Recent content by fishhawk

Where in mass? Very interested, cash in hand.

I will take this pending FFL verification as per pm.

I got mine directly from Apex. They ship very quickly. Price was also the cheapest, from my searches anyway.

Would like to see that 659 with wood grips. I have a 659 and put the pachmayr rubber grips on it and it doesnt look quite right. And it is also kinda fat now. Wood could be a good option. I agree that wood does look nice on stainless. Congrats on the 4006, I got one just like yours. I love this...

I forgot to mention that I didnt sell mine because of any problems with the pistol. I mostly sold it to fund another purchase and mainly sold it due to the high cost of factory ammo. If you dont reload it can get very expensive to shoot. Around here 30 bucks for 50 rounds was cheap. Specialty...

Never heard anything bad about any of the Smith 10mm's. They are built like tanks is what i hear most. I owned a 1006. It was an excellent shooting firearm. It really tamed the 10mm round but that was with the current manufacture stuff. Double Tap makes "real" 10mm though. Never tried it with...

Got the 659 all sorted out. I replaced the recoil spring and extractor spring and now the pistol runs like a champ. Thanks for the help S&W forum.

I used a Dewalt twin stack. Its not big but did the job just fine. When the compressor was refilling i just stopped blasting. Mine fills up really quick so i was finished pretty fast. If you try to do the bead blast finish just maybe practice on a piece of steel to get the hang of it. I didnt...

Not much beyond that. Detail strip.....no real need to clean before blasting(i didnt) I tried to position the parts in such a way that i could blast all sides without the need to move anything to much. It was so easy i surprised myself. I blasted then looked at the parts then once i got going i...

Harbor freight had three different models and i went middle of the road. It was 15 bucks and if i only do just the one gun it has already paid for itself. I do got one more gun i am gonna do....a 4006.

How durable would the fingernail polish be? I was wondering how i was gonna get that red dot painted again.

yep.....I took it all apart, blasted, cleaned and put it all back together. You are absolutely right about media getting everywhwere. Gun is still slick as snot.

I just did a beadblast refinish on my new to me 659 and it came out mint, was SUPER easy to do and only cost me 25 bucks in materials including media and sprayer. It took longer to clean then it did to blast. Ten minutes blasting and half hour cleaning and i was able to erase 20 plus years of...

I got the Ruger 454 and had a PC 500 hunter and for me the 454 recoils more but the 500 was a huge gun. My 325 pd with wood Ahrends was the most "unpleasant" shooting gun I've fired. I dont even want to begin to think how bad a 329PD would be with full house loads.....OUCH!

Went to numrich and got an extractor spring and also ordered a new recoil spring. Hope that fixes my problem. Only issue i was having was FTE so I'll start there. Thanks for the info. I was able to find the spring kit from wolff. Only 15 bucks and comes with every spring the gun uses.