New Garage Sale finds

[skeet]

Found a few neat guns at a garage sale today. Bought a nice Remington 513T DCM rifle. Paid a fair price but the cartouches are all good as is the finish. Also picked up a pretty nice S&W M-28 Highway Patrolman. Last but not least (as far as the guns) is a kinda nice Remington Classic 700 in the late great lamented 257 Roberts. Got a nice 1/4 bore again...finally. Scope was a Bushnell Trophy 3x9 but all in pretty good condition. Got all kinds of reloading items too as well as 6 lbs of powder for 15 bucks. 3 lbs of Win 231 a lb of HP38(same as 231) a lb of Win 296 a lb of H4831 and a lb of HS6...oops that is 7 lb. but just checked and the 3rd 231 has 3 ounces out of it. Darn.

[Dan Morris]

LOL, that roberts will be a sweet pig gun!!!! The 28...4 or 6" tube.
Betcha mine has more saddle ware than yours!!!LOL
Dan

[skeet]

The 28 is a 6 incher. The only thing i have to do is find a rear sight. I think I have one but haven't started looking. It has a red dot sight on it right now. The darn thing is an early one. pinned recessed cyl and it has a bit of holster wear but not bad. They had a kind of matte blue anyway. The Roberts has a couple of small dings on the stock..nothing unsightly but the bore is good and I tried it out yesterday. Shoots probably better than i do. Actually bought it for a Lope rifle as much as anything. Thinking of having it AI'd. Kinda glad to find this one. I had a Ruger 77 in 257 and like a FOOL I sold it. I've been a fool sooooo many times.

[skeet]

I went to Cody to help a lady get ready to move and found a really neat knife. Some kind of Nazi dagger with sheath. In exc condition .Has(if I remember right) Alles fer der Faderland er something on the blade. Any of you knife guys tell me anything? I can email a pic if ya need it. She was getting ready to put it in the garage sale she is having today. 5 bucks was the price.

[BILLY D.]

Alles fur der Fatherland, Means literally "all for the fatherland or country.

Sounds like a trench knife or dagger, from your description, can't tell without a picture.

Best wishes, Bill

[Jack]

That might be one of the Hitler Youth daggers that were standard issue for the Hitler Youth uniform.
The Hitler Youth were sort of like the Boy Scouts for Nazi Germany, and had a quite large membership- so there were a lot of those daggers made.
But that's a pure guess, and I'm no expert.

[BILLY D.]

Originally posted by Jack
That might be one of the Hitler Youth daggers that were standard issue for the Hitler Youth uniform.
The Hitler Youth were sort of like the Boy Scouts for Nazi Germany, and had a quite large membership- so there were a lot of those daggers made.
But that's a pure guess, and I'm no expert.

Jack

The Youth Daggers were In-scripted but I can't remember all the script. 2 words I do remember were Jungen and Blut. Which mean Young and Blood. Some were also inscribed Blut ad Ehre, Blood and Honor. There was a typical propaganda message on them.

One of my older brothers, Erwin, stole one from somewhere and brought it to America somehow. Kids are tricky!

Bill

[skeet]

Looked at the knife as i just got home a few minutes ago. It is inscribed Alles Fur Deutchland Wooden handle with the nazi Buzzard and everything has maker or acceptance marks It seems to be a ceremonial dagger of some sort. Few chips etc in the handle but the knife is really nice overall. Will take a pic and send it to someone so they can post it. I can't seem to get them sized down to fit HC. Garage saleing tomorrow. Lots of 'em going on and a couple have guns advertized. YEEEEHAAAA!! Maybe.

[Rapier]

Skeet,
Sounds like you have had a good week or so of scrounging. Getting a classic 700 for a 77 sale / buy deal aint to bad at all. I consider those as one deal for me. I trade a good bit and sell and trade so it is all the same to me.

I am sorta out of the gun buying business right now. I will be spending my spade scheckles on fence and tractor stuff for a while, just bought our retirement farm and hunting place about an hour from here.
Best,
Ed

[skeet]

Just talked to one of the guys I worked Fire Dept with. Lives near gainesville. Has a nice place there. Just bought more ground so he can get back into ag status on his taxes. He told me his property taxes are 8000 now and will drop to about 6000 with ag. Holy crapo. I know y'all don't have income tax but property tax like that is terrible. Guess ya gotta pay fer all them uninvited guests down there , huh?? Think I did ok on the 700 Classic. Guy has a nice Ruger 77 MKII in 223 Varmint gun. If it had a decent scope on it it would be worth the price he is asking(650) but it has either a Simmons or Trashco or BSA 6x24. Er sumthin like that anyway. Got to send a picture of the knife to somebody. Who can resize the pic for me and post?? And as far as the farmin tractor thing. It is an everyday thing around here. Doing 2 acres of garden . Selling stuff at the farmers markets is profitable here. 25 qts of strawberries lasted 15 minutes...4 bucks a quart

[Rapier]

Yep, our tax situation is pretty tough. The biggest single part of the RE ad valorum tax is the school portion. But our voter idiots just do not understand that sales tax is the best and most equal tax, everyone pays at their spending level plus the tourists help foot the bills. But, there is the rub, everyone pays.

There is always a bunch who expect something for nothing and usually they are the ones that demand the highest use of social services, like our "free" schools.

Here in FL we can buy a trailer with a tag and the trailer is not taxed as real property, the $168 tag is the tax. We trailer folks have 5 kids and the folks with a house pay to support our kid's and their schooling, $5,000 to $20,000 per year, per house, as a fair and eqitable ad volorum tax base. It serves those house owners right for living like they do. We get just deserves for having a bunch of rug rats we can not feed or support, a life of state support. Then, in addition, the tax payers get to support all of the warmer climate folks in south Florida, from Hati, Jamaca, Cuba, Columbia, etc, etc., because of federal mandated state payment plans for social services. These groups make millions in cash but are all on welfare, food stamps and social security. They pay nothing to help support themselves or their family but: They Can Vote. They vote for the Democrats to keep money rolling to them. A direct pay for votes out of our treasury. Now you did it...... Nope I will not start, well just a bit more.

Oh, I can not help this, the poor folks childrens tax credit, the annual bounty of $5,000 for every snot nosed youngin popped out by a female, paid by the IRS, whether you paid any income tax at all, ever, not even to start with. A credit my butt, theft is what it is. I call this the rape of the US treasury. I support three of those AHs annual graft with each quarter's tax payment, every year, in and out. I just want to puke, when I drive over a local bridge and see how my money is being spent by all the folks learning how to support themselves by fishing on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Thomas Jefferson, buddy, I know you are spinning like a chicken on a spit.

I am going from a place on the bay to a place on the pond, in timber country. I will go from 15 minutes to the Gulf, fishing for bill fish on my boat, to 15 minutes in my trees, on my tractor, planting my food plots...... Adios to the rats and the rat race, you rats may smooch my rosy pink cheeks and pick another's pocket, I am outa here in three years.
Ed