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.





6 comments:

Chas S. Clifton said...

You have many good friends, but apparently none of them would send you a working C96! Enjoy the vodka.

Steve Bodio said...

I 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...

Dave said...

If I walked into a house where someone was drinking directly from the flask, it would give me a heart-attack.

Anonymous said...

Ah, that is delightful...

Jim Cornelius
www.frontierpartisans.com

Jonathan Hanson said...

I wondered what secret thing Bruce wanted to send you that required a street address for Fed-Ex.

Dave's comment was hilarious.

The Suburban Bushwacker said...

A shop down the road had the AK I'll try to take you a picture. SBW