Had a fun day at the range. I made a quasi-judicial decision to execute a Sears Kenmore Model 7.2 Ampere Upright Vacuum Cleaner. I bought the thing used a year ago used from a vacuum repairman's shop for twenty-five bucks and the thing stopped working a couple of months ago. Rather than attempt to repair it, I passed the death sentence on the machine rather than throw good money after bad.
The machine bravely and defiantly declined my offer of a blindfold and a ciagarette. I loaded ten rounds into my Chinese Paratrooper Model SKS (I know they were never used by Chinese parachutists, but were made for the US Civilian market). I would have prefered to use full metal jacket, but contented myself with Silver Bear 7.62X39 123 grain HP with a zinc plated steel case made in Holy Mother Russia (AKA The Third Rome.)
I aimed at the main body of the machine. It made neat little holes going in, but huge pieces of plastic and metal blew out the back. After the first five shots the machime began to "deconstruct" like a modern literary critic. Soon the Kenmore was reduced to about five different pieces of junk.
Although I didn't look to see where the Kenmore was made, I can only conclude it was made in Red China like most consumer goods these days. It made a kind of poetic justice too see it destroyed by another piece of Chinese machinery.
With the target destroyed and the sun going over the yardarm, I returned home singing the old German soldier's song "I had a Comrade" soberly aware of the destructive capability of late forties Communist weapons.
