I’m embarrassed to admit that I don’t have a grail gun at the moment. I guess I am an impulse buyer these days, ready to buy something that...
Buy some pillow ticking at a fabric store, cut some 1.5 inch wide strips and spray them with PAM from your kitchen shelf. Put the PAM lubed...
Thanks for all the responses and insight. I will get to examine it this weekend, and post an epilogue.
WWI happened about that time. The battle damage you mention could have occurred then even if it has no martial markings. Or I guess the owner...
IMO, that’s a fine looking old war horse! Well done, sir.
Page 163 in the Standard Catalog of S&W lists two M&P variants: Dominican Republic Municipal Police with serial numbers 5042XX in 1925. DeSmet...
You don’t know who will be taking care of you at the end. Just another reason to be kind to everyone.
I’m loving this thread. Thanks to all of you.
Agree. Get a cheap plastic tub from the Dollar Store, soak the gun in a mix of automatic transmission fluid and acetone (from the paint store)...
I will soon have an opportunity to buy a S&W 629-6, 3” barrel, described as ANIB, for $1200. I will be able to examine the revolver before...
Harbor Freight sells cloth shop towels that work dandy for wiping down firearms, not expensive at all. Yeah they are from China so there’s that...
Not trying to hijack a beautiful thread, but I figure you guys will know; why do so many competition telescopic sights have such long tubes?...
Get off the interstate. Visit hardware stores and gun stores/ pawn shops in really small towns away from major highways. The big stores in large...
I like it in cartridges, not so much in percussion guns for the reason above—delayed ignition when using a cap. No experience with inline/209...
De-burr or chamfer that pesky screw hole with some careful filing and polishing. I bet your opinion of it will improve! :thumbup:
This is a gateway gun. Beware! If you shoot it you will be assimilated into the brotherhood of soot lords, buying more black powder guns,...
Look for a CZ 2075 RAMI, 9 mm. About the size of a S&W J frame. My hands are small. It fits. Single action/double action, mine does not have a...
Good holsters are stiff not soft. Clean it with damp rag. After it dries completely, slowly at room temperature, no hair dryer please, apply a...
If you decide to go this route, contact the match director before the match and work out the details. Better than showing up cold.
Lots of cowboy action shooters like blackpowder guns. You could do cash face to face with Texas residents at a Cowboy match and avoid some...
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