It's been a bit rancourous here of late. I don't like that. I'd like it to be different.
I had a thought bubble today: this year has been wet here. Very wet. Perfect weather for ducks. Our duck season starts in mid-March next year (running to mid-June; stubble quail opens in April until the end of June), and the way things are looking, there'll be enough water to hold through summer for an exceptional duck season. There's also an antique and collectible arms auction in Melbourne on the first weekend of May, which usually has some interesting pieces.
In a spirit of doublegun fellowship and goodwill, if anyone is planning on visiting SE Australia for some reason around that time, you're welcome to a bed and a feed for a few nights, and I could put you in some wonderful little duck swamps and quail paddocks for a day or two, and probably get you a stickybeak at some lovely old guns.
There's provisions to allow foreign visitors temporary firearms licences and game licences, as well as importing/exporting sporting firearms, or you could have a lend of something.
What's in it for me? Well, it'll cost me not much to gain a warm and fuzzy feeling, the company of other vintage gun enthusiasts, and having someone at the other end of a swamp for a day or two to push ducks back to me when I shoot!
It looks a bit like this:
