Written in stone for me as a lad- Grandfather prized his machinist's and carpenter's tools- as I do still today- and the rule in the shop was- you never go into another man's tool chest-and he taught me that being a thief was despicable-and the worse kind of a thief was a man who would steal another's tools- and deprive him of earning a living and providing for his family-sounds like you and I had the same kind of "upbringing"- firm-but fair. As far as lifting another man's rifle or shotgun from the gun rack w/o asking permission, even if you have seen others do it- also "Verbotten" in my view- and I left one Gun Club because a obviously ignorant man with his teen-age son were "sighting in" a M-1 carbine- it had a 15 round magazine inserted- the lad fired twice at the 50 yard range- then the weapon jammed- and he turned around with the bolt home, his finger still inside the trigger guard- pointing the muzzle at his dad's bellybutton and said" What's wrong with this gun"? The last time I "hit the dirt" that fast and hard was ATR at Bragg years ago-and the strange thing was- his Dad couldn't see anything wrong- "After all-it can't fire, it's jammed!" Holy Jumpin' Jehosaphat- keep me 1000 miles away from that form of "simplfied suicide"- son-in-law and I were in a Cabela's- gun library-he's a Southpaw (and one great guy) and we were looking at LH Bolt Rifles for deer hunting-(ended up with a Rem 700 in .270Win) and another "customer" picked out a used Marlin lever-pointed it towards us and racked the action-I grabbed the muzzle and lifted it towards the ceiling-told him that just because it was in the store-don't assume it's unloaded-now they have the trigger locks on all the racked guns I understand-sort of an inconvenience to the knowlegable safe gun handlers extant-but that's the price we pay today for what we called in the Service "The 10 Percent Factor"- Thanks for your kind comments- I'd be glad to shoot SC or share a duck blind with you anywhere-anytime (hopefully while Cheney is back in D of C however--RWTF
