Recent content by rgalloway

Thanks. Truly. I'm starting to collect ... once again. Most of the guns, almost all the good ones, went to pay for everything that insurance didn't, after the bank accounts and 401ks ran out. Only Smith I own now is the 4586. Only because it was totally apart being polished and had...

Didn't mean to be ... a drive by poster. Some bad stuff happened. Wife's ovarian cancer, her chemo each week, then finally her death after 34 yrs of marriage. :( It all kept me away from shooting, guns and talking about guns. As you can see by this cut and paste below. >Welcome...

The hard way. Seriously, I'm using a old t-shirt and Mother's Mag polish. Taking too many 'breaks' due to my hands aren't used to this. :( Do you know a better way? Faster and easier? Besides paying someone else to do it? Love to learn of it.

Thanks. For the welcome for VA and IL. Isn't Elgin in IL? That's where the pistol from. Elgin PD.

Answer Oh OK. I was going to do a before and after post later. Well ... here is the before. http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee495/rgalloway1/SW45861.jpg http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee495/rgalloway1/SW45862.jpg You'll just have to wait on the after, as I'm still polishing.:)

Hi. Just another new S&W owner. Always owned Smith revolvers, now I own a 4586 auto too. Just another one of those LEO trade-ins. Good lord, factory DAO is way past my 10lb trigger pull scale. Had fired a friend's 4566 and it's double action wasn't *that* much! Oh well, we'll see what a new...