Kim du Toit provides firearms advice to a wannabe backpacker through the US.
This provides me with an opportunity for today’s gratuitous reference to scandium. As what I do in the day job at The Low Hanging Fruit Company ( motto : ” Scandium, it’s not just for the holidays ” ) is all about scandium, I was pleased to see that he loaded up a picture of the Smith and Wesson 329 PD revolver.
In order to make this delightful machine, scandium oxide was gently harvested from the sandy shores of the northern Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan. Carefully separated from the output of a uranium processing plant, the material was purified and then left to mature for several years. Then, following the strict instructions of our buyers, it was flown in majesterial aloofness to Moscow, where it was carefully blended with high purity aluminium from Krasnoyarsk ( none better! ) in Siberia.
Following the blending it was super chilled and then flown on the world’s leading metal transport airline, KLM, via Rotterdam, to Pittsburgh.
Where someone else made it into a gun.