Did anyone notice the following mysteries:
Guns can and do breed. Quite often, if my wife walks into the gun room when I have foolishly left the cabinet doors open, she often comments at the number of guns, and how there are more than the last time. I have tried to explain that guns do breed in the dark, but she does not understand the reproductive cycle of firearms.
Moose, deer, bear, turkeys and fish seem to get larger as time goes on. Many is the time a hunting or fishing buddy of mine will bring up the topic of one of the above that he got many years before, and it is amazing how much they have grown in the time that has gone by. Some have more than doubled in size and or number even after being dead. Thankfully this doe snot happen to me, as all the game I shoot are B&C records and the fish are IGFA records.
Clothing and groups, on the other hand, tend to get much smaller the more time goes on. How many times have I tried to put on a pair of hunting pants after a season in storage, only to find that they have shrunk considerably, and that it is only lateral shrinkage - they are still as long as when I put them away. Finally, the groups of other shooters tend to get smaller as time goes on. Many is the time I have seen minute of pie plate groups unexplicably shrink to sub-moa when they are later discussed. This however, does not happen to me. I guess the fact that all my groups are in the range of .10 in. means that there just is not that much room to shrink.
BTW the growth and shrinkage seem to be directly proportionate to the amount of beer consumed, the size of the group of listeners, and how well the group knows the discussor.
Let me know if any of you have notice these things.
Guns can and do breed. Quite often, if my wife walks into the gun room when I have foolishly left the cabinet doors open, she often comments at the number of guns, and how there are more than the last time. I have tried to explain that guns do breed in the dark, but she does not understand the reproductive cycle of firearms.
Moose, deer, bear, turkeys and fish seem to get larger as time goes on. Many is the time a hunting or fishing buddy of mine will bring up the topic of one of the above that he got many years before, and it is amazing how much they have grown in the time that has gone by. Some have more than doubled in size and or number even after being dead. Thankfully this doe snot happen to me, as all the game I shoot are B&C records and the fish are IGFA records.
Clothing and groups, on the other hand, tend to get much smaller the more time goes on. How many times have I tried to put on a pair of hunting pants after a season in storage, only to find that they have shrunk considerably, and that it is only lateral shrinkage - they are still as long as when I put them away. Finally, the groups of other shooters tend to get smaller as time goes on. Many is the time I have seen minute of pie plate groups unexplicably shrink to sub-moa when they are later discussed. This however, does not happen to me. I guess the fact that all my groups are in the range of .10 in. means that there just is not that much room to shrink.
BTW the growth and shrinkage seem to be directly proportionate to the amount of beer consumed, the size of the group of listeners, and how well the group knows the discussor.
Let me know if any of you have notice these things.
I need another safe!!
