Pass Along PDJ
March 2009

Mid-March Meandering
by Steve Smith

remember one time I sent my gunsmith's wife a sympathy card. Inside, I put a little note that said, "I didn't see the obituary in the newspaper, but ___'s had my gun so long,
I figure he's dead."

The humor was appreciated about like you'd expect it was, but I did get my gun back in time for the season. It wasn't entirely the gunsmith's fault; most of it, in fact, was mine --
I took the gun in to have some work done on it in the middle of the summer. Along with several dozen or maybe it was several hundred other guys.

Right now -- mid-March -- is when you should be taking your gun in if it needs any work at all. Hopefully, if it's something major like you broke the stock or something, you dropped it off as soon as it happened or right after the season. But now, even if it's something small, is not too early to take it in. A recoil pad? Maybe a balky ejector? A safety that sticks? Yes, they are all pretty minor. But if you're at the end of a long line, the problem isn't the time it will take the 'smith to do the work; the problem is getting to your gun.

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