Lelya Shipment Update?

:hoot:

As memory serves….the Customs blockage at the Russian border was one of the main reasons Ed started production in Estonia. Russia has some extremely tight export rules, even on some of the metals used in airguns, that makes exportation an “iffy” proposition under the best of circumstance. The power of the airguns was restricted to a ridiculous limit, something like two (2) fpe. That wasn’t difficult to get around, just ship the guns with two springs. One weak, one strong. The caliber was another problem, which is why some of the .25 Edguns out there are mislabled as 5.5 mm, or .22 caliber.

They could be held at Customs for a few days, weeks, months, or never get released and no explanation need be forthcoming. Remember where this shipment is originating.

Once past that particular choke-point, past experience has indicated a remaining shipment time of weeks, perhaps many weeks, before arrival in the U.S.

One consideration that many overlook is the value of anything this difficult to obtain can be substantial. Supply and demand….

The Leyla may prove worth the wait, but not for the faint of heart!

Hoot:

Interesting!

Your acrobatic attempt brings to mind the first time I heard the word “Shit“.

The very word “shit” originates from the original Germanic tribe colloquial expression: “Scheiße” (pronounced “schiest”) It was not a vulgar expression in ancient times, during the pagan period of Eastern European tribal/city-state development. In those days, the extended families tired of being eaten by wolves and bears during the mini-ice age period, began to live in extended family groups for protection. Later, these extended family groups grew to include multiple tribes, as inter-marriage took place, and the occasional bastard child dropped in unexpectedly. Thus, a need for sanitation developed as these groups grew bigger and bigger!

Originally, a Germanic pagan would shit into his Schüssel-Kopf (what we would know today as a combination bedpan and Winter hat) and carry it about with him on his head until he came across a suitable place to dump the contents, after they had cooled. Logically speaking, this served two important purposes during that very cold period in European history…it kept his head warm, and prevented the loss of excessive body heat carried away by the bodily excrement, and provided the necessary sanitation needed when the numbers of the tribes lived in ever closer proximity to each other.

Indeed, many of our expressions today originated from these ancient times! For example, “this tastes like shit!” was first uttered when one of the tribe’s occupant’s failed to leave the village that day, perhaps due to inclement weather, and simply dumped his Schüssel-Kopf into the nearest container…perhaps meaning to take it out when the weather cleared. Remembering their diet was extremely coarse, consisting mostly of grains, grass seeds, fiber from water plants, and the ever present moss growing from the rocks, it is easy to see where the cook of the day would mistake the bowl’s contents for a family member’s gathering of moss and seeds for the day’s meal. Off it would go, mixed with goat’s milk, onto the fire to cook for several hours. No fancy meals for these hardy folk…no indeed! They ate a sludge-like mix of assorted vegetable matter, mixed with milk from whatever farm animals were available. The resulting gruel was poured into Earthen cups and consumed whenever that family member was hungry. The pot remained over the fire until the next day, when more contents were added. And so it went, day after day. So, unknowingly they ate, wondering over time why the gruel tasted more foul with each passing day…until they couldn’t tell it from their own droppings…and the new phrase was added to their vocabulary.

On or about this time, some 50,000 years ago, through evolution, the tribe’s nose hair began to thin, and they developed a more acute sense of smell. It was only then anyone suspected something was awry with their meal plan. One day a swift thinking young tribe member noticed that the cook pot smelled strangely similar to his Schüssel-Kopf. Suspicious, he kept a distant watch over the cook bowl and caught a tribe member, too lazy to go out into the bitter cold, dump his droppings into the cook pot and quietly slink away.

The tribal elders took umbrage!!! The offending individual was taken by the angry villagers out to the woods where he was turned upside down, a sharp pole was rammed into his rectum, and driven all the way through his body into the ground. A fire was then built around his body and his remains exposed to the flames. This was originally intended to serve as an example to the other village members, but someone noted how good the cooked flesh smelled on the spit driven through his body, and wouldn’t you know it….the “Ka-bob” was invented!!! It was only then the villagers began to hunt mammals, increasing the protein in their diet, increasing their brain size, and cultural development began in the deep woods of ancient Eastern Europe! Later, when children asked why the tribe had began to eat meat, the elders simply shook their heads and uttered “Shit Happens!“…and thus language became more and more sophisticated, all due to a simple bodily function and extremely cold weather. Many of our most innocent uttering’s today have an interesting part they played in earliest human development!

Little known facts…but true!

Kind regards,

Uncle Hoot:

I tried pooping like the dude in your avatar…………… I made a big mess 😳

Remind me, which route do they take to get to the USA?

You better not be lying Hoot: !

Left Russia? Tony said this month a few weeks ago!

H()()TS going to Liberal Hell in cuffs! Here on Long Island the Republicans are really Statist Democrats lead by Rep Peter King and the Democrats are Really Statist Socialist lead by Chuck Schumer. Had H()()T posted this on a local internet board in NYC area he would have News 12 and 10 other news vans Parked in front of his house with mobs of People talking about how backwards the Tea Party Christians are.There would be pictures of the old fuck flashed on the screen and his arrest record and every complaint they could find or even manufacture about him would be presented over and over and over again. Some old lady sweet as could be would give her story of how she went to grade school with him and he was a twisted kid that squeezed the nutz off squirrels he trapped in an old wooden box. He did this with a rusty pair of pliers. That it is guys like :hoot: Right Wing Nutz (NO PUN INTENDED) trying to reinstate Slavery (NeoConfederates FUCKS) and only the State can protect the People from these kinds of backward (NEOCONFEDERATE FUCKS) So People of good sense vote Democrat to save the country from those trying to kill the progressive push and bring this country back 275 years to no electricity and slaves working the fields. This is how the story line goes over and over and over and over again. then when you see pictures of :hoot: flashed on the screen you think NEOConfederate Hate Drive Tea Party Christian Fundamentalist Racists. Yes

:hoot:

All right….all right….now I’m pissed!

Is this a scam…or what???

Something here, it ain’t right!

Hoot: