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10-29-2018, 07:58 PM
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My condolences on the loss of your friend FastBolt.
I hope you have at least another 30 years of shooting and enjoying guns FastBolt!
I learn something new everytime you post. Yes, I think you writing a book is an EXCELLENT idea! Best regards, 18DAI
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Thanks. Same gentleman I mentioned over in the other forum, within the last couple of months. I still think of him almost everyday, though, especially when I'm at (or pass) my bench.
While I appreciate your enthusiasm for writing a book about gun maintenance and repair, it's really something that ought to be written by someone who is an actual gunsmith, and not just some factory-trained armorer/cobbler.
Besides, my writing projects are more involved in addressing my martial arts experience and a bit of firearms training experiences. Believe it or not, just yesterday I got the sudden urge to write 4 more pages of poetry involving some aspects of my arts. I haven't done that since the late 90's, I think. (Some things are best approached and addressed in verse, rather than narrative text. Probably wouldn't work quite as well for firearms training & maintenance, though. )
I've got some 1400-odd pages of assorted stuff on those 2 topics I wrote and put away toward the end of the 90's. The only exposure they've seen was when a friend coaxed me into letting him publish them in some group newsletter he self-published back then. One of those New Age journals, so it's not like it would've likely been seen by anyone here.
I remember when I sometimes helped him at his vendor booth at some Expo's and conferences, and he asked about my martial arts background. he was a bit uncomfortable with how easily someone could train to create violence ... but at least he stopped wincing when he suddenly hugged me and felt my belt gun. I used to ask me why I'd ever feel the need to carry a weapon at a New Age type expo, to which I'd ask if he'd ever taken a close look around at the assorted people who actually appeared and walked around at them?
I obviously share your hope of another 30 years, but then I also remember hearing my oncologist tell me that it was her job to try and give me another 25-30 years of a good life ... except that was 8 years ago. Time flies. I'm really starting to feel my age when I run headlong into an example of how the flexibility in my legs is diminished from my grasshopper days of 40 years ago. Damn, right?
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10-29-2018, 08:04 PM
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Roger that my friend! Best regards 18DAI
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10-29-2018, 08:55 PM
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I still have my two-week local armorer's school manual from a long time ago, but it wouldn't hurt to get a few Kuhnhausens on Smiths.
Not physical skills to pass down, but better than nothing.
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10-29-2018, 09:28 PM
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Also email back from S&W saying they no longer sell those mags, but they would be very happy to sell me some muffs at 20% off.
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Are those 9mm muffs?
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10-30-2018, 01:31 AM
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Not specified, coulda been.
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10-30-2018, 04:16 PM
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I hope that I don't get flamed for this...but if you finely polish the V-notch in the draw bar and slightly round and polish the sharp engagement surface on the trigger you will NOT need a new draw bar spring to eliminate the "click"..the trigger engagement will smoothly slide right down into the V-notch..However this is more difficult than just replacing the spring...
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11-05-2018, 07:46 PM
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I’m doing my level best to absorb the bountiful technical knowledge available on this forum. However, sometimes that absorption is at odds with the “Oldtimers” that afflicted my ancestors. I read all the posts on this thread and even made a comment or two. Fast forward to this afternoon.
Another forum member and I are shooting and I pull out my new to me CS45. He gets the honor of running the first magazine and then I take my turn. After the first shot, I ask him, “What the * is that click?”
He reminds me of this thread and says, “Yes, it’s THAT click”. He bent the spring and resolved the issue for me. But, I guess I’ll be ordering springs, rivets, files and Valium.
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11-05-2018, 08:11 PM
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You generally only notice it if you're going slow and doing slow-fire target shooting/plinking, trying to "sneak up" on the trigger break during a slow press.
Running the gun at speed, concentrating on maintaining controllability and sight alignment for accurate shot strings, is usually a bit different.
Even the lack of a trigger play spring (with the attendant bit of "trigger slop" in SA) typically isn't noticed by someone running the gun in a real shooting incident, or simulating real shooting conditions, and using a solid trigger technique.
For example, I once decided to do a bit extra drill work than normal over the course of working 2 consecutive range sessions, using one of my issued guns, an early production 6906. (For quite a while I had a couple of issued guns, being compact and full-size.) I fired a bit more than 800rds during those 2 sessions, without cleaning the gun or inspecting it. It ran like a top and delivered its usual accuracy, reliability and ammo tolerance.
At the end of the second day I decided to clean the gun and give it a once-over. I was mildly surprised when I discovered that the trigger play spring (the old style) was broken off, meaning both sides/leafs were missing, with only the riveted base still present. I had no idea at what point during those 2 days that the spring had decided to part company with the drawbar, but then I'd been a LOT of shooting and hadn't especially been using "kid gloves" when briskly manipulating the trigger press in either DA or SA. (Since I shoot for defensive purpose I shoot to trigger recovery, not trigger reset, whether the gun is DA, SA or DAO-ish - which has long been how we were required to teach, for liability concerns when our people might be using guns in high stress situations in public.)
I replaced the spring, of course, because that was how our guns were maintained.
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