Thanks, Sleepy. I've been on something of a Randy Newman kick latlley. I was a tad looped that night/morning. At Overdrive if your ever in Anchorage swing by Darwin's around 4ish Tommy, Bill and I'll keep a seat open for you in the old-farts section. If we're lucky we'll get to see Bill lecture some young person about how worthless and weak they and their generation are and take bets on how long it takes him mention the he was a guest of the North Koreans for eight months.
Forgot something when you do get here we can go shoot my Daddy's old Colt Frontier Scout. It looks like the revolver John Wayne carried in the movies only smaller and the ammo (.22 long rifle) is cheap and has almost no recoil, it's both a toy and a deadly weapon, good fun.
We fucked about with '22 long when I was a kid as you could buy them without a license. Take 'em apart and double the powder then dummy the bullet. Anything smaller than a fox just vanished.
Yeah the .22 was every country boys companion at one time. I grew up in a more urban part of Alaska when me and my friends could go shooting without parental supervision, it was 9mm. handguns AR-15's H&K 91's 93's & 94's AK's the badass macho guns but the funnest were the .22's. A bunch of teenagers in a car full of guns and no one thought it was weird back in the eighties the cops only checked to see if you were drinking beer and the guns weren't hot. Funny thing I'm pretty sure Dad brought that Colt because he wanted one as a kid but had to settle for something cheaper and shitier.
I was shot in the head with an air rifle as a kid by my best mate.I still haven't got him back for that but I've still got the ball-bearing lodged in my skull!
That sucks, idiots take the fun out of everything. The things my buddies and I used to muck about with....it's a wonder none of us got hurt. Then again we weren't idiots so we figured out things like, don't point that at your buddy's head.