Three Stooges Moment in time

[BrokenolMarine]

I was coming back in from the woodshop. A long walk... geez, gotta be at least, I don't know, twenty yards.
What? Where was I? Oh, yeah, walking (rolling back in) from the shop with my walker, when a Three Stooges moment occurred.

I am coming up the ramp to the side porch when I hear the sound of an angry boat motor with the prop out of the water right beside my head. I suddenly realize it's a horse fly the size of a hockey puck. (Okay, almost)
Hey, it HAD nav lights! It buzzed my head on a straffing run, and I smacked (at) it. I put some effort into that strike, missed that small dive bomber but connected. With my left ear. Not good... it was a solid strike and a couple things happened.

It actually hurt worse than the bite of that horse fly might of... seriously. I'm allergic to those bites and they swell like a golf ball.

Worse yet, I also hit my hearing aide receiver. That thing squealed at max volume. Felt like an ice pick stuck in my ear. Idjit. Good thing Miss T wasn't around with her smart phone, I'd be on youtube already.

When you are this coordinated, you may as well go ahead and change your name....


... to Grace.

[Travlin]

Hey Moe, Hey Larry, I am sorry that you had such trouble. Maybe you should carry one of the 410 revolvers to deal with the insect aircraft that are intent on causing you harm.

[BrokenolMarine]

Maybe I should remember the dang hearing aides...
I think that high pitched squeal hurt more than the Gibbs smack in the head.

[ESquared]

Sounds like you went from "could have been bad" to worse! Glad you made it without getting a golf-ball welt from the horsefly!

Speaking of woodworking, how hard would it be to make a wooden rifle "cradle" for lack of a better word? It just jumped into my head when you mentioned your woodshop, and I remember seeing that beautiful humidor you were working on.

Don't know exactly what I mean by cradle. Could be for display, could be for cleaning (but seems like that would need some sort of clamp/vise, so I don't know about that). Seems like it would be a pretty basic DIY "kit" if one had some basic dimensions.

[BrokenolMarine]

Not hard really, but for the cost of buying the hardware you could almost pay for a quality stock factory made one. Mine handles both long guns and handguns, and I think I ordered it thru Brownell's during one of their promotions.

https://www.brownells.com/gun-cleaning- ... 57074.aspx

This cradle adjusts to hold all types of firearm types, heights, padded, and is very secure.

[BrokenolMarine]

As for creating something just for display, you can do that fairly easily with a nicely grained flat board for the base and two vertical ones with slots cut in the top for the rifle to sit in, or a couple pegs protruding for it to rest on.

Or... you can get a tad more fancy as I did a while back... just to see if you can, because you are retired, and your wife told you to go find "something, anything, outside," to do.

http://henryrifleforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=2932