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Dan Linscheid here, Glens brother. Sad to report, my brother passed away on July 17th, and I'm just getting around to telling a few of the forums he engaged in about it. He passed away from a massive heart attack, with his wife Dorothy (who was driving their pickup at the time along Highway 101...
I have a Dan Wesson Razorback 10 MM and more recently a built up 6" fully ramped barrel long slide 1911, all stainless. One of the reasons I wanted the long slide 10 MM is because there has been much said about the 1911 being "Under built" for it, and that the life expectancy of a standard size...
A little judicial use of a fine gray wheel (Scotch brite type, wide faced is best) to the sharp edges of the bottom rear 1/3rd of the slide will take slide bite away. If you aren't used to "Dehorning" a pistol you may want to practice on any sharp edged steel flat bar first. This is easy to do...
Ok, I gotta ask about the surface finish on the grips, the thumb safety, the slide stop plus the trigger and grip safety and the MSH. I've never seen anything like that before.
P.S. I forgot to mention that my frankenpistol (Post #12) is a 10 MM, I'm stuck temporarily while loading at least 1000 rounds, because I find that the 10 really likes a cannelure in the bullet to taper crimp into, and I'm resurrecting my old mental concept of a powered machine to roll...
My recently completed frankengun, 1911builder lower, Remington Hunter slide, EGW fully ramped barrel, my sweetheart! A great deal of learning for me, my third 1911 assembly.
The Bauer is essentially a Baby Browning, the only difference is the direction you twist the barrel during disassembly if I remember correctly, as for quality the Bauer I have is not as carefully finished but that's a superficial difference.
I have BB's (Including the Bauer) made by FN, and a...
"I load my 10MM pretty damn hot so I always go to a heavier recoil spring to slow things down a bit"
Something that works even better is a semi square bottom on the firing pin stop plate. John Moses Browning originally used a smaller radius than most FPS's come with, but the military requested...
"OK, so far there’s nothing really unusual about the pistol"
I have to disagree, as I have one also (B80, 7.65 Parabellum) and I feel it is a good deal different from any other gun I own. The frame is welded together from two stamped parts, well, so is the original Ruger standard model, but the...
I agree with Ascot500, many of the .22's made to resemble 1911's are made of zinc alloy, not worth the price paid the garbage truck to haul away. The RIA has the best quality materials of any of them assuming it's made of steel.
It's kind of like the bags of chips they sell now, as if no one...
I also have one, and I'll differ on the mods if you actually want to carry it, for me the heel mag release is a throw back from before the 1911 when the first really good pistol was designed, in a firefight the faster mag change might make that pistol equal in value to your life.
I know some...
I had a small revolver that had rifling defects that looked much better than that, I sent it back to the manufacturer and it came back a couple of week later with a note from the house gunsmith saying it was OK. I finally sent it back and traded for a different model and the bore of that one was...
I've liked RIA's since the first one I bought, but gave it to my brother as he didn't have a home defense weapon, so I bought another one and it too is very reliable and, for the money I feel they are every bit as good as many domestic brands. One thing though, I always replace the original...
I tried .005" thick copper sheet but it took too much pressure I thought, but it could have benefited from annealing I suppose. Then I tried .003 that that worked well. Aardvark reloading website has several formulas very close to factory compounds...
One thing I've noticed, and maybe it's just bad practices on my part, is that the first shot, and sometimes the second also, is a flyer. Usually lower than the rest of the shots. I'm sure it's caused by the shock of the first shot settling the pistol in the grip inserts. But it makes sense to...
Coincidentally I was thinking this morning about handgun accuracy, because the lightest triggers seem to be on well tuned revolvers, but they suffer from having six chambers and inevitable variations in machining them, whereas the auto's need a little heavier trigger to avoid firing shock from...
Yes, I wanted to show my wife how the PPKs shoots and she couldn't rack the slide. I needed her to have a weapon she can rack so I got her an AR, problem solved two ways, she can aim it more accurately and it's easy to load from the magazine, though it's hard to get it into her purse. :D
I own a PPKs, a PPK and an HSC, I've never shot the PPK but have shot the PPKs many times. The first time I shot it it made red scratch marks on my right hand, I carefully ran the sharp edges at the lower rear area of the slide over a gray wheel (It's stainless so no damage to the finish) and...
Having had several Star pistols dismantled I've had some experience with the design, and to me it's very well designed. In every Star pistol I've owned if you slowly engage the safety while watching the hammer you should see the hammer move ever so slightly rearward. Why? Because the common Star...
Plus, FWIW, if the powers that be outlaw firearms they eventually get to BP guns too, and maybe commercial percussion caps will mysteriously disappear, , oh,,, they have!
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