Some of you may not know this, but my friend Ponyboy has been hosting The Box O' Truth for me for several years now, on his bandwidth that he uses for his business. We have become good "Internet friends", even though we have never met in person.

He recently sent me an e-mail and said, "Send me a copy of your C&R, as I have an early Christmas present to send you."

I did so, and waited for the package to arrive.

The Brown Truck O' Happiness dropped off a big box.

I opened it to find these three Russian Comrades.

They were the roughest looking Mosin 91/30 rifles I had ever seen.

It looked like a challenge to me.

Here they are in the sunlight.

I stared out by looking down the bores, but it almost made me cry.

They looked like a dried-up muddy road.

I ran some patches down the bores to see it maybe it was Cosmoline.

But notice this patch…

The rust in the bore actually tore holes in the patches.

This is going to be a Big challenge.