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Helping a fellow at work investigate his family heirloom - WB, 2024-12-07, 12:54
- European would have proof marks somewhere - jjones, 2024-12-11, 17:05
- We get a lot of older guns like that in the estates - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-07, 13:20

SIL wants a basic 1911. Questions for the Mifits - Dave H., 2024-12-07, 12:39
- 1911 - Tisas - Canhammer, 2024-12-09, 06:35
  - Thanks (nm) - Dave H., 2024-12-10, 16:32
- Owning a few "GI" models, I would recommend - Darryl T., 2024-12-08, 15:06
- Tisas and RIA are the best for the money (nm) - Kase Reeder, 2024-12-07, 19:33
  - basic 1911 - AlanT, 2024-12-08, 00:07
- Go with the Rock Island 1911. They give you - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-07, 12:56
- I cannot speak for all of them ... - Jim Taylor, 2024-12-07, 12:52
  - You can never have too many 1911s - Winnturner48, 2024-12-08, 15:23
    - If you look closely at the Filipino gun I posted - Jim Taylor, 2024-12-08, 16:26
      - I see that now. It's very subtle. - Winnturner48, 2024-12-09, 10:32
        
        Don't get me wrong. I like the beavertail ... - Jim Taylor, 2024-12-09, 13:12
        
        Sounds like a man that carries a Star PD (nm) - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-09, 13:46
        
        Guilty as charged! - Jim Taylor, 2024-12-09, 14:02

Can you put markings back on a Colt SAA - WB, 2024-12-07, 09:45
- I saw an old dog I was interested in. A reblue - WB, 2024-12-08, 14:54
  - When we restore a Colt revolver we put the - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-09, 11:55

.510 Southern Comfort - Canhammer, 2024-12-07, 07:03
- Do you have pictures of it along with the serial number. The - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-07, 13:29
  - 510 SC - Canhammer, 2024-12-08, 15:56
- We'll put out an APB, was it stainless? (nm) - WB, 2024-12-07, 09:46
  - 510 SC - Canhammer, 2024-12-08, 15:57

Kase, can you recommend a good .750 tunable gas block for an - SPB, 2024-12-06, 16:37
- I am really not a fan of adjustable gas blocks - Kase Reeder, 2024-12-06, 16:59
  - A friend was running a suppressor on his AR - WB, 2024-12-07, 09:49
    - Like this? Kase, your thoughts? - SPB, 2024-12-07, 11:10
      - Yeah, that’s what I helped fix his problem. - WB, 2024-12-07, 12:58
  - Great information! Many thanks, makes the decision easy (nm) - SPB, 2024-12-06, 19:14

I just heard from Dot Taffin - Jim Taylor, 2024-12-06, 16:27
- Great news (nm) - Dave H., 2024-12-07, 12:19
- Great news! (nm) - ChrisG, 2024-12-07, 07:41
- Good news Jim. Thank YOU LORD JESUS! (nm) - SPB, 2024-12-06, 16:33
  - AMEN (nm) - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-06, 16:35

Just got off the phone with James Swidrick, or - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-06, 16:03
- PS- Never knew you had a "fat" sister.. - JFS, 2024-12-06, 19:47
  - I never mentioned it when you were around - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-07, 13:32
- Gary, Could not agree any more with how you feel about - JFS, 2024-12-06, 19:45
  - They weren't the prima donas that many of the rock groups of - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-07, 13:36
    - Although the groupies that were around - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-07, 13:41

Another S&W we brought back to life - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-05, 12:36
- You are a magician! Well done, again! (nm) - SPB, 2024-12-06, 07:34
- The 38-44 was one of several that we had come in - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-05, 12:54
- Beautiful! A nice old gun. Well done! (nm) - Jim Taylor, 2024-12-05, 12:47
  - A couple of model 99s completely finished - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-05, 13:23
    - Beautiful work! The 99 is a favorite of mine. (nm) - JPL, 2024-12-06, 20:02
    - Looking back at my work order for the Savage, it - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-05, 15:15
      - That old Savage carbine was one I found - WB, 2024-12-05, 18:31
      - My education is quite lacking. - Jim Taylor, 2024-12-05, 16:25
        
        I've never picked up a fat blonde but that - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-05, 17:27
        
        Not even a fat blonde on a mule? Lol. (nm) - SPB, 2024-12-06, 07:33
        
        No, that would have been Andy Strauss - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-06, 11:07
        
        My wife will get a large chuckle at that comment!! (nm) - Andy S, 2024-12-06, 12:06
        
        While she has a knife at your throat (nm) - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-06, 12:52
        
        Oh, I see you've met her. (nm) - Andy S, 2024-12-06, 17:51
        
        AndyS wife - Andy S, 2024-12-06, 17:59

Maybe the most obnoxious handgun ctg. I’ve shot. - WB, 2024-12-05, 09:11
- What ctg is that WB ? 22 something (nm) - Derek, 2024-12-05, 18:32
  - .22-250 Improved! Quite violent. - WB, 2024-12-05, 20:29
    - That would really ruin a coyotes day lol (nm) - Derek, 2024-12-06, 16:39
    - 26" compared to 18" barrel - Sean Harper, 2024-12-06, 10:19
      - I also am a 22-250 Improved freak and have taken - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-06, 13:46
- OK I give. What the hell is a chamber brake? (nm) - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-05, 11:39
  - Expansion "chamber" before the gas exits. - WB, 2024-12-05, 14:06

Just in time for Christmas... - WB, 2024-12-05, 07:08

Skeeter Revolver Auction - Brian T, 2024-12-04, 17:38
- I hope to be able to watch that (nm) - ORG, 2024-12-05, 07:58
  - From a sociology standpoint it will be interesting - WB, 2024-12-05, 08:55
    - I believe your right about next gen not caring (nm) - JFS, 2024-12-05, 09:53
      - Like I said yesterday in one of my more negative - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-05, 11:55
        
        It's all good. - ORG, 2024-12-06, 06:52

There is a new gun on the market that is going to kick some - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-04, 16:53
- DY9 - FSimon, 2024-12-05, 14:01
  - No. I planned on doing it yesterday but by the - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-05, 15:52
    - DY9 - FSimon, 2024-12-05, 17:18
- Like a refined Glock, with some bugs addressed - WB, 2024-12-04, 20:42
  - Also made in their new US factory (nm) - Blake, 2024-12-05, 04:56

Gunsmithing question, firing pin theory - WB, 2024-12-04, 09:53
- Change or beef up the hammer spring. That should solve the - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-04, 15:09

What do you think it will bring? Keith's #5 was $80,500 1st - WB, 2024-12-04, 09:31
- I would be surprised if it brings $40,000. I - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-04, 15:30
  - I'd love to own it, but . . . - ORG, 2024-12-05, 08:05

This was interesting, look what they did to it. - WB, 2024-12-03, 15:23
- I hate to see crap like that. To teach a kid how - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-04, 15:39
  - I understand that view. It might be able to be re-built. (nm) - WB, 2024-12-05, 08:56
    - Apparently they did several guns like that - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-05, 12:01

Boy I can’t see anything anymore… - WB, 2024-12-03, 15:05

Some good news hopefully coming - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-02, 14:48

Good Arkansas Whitetail taken last week… - WB, 2024-12-02, 09:52
- That's a great one. I always cut off those - Darryl T., 2024-12-02, 13:14
- Yeah..that's a nice one! I'd be in that thick stuff - Derek, 2024-12-02, 10:58
- Oh yeah........... (nm) - JFS, 2024-12-02, 10:44

Interesting CCW trend... - WB, 2024-12-02, 09:26
- P365 with trench sights? - Dave H., 2024-12-03, 11:07
  - Kase said it was a dumb move on a decent pistol - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-04, 17:00
  - I did NOT like them myself. Nor the low profile - WB, 2024-12-03, 13:13
    - my only problem with the P365 is - jthomson, 2024-12-04, 08:43
      - The 1911 is a battle defense gun. An evolution - WB, 2024-12-04, 10:32

More BS about stopping a pissed off bear - Gary Reeder, 2024-11-30, 12:32
- Dangerous game bullet. - DinCA, 2024-12-01, 09:58
  - The bullet is called the DGH (dangerous game handgun). (nm) - DinCA, 2024-12-01, 10:38
    - Hornady DGH info - Bombero590, 2024-12-01, 12:23
- Years ago I was surprised at how many who write about such - Jim Taylor, 2024-11-30, 20:01
  - Killing a killer - Winnturner48, 2024-11-30, 21:52
    - I flew through Anchorage in 1966 - Jim Taylor, 2024-11-30, 21:55
      - I think it was-14ft square - Winnturner48, 2024-12-01, 13:55
      - This one? - Greg, 2024-12-01, 08:16
        
        It's been many years but I think so! - Jim Taylor, 2024-12-01, 08:19
        
        On one of my Canada hunts they had a huge Polar - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-02, 12:43
        
        I doubt if many of the "bear gun" internet people - JFS, 2024-12-01, 12:34
        
        Just like the article that I posted at the top of this - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-02, 12:47
        
        George in AK and I talked about it quite a bit. - WB, 2024-12-01, 15:45
        
        I went on my brown bear hunt in 1990 - Winnturner48, 2024-12-01, 15:42
        
        While in bear camp, I gathered all the guides - JFS, 2024-12-01, 17:21
        
        Great photo, fun idea. (nm) - WB, 2024-12-02, 08:31
        
        Kase and I did the same sorta. On one of our early - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-02, 16:21
        
        Gary, Always wanted to, but never got the chance, to hunt - JFS, 2024-12-03, 14:50
        
        I used one of my Auto Mags on 2 or 3 of the - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-04, 15:48

Al Goerg book - JFS, 2024-11-29, 11:58
- I saw that, did his son loose the rights to that book? - WB, 2024-11-29, 12:07
  - Back then there probably wasn't any reason to re-print the - Gary Reeder, 2024-11-29, 13:47
  - The family just didn't feel that there was enough - Gary Reeder, 2024-11-29, 13:44
    - The 2006 HHC was one I wish I attended... (nm) - JFS, 2024-11-29, 20:15
      - That had to be fantastic talking with his son.. - JFS, 2024-11-29, 20:17
        
        I only talked to one son, Jim. He in reality was not like - Gary Reeder, 2024-11-30, 12:36
        
        The younger Goerg gave the Misfits credit for bringing - Gary Reeder, 2024-11-30, 13:10
        
        I was telling John Taffin that I had been thinking - Gary Reeder, 2024-11-30, 15:19
        
        You should do it Gary. - Tfrick, 2024-12-03, 11:43
        
        By the way Goerg's book is full of hunt and gun pics. (nm) - Gary Reeder, 2024-11-30, 13:46
        
        Thanks Gary (nm) - JFS, 2024-12-01, 12:35
        
        You're welcome, whatever I did (nm) - Gary Reeder, 2024-12-02, 12:41

shotgun question - Brian T, 2024-11-28, 17:01
- Go with a shotgun choke installer and not a gunsmith - Gary Reeder, 2024-11-29, 10:48
- It typically costs about $125-150 to have that done - WB, 2024-11-28, 20:35
- Briley inc can usually do their thinwalls (nm) - jthomson, 2024-11-28, 18:44
  - I have a 870 with Colonial thin wall chokes - WB, 2024-11-29, 12:05
    - thanks to all for the info!!! (nm) - Brian T, 2024-11-29, 18:39

Then this O’l boy off the net. 875# hog? - WB, 2024-11-28, 09:48
- Those big hogs like that are covered with so much fat that - Gary Reeder, 2024-11-29, 10:52
  - The kid shot it several times with a 357 Marlin (nm) - Gary Reeder, 2024-11-29, 11:08
    - A .357 is pretty good but without solid cast - WB, 2024-11-29, 14:18
      - I don';t know what bullet the kid was using but several - Gary Reeder, 2024-11-30, 13:45
      - On one of my hunts in Alaska we hunted for big bears - Gary Reeder, 2024-11-30, 13:34
- Good grief - Greg, 2024-11-28, 16:10

For your amusement… - WB, 2024-11-28, 09:42
- how about an update on that wolf in - jthomson, 2024-11-28, 12:10
  - Been busy with work and medical stuff, haven’t shot it! - WB, 2024-11-28, 13:18
    - typical chocking in US in in .001 so it - jthomson, 2024-11-28, 14:34
      - also known as chokeing haahaha if you need that old red dot - jthomson, 2024-11-28, 14:36
        
        I bought about 1500 Fiocchi transparent milk white hulls - WB, 2024-11-29, 08:01

Happy TURKEY DAY!…. See attached - SPB, 2024-11-28, 07:26