Recent content by deano186

Lyle Lovett - LA County http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCOEne9eocU This tune is pretty dark. It's a little hard to follow the meaning the first time through, but it's effective. I think I listened to it on the CD a lot of times when it first came out before I understood who the 'old friend'...

I would NOT take a check from anyone I don't already know for anything of significant value, like a gun. I was confirmed in this opinion years ago when a co-worker of my next door neighbor did every song and dance you can imagine to get me to take his check (on a Sunday) for a Ruger #1 I was...

Nelson Ford in Phoenix is the only guy I've used, but I've always been happy with his work.

I thought you meant 'What magazine do you keep by your bed'. Dillon's 'Blue Press' for me ;)

I finally won at Hunter's Pistol with my Model 68 I've been going to these NRA Hunter's Pistol Silhouette matches for about 9 months now and I finally won my class (AA) on Sunday! Considering I'm shooting a police revolver in 38 special against single shot 22's and 22 hornets, etc. I'm quite...

I've tried to keep NIB and failed. I've bought a couple of guns over the years that would have retained more value if I didn't shoot them. I had a Winchester 94 take-down model from the early 1900's in great shape and more recently I got a S&W Model 68 that was NIB. I tried to keep each of them...

I used to install electronic equipment at work that came with a fairly large desiccant bag each time. I totally lined my gunsafe with those bags and didn't have any problems.

Very old 30-40 Krag military ammo (early 1900s?) I bought a military ammo belt full of .30-40 Krag ammo at a gunshow once that was from before WWI. Some of it would fire, but the cases would split because they were so old they seemed to have lost their temper. Some were so brittle the bullets...

I just finished reading this book: and I'd like to tell you a little about it. The crux of the story is a gunfight that took place between six Secret Service men and two Puerto Rican Nationalist's (today we'd probably call them terrorists) on the afternoon of November 1st, 1950. The...

I'd like to be able to say ... I'd like to be able to say I'd do this or that in a life or death situation, but I've never been there. And from everything I've read about real-life gunfights there is almost no resemblance between what people would plan or expect and what happens.

>>> Someone want to give us the executive summary on this? According to the wikipedia article linked to in the original post, it was a suitcase full of .25 autos, not one. It states that a soviet executioner working directly for Stalin personally killed 7000 Polish prisoners over a 28 day period.

My Mod. 68 is clearly overstamped from Mod. 66 On my Model 68-2 the stamping looks like it originally said Mod. 66-2 and was overstamped to Mod. 68-2. I don't know if they were all like that.

Re: Christcorp on Amendments >>> So, you may translate the bill of rights as a contract. And a very CLEAR contract. However; if that was true; there wouldn't be 50 states with very different laws concerning to keeping and use of firearms. Actually there would. Until more recent times it was...

I have a good whacko conspiracy rumor that explains your problem: Chinese arms factories are using surplus primers, powders and bullets from obsolete ammo found in old Soviet-Bloc ammo dumps to manufacture counterfeit ammo and package it as modern name brand American made ammunition. This is...

Re: Christcorp on the Bill of Rights The Bill of Rights aren't just Amendments to the Constitution. They were proposed before the Constitution was itself ratified because there was much resistance to creating a Federal government that wasn't limited specifically, and I would say permanently, in...