mashburn
posted this
16 December 2023
Hello Mark
It's good to hear from another person, who does stuff the same as I started out. In my early years I didn't have much money, or should I say no money, and buying junk and rebuilding it, was the only way that I could feed my addiction to firearms. Both my gun building abilities and the amount of money that I have available, have increased over the years and at the age of 79, I'm still building rifles and also rebuilding, junkers.
When in high school, my gun shop was the high school shop. In those days no-one cared if you got on the school bus with a firearm, the bus driver would only say, that thing ain't loaded is it. Man, have times changed and definitely not for the better. While I was a shop teacher in the Oklahoma School system, local community members would bring me firearms to repair in the school shop. I never charged for my services of course. I had a lot of pleased community members, and the shop was always full of firearms, and nothing was ever stolen.That was in the mid 1980's. I had lots of comments from the community men stating, "Gosh, I wish a shop class like this was available when I went to school here."
I'm in the 11th. hour presently, trying to get some firearm Christmas presents finished on time, I hope I make it. In my family all of the males and some of the females are easy to please, that is, if it cuts or shoots, they like it.
Mashburn