monday, because it’s New Wife’s ___ birthday.
Wish her well in Comments, if you’d like.
In the meantime, let’s move on with our regular programming because for everyone else, it’s still Monday morning:
So here we go:
And speaking of which:
Serve him right for buying H&K.
And for some good news:
…and shopping:
No get out there and do your shopping. Here’s the countdown.
It’s not the man, but his Garage. OMG, almost every time I watch Jay Leno’s Garage, I want to own the car he’s featuring. And I don’t mean, “Oh that’s a nice car; I wouldn’t mind driving it.”
I mean “I WANT THAT CAR IN MY GARAGE RIGHT NOW!”
Case in point: this Citröen Traction Avant.
I have often featured this fabulous example of French luxury on these pages before, but here’s a little reminder:
To me, this car has just about everything I would want in a town runaround: comfortable ride, plenty of indoor room, outstanding beauty… it is the complete package.
And having Jay Leno say, as he’s pootling along in his 1949 model (slightly paraphrased): “I have lots of cars that go fast. But this is the way to travel: comfortable, with everything working just as it should.”
I defy anyone of approximately my vintage to watch that video linked above, and not think: “Ya know…”
The only problem is, when you watch the next video, you’re going to feel exactly the same way. As for the the one after that (which begins, “Still the one of the best-sounding engines ever”)…
And I’ll lay odds that if you go down into the Jay Leno’s Garage Matrix, kiss your day good-bye and be prepared for several episodes of Massive Car Lust.
Damn you, Leno, for doing this to me.
From the Knuckledragger’s Comments:
“Went to a wedding. Bride tossed the bouquet and women went nuts trying to get it. Groom fired off the garter, and the guys just moved out of the way, like the Red Sea parting.
“Several girlfriends were not amused. “
I saw the same thing once, when the band played a wedding. I later found out that most of the guys were divorced.
While reading through this report about how the recent spike in gun sales has affected the share prices of both S&W (+133%) and Ruger (+42%) — which is all good stuff, by the way — I spied at the bottom of the report this little snippet:
Moreover, on September 21, 2020, Breitbart News reported that ammunition sales were up 139 percent the first six months of 2020 as compared to the first six months of 2019, as Americans sought bullets and shotgun shells for the guns they were buying at a record pace.
A couple of days ago I went into Academy to check out the lay of the land with regard to their ammo stocks, and in a nutshell, they don’t have any. A few lonely boxes of .270 Win, .30-06 and some 6.5mm Creedmoor were all they had on the shelves. Forget any handgun ammo, and other than .22 CB (which are basically cartridges with no gunpowder in the cases, the bullets fired by the primer compound alone) and one (1) box of .22 Mag, there was no .22 ammo of any usable sort.
When I asked the counter guy when he was expecting a fresh shipment of ammo, he just shrugged.
So, Gentle Readers: whither National Ammo Day this Year?
I have to admit to mixed feelings about the whole thing. While the thought that Americans have basically bought all the spare ammo in the country should fill my heart with joy, it’s a fact that I can’t even perform a full-bore [sic] Happy Dance because I’d not be able to shoot my AK into the air à la some Iraqi wedding guest, having to count off the rounds like some Gun Powder Scrooge Of Ammo Day Present.
Even worse is that a cursory scrutiny of my favorite online ammo pushers’ websites reveals that not only are they out of stock of most ammo calibers, they aren’t even letting us know when the replacement stocks will arrive. And frankly, going to four different websites just to scrape up five boxes of 6.5x55mm to make the mandatory 100-round NAD minimum seems to be not worth the effort.
Here’s Lucky Gunner’s offering:
…and I’m not even going to talk about the per-trigger-squeeze cost… sheesh.
But I am going to talk about cost when it comes to .22 LR. Here are the only two options available from LG:
So much for the “7-cent solution”…
Fortunately, I’m not strapped for ammo (of any caliber) because well, you all know the reason. But National Ammo Day has always been a symbolic purchase — to remind the gun-confiscators and ammo-taxers that they face an uphill battle, so to speak.
But I think only a few complete idiots among this ungodly crowd will not have got the message this year.
So… is it worth the expense to buy .22 ammo at 18 cents per squeeze (instead of the usual 6-8 cents), just to make a point? Should we cancel National Ammo Day this year, not for lack of interest, but because of over-enthusiasm?
After I’d written the above, I thought to myself: why not get an obscure cartridge? They must have stocks of those. So I went to Midway to see about some .45-70 Govt, and found this:
None to be had, at any price. Ugh.
…that Amy Coney Barrett could have written on her pad while being interrogated grilled questioned by the Senate Democrats.
I’ll start the ball rolling:
Your suggestions in Comments.
Your suggestions in Comments.