Posted on 01/03/2008 6:35:58 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
mine?
er, that should be “since last month”...my head was in the clouds for a minute there
14 seconds... fargin’ dial-up...
That’s why I dumped dial-up back in 04.
Yeah...that’s ‘cause it’s too hot there. ;-)
"Ugly" like what? Does your second toe sit atop your big toe? My mother had toes like that, and one of my cousins has inherited them. Never stopped either from wearing samdals, although they couldn't wear just any style.
"Piled toes" are why the shoe designers made "peep-toe" sling-backs!
"GB" is best translated in English as "gas braked". The barrel is permanently attached to the frame, and the slide ain't locked to nothin'. Yet it fires all sorts of 9mm ammo, and is quite pleasant to shoot. Add in a 18-round magazine, and you almost had the standard Austrian service pistol, except Gaston Glock came by and spoiled everything.
Here's how it looks, LNIB, complete with all the paperwork, and the 10 meter test target, dated August 1982. Production stopped in 1984, about the time the Glock appeared. As you can see from the "good ol' days", packaging did not have to be as up-armored as is the case for today's handguns sold on the American market. Just a cardboard box, and a green flocked plastic tray with some nice cleaning gear. I've also seen pictures of the tray in red.
With the slide retracted, the recoil spring guide is a tip-off. It's both a spring guide, and an exhaust pipe.
When field stripped, the barrel, hard-chromed inside and out, is the big tipoff. I put a drill bit through the hole that goes right through the barrel of what is, for all intents and purposes, a fixed piston with a moving cylinder surrounding it.
The "piston" seals up the front barrel bushing/gas plug, creating something like a gas-filled shock absorber. A tiny hole in the spring guide/exhaust pipe bleeds the gas forward out of the weapon. This is a gas-retarded blowback design. The more pressure the round develops, the more cushioning in the gas "cylinder". There's hot gas inside and outside the barrel, hence the hard chrome all around.
The gun is pleasant to shoot, and Steyr advertised that it could even safely handle high-pressure SMG ammo. The fixed barrel and hammer-forged polygon rifling makes it pretty accurate, as the test target shows.
It's not apparent at first, but the frame is stamped sheet metal. The seams are ground down, the frame was parkerized, and then given a crinkle finish. The trigger guard bow is plastic. I've had it for 25 years, and didn't notice that until tonight. Of course, I put one box of ammo through it, cleaned it, and (unintentionally) let it increase in value as an oddball collector's item. Asking price, for the few seen on Gun Broker, is in the $1000 range.
The overall design in that of a standard DA/SA autoloader with a hammer drop, rather than a safety. It's an ingenious but practical design, and could have had a lot going for it, except Gaston Glock came by and ate a lot of people's lunches.
I LOVE the look of those shoes, but I just can’t wear them. My feets are just WAY too wide across the area just behind my toes.
wow... Styer Selbstladepistole... looks pretty sweet... at first glance, I think I prefer it to the Glock...
err... Steyr Selbstladepistole...
Morning ALL - That’s a darn interesting weaponry you have there. Don’t recall seeing one. Very nice lines, appears to have a comfortable grip, good looking sidearm. Thanks.
And then came Glock...
Morning OT, take yer mittens when you go for your walk. We took gypsy about 8:00, brisky with very, very light snow. When we got home we checked the calendar, yup, it’s mid-April alright. How was therace last night.
Therace was okay....Junior finished in the top ten. Dunno if I like these night races, though. I keep falling asleep in th e middle.
Yep. Flurries here too. I’m seeing some sprouting action on the peas and the arugula. Guess I need to put up the bunny fence before they’re discovered. Bunny fence around the asparagus seems to be unbreached so far.
I think most of Glock's homeliness comes from that square slide. The grip portion is actually very comfy, and fits me well.
Yup, know what you mean. The 9 pm time slot is getting late for us too. That’s why I’m glad the Fox newz comes on at 9.
Going out to harvest up some dafodils whilst I can. Doubt there will be many left on the morrow.
Heh, all in all, Glock makes a fine firearm, it certainly has its share of the market sewed up tight. I like them.
The Glock 19 is about the right size for all around use and carrying. The grip doesn’t suit me without the magazine base adaptor that fills in the magazine cutout. With that part in place, it runs like a champ.
The 17/22 or the 21 is a fine full size sidearm and the 26/23 frame size is perfect for a BUG, imo.
Glocks... you either love ‘em or hate ‘em...
I don’t have one... what does that tell you?...
Well, I’m back. Tryin’ to find out where I left muh life...
I’ll be blogging about the trip later. Gonna do a series of posts on different aspects. Freepmail me if you don’t have the blog address. I’d rather not post it here.
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