doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com OT ... other hobbies besides shooting

There have been a number of other interests over the years that I could mention such as fly tying and fly fishing and reading and building a library but I will just highlight two that I've developed since retirement.

1. taking my best girl of 55 years for regular lunch trips/roadster runs in our MX-5 GT - this is somewhere along the Peak to Peak Highway.



and 2. an interest that developed accidentally. I was straightening up my reloading bench one day and realized that I had a pretty extensive collection of gun cleaning odds and ends. As I sorted them I saw patterns with missing pieces here and there. Since the wife and I enjoy walking through antique malls I began watching for items I didn't have.

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And then there were the brands of my childhood: Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward.




And lastly, the most important one for a midwest farm kid growing up in a small town after WWII, Western Auto and its Revelation brand.