Recent content by USMCbrat

I was thinking about doing that myself!

Nice! I'd like to see then when they are finished.

Recently I have gotten to know a guy at work who I found out is a gun guy and a re-loader. He told me about his father’s collection and told me that he was a Colt 1911 guy and that he had inherited a number of Colts and Smith from his Dad. He knew I have a pristine Colt 70 Series 1911 Gold Cup...

There are other post on this forum (I seem to recall) that shows the OSI markings ....but you would have do a search.

My Dad' was not offical as he wanted one of his own to keep after he retired. He bought this one a t a gun store outside of Langley AFB in VA which was his last posting before he retired. I beleive the offical one had a USAF OSI stamp of some kind.

One more from me….since this thread is not just S&W…. This was my Dads Springfield 45ACP on top of a book published in 1952 call “This is War”. That is my Dad with the cigarette helping out a buddy who died.

I’ll start. I have posted this pic before but here is my Dad’s USAF duty M36.

I really like the contrast between the maple and the blue!

I know what you mean, the target stocks make a gun with a 4" or less barrel look like the back end is bigger than the front end. But, I really dislike the way Hogues look on any gun. I am sure, if you look around, you can find some functional targets that are "lookers" too. Like Kurac's...

Was looking at one with an 8 inch tube yesterday...here in the Bay Area.

My Dad was a Marine Corps DI (hence my user name) and then when into the USAF for a total of 28 years. At the age of 8 years old he weaned me off of BB and pellet guns to a Colt 45 Government model. Over the years, he taught me to shoot all manner of firearms. He was my Hero as well as my...

Those are K frame grips. Some nice N frames will look better. Other than that, she looks good.

Today I attended the quarterly gun show at the Cow Palace in Daly City (close to SF). When ever I go, my goal is reloading supplies and I was able to pick up 3 lbs of powder because I waked in the door 5 min after they opened. There were no primers where I bought the powder but the guy said that...

Interesting .....in my missfires, there is a light dent. The ones that fire show a deep dent.