in other words/obituaries
march21
2013
The Gun Doctor : Firearm Care and Storage Voices From the
By Wolfgang Rotbart
to let it soak overnight and repeat
Lastly, the bolt needs to be
as necessary.
cleaned occasionally as it too can Crowd: Anton
This month’s topic is
While the barrel is soaking, fill with dirt, rust, and oils that can
important, but certainly less serious remove the stock from the firearm. produce erratic ignition. Bolts are Killed the Boar!
than recent ones.
This is something that many folks generally not easily disassembled
Most of the hunting
seasons are now over and it is time
to prepare your firearms for storage
until the next season or time to do a
quick sight-in.
Since most hunting rifles
in this area are bolt-action types
and share many general traits, I’ll
discuss these.
I always wear safety
glasses when working on any
firearm and strongly advise you do
too.
To begin the process, while
keeping the rifle pointed in a safe
direction, open the action, remove
all ammo from the magazine,
and visually and tactilely verify
that there is not a cartridge in the
chamber. Not being absolutely
sure of this not only puts you, your
friends and family in great danger,
but also everyone for literally miles
around. In addition, I remove all
live ammo from the room where
I’m working as an additional
safeguard.
Next, remove the bolt from
the rifle. Wet the bore down with
whatever solvent or cleaner you
prefer. Most of them contain toxic
components and so you should
ensure you have good ventilation.
You should also use chemical-
resistant gloves, as these toxins
will enter through your skin as well
as your lungs. I use Gunzilla since
it is non-toxic. According to how
fouled the barrel is, you may need
fail to do and causes considerable
damage at times. Pine needles, dirt,
and water get in the spaces between
the wood and metal parts and make
a great place for rust and rot to
thrive. After cleaning out the wood
and metal parts, put a light coat of
your favorite protective oil on and
wipe off the excess. If this is not
done, it will attract dirt and dust.
Over time, the excess oil tends to
dry up and can cause very serious
problems.
One of these is in the trigger
mechanism. People will repeatedly
soak this area in oil hoping for a
smoother trigger, but don’t clean
out the excess with the result that
over time the oil dries and becomes
a thick grease. Especially on a cold
day, this grease can become solid
enough to keep the safety from
functioning properly with very
scary and dangerous results.
When cleaning the bore,
always insert the cleaning rod
from the chamber end if possible.
The crown on the muzzle is easily
damaged and even a tiny burr will
cause very inaccurate shooting
patterns. Here too, you should
clean out all excess oil leaving only
a very thin coating.
As for the wood, most folks
just rub a little gun oil on it. There
are special cleaners/preservatives
for the wood, but a little Johnson’s
floor wax is probably a good
substitute.
In Memory of... continued from page 16
To sign the online guestbook
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Gordon T. Shearer
Gordon T. Shearer, 71, a longtime
resident of the Banks community, died
Wednesday evening, February 27, 2013
at the Providence St. Vincent Medical
Center in Portland.
A Celebration of Life Service was
held on Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 11:00
A.M. at the Hillside Bible Church, 49820
N.W. Clapshaw Hill Road in Forest
Grove, with Pastor Kendall Weekes,
of the Grace Haven Bible Church in
Ridgefield, Washington, officiating.
Family and friends were invited to
and reassembled without the proper
tools and knowledge. Also, they
can be a bit dangerous as they tend
to have fairly heavy springs under
a lot of tension just waiting to go
flying across the room – assuming
you’re lucky enough to not be in
the way!
Lastly, there are anti-rust
packets that you can put in with the
firearm if it’s in a confined space
that will produce a rust resisting
vapor until it’s that time of year
again.
Follow-up
information
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attend a reception immediately following
the memorial service, to be held in the
fellowship room in the basement of the
church.
GORDON THOMAS SHEARER
was born August 3, 1941 in Forest Grove,
Oregon, the son of Tina Lee (Clapshaw)
Shearer and the late Wilbur Thomas
Shearer. He was raised and received
his education in the Forest Grove
community, until the age of fifteen years
old when he moved with his family to
St. Maries, Idaho, where he completed
his schooling. Gordon was a member
of the St. Maries High School Class of
1959. He later attended Portland State
University and Multnomah School of
the Bible.
He was united in marriage to Lois
Ann Ryder on October 15, 1961 in the
Glenwood Baptist Church in Glenwood,
Oregon. They celebrated their 51st
Wedding Anniversary this past October.
Following their marriage they have made
their home in the Banks community for
the past thirty-five years.
Gordon had worked in the
logging industry with his father, Wilbur
for several years. He later worked at the
First National Bank in Forest Grove and
for Intel Corporation for fourteen years,
having retired in 2007. His love, was
sharing the Gospel, having served as
Pastor of the Manning Bible Church for
over thirty-five years, beginning in June
of 1977 to the present.
Among his special interests
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By Dennis Nelson
My grandfather Clint used to reminisce about
his youth in a small Iowa farming town that was settled
by Swedish immigrants.
He was part of a pack of teenage boys who
were prone to getting into trouble if they weren’t fully
employed doing some kind of useful work.
The boys, on this particular day happened to
be at Anton’s family farm. Anton’s dad gave the crew
a job. He told them to go and butcher a hog. These
young men had grown up helping to make meat so this
should have been a routine request. But unfortunately,
it didn’t turn out that way.
Anton, with the maul and knife, left his accom-
plices at the gate and tiptoed into the hog lot. It was
full of sleeping pigs. He picked out a large, fat one and
with a mighty swing of his big hammer, dealt a crush-
ing blow between the eyes of his intended victim.
The rest of the pigs erupted and scattered in
a squealing mass of confusion. Poor Anton was left
standing alone over what he now realized was the herd
boar.
The pedigreed boar was the most valuable ani-
mal in the pen. Unless a boar has been castrated and
allowed to heal for several months it’s meat is inedible.
As Anton began to grasp the seriousness of his
mistake there arose from his buddies, just outside the
fence, the now famous cry, “Anton Killed the Boar!”
Knowing a bit about teenage boys I suspect
that they were both horrified at the trouble they were
in and delighted by the cosmic joke that they had been
privileged to participate in.
The story quickly spread around the commu-
nity and over time became part of the local folklore.
More than fifty years later, when visiting back
home, grandpa stepped onto main street and with an
exaggerated Swedish accent shouted out...
“Anton Killed the Boar!”
A white haired loafer on a bench laughed and
gramps knew he’d found a member of his old gang.
he enjoyed fly fishing, hunting and
woodcarving. But most of all loved his
daily study of the Word of God.
Gordon was preceded in death by
his father, Wilbur Shearer.
Survivors include his wife,
Lois Shearer, of Banks, Oregon; his
mother, Tina Shearer, of Forest Grove,
Oregon; his three children and their
spouses, Jeff Shearer; Cheryl Shearer,
of Massachusetts, and Joel and Marylou
Shearer, of Montana; his sister and
brother-in-law, Linda and Keith Mueller,
of St. Maries, Idaho; and his brother and
sister-in-law, Doug and Sherry Shearer,
of Forest Grove, Oregon.
Also surviving are four
grandchildren, Max, Breana, Sophie
and Kalista and numerous nieces and
nephews.
The family suggests in lieu
of flowers, that remembrances may
be contributions to the Manning Bible
Church, P.O. Box 674, Banks, Oregon
97106, in his memory.
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