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When I read your stories and others, I remember when I was in the army I actually considered to become (don´t know the word) a FN soldier just to maybe get in some real action.
That is what a stupid 18 year old boy wants!
When you think about it, it seems wrong to send stupid boys to kill people. In my opinion.
If soldiers are older and smarter maybe civilian kills would decrease.
Everything just cant be excused with " it´s for my country" and other patriotic speeches.

That´s a nice gun, shoot something and post the pics. I´m curious about the killing power of that 357.

Brithunter, what sort of wood is the stock on your MP 18-MH?

CK,
 

I liked the tools on the workbench in the second photo - the yellow plastic lion must be a proprietry Baikal tool.......... I am geussing you had a willing young helper?
 

Marcus

I did not see this earlier Baikal actually have a Tiger head logo

Did you ever have a "that was near" moment when you was in the army?
We have a conscription (not sure about the word, what I mean is: every healthy Finnish male has to serve military time ) in Finland.
I served as a military police, I had several "near" moments: once I almost got shot, another MP fired his 7,62X33 STG behind me, the bullet went beside me within a meter, there was a meter gap from me and a pine tree.
Once as we tried to get a drunk old man to leave the shooting range, he grabbed my holster with the Browning 9mm. Me and my partner told him to get the ... before we lock him up, and so he did. It was a retired captain. If it had been a strong violent man anything could had happened.
Almost got shot a second time, at the "cat range" with targets jumping up from the ground a woman soldier behind me shot at a blueberry bush directly beside my feet, I got dirt all over me and in my eyes. ( I shot the target anyway;))
Finally I got my right eye blinded for a week when a bandy ball hit me during a gymnastic hour, the coach said "marines don´t use protection when playing"
Military police unit was then under the second coastal hunters department (marines)
If my boys don´t want to serve their time I don´t mind, I gave a bit of my eyesight and nearly got killed. That is not acceptable in peace time:stop:

It´s nice to read about mules and donkeys, I do not know much about them. The war story was emotional.
There is lots of stories about horses in our latest war to.
One I remember was about two Finn horses, used as farm horses were recruited to serve as transporter of cannons and other vehicles.
Many horses died, I seen pictures of 10-20 dead horses that was hit by a cannon grenade.
After the war ending the farm horses came back up north by train, the farmer went to get them at the station.
A large heard of horses was in a corral, the farmer called his horses names and they answered him and came to him. He said his heart ached when he saw them, skinny and badly healed wounds.
They were at the front line for two years during the war but when he drove down the last hill heading home, the horses, which were tied at the back of the wagon, whinnied when the saw and smelled their home.
The farmer said that their strength was gone but he could not have them put down. After all the served their county to. The horses died naturally.

Wow, It seems like the kids have a great shooting teacher!

How strange... Those magpies look just like our magpies... :)

Would you consider having one mounted (taxidermy)?

Paul

Yes, it could look nice on a bookshelf. It´s rather expensive here so not at the moment.

They are my favourite hunting object, clever, careful and reproduces fast. They have small turfs so hunting the same birds several times is possible.
It´s very exiting to sneak around in a bushy forest and try to get as close as possible.

These feet I collected for one and a half year now. The larger ones are crowfeet.
When I was a kid, we got one lottery ticket for 10 feet's.
I save them to show to the hunting team, some hunters there just hunts pigeons and other eatable birds and does nothing else.

Me and my wife often talks about how we changed after having children.
Before them it was all me, me and me. That to say, neither of us had a childhood as spoiled kids, we were just regular kids. As growing up we both got in some bad company and had some "wilder" years.
After the gifts from God, those days are long gone, we don´t miss those days either.
Now we concentrate on giving the children a good home, love and upbringing as good people.
That´s the meaning of life

It´s actually the letter after the number 18 that indicates the model, the all have MP before 18
Mine is a MP 18M-M.

I also have a MP 18M-H in 222 rem. Good taste in guns!
About the fore stock I say "it's in the eye of the beholder" or in this case "it´s in the hands of the holder"

I tried to order a 222 rem barrel for the shotgun but the gunshop owner told me it would be more expensive than buying the 222 rem as a complete rifle.

I went with drinksgins method, I found some used grinding "bits" for a regular drill machine in the garage, some of them was little thigh in the muzzle so I grinded 2 cm in, after that I used a larger grinding bit and crowned the muzzle. I shot some shots at paper.
At 30 meters the swarm is about 60 cm.
I also filed in a sight notch in the metal rising above the barrel.

I went to the forest and shot at four flying magpies: 2 magpies I missed completely, 1 got wounded, never found it and after cooling down a bit after the first shooting. A magpie came in at 30 meters and I calmly took aim and pulled a little in front and it was a direct hit, the bird came down like a thrown wet glove.
The first magpies I shot at like I do with my German sidebyside, just look at the bird not at the sights. That does not work with the Baikal, it has more (I don't know the word: The stock is bent to the right)  

BTW It is very bushy and they fly fast and unpredictably :o

That looks good, my brother fishes a lot and he and the other fishermen at the fish house  warm smokes, cold smokes, marinates salmon and white fish. He has eaten so much smoked salmon that he won´t eat it any more. It´s to fatty.
I eat it and enjoys it, today for example.
I have not tasted Kippered fish, it´s not common preservation technique here, I think.

Since I has been non active lately I think I´v missed some posts about mules and horses, I and many with me (I hope) would like to see your 4LD (fourlegged drive)
Here are mine: A brown gelding and a black mare.
American trotters, At least they look nice, my wife says.

Ok, I used Google translator ( It´s a struggle to write i a foreign language)
It´s latin name is Nyctereutes procyonoides.
It can be a pain in the *** when it strolls around lakes and other waters and eating every egg it finds. Furthermore it can spread rabies and a parasite which can infect humans too.  
A guy I know caught two in traps when he was a boy, after "killing" them by several hits in the head with a branch he went home carrying them. After a few minutes one Raccoon dog bites his hand very hard, trough a leather glove, the boy drops it and it take off running.
Funny about the Raccoon dog is that you actually can run it down and so did the boy and after a few hard collisions with the ice (frozen lake) the Raccoon dog was dead. The second one got away running when the boy put it down to ease the load when he chased after the first. The can play dead.

That´s some mean looking creatures!
I guess we both are lucky, you get to shoot them and I don´t have them here in Finland. I think they would kill all my tame ducks and the children's rabbits. We just got some friendly (ironic) red fox and raccoon dogs.