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The last couple of months have been pretty busy. I finally got tired of rifles, bayonets, books and stuff stashed all over the house. I had stuff in stacks, racks and piles. "E'nuf!!" I said. So I carefully boxed up every rifle I had, labeled the box and then put the boxes away - in closets, behind closets, under the bed, on shelves, in any safe, dry space I could find. I cleared out a section of the cellar near the reloading bench, humped in twenty-four eighty-pound sacks of concrete and stayed up all night to pour a level concrete pad. I contacted Norm Dion www.BrowningSafes.com and ordered a couple of 50-gun, six-foot tall, 1500# behemoths. I had them delivered to a local local moving company who came over with all sorts of equipment and five giant (but very friendly) guys who made me very glad I hadn't even thought about attempting this task with some friends and a keg of beer. Once the safes were installed, I went to my inventory list and spent some time figuring out which rifles and bayonets were going to be stored and where. And then I made an embarrassing discovery. I have a very detailed inventory list. I can tell you what I have, when I got it, and from whom. My notes include information about the makers, marks, serial numbers, dings, dents and anomalies. The only thing my list doesn't tell me is where in the house that rifle is right now. I know it's here somewhere, but until I empty all the boxes and get the items into their new homes, I may not be able to lay my hands on it right this minute. It is, literally, an embarrassment of riches. It also means that while there are a more few pretties that I expect to part with, I have to find them first. So stay tuned. In the interim, perhaps you'll find some interesting reading in this edition of the Enfield-Stuff Circular. Your Comments & Suggestions are Welcome.
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