Recent content by msinc

Yeah, you really gotta get a Model 27......here is one of mine. I Know the grips aren't right...I have the ones that came with it, but these fit my hand.

Thank you sir, I am glad I was able to help. I have used every brand of cold blue out there over the years and Brownell's Oxpho Blue or Blue Wonder seem like to me they work the best. I have a hot blue tank and also Parkerize. Lighter fluid is also a very good cleaner/degreaser for cosmoline...

The only thing I would add is that I have found ordinary lighter fluid to be a very good "degreaser". Use a white rag and keep applying and wiping with a fresh spot on the rag until you don't get anymore color, then it's pretty clean and degreased. Degreasing properly and a little heat is the...

Here is my two "mountain guns"....carry one every time I go to my cabin in the mountains.....

I had a "Mountain Gun" once...it was a 629. I wasn't long selling it. Not that I don't like the gun, it just didn't do anything for me {well actually it put a couple hundred bucks in my pocket}. What makes a 27-2 with a 3 1/2" barrel not a mountain gun???? The fact is if you want to sell...

I have an 8 3/8" nickel that is unfired...it even came with the distributors box. I just acquired a 3 1/2" blued one with the presentation case. It is all but unfired. I had a 4 inch blued and a 5" nickel but sold those. Not sure which one I would keep if I could only have one....probably the 3...

Anyone remember that stupid rumor about Joan Jett being the result of one of the "Brady Bunch" boys undergoing a sex change to become Joan????......wait.....that was just a rumor right????

Many moons ago it was believed that stainless alloy barrels would not shoot out as quick as steel in the higher velocity calibers...who can forget the old Model 70 in 220 Swift?? Winchester copper plated the stainless barrel so they could blue it. We know today that stainless alloy barrels don't...

If $4000.00 is the going rate to install....some folks owe me a lot of money. Most units are around $1500.00. $2500 to screw one to the wall and plumb 5 lines to it don't quite seem right....but I wish it was.

Once upon a time I worked for 14 years at one of those contractors...I couldn't stand it. Thankfully, they weren't my primary source of income so I retired early. We had this project manager that {absolutely no B.S.} showed up about 2 days a month!!! He was a 90K a year man. The company makes...

"You need 110 for the controls of a gas unit. That's one downside. No power, no hot water." Well, not exactly, depends on the unit you have.... Nope, not at all...a single 15 amp 120 volt circuit is all. They even have them now that can use 12 volts to power the controller {solar???}. Some...

Must be something about those bear in Virginia...I have a cabin in Natural Bridge, up in the Jefferson National Forest. They trash my cameras. I had to buy steel "bear boxes" for them and they still rip them off the trees. I don't know what the bears think that camera is, but it is the first...

I look at things a little different than the rest of the world I guess...that makes me odd man out many times. At least the kid is working, and at his age and station in life he no doubt would rather be elsewhere. But he's not, he is right there putting in time. I have a lot of respect for...

If it is a 32 caliber it's a 1903...the 1908 was a 380. Neat guns, I have one of each. They are terribly hard to completely disassemble and put back together. I will say one thing about John Moses Browning, based on the sights that were on the pistols he designed...the cat had some good eyesight!!!!

I carry a Buck 119 mostly...probably way too big, but I've had it forever and just cant give it up. I also have a Buck 105 that was my first real hunting knife. Makes a lot more sense than the 119, but I just don't carry it as much.