Rolling Block

by Sarge , Central Misery, Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 18:37 (519 days ago) @ JimT

You did a fine thing with your Dad's old roller, Jim. That it shoots well is just icing on the cake.

I've always been weak for rolling blocks. I traded the local sheriff out of an ancient 43 Spanish, along with 120 rounds of issue BP ammo, when I was 17. The ammo would be worth a pile of money today. But I didn't waste it. I killed three groundhogs, a fat doe and at least fifty of those giant icicles that form on rock quarry cuts in the dead of winter. Then there was a South American No. 5 in 7mm which killed deer & coyotes like the hammer of Thor through 13 boxes of Privi 7x57 175 grain RNSP. I've still got a fired case from that one with a crock stick mounted in it, from the best shot I ever made on a running deer. It finally got to leaking gas around the firing pin hole and I moved it on.

My right thumb is starting to twitch real bad, which means it wants a mule-eared RRB hammer under it.