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I shipped a bolt gun to a custom shop for accuracy work.
I run into the gunsmith and he tells me he got it, but there was a problem, so I anticipate the worst and ask him what happened.
He tells me that the bolt, which was removed from the weapon for shipment, came unstowed and tumbled around in the box with the rifle.
I ask him if the bolt is damaged, and he says no, but it beat up the rifle pretty good.
I ask him if it will affect the way it shoots, and he says no, but it has some cosmetic blemishes now.
I tell him I don't care, just make it shoot.
He smiles and his employees laugh and grin as well.
Sorry, but that is the way I am. If you are afraid to use (not abuse) your gear, or get it dirty, you are a collector, not an operator.
I think NDD can confirm this about me.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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