Club Obi Wan

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

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.

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.

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

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

IK

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

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

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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?

MY kind of range, if it's true! High regards. Michaelson

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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