Guess I'll go with the "whatever". Friday I went to an estate sale about 12 miles west of a Tx town 20 miles south(that I was already in). It was late in the day and kind of rushed for time, but found it after awhile and as i looked through the place realized it was an incredible home in a sleepy little town. It was a "living estate" so I hoped at least one still was
I truly hate these but realize many times they need it done, and appreciate the support it can offer. Usually I wind up walking into the garage and looking at hardware, paints, and such, where I did pick up a few things and carried them inside. The crowd was clearing out as i looked around at the many pieces of artwork which I knew were out of my league, but continued putting little things into my little "spot".
To make a short story long, I had bought a little 22 Taurus while moving home about 12 years ago, and given it to a niece last summer, it was easy to use, and to understand, and i wanted a replacement, to carry walking fence rows and such, and I especially liked the 22 shot shells for rapid disarmament of snakes in the path(I'm not one to shoot a non-poison type, most especially the king snake ones, which I actually like to see, but we have all types here. Rattlesnakes(both diamondback and velvet-tail, copperheads and water moccasins, including the cottonmouth) and also including the extreme venom of the Coral snakes, which are rare, but still present (red on black, you're ok jack, black on yellow, you're a dead fella).
And to make a long story short, There were two handguns on the main table ( a dozen had already been sold) and I saw a little pocket pistol, it said Beretta on the frame. Tiny little thing, better than the 22 I'd given away, so I bought it( after telling the lady seller "they only left it because it wasn't worth their time").
After making it back home and doing some research I found it was an older model used primarily for it's ease of concealment. A 950 Jetfire(named because it was a rapid shoot with no known flaws). Then I began searching for ammo or a second clip, which were high dollar and far away. Today i found ammo for about the same price of internet only 10 miles away from where I was at, in a small town hardware store over in tx, and right at the same price including shipping. I bought two 50 round boxes, and asked if he could get clips, which he could, for much less than internet price. He was an older guy, ran the place, and said the old man had told him always use European ammo in these, and it was fiocchi(French), the guns were made in Germany.
I left there a happy camper, but then I finally got home, loaded the clip to its full 8 capacity, and went to inject one into the barrel, but it slipped somehow I guess. This is a very tight gun and I now had one in the barrel and another one trying very hard to get in. Somehow in this struggle I managed to get the one trying to get in to eject, but when the slide slapped down it went off. Thankfully there were no other patrons nearby( I am very happily separated) excepting the dog, who was in the back yard.
As I began looking for the bullet hole, which was intentionally (thank you) not directed towards myself, I found it in a very old computer, over near the side outside door. This was a relic of a computer I'd set up there about 10 years ago, bought from NASA in Hunstville, used during the Apollo and Space shuttle days, and reloaded with a complete IRIX system install. It had gone in the front but not out the back, probably lodged inside the power supply.
Anyway, that's my story for the day, but then again tomorrow, is a whole new day :/