MagnumDweeb
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Well for the first day off from law school (1st semester of 2nd year and last exam was yesterday) I thought I'd get a nice hard three hour workout in start at 5 in the morning, go to the range (hadn't been in just over a month and I usually go once every two to three weeks) for a couple of hours, drop off the five hundred pounds [came out just a little more at the salvage yard] of aluminum cans sitting in my room along with the fifty pounds of cut up aluminum pool furniture (around $340 for a month), get 13 of my twenty three customers yards mowed (net 20 bucks profit a yard, five goes into don't touch future mower purcahse [for five years now], five into living expenses, five into after law school savings, and five into indulgence spending (books, guns, and ammo stockups) and get started on a painting project one of my yard mowing customers hired me to do (five hundred to do the whole inside of their two thousand square foot). And then passing out from exhaustion (fiancee is visiting parents).
Well I'm taking a break after painting all the bathrooms in the house and, hallways and the kitchen is freshly done (easiet, quickest, and gets 60% of the house done) when a neighbor whom I've maybe shared ten words with the whole time I lived in the neighborhood as a kid comes over and talks to me with some interest as I'm filling my paint sprayer up. He asks "you are a gun guy right?" in the middle of me answering a previous question about what I was up to with law school. He's a nice older guy, early 60's, clean looking, and a thick Italian Chicago accent. We talk a little further and agree that after I finished in a couple of hours doing the guest bedroom (going to finish the house Sunday, let the paint sit to make sure it's coming out right).
So I knock on his door, he lets me in, we talk and it turns out he's a retired Chicago Police Detective, moved to Florida after his wife passed from cancer so he could be close to his daughter and two grandkids (I've seen them come around once or twice a month back when I lived with my parents). He turned gunnie after moving down back in the mid 90s but had a number of revolvers from back when he was a detecitve and foot guy.
Well he opens his safe that he shows me and it's filled top to bottom with Smith and Wessons, most .357 Magnums and .38 specials with the occassional 1911 and Colt revolver. Of course I almost druelled. He bends down and picks up a 6" barrel S&W. "That's a 19-4" he says I as I look over a near mint revolver, blueing is 98+-. He hands me a bore light and I look inside the bore and while it is not pristine its' certainly in the very good to excellent range. Of course I'm pretty much completely ignorant of Smiths with the exceptions of 642s, 629s, and 625s.
We talk a little more, we both happen to be day traders, both made money off the Citibank deal, were both managing to rake three to five hundred bucks off this crappy week of trading. He then tell me he's going to get a Smith M22 5.5", which I gush about how I want one someday after a few more pickups and I reload. He then asks how much I think he could get for the 19-4 and I admit I have no clue but I'd hand him $200 for it that minute in a laughing joking kind of way.....So it turns out he had shopped the gun around trying to sell it get some proceeds for the new M22 5.5" Nickel model he wanted and the best offer he got was $150 after talking to gun shops, pawn shops, and the gun show. Luckily I had the cash in my pocket pressed inside my pocket between my leg and snub .357. The guy was of course a little miffed when I pulled out considerably more than what I said I would pay for the gun but we both laughed about how he should have asked for more after we wrote up a sale receipt and he e-mailed me from his home computer the serial number and consent for sale. In Florida we can do FTF private sales.
But the best thing about it all. After I got my book bag, wrapped the revolver in a shammy towel I had in my truck, he asked about me painting the inside of his neighbors house. How I was doing a $2000+ job for only $500 with guaranteed work and if I can't get it done right, I hand the money back, and I have that good reputation in the neighborhood because I've done five other houses in the neighborhood. So now I'll be painting the outside of his house for him after Christmas for an afternoon for $500 (he got quoted over $1500 by an outfit he wasn't familiar with that had over two dozen BBB complaints in one year). So now I've got a relatively new gun (old gun in great condition) and am getting paid three hundred dollars for owning it (more than likely, lol) LMAO.
Trouble is, I don't think I can buy anymore hanguns for like another ten years, got my fiancees P90(I own it, she gets it when we marry, but she's going to shoot it like mad like the other one I own), the TT-33 I ordered and paid for is due in next week which I was planning to do a 9x23 conversion on(already got 350+ plus Romanian surplus rounds for it for less than 10 cents a round after shipping), the Ruger Redhawk 4" .44 I picked up used, the Rossi snub .357, for just this year. I can well afford it off my blue collar work, also will start bar backing at a local bar(walk two blocks) every Friday and Saturday night for till after new years which will put an extra 200-250 in my pocket for the two days depending on how the nights go, sometimes more if the bikers show up.
But like all things, how much is too much. A couple of months ago I came to a realization that after a certain point, if I was going to get another handgun, it was going to be because I had purchased machine equipment, power tools galore, make my one day in the future home workshop look like a catalog from Harborfreight, and that I had built it legally. Maybe a Dillon 9x25 1911 with a custom ordered 7" barrel and 7" slide, maybe if Fusion ever gets around to making a wide frame 1911 10mm for high capacity I'd get one of those and make myself a little indulgent project. And now I think I've reached that point, I've done 1911s with my Uncle the fiend but those were part orders that only required minor handfitting and tuneing. Granted I'd love to also do that with AKs (an AK that shoots .243 [there are guys who have done it], 25-06, .45 ACP [guys who have done it], maybe even if I'm really lucky .44 Magnum[probably be a real PITA figuring that out], ressurrect old Soviet pieces into semi-auto pistols and carbines (PPSH 43, PPSH 41). I already figured out how to do most of that stuff, it's just a matter of having the space and place.
So until I become a homeowner I won't be buying anymore handguns, I can do AK kits, got the jigs and I know guys who can teach me to do it by hand. It's going to be a real long wait.
The pic is from my cell phone, I know it's horrible quality but best I could and I had already moved my 400lbs safe in front of my rifle safe and put the 19-4 in there and I don't feel like moving the safe again to get it.
So thoughts and opinions on the S&W 19-4, anything I should watch for that's peculiar to the make and model, it's mechanically sound on timing, smooth like butter trigger pull that feels considerably less than 5lbs, and locks up tight, no rust, no pitting.
Oh the top revolver is the Ruger Blackhawk 7.5", just below it is the 19-4, then a heritage rough rider .22lr, and then my other key CCW Rossi snub .357.
Well I'm taking a break after painting all the bathrooms in the house and, hallways and the kitchen is freshly done (easiet, quickest, and gets 60% of the house done) when a neighbor whom I've maybe shared ten words with the whole time I lived in the neighborhood as a kid comes over and talks to me with some interest as I'm filling my paint sprayer up. He asks "you are a gun guy right?" in the middle of me answering a previous question about what I was up to with law school. He's a nice older guy, early 60's, clean looking, and a thick Italian Chicago accent. We talk a little further and agree that after I finished in a couple of hours doing the guest bedroom (going to finish the house Sunday, let the paint sit to make sure it's coming out right).
So I knock on his door, he lets me in, we talk and it turns out he's a retired Chicago Police Detective, moved to Florida after his wife passed from cancer so he could be close to his daughter and two grandkids (I've seen them come around once or twice a month back when I lived with my parents). He turned gunnie after moving down back in the mid 90s but had a number of revolvers from back when he was a detecitve and foot guy.
Well he opens his safe that he shows me and it's filled top to bottom with Smith and Wessons, most .357 Magnums and .38 specials with the occassional 1911 and Colt revolver. Of course I almost druelled. He bends down and picks up a 6" barrel S&W. "That's a 19-4" he says I as I look over a near mint revolver, blueing is 98+-. He hands me a bore light and I look inside the bore and while it is not pristine its' certainly in the very good to excellent range. Of course I'm pretty much completely ignorant of Smiths with the exceptions of 642s, 629s, and 625s.
We talk a little more, we both happen to be day traders, both made money off the Citibank deal, were both managing to rake three to five hundred bucks off this crappy week of trading. He then tell me he's going to get a Smith M22 5.5", which I gush about how I want one someday after a few more pickups and I reload. He then asks how much I think he could get for the 19-4 and I admit I have no clue but I'd hand him $200 for it that minute in a laughing joking kind of way.....So it turns out he had shopped the gun around trying to sell it get some proceeds for the new M22 5.5" Nickel model he wanted and the best offer he got was $150 after talking to gun shops, pawn shops, and the gun show. Luckily I had the cash in my pocket pressed inside my pocket between my leg and snub .357. The guy was of course a little miffed when I pulled out considerably more than what I said I would pay for the gun but we both laughed about how he should have asked for more after we wrote up a sale receipt and he e-mailed me from his home computer the serial number and consent for sale. In Florida we can do FTF private sales.
But the best thing about it all. After I got my book bag, wrapped the revolver in a shammy towel I had in my truck, he asked about me painting the inside of his neighbors house. How I was doing a $2000+ job for only $500 with guaranteed work and if I can't get it done right, I hand the money back, and I have that good reputation in the neighborhood because I've done five other houses in the neighborhood. So now I'll be painting the outside of his house for him after Christmas for an afternoon for $500 (he got quoted over $1500 by an outfit he wasn't familiar with that had over two dozen BBB complaints in one year). So now I've got a relatively new gun (old gun in great condition) and am getting paid three hundred dollars for owning it (more than likely, lol) LMAO.
Trouble is, I don't think I can buy anymore hanguns for like another ten years, got my fiancees P90(I own it, she gets it when we marry, but she's going to shoot it like mad like the other one I own), the TT-33 I ordered and paid for is due in next week which I was planning to do a 9x23 conversion on(already got 350+ plus Romanian surplus rounds for it for less than 10 cents a round after shipping), the Ruger Redhawk 4" .44 I picked up used, the Rossi snub .357, for just this year. I can well afford it off my blue collar work, also will start bar backing at a local bar(walk two blocks) every Friday and Saturday night for till after new years which will put an extra 200-250 in my pocket for the two days depending on how the nights go, sometimes more if the bikers show up.
But like all things, how much is too much. A couple of months ago I came to a realization that after a certain point, if I was going to get another handgun, it was going to be because I had purchased machine equipment, power tools galore, make my one day in the future home workshop look like a catalog from Harborfreight, and that I had built it legally. Maybe a Dillon 9x25 1911 with a custom ordered 7" barrel and 7" slide, maybe if Fusion ever gets around to making a wide frame 1911 10mm for high capacity I'd get one of those and make myself a little indulgent project. And now I think I've reached that point, I've done 1911s with my Uncle the fiend but those were part orders that only required minor handfitting and tuneing. Granted I'd love to also do that with AKs (an AK that shoots .243 [there are guys who have done it], 25-06, .45 ACP [guys who have done it], maybe even if I'm really lucky .44 Magnum[probably be a real PITA figuring that out], ressurrect old Soviet pieces into semi-auto pistols and carbines (PPSH 43, PPSH 41). I already figured out how to do most of that stuff, it's just a matter of having the space and place.
So until I become a homeowner I won't be buying anymore handguns, I can do AK kits, got the jigs and I know guys who can teach me to do it by hand. It's going to be a real long wait.
The pic is from my cell phone, I know it's horrible quality but best I could and I had already moved my 400lbs safe in front of my rifle safe and put the 19-4 in there and I don't feel like moving the safe again to get it.
So thoughts and opinions on the S&W 19-4, anything I should watch for that's peculiar to the make and model, it's mechanically sound on timing, smooth like butter trigger pull that feels considerably less than 5lbs, and locks up tight, no rust, no pitting.
Oh the top revolver is the Ruger Blackhawk 7.5", just below it is the 19-4, then a heritage rough rider .22lr, and then my other key CCW Rossi snub .357.
