Funny thing brought up at the shooting range today.

IndyBlues · Post by **IndyBlues** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 4:14 pm

I went to a shooting range today, for the first time since I got out of the Army back in 1990. It was a great time, and I was glad to see I could still hit the target, even tho not as accurately as before. Takes time I guess.
Anyway, I was looking at some of the guns that were in the gun display case, and noticed a vintage Mauser Broomhandle pistol, going for about
$650, and it came with the wooden butt stock attachment.
Not sure if it was a great price or not, but it definately got me interested.
Well, the funny thing was, a guy comes up that sees me eyeing it up, and we start to discuss the pistol a bit.
He says: "Ya know, thats the kind of pistols the bad guys in Indiana Jones used." I looked at him with the straightest face I could muster, and said back: "Really??? You don't say." I was wearing my Wested, but I don't think the guy had any clue.
Funny how Indy talk always seems to creep into conversations, even if I don't initiate it.
'Blues

Canyon · Post by **Canyon** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 8:38 am

Haha. I love it when things like that happen.

That reminds me of the time and me and Iain went to the Peak District. I was wearing pants, shirt, boots, my Wested and Akubra. We came to a small cave and as we did, there was a group of about eight people and one of them went into the cave. When they came out, one of the group said: "Careful, a giant boulder might come out of there."

Needless to say, I don't think they realised that I was wearing Indygear.

Renderking Fisk · Post by **Renderking Fisk** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 8:58 am

Last night someone asked me if I was dressing like Harrison Ford or John Wayne while at the video store.

I asked him, "I don't know... who do you think?" Then my buddy and I were making jokes about how any movie would be made better with John Wayne, Including the new Children's video- Barbie's "Prncess and The Pauper".

The fedora is always great for laughs.

Indy_Fil · Post by **Indy_Fil** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 2:36 pm

Funny he didn't mention it is THE pistol the Star Wars saga built its HERO on

IndianaKrueger · Post by **IndianaKrueger** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 11:12 am

My Girlfriend storyboarded that movie ( Barbie)...Watchet!

IK

Post by **Michaelson** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 11:21 am

$650 is about the going price for a complete Broomhandle. Regards. Michaelson

binkmeisterRick · Post by **binkmeisterRick** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:31 pm

Yeah, but the rest of the broom only costs about a buck fifty.

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Hemingway Jones · Post by **Hemingway Jones** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:50 pm

I was glad to see I could still hit the target, even tho not as accurately as before.

Blues, was the target the side of a barn?

Post by **Michaelson** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:57 pm

MY kind of range, if it's true!

High regards. Michaelson

binkmeisterRick · Post by **binkmeisterRick** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 2:22 pm

Hemingway Jones wrote:
I was glad to see I could still hit the target, even tho not as accurately as before.
Blues, was the target the side of a barn?

That's really funny that you say that, Hemingway! My mother-in-law (late father-in-law) live out in the country. One side of a pole barn is where my brother-in-laws and I set up our shooting area. Wouldn't you know it, one of them ended up putting a nice line of holes in the side of the barn accidentally!

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