shoobe01
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Guessing because of the red bits? But it's a non-ballistic trainer. Want it to be clearly not real.
But it's a non-ballistic trainer.
When I was just old enough to have one gun, we were at the range and there was a nice old man with a leather covered hard case full of handguns. He saw us enough he asked what we were up to, let us look at and shoot some of his guns, briefly.
He had a super, super, super nice DAO 69 series. So, fell in love with that, and maybe 10 years later, bought my own DAO smith. Commercial, new, very shiny, special order, not a police over-run or surplus. Customized some Hogue wood stocks to be thinner, and coated them in Defthane, which made them slick looking but grippy in all conditions.
I shot it better than anything else (kept track of splits and scores, then sold my G35 after a while). Now relegated to safe time as it's no light, and parts are hard to get, but still pretty.
When new-ish. Scanned and then COB'd
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Above are the original stocks, all others are after thinning down.
Typical after a week of carry, before I traded carry ammo out for a range day. Can see the carry wear coming in on the frame just rear of the trigger pin, for example.
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March 2010 EDC setup
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This thing was scrupulously reliable. It could get dirty enough it would be visibly shooting slower, but it never just stopped unless you did something wrong. I still strongly prefer those mags with the internal baseplates for carry to the M&P mags. And, annoyed they are sitting there unused, had to buy all new when I switched guns.
Now, it's M&P 9 pro 4.25 with X300U-A. And soon, there will be an RMR on that gun (or a new RMR'd gun), as my eyes go bad more all the time.
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(This is a couple years old, I do have a newer phone now. Kydex is home made.)
would love to see S&W bring back some models under their Classics Line.
New 3rd gens were pushing the $800 mark 20 years ago.
I am always shocked what inflation does, and how old I am.
I am not sure when I got my 5946, but let's say '99. It's close. I paid around $550 for it, which I recall being rather expensive.
Today, inflation only (no issues of skilled labor changes, material costs, etc.) that's $839.64 now.
Reversing it, going back in history more, I have on order (sometime the distributor will mail the !@#$ing thing to my LGS) a CORE, $608 all up with shipping and tax.
In 1970, that would be $93.72. Sounds pretty good!
A hell of a lot of the "things used to be cheap" is just the stupid march of time.