Major Matt, Thanks, that reminds me, of a couple of other off season related Items to take care of: Getting friendly with the internal workings of my 94 marlin Carby for a good cleaning and familiarization of clearing the dreaded Marlin jam (If and when they occur) and Getting the Stock off of My Winny 97 pump SG and getting rid of the excess saturated oil out of the wood. I read that there are two good ways to remove the oil from the wood. The best of the two should not be too terrible, it involves use of household bleach and a soaking of the stock. Removing of the white, film with 220 Grit and using a good Danish oil to seal her back. I want to do this cause I have seen a few stocks ruined by oil, it weakens the wood and splits out with Magnum loads, I do plan on taking the 97 on a deer hunting forray and do not want to bust her up.
I am kind of looking forward to the Banquet in November and the Convention in Feb. I might do like some of the others and get into a few good research books. They just opened a good used and surplus book store in Cedar Rapids and I plan on doing some purdent shopping for a couple of picture books that can be used as research/information on the old west.