07-01-2020, 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by kraynky
The 3913NL was the sharpest semi-auto I'd ever seen when it started covering full page ads in the gun rags of the early '90s. I think it might still be! It was a lot of years before I finally found one LNIB,..... something like 30!
I cleaned it (didn't need to), lubed it and hit the range. I think I had admired them for so long, I was expecting a laser ��. It shot fine really, I held it in such high regard that I was crestfallen to see the slide marring frame!
I carried it a bit, and couldn't stand to come home each day & see the gun saturated in sweat & dust bunnies. I felt like I was doing it harm buy using it like I should, so I ended up cleaning it back up and selling it for what I had in it. In reality, it must have been my first alloy frame, steel slide pistol, and I didn't know to grease it a little and that it would settle down and mate together just fine.
I'm still infatuated by their looks, and I'm going to find both a 3913 and a 3914 NL, and just enjoy them. They are sexy guns, its a fact. Congratulations!
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Best of luck in your hunt! You'll find them. The frame/slide wear is kind of like flame cutting on a revolver...unavoidable but self limiting.
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