…….My god, oh my god, I had never, ever witnessed such large piles of them before. It had such medicinal effect on me; I no longer felt my throbbing foot……There were nine piles of Airgun World magazines in pristine condition dating from the 1st edition in August 1977 through to the December 1985 edition. Not only that, I reached further under the bed and retrieved a collection of books with not a stain or blemish on them. There was a signed first edition of Cardew’s early titled; “From Trigger to Muzzle”, many mint handbooks by David Hughes; HW35, HW80, FWB 124/127 and what must be his rarest of all – “The Complete and Comprehensive Works of Every Webley and Scott Service Rifle Ever Produced” – how appropriate, remembering those mint and boxed ones in that hot study….”Airguns and Air Pistols” by Wesley, and a first edition of the “Blue Book of Airguns” by Beeman. What a treasure trove to discover….I could not keep my hands off them, I was totally distracted from pain, from the charming, delightful widow, and the soon to be, biggest prize of all - I was getting forgetful of the exact reason for me being here. Hurriedly, and with a certain uncontrolled clumsiness, knocking the neatly and orderly piles of magazines over, I tried to sift through some of the early Airgun World editions that were “missing” in my collection.
Some of the Airgun World magazines had fallen on open pages, revealing articles I had missed. The November 1979 issue was open at page twenty about “The Boy Who Came Good”, part 1 by John Fletcher, flicking through the pages to the “Collectors Corner”, the was a feature on the Bottomley Ball Reservoir Rifle. In the December 1979 issue, page twenty six, a feature on the Airsporter S by Geoffrey Boxall, such wonderful reading……such airgun porn…..
Lost in a world of my own, lost in the moment, I was startled and brought down to earth suddenly, and abruptly, by a sharp and severe tugging on my arm. She was obviously getting angrier by my distractions, yet, her raised tones would make any man’s legs tremble in an excitable manner. I grabbed what I could of the magazines as she dragged me to the bed, some of them annoyingly falling from my clutches as she threw me on the four-poster. She kind of wrestled with me, laughing crazily, when I heard a distinct click, maybe two, but, not as loud when cocking a HW35 or Original 35S, but distinct. I began to realise I only had one useful arm, my other, securely fastened to the four-poster upright by a pair of handcuffs. What the….I cried! Listen and listen good, she said, her succulent red lips close to mine in a teasing way. I blinked several times as I felt the closeness of her hot breath on my eyes. We are pressed for time; she momentarily glanced at the Smith’s antique bedside alarm clock, and we need to get this over with very soon. I have done this for your own good, to stop you wandering around getting distracted and, considering the amount of Semillon you’ve had, to stop you falling out of bed! She gave me a sexy smile, a gentle kiss and told me to behave myself whilst she slipped into something more comfortable in the huge walk-in wardrobe.
With the only one arm in action, how was I to flick the pages, whilst waiting in anticipation? Hell, I have greased three balls on an Original three ball trigger and shoved the lot in; in one go using a small cable tie on the spring as it goes in, careful on the two pins, one smaller diameter than other! I have removed the mysterious scope rail on a BSF S60 (by the way, after taking up tension on the trigger block by a spring compressor, removing the one and only front scope rail screw, removing the spring guide retaining bolt (12mm), don’t try tapping it back as various strip guides tell you, as the key resides in a space in the trigger block. Release the tension via a spring compressor slowly. The scope rail moves back, along with the guide and trigger block about 10mm? Gradually, it will reach the keyway sweet spot of release, jiggle it loose with fingers. Once removed continue to unwind the compressor and all will be revealed) – Now, back to the boring stuff……..
I am sure I will find a way…..
Whilst I tried to figure it out, my beautiful goddess appeared in all her glory apart from a pair of red, six inch high heels. Salivating at the mouth…..