Back in Business Writing the Diva's Blog

Hey, it has been awhile.  I've been busy and I bet you have also.  I think that most of you will agree with me that working for a living takes too much precious time away from really important life activities.

Let me get you  up to date since my last post.  Besides working (ugh) I have been learning how to rebuild and enhance firearms.  The ammo shortage left a lot of time for working on my guns when ammo was too hard to find or expensive to buy and I had to cut out most of my practice and shooting time.

Working on firearms is like sewing: you love it or you hate it.  To me it is as fun as a competition.  However guns are not like a vacuum cleaner where you can use a hammer, kitchen knife and spatula to fix it.  You cannot run to your local home improvement store for tools or parts.  You cannot believe how lively the parts are.  Those little tiny springs on guns can fly faster and further than a speeding bullet and Superwomen.

Lucky for me that I have two great gun shops that allow me to help them out on weekends and holidays in exchange for using their tools and equipment.  MetalXWorks in Cambridge, Ohio and Massey's Gun Shop and Range in Brownsville, Texas.  

If you are afraid of failure, working on guns is not for you.  You have plenty of opportunities to fail, but way more opportunities to learn, excel and succeed.

You cannot believe what you learn about a firearm's inner workings when you are trying to blow out sand embedded in the action of a semi automatic shotgun or, from the dirty shop floor, pick up the shinny red barrel you just knocked off the paint rack or get a gun put back together and notice you have an extra part left over and the gun goes pff..fff..FF instead of BANG.

What I found is that working on guns makes you more comfortable. confident and self assured around them and about yourself.  Plus it really impresses the guys.

To get you all started in the next couple posts, we will be sharing some quick and easy things to do to your firearm that will help you learn more about it as well as have some extra quality time with your firearm.