Recent content by desi2358

Quality control seems to have been an issue for just about all ammo manufacturers for some time now. During the years I was active in the business we ran the gun show circuit and our main money maker was ammo. We sold a lot of ammo and over that time I collected far too many defective rounds...

Marking a surplus rifle, especially a sporterized one, is a good idea, I've run across several over the years that the person who ended up with it had no idea what it was chambered for. And several of them turned out not to be what they were originally built as! As to the original military...

I have a couple gun rugs like that one. Bought several of them from a vendor when we were doing gun shows in Virginia a few years ago. Don't know who made them but they came in a couple different sizes, would hold a variety of different handguns.

I tend to suspect that many of the rusted examples were fired by people who didn't understand the importance of cleaning a gun. Sadly, a lot of people just don't get this, then or now. I used to get people bringing guns into the shop which were victims of this mindset too darn often. Muzzle...

Great post, some people are completely clueless about the real world. Ohio has plenty of deer and collisions with vehicles is way too common. I agree with the poster who said they must just randomly put up those "deer crossing" signs. Rarely see a dead deer near one of those signs LOL. Plenty of...

Many years ago, shortly after buying this house I planted two willow trees in front of the house by the road. Don't recall what kind of willow they were but remember the info tags said they would grow to @ 20 ft. The soil must have been extra good for them because both grew closer to 30 ft. tall...

If I recall correctly a couple other manufacturers offered built in locks (probably due to concern over possible government regulations). The ones I remember where in the grip and locked the mainspring. I believe Taurus and Charter had these though it's been years since I saw one so my memory of...

Style is similar to the popular British Bulldog revolvers of the late 100's. Many were actually made in Belgium. The manual safety was most popular on the continent, especially on guns made for sale in central Europe IIRC. It should have proof marks on it, often found on the front or rear of the...

Our house still had this type of wiring when we bought it back in 1992. The only new wiring was in the kitchen which had been updated at some time. First thing we did after closing on the house was get with an electrician I knew and rewired the entire house. Still have a number of the old...

Both look decent from these pics though it would be better if they were a bit sharper. I'm sure some of the real experts can give you more info. The S/42 is a Mauser made Luger. Matching numbers can make a big difference in value to both of these guns.

You're quite correct, the tappet system works and your method for cleaning one is the same I've used. It worked even with some of the fake LC Chinese stuff that was imported years ago and was found to be corrosive. Some people do refer to the tappet as a piston, I've encountered more than a few...

Okay, you got me.............. Except it was fifth gear on a 95 Wrangler. Couldn't get the part at the time so put it back together and just drove with four gears LOL!

It's funny, this stuff was super cheap when it was imported and I bought quite a bit of it. At that time there were also quite a few soviet bloc training rifles being imported as surplus and that was what I shot most of it up in. Never had any problems in those guns and it was decently accurate...

During the years I worked as a gun dealer I had to send back a fair number of guns for customers as well as some we found defective before they were even put out for sale. These involved just about every manufacturer at one time or another. The problems seemed to get more common from @ 2008 on...

I've never had a problem with original military 15 round magazines and I used to shoot my carbines a lot. They are relatively thin steel but if you're not dropping them on the ground and stepping on them or throwing them against hard objects they seem to hold up pretty well. As to issues in...