It’s actually an old product, something that came out a couple of years back but this year at SHOT was the first time I was able to actually handle one and play around with it a bit, and I decided on the spot that I absolutely needed one for my zombie defense rifle.
A Ruger Number 1 in .303 Enfield (aka .303 British). This goes back to what I alluded to in the post immediately under this in that I don’t “get” black rifles. I understand their utility as a sporting and defensive arm, but I don’t understand why people will spend over a thousand dollars on a flat black people popper (thanks for the phrase, Tam) when we live in a world with beautiful rifles chambered in .303 British. I mean, imagine staring down the zombie hordes with one of these while wearing a pith helmet and sporting a glorious handlebar mustache. Zombies would be swept away by the sheer power of how AWESOME you were, not to mention the .30 caliber bullets punching through their skulls.
And that’s how I’m going to end this post. An image of a lone man in safari shorts, with a pith helmet and a handlebar mustache holding back the waves of the seething undead with his trusty single shot .303. Far too classy to hold his rifle aloft and shout “Wolverines”, when he is finally overrun by the hordes he simply says “oh bugger” and places his trusty Webley revolver against his temple and embraces that cold night, knowing he has done his duty.
I think you’ve been watching a little too much Lawrence of Arabia.
Or too much time watching the “Fighting Trousers” video. ;)
Indubitably Sir.
Mine is a WWII vintage SMLE. It was a hack-job when I got it, so I don’t feel too bad carving on it, etc. 10 rd magazine, clip (no really, I mean clip) charged, and I can get 10 rds of aimed fire downrange as fast as I can with an AK (AIMED fire, that is…) plus all the punch of a full size .30 cal bullet, and all the class of wood and blued steel.
Probably the best post I’ve read in a while… Maybe its the Captain Morgan…
Why are you drinking Captain Morgan when you can be drinking Kraken. It’s sooo much better.
Beautiful rifle. As to why anyone wants an Evil Black Rifle, its appeal is simple… the Assault Weapons Ban. Quickest way to increase demand is tell someone they can’t have something!
Quite right, dear boy. Although I’m rather enamored of the No. 1 in either 35 Whelen or 9.3×62 (the Gunblast model).
“When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.”- R. Kipling
Caleb, I’ve seen your attempts at a goatee, and I have to say that for you (and me as well) the handlebar mustache is as much of a fantasy as the zombie hordes.
Dear Sir,
I write in order to thank you for your most evocative and inspirational communique of January 26th this year. As one of Her Majesty’s subjects, sadly under the yoke of overly restrictive firearms legislation, your post very nearly made my upper lip wobble slightly.
Kind regards,
An English gun enthusiast.
Well, you’ve done it. I like you now.
Steadily laughing !!!!!
That holds what, 2…3 shots? Looks like a really great idea for zombie hordes, or pretty much anything really. Not. The reason you dont “get” rifles, is because you have never had to use one.
That “whooshing” noise you just heard? That was the sound of the joke going over your head, bro.
Caleb, how big of a clip does a single shot rifle have?
Duh! “2…3 shots”.
Didn’t you read the comment above Caleb’s? :p
I should have demarcated the sarcasm in my previous statement ;-)
Haha honestly one of the funniest posts I’ve seen in a while. Keep it up Caleb
You could stand on top of your Land Rover and go on zombie safari in style.
“We shot them under Rule 303.”–”Breaker Morant”
If I must face the zombie hoardes with an old battle rifle, I will likely choose my M1 Garand to do so. It’s not as clumsy or random as an Enfield, but a more elegant weapon, for a more civilized age.
Don’t you have a Colt AR? Can you even buy one of those for less than a grand?
Caleb, here’s the proper image: http://www.military-art.com/mall/more.php?ProdID=1220
No, here’s the proper image. :)
*laughs*
I stand corrected! Yours is definitely better.
Nothing wrong with a single-shot rifle for zombies. Just don’t be stingy and buy only one; buy a few dozen to go with the rest of your authentic Burra Sahib kit. Along with the .303, pith helmet, and handlebar mustache goes the bay rum, Rose’s for the Bombay gin, and a couple dozen native porters who will attend you with a dozen more of those single shot rifles….you fire one, hand it off to get reloaded while yet another Bhishti hands you a new, loaded one. Bet you could keep up a pretty good volume of fire that way.