RogersPrecision
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Found these pics on another site. Thought you two might enjoy a looksee.
Pics courtesy of Scott Gahimer at 1911forum.com
Pics courtesy of Scott Gahimer at 1911forum.com
For Tuner and Old Fuff......
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1911Tuner
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Heaven!
Ahhhh...Looks like a pack of old friends.
Here's a 1925 commercial Colt that I've been carryin' of late. Slide and frame were reblued, but inside, it's almost new. Probably been less than a thousand rounds through it...and it's got a Colt match barrel in it. Eats everything I can throw at it, and as far as I can tell, it ain't never been smiffed on.
Ahhhh...Looks like a pack of old friends.
Here's a 1925 commercial Colt that I've been carryin' of late. Slide and frame were reblued, but inside, it's almost new. Probably been less than a thousand rounds through it...and it's got a Colt match barrel in it. Eats everything I can throw at it, and as far as I can tell, it ain't never been smiffed on.
1911Tuner
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Colts and Rands, oh my!
Then, there's this minty August 1945 production Remington Rand that I don't carry...yet.
I'll try to get a picture of the '42 GI Colt that I do carry a lot. Bought it in a gun show parkin' lot for 75 bucks with a few pieces missin'.
Now sports a Kart barrel, and the finish is a bit funky, but she does right good.
Then, there's this minty August 1945 production Remington Rand that I don't carry...yet.
I'll try to get a picture of the '42 GI Colt that I do carry a lot. Bought it in a gun show parkin' lot for 75 bucks with a few pieces missin'.
Now sports a Kart barrel, and the finish is a bit funky, but she does right good.
1911Tuner
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Teenager
Can't forget this old girl. Late 1919 production GI that's reportedly one of the very last run of about 2500 pistols that Colt delivered to the Army in the spring of '19. Another untweaked pig that doesn't know the difference between hardball and a H&G semi-wadcutter. All original and correct...except the springs, of course. They tend to get a little tired after 80-odd years.
I haven't carried this one, but it's a distinct possibility at some point.
Maybe I'll go dig the Union Switch twins out of the safe deposit box and make aome pictures one day...
Can't forget this old girl. Late 1919 production GI that's reportedly one of the very last run of about 2500 pistols that Colt delivered to the Army in the spring of '19. Another untweaked pig that doesn't know the difference between hardball and a H&G semi-wadcutter. All original and correct...except the springs, of course. They tend to get a little tired after 80-odd years.
I haven't carried this one, but it's a distinct possibility at some point.
Maybe I'll go dig the Union Switch twins out of the safe deposit box and make aome pictures one day...
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Thanks for posting and sharing...don't stop and keep 'em coming!
Steve
CK
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very very gorgeous gun. Man........when will I be able to own one of the original JMB 1911 gun?
U.S.SFC_RET
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Don't hold back Old Fuff, don't hold back. $500.00 might buy you the grips.
1911Tuner
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Pistols!
Fuff is yankin' yer chains. The reason that USGI pistols are so scarce in the southwestern United States is 'cause he's got 90% of'em hoarded in a cave somewhere in the desert...along with enough fine, old Smith & Wesson revolvers to build the Titanic II if they were reclaimed as scrap.
Been tryin' to get him to adopt me...but he ain't bitin'.
Fuff is yankin' yer chains. The reason that USGI pistols are so scarce in the southwestern United States is 'cause he's got 90% of'em hoarded in a cave somewhere in the desert...along with enough fine, old Smith & Wesson revolvers to build the Titanic II if they were reclaimed as scrap.
Been tryin' to get him to adopt me...but he ain't bitin'.
ken grant
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De Lite
You old fogies are too sot in your ways. I am an old fogie too but I haf sen de lite.
You need to get into the modern plastic pistol world.
you need to learn to shoot one handed so when your plastic what -you -may -call -it goes KA_BOOM in your hand, you have a standby hand.
You old fogies are too sot in your ways. I am an old fogie too but I haf sen de lite.
You need to get into the modern plastic pistol world.
you need to learn to shoot one handed so when your plastic what -you -may -call -it goes KA_BOOM in your hand, you have a standby hand.
1911Tuner
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Adoption
Fuff speculated:
>But I got this feeling that if I adopted you I wouldn't have nut'ten for long.<
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Why, Fuff! What EVAH do you mean??
Ken...Fuff would 'druther die and I'd 'druther take a beatin' with a razor strop than cave in to the Tupperware Trend. 'Sides...I gave my wheelguns a workout yesterday. I could do with those just fine if I was a mind to...
Now, Fuff! About them Smiths...
Fuff speculated:
>But I got this feeling that if I adopted you I wouldn't have nut'ten for long.<
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Why, Fuff! What EVAH do you mean??
Ken...Fuff would 'druther die and I'd 'druther take a beatin' with a razor strop than cave in to the Tupperware Trend. 'Sides...I gave my wheelguns a workout yesterday. I could do with those just fine if I was a mind to...
Now, Fuff! About them Smiths...
You stop that...!! I don't want no powder burns on the cylinder face.
Besides, everybody knows that you can't survive a gunfight if you don't got a pistol with a high-cap magazine with lots and lots of rounds in it. Them old style cylinder-shooters are worthless for anything but hanging 'up on the wall to look at, although the bigger .44's will work as a paperweight...
Don't you ever read anything on the Internet???
1911Tuner
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Wheelguns
Don't get all stressed, Fuff ol' bean. I shot the 681 and the post pinned/recessed M13 just to keep my hand limbered up. The old beauties remain virtuous and unsullied.
2XS...Don't start with me.
Don't get all stressed, Fuff ol' bean. I shot the 681 and the post pinned/recessed M13 just to keep my hand limbered up. The old beauties remain virtuous and unsullied.
2XS...Don't start with me.
Sniff...try to help some people out, and get no respect Guess I won't need the dump truck that I rented to haul all the scrap iron away from Tuner's. Won't need the 200 lbs of dog biscuits either. Note to self, don't count the pretties before they're in hand.
Guess I won't need the dump truck that I rented to haul all the scrap iron away from Tuner's. Won't need the 200 lbs of dog biscuits either. Note to self, don't count the pretties before they're in hand.1911Tuner
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Bribes
The very idea that ya'll thought you could get my beauties with a truck fulla doggie treats is laughable. It's...it's...it...Whoa dawg! Where do ya think you're goin' with my Colt? Drop it!
The very idea that ya'll thought you could get my beauties with a truck fulla doggie treats is laughable. It's...it's...it...Whoa dawg! Where do ya think you're goin' with my Colt? Drop it!
Brian Williams
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If not Doggie treats, maybe the thought of a good fried apple held by Dawn with a machined trigger on a silver necklace....
Might be a good distraction, but the Missus might be upset...
Might be a good distraction, but the Missus might be upset...
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Dawgs would go nuts if they saw a range bag, or shotgun case.
Didn't matter, since they sometimes went to the range, or out in the woods, hunting, or just for a walk they got excited.
One liked 1911s , one liked Old Smiths, and they had their druthers on shotguns, rifles as well.
We got a shotgun that had had plastic furniture, and put the wood back on, do you realize how little time it takes for two dogs to destroy a synthetic shotgun stock!?!?
They had a ball! Evil grins, still having a ball!
Later, those dawgs gone, new dawg, different part of my life...
"Which gun do you want me wear on this walk?" dog would look, and pick a hand with the gun (1911 or K frame) and all happy and smug I'd wear it.
He was the one that got a hold of new box of 28 ga shells, and would let me have them back. We taped it good with clear tape, but he kept them in this corner in the reloading room where he helped. He also had GI plug, some old stocks, speedloader for a K frame...
just his little stash of toys...he would not chew, just paw , piddle and play.
Look over and he would be sleeping, box of 28 ga shells between his paws...
I come in one day, he was right there waiting, had new box of 45ACP on the floor in front of him - just a smiling.
Wife at the time "Dawg got you something today, guess you have figured that out by now..."
Seems he got the wife a box of ctgs for her K frame that day too...
Didn't matter, since they sometimes went to the range, or out in the woods, hunting, or just for a walk they got excited.
One liked 1911s , one liked Old Smiths, and they had their druthers on shotguns, rifles as well.
We got a shotgun that had had plastic furniture, and put the wood back on, do you realize how little time it takes for two dogs to destroy a synthetic shotgun stock!?!?
They had a ball! Evil grins, still having a ball!
Later, those dawgs gone, new dawg, different part of my life...
"Which gun do you want me wear on this walk?" dog would look, and pick a hand with the gun (1911 or K frame) and all happy and smug I'd wear it.
He was the one that got a hold of new box of 28 ga shells, and would let me have them back. We taped it good with clear tape, but he kept them in this corner in the reloading room where he helped. He also had GI plug, some old stocks, speedloader for a K frame...
just his little stash of toys...he would not chew, just paw , piddle and play.
Look over and he would be sleeping, box of 28 ga shells between his paws...
I come in one day, he was right there waiting, had new box of 45ACP on the floor in front of him - just a smiling.
Wife at the time "Dawg got you something today, guess you have figured that out by now..."
Seems he got the wife a box of ctgs for her K frame that day too...
1911Tuner
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re:
I'm surrounded...and now Steve tells me that I can't even trust my dogs...that they'll sell me out for a box of Milk Bones or a toy...
*gasp* *choke*
I'm surrounded...and now Steve tells me that I can't even trust my dogs...that they'll sell me out for a box of Milk Bones or a toy...
*gasp* *choke*
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