Thread: BRNO 2 brilliant

heres a wee story re a Mk1 BRNO.a recently deceased bloke in hokitika (R93 may have knoqwn of him),ex TF soldier engineer extraordinaireand bloody self taught gun smith.
this bloke was one out of the bag!doing a welding job for a cowcocky out kokatahi way,he gets asked what his price was.keen eyed hua spots a Mk1 BRNO lying in corner -negelcted ,unloved and unused -broken trigger-sent for repair went missing ............
MC is given said.22-spends god knows how long locating a genuine set of BRNO.22 trigger mechanism drawings from the bloody factory and builds his own mechanism.
he put the rig together with a 4x28 bentley fine hair scope on top,and that gentlemen was the most lethal .22 rig ive ever bloody seen.
2CANTNMWC .22 shooting championship(which he won in a epic solos shootoff in greymouth),jhe as our platoon sergeant calls for a .22 practiseon a 50mrange hes jacked up on a bluespur cockies property.
dads army arrives choxcka with ammo and assorted fancy rigs-from the back seat appears plain jane. now to make life interesting whose gonna have a wee wager on the side-
AKA shout the boys when games over.
we all settle in to have a crack before MC&plain jane chime in.
yours sincerely smoker and odds on man..Illput 5ciggarettes filter end on in a target @50-5/5 =5jugs.yup she sang and i was payin- ok double or quits -a lit cigarette end on.
He lay down grinned a touched the trigger-boys&girls loved that piss on yours sincerely.
I saw many a bunny cop a head job from MC&plain jane i was also involved in cleaning out a honda civic which carted a headshot gutted red deer yearling home(hot hoki afternoon bucket of hot soapy water congealed blood and blowflies sized like c130hercules -ya get the bloody picture twas aunties shopping carFFS!) -hed been caught gorgng in the cockies paddock having been scared out by the veni chopper boys operating in the hills behind the farm.A good mate of mine-no mean shot either swears that deer hit the deck over 80yds away and didnt even kick.
the latter who packed an extremely sweet mannlicher schonauer 7x57 with pecar 4x81 scope,had wee brother who bought the mk2 BRNO and was bloody deadly-party trik skullshoot bunnies -"whose eaten my fucking boiled egg!" nice skullwith flap -no brain...but we all agreed Plain jane was something else.
in latter years MC&I had a major fallout which took years for me to get over and force myself to talk to him.
out of sheer spite one day I offered $500 cold hard cash for plain jane- "NO" and he walked.
somewhere in HOKi sits a little old .22 with a legacy to tell.
now i realise my dribbling aint to everyones taste but this is a story which I think needs telling -beautiful germanic craftmanship coupled with a dogged ,indeed unique Kiwi DIY attitude .
BTW-the guy served as a consultant and supplier of firearms on the westcoast epic movie "Bad Blood ;The Stan Graham story. somewhere in my assortment of gear is a sporting.303 barrel he gave me.