Recent content by PDX1953

A couple of my grand-nephews (ages 12 & 16) are usually happy to cut the lawn. There isn't a lot of it but they & their siblings are being raised to work hard & they do. I have a physical disability that affects my balance & the 16 year old helped me for about 5 hours one day. I gave him $40 &...

Welcome from the soon-to-be-rainy McMinnville, OR.

Thanks for fixing that - makes me more nuts than I already am. Now I need to flip these or find someone who'll exchange labor and/or carpentry & wiring. I'm either going to buy a cargo trailer & turn it into a semi-stealth RV or have a small (14') toy hauler customized to my needs. I'm sick of...

I remember reading that a few years ago. My Dad bought a sporterized one in about '65 to go deer hunting with his friends. He never hunted with it again & when I was in my late teens my buddy & I would buy surplus ammo for a nickel - armor piercing rounds were 7 cents. My Nephew has it & when I...

So I passed on the long guns but picked up a 1913 H&R .32 Self Loading pistol in amazing condition, a BNIB Model 103 Hi Standard Sport King from approx. 1963, a 1915 Mauser HSc that's so beat I didn't take its picture and a Colt Trooper pre-MK series. When I pointed out a couple of small grey...

Thanks. In doing a little (very little) research on the H&R I thought I read it was originally a Webley design & licensed to H&R. But I could be incorrect & I'd hate to be incorrect for the first time in 2017 on the last day of the year.

Thanks for that. If I understand you correctly there wouldn't be any real profit if purchased at $800 & flipped. Probably do better with the Trooper & the H&R. Funny thing is, I almost never sell any guns - just collect them.

Can you tell me what was modified?

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I think I need to get to wherever you are. Sounds like I could double my $$ pretty quick.

I'm planning on buying the M-1, the Colt, the H&R & the Hi-Standard. Ironically I get a sizeable inheritance check next week but have other plans for a big hunk of the money. I already have two safes bulging at the seams & a custom 2011 pistol in the works. I own quite a few safe queens that I...

I don't hate cats but wouldn't want one to own me. The song I hate the most? When I lived in CT my Admin Assistant was Puerto Rican & couldn't get enough of Jose Feliciano singing "Feliz Navidad." It became a yearly Christmas ritual of me yelling, "Turn that off!" but it was all in good fun.

I'm meeting a seller tomorrow (150 miles away) & have agreed to buy an ANIB or maybe BNIB Hi-Standard Sport King for $300. That might be top dollar but the first pistol I owned when I was 18 was a Sport King & I traded a 12" B&W TV with the channel knob broken off. You needed pliers to change...

Thanks for the correction / clarification. The gentleman I bought my 4" from had a Partridge style gold bead sight installed. I bought a couple of OEM .125" sights & will have a local gunsmith narrow each side so the blade will be period-correct .100".

Ooooh - a 3". That's a whole new ball game. I think I read somewhere that the plain clothes Customs Inspectors carried those. The link is from 2012 but you may have uncovered a unicorn. http://smith-wessonforum.com/s-w-revolvers-1980-present/228252-s-w-model-686-3-inch-cs1.html They're also...