It was a bottle of Vodka!
Sunday, May 05, 2013
Drinkable.... MAUSER?
When I got to the last wrapping of an anonymous package last week, the outline of my last unfulfilled firearm desideratum appeared: the unmistakable profile of a '96 Mauser "Broomhandle". Could some anonymous admirer have sent me (illegally, but I wasn't worried-- it had passed inspection) the gun used by Winston Churchill in the "River War", the sidearm of T. E. Lawrence, of Karamojo Bell (he shot down a German plane with one in the Great War); of ornithologist Salim Ali, and of two fictional heroes: Geofffrey Household's Charles Dennim (in Watcher in the shadows), and Michael Gruber's Jane Doe (in Tropic of Night)?
It was a bottle of Vodka!
Sent by the ever- stylish adventurer and firearms scholar Bruce Douglas, here seen with liquid AND steel broomhandles.
It was a bottle of Vodka!
You have many good friends, but apparently none of them would send you a working C96! Enjoy the vodka.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what the vodka costs but a pristine 96 Ron is selling is priced over $2000, and a dangerously flawed one I had was %700. That MAY have something to do with it...
ReplyDeleteIf I walked into a house where someone was drinking directly from the flask, it would give me a heart-attack.
ReplyDeleteAh, that is delightful...
ReplyDeleteJim Cornelius
www.frontierpartisans.com
I wondered what secret thing Bruce wanted to send you that required a street address for Fed-Ex.
ReplyDeleteDave's comment was hilarious.
A shop down the road had the AK I'll try to take you a picture. SBW
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