so waht ya doin today?

oscarflytyer

oscarflytyer

Well-Known Member
today was a full trigger and polish job on the Remington 1911 R1 that my boys gave me from my FIL's estate a few years ago. Longer (medium) trigger, 3 1/4 lb pull, almost zero travel and reset. Should be a real paper puncher! Really looking to wring this one out anew with my #68 H&G and Bullseye.
 
Winelover

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
That's where my father sat in the B-24, during WWII....................he was a smallish guy. Never owned a firearm. He told me he liked the Thompson but hated the 1911. Never talked much about the service. He never flew after his time in the Air Force. Said they came down hard, once, wouldn't elaborate.


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:headscratch:Don't know where I got my 6' 1" from? Or my firearm related hobbies.
 
Winelover

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
I have a "coffee table" book called Gunner. An Illustrated History of World War II Aircraft Turrets and Gun Positions by Donald Nijboer.
 
Winelover

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
Excerpt, on the back of the flyleaf:

This is a book about the men who learned to shoot moving targets from a moving platform, at high speed and altitude. These were soldiers forced to face terrible odds of survival in a highly dangerous combat environment, where there was no place to crawl into for protection when attacked. They had to be able to repair damaged guns and turrets, give first aid to wounded crewmates, and they had to have the nerve to clip a very small parachute to a webbed harness and throw themselves out of a damaged or burning bommer.... These were the gunners. I have unending respect for these men.

Dan Patterson (photographer)
 
Pistolero

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
Helped a young friend find his first personal deer rifle today. He has been using his Dad's
guns, wanted to get a Marlin .30-30. We checked out all the ones at the show today, and found
a 336, the top of the line model with white line spacer rubber butt pad, pistol grip cap, cut checkering
walnut stock, ramp front sight with hood, adjustable 'middle' sight. Top shape, nearly new, one
slightly rusty finger print on the barrel. Other than that, like new. $475 out the door. Probably
a middle 80s rifle, had the crossbolt. He was happy. Looked at about 8 others some much plainer
guns (no checkering or pressed type, birch stocks, frt sight dovetailed in bbl, no grip cap, etc) for up to $200 more, with
no give. Closest was a plain jane with a bit of minor but visible rust on the side of the reciever for
$415. He went for the deluxe gun for $60 more, in better shape, good move.

One nice older gun with uncheckered walnut stock, great at $400 but both sides of the receiver
had substantial loss of finish to speckled rust. Yuck. I said he could refinish the sides of the
reciever, but that was a non-starter on cosmetics. Otherwise a nice gun.

Bill
 
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Ian

Ian

Notorious member
Good to hear of a youngster that hasn't been brainwashed by the internets into thinking .338 Lapua is a minimum for Bambi.

It's also good to hear that prices are becoming a little more sane. There are a couple of 336s in bad shape at the local gun shop, $850 for one and $900 for the other. We're talking $150 beater truck rifles. Their logic is they are both pre-safety models.
 
Gary

Gary

SE Kansas
Pistolero said:
Helped a young friend find his first personal deer rifle today. He has been using his Dad's
guns, wanted to get a Marlin .30-30. We checked out all the ones at the show today, and found
a 336, the top of the line model with white line spacer rubber butt pad, pistol grip cap, cut checkering
walnut stock, ramp front sight with hood, adjustable 'middle' sight. Top shape, nearly new, one
slightly rusty finger print on the barrel. Other than that, like new. $475 out the door. Probably
a middle 80s rifle, had the crossbolt. He was happy. Looked at about 8 others some much plainer
guns (no checkering or pressed type, birch stocks, frt sight dovetailed in bbl, no grip cap, etc) for up to $200 more, with
no give. Closest was a plain jane with a bit of minor but visible rust on the side of the reciever for
$415. He went for the deluxe gun for $60 more, in better shape, good move.

One nice older gun with uncheckered walnut stock, great at $400 but both sides of the receiver
had substantial loss of finish to speckled rust. Yuck. I said he could refinish the sides of the
reciever, but that was a non-starter on cosmetics. Otherwise a nice gun.

Bill
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You must have been at the Gun Show @ KCI. My brother was out there and bought a lot of accessories and a batch of Paracord. Said it was a really good show.
 
RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
I went to an estate auction this morning ...... Chickened out before I got all what I was after .....
I did get a box about 8" square and deep full of assorted cutting tools , most of which need a lathe or mill or at least drill press mill table . The reamers drills and taps I'll keep but I'll most likely be rehoming 10 or so end mills and lathe cutting points . Unfortunately they split up some of it and the ball ID gauges weren't in the the batch I got and missed them somehow or other ......

After lunch my buddy and I ran 62 pieces of red fir T&G 3" flooring through his planner to clean up 80 yr of storage and 2000 miles of road grime . Such nice wood . Pick a line and follow it 16,18,20' , it never left the board . 3/4" or less bow in 20' . I think I saw 3 pin knots .
 
Pistolero

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
Yep. Gary, near KCI.

I WILL be looking in to that Bomber Camp deal. After driving a Sherman, that would be
pretty cool.

Bill
 
Brad

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
It is amazing what people seem to think some guns are worth. Based on gun show economics I am a millionaire in gun value alone!
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
The little town I grew up in had one lawyer, and he took his daily cocktails after work at my folks bar. He and, IIRC, the local undertaker and the owner of the Montgomery Wards catalog store would talk and argue in good nature as men will over drinks. My dad , also being the local gun smith in addition to the bar owner, often steered the direction to guns, something the MW owner and undertaker were in to.. The lawyer didn't have any interest in guns at all and they'd rib him about it. I don't recall the details, but after some sort of argument it was decided they'd all shoot at some clay birds thrown from a hand trap. (To the best of my knowledge there wasn't an actual trap or skeet range within 100 miles.) So they all went to the local range (sand pit) and got under way. The MW store owner had been a fighter pilot in WW2 and was expected to be the winner by far. Dad shot and got some, the former big city man undertaker did very well and the MW store owner pilot did even better shooting in the high teens. The lawyer got up and broke 25 straight- twice. Finally someone asked how he could do that if he didn't even hunt? He'd spent the war teaching aerial gunnery to Navy pilots and shot hundreds of rounds a week at clay birds!

Lawyers. Sneaky beasts!
 
fiver

fiver

Well-Known Member
he was playing them for suckers.
most of the gunnery teachers were guy's from the ATA or NSA and were usually the top target shooters in their states.
 
KeithB

KeithB

Resident Half Fast Machinist
Just like cops, pharmacists and machinists, when you need one you really need one. I have no brief against lawyers, in fact I know and have used several good ones in the past. Face it guys, there is always a certain %age of any profession that are rectal orifices.
 
KeithB

KeithB

Resident Half Fast Machinist
And we are the ones that vote them in there and refuse to demand any accountability because they belong to our tribe, we only demand it when they belong to the other tribe.
 
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