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08-11-2017, 01:54 PM
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Watch her and drive her nuts.. LOL!
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So much for my introspective soul-searching and my cry out for help against an ever more plastic world after a night of no sleep.
Heck, maybe bird watching isn't so bad after all.
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08-11-2017, 02:09 PM
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I agree that is a shame that gun smithing skills are going, going, gone. What with plastic, CNC machining, and Mim parts, it's a lost art.
RE: bird watching, it's probably safer too.
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08-11-2017, 02:18 PM
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I agree that is a shame that gun smithing skills are going, going, gone. What with plastic, CNC machining, and Mim parts, it's a lost art.
RE: bird watching, it's probably safer too.
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Well, I don't know about that. Seems that I must have disturbed some field sparrow nests when I was out bush-hogging my new retirement property and they were not very pleased about that. They were attacking me and my tractor like a scene out of Hitchcock's "The Birds"! It was kind of freaky for a while until I shut down the tractor and took cover.
And I'm supposed to go seek out and watch these things for pleasure once I stop gun collecting???
I'm not so sure that's such a great idea.
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08-11-2017, 02:27 PM
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Stare at your wife long enough, and it will be her with a rolling pin. Take your pick..
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08-11-2017, 03:02 PM
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Stare at your wife long enough, and it will be her with a rolling pin. Take your pick..
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Then bird watching it will be!
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08-22-2017, 12:07 AM
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I have a 6906 and a 6946. Both LE trade-ins, well used but not abused.
My next would be a 39xx or a CS9. Too scarce around here to be too picky.
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12-24-2017, 02:19 PM
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9s' and 40s' shooter grade. If it looks new and has the box,I don't want it. None of mine will ever be put away and not used. I reload and enjoy shooting. My most valuable piece is a M610 10mm revolver and it gets used. Why buy/acquire something and not use it !!!
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12-24-2017, 02:43 PM
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One needn't question other's goals and styles simply to prop up their own ideas. I would hazard a guess that I reload and shoot at a volume comparable or exceeding yours, but I absolutely have a place in my life (and my safe) for a few pristine examples of new or nearly new/mint guns, original boxes, etc.
In years of gun forum discussions, I've found that the "I would never own but not shoot, guns are meant to ne shot, safe queens suck!" crowd to always slam down their angle as if everyone else has lost their mind.
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12-24-2017, 03:21 PM
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I never questioned other's goals. Without those safe guns,they wouldn't be around to learn about and admire.
Nowhere in my post did I imply 'safe queens suck' and 'everyone else has lost their mind'.
And you probably do shoot more than me.
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12-25-2017, 06:22 PM
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A CS40 to convert to 10mm
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That idea has me intrigued as well.
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12-26-2017, 04:32 PM
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For me, quite possibly THE rarest of the rare, a 1046.
Like someone once posted somewhere, there'd be sign up in my yard, offering up a kidney so fast your head would spin.
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12-27-2017, 02:52 PM
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one plain jane 5906, square triggerguard, fixed sights either the old style or Novak. no mim parts. yes, i know, not so exotic as many of what has been mentioned, but yet, on this side of the Atlantic, they are very very rare. until then, my 5904 will do.
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12-30-2017, 02:36 AM
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I want two, a 3913 and a pretty 6906. I have a rough 6906 now, but it had a hard police carry life and the anodizing on the frame is pretty messed up, and it has a couple of deep scratches on the slide that can't be missed. I've thought about having it NP3'ed, but i don't know..
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3914NL would fill the last hole in my blue 9mm 39 39x and 39xy collection. ( sans any special run variants like Lew Horton or TSWs)
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