Posted on 09/23/2009 6:19:16 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Srsly, ain’t fergot yuh GI...
oldest is in Peru on a 5-week mission trip right now... theboyz are alternatin’ between making me proud and embarassing me... in other words, boyz... I’d step in and kill’em, but they’re doing an okay job by themselves...
Agree on the way to remember Dad. I went to the gun club my Dad used to manage when he was young an my Grandfather had built.
Used Dad’s old Model 12 Winchester for a few rounds on the trap range an a few rounds of 5 stand. Got my 25 straight ATA patch when I was 13 with that gun. Never stay in the sport like my Uncle did. He won the Grand American in the 70’s.
The old Model 12 was a anniversary present from my Mom to Dad for their first. Many good times , thousands of Texas Panhandle dove and a few deer I took when stationed in Michigan with slugs using Dads Winchester.
Cleaned an back in the safe with just a hint of hoppes number 9 in the air an great memories of Dad and Grampa.
Good men .... And I miss em .
I have an still do carry a S&w 37 airweight in a simple uncle mikes pocket holster . Had the pocket holster since mid 80’s an works well.
Stay Safe Ya’ll !
Not quite sure, but is "watch that displays time in binary" a geeky-enough guess? 10:46?
You nailed it.
There's no geeks like old geeks. :)
Gentlemen - Good Grief...This Luddite would have a heck of time with it. It does have a high cool/geek factor, I will admit.
Actually, what I’ve been doing is very quick mental approximations to give me old school times; 10 after, half past, quarter til, etc. Just like the good old days!
Ordered a Mika’s holster today online... about an hour later, I got a call from Mika, explaining the construction and features... he said, “it isn’t an ugly holster, despite what people say”. I told him being an old jarhead, I didn’t care about looks, I care about performance and function. Mika said, “you been in the shit, what am I explaining to you for?” It was a pleasant conversation... looking forward to my hand made Mika’s to get here...
Ordered a Mika’s holster today online... about an hour later, I got a call from Mika, explaining the construction and features... he said, “it isn’t an ugly holster, despite what people say”. I told him being an old jarhead, I didn’t care about looks, I care about performance and function. Mika said, “you been in the shit, what am I explaining to you for?” It was a pleasant conversation... looking forward to my hand made Mika’s to get here...
Nice watch....
Suunto Vector sort here.... As geek as I get....:o)
Evenin’g G’nad; glad to hear you spoke with Mika; when I got mine it was ‘any color you want as long as it’s black’. Mine is with me a lot. Side pocket in dress slacks or cargo pockets; rear pocket in most jeans; yep they work well for me. The new one with a small clip sounds interesting for small of back or appendix carry. I may investigate that model.
Of course, our tax dollars paid for some lunatic PhDs in their sideline "security expert" consulting business put at least 90% of Americans, regardless of political leanings, onto their spiffy new "terrorist profile". The Signers put their names on the king's "traitor list" with the Declaration of Independence, but they considered the consequences of their actions before signing. We just had a new set of definitions dropped on our heads like another shoe, but we don't rate anything more than "potential terrorist", yet.
So please remember that on this day, we have been moved a tiny bit closer to the real heroes of July 4, 1776.
Right back atcha!
Once more into the breach..
Yep, we’re on quite a few lists I would guess. Well, we’re in good company.
That nickel plated one is NICE!
Yeah, that was sad news. He seemed like a genuinely NICE man; something you don’t find in actors these days. But he didn’t live in Hollywood, so that may have made the difference.
However, my last trip to the range, to exercise the six magazines I now have for the S&W 4586, brought its own small reward when it came time to police my brass.
Not only did I recover most of my 50 empty cases, but some kind shooter left his empty brass behind, along with a nickel, too. Neatness has its occasional reward. :)
And after discovering rusted, compressed springs in my 1975-vintage S&W66, I've keep a keen eye out for spring condition in the 4586. No rusted ones yet, but some may be a little bit weak. The two original magazine springs have visible "issues", although both worked properly the one time I used them. I'm not pressing my luck, though.
The original spring, which has some sort of yellow coating on it, seems, to my untrained eye, to be just a tad shorter than an OEM spring out of a new magazine. All I can figure out, consistent with this weapon being basically unfired since it was bought around 1990, is that the owner loaded the two magazines once, and never touched anything again until it was time to sell it. All six mags now have Wolff +5% springs, leaving me with four spare new OEM springs, and two "examples" for conversational purposes.
That convinced me to buy the complete Wolff spring replacement package.I've replaced all the easy-to-access springs already, and I'll get to the others in the course of teardown and tuning. For grins, I replaced the original recoil spring with a Wolff factory-standard 17 pound duplicate. The slide and serrations are so slippery, I couldn't retract the slide unless I wore a leather glove for more traction. I put on a Wolff known-16-pound spring, and slide retraction and overall operation went back to what I had originally. So either the original "standard" spring lost a pound of compression, or specs have changed over the time without warning.
I'm starting to see more of these minor mysteries in this handgun. The basic series was wildly popular as a cop gun in those days, although I think this particular sub-model wasn't seen much. It was, and still is, massively overengineerd and overbuilt, yet it weighs within one ounce of the standard M1911. It was so overbuilt, it was offered in 10mm, too, and the .45ACP could be easily converted to something called .45 Magnum, along with other odd calibers.
Along the way, there were -1 and -2 engineering changes, although I haven't found out what they entailed. And plenty of minor changes that were probably never documented beyond S&W's internal needs.
I was slightly turned off by the cosmetic appearance of the recoil spring guide, which, for something supposedly unfired, looks like it was dragged down 20 miles of gravel road. I spent all of $8 on a current factory relacement, and discovered the original was a hollow aluminum tube, while the new one is a stainless steel tube. The old one weighed .4 ounce, the new one, 1.2 ounces. Not earth-shattering, but I wasn't expecting aluminum in that particular application.
The S&W 45x6 series was well-liked for its solid (heavy) feel, good accuracy, and about the best SA/DA trigger pull on American auoloaders of that era.
I like mine for the same reason, which is why I'm doing a thorough check and overhaul as I bring it in from the pasture, and get it in shape as a working handgun, again. I have a project in mind where the 4586's exact set of features is a perfect match.
You can't keep a good weapon down, but when it comes to springs over ten years old, "trust but verify". After a certain spring age, just buy new, all around. Especially those tricksey magazine springs.
RIP Ernest Borgnine.
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