Wow! Looks brand new! I'm learning so much reading your Trainwreck series.
HomeSmith Trainwreck: The Tetanus Special
- Thread starter Shotguncoach
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OP
TS2 made it's first range trip today and passed all tests with flying colors.
Here's 18 rounds double action from 7 yards at roughly a 1/2 second cadence:
I also took along Project 10-3 Fifty Seven and a Model 19 that I've been working on......mostly because I wanted to compare the finishes under natural light. The two fixed sight guns are home rust blued, the Model 19 that still has the factory finish. The factory finish is shinier and mine are more of a matte blue. (All 3 guns had been fired quite a bit before I took this picture)
All 3 are fun to shoot with .38's, and all 3 are rather snappy with full power .357 loads. Of the three, I have to say that the rounded off square butt target stocks are the most comfortable to shoot.
I think we'll call Tetanus Special #2 complete and start looking for #3.....
Here's 18 rounds double action from 7 yards at roughly a 1/2 second cadence:
I also took along Project 10-3 Fifty Seven and a Model 19 that I've been working on......mostly because I wanted to compare the finishes under natural light. The two fixed sight guns are home rust blued, the Model 19 that still has the factory finish. The factory finish is shinier and mine are more of a matte blue. (All 3 guns had been fired quite a bit before I took this picture)
All 3 are fun to shoot with .38's, and all 3 are rather snappy with full power .357 loads. Of the three, I have to say that the rounded off square butt target stocks are the most comfortable to shoot.
I think we'll call Tetanus Special #2 complete and start looking for #3.....
I want to thank you for posting all this. Though I've been buying, selling, and using guns for almost 60 years, I have been unfamiliar with work like this. Would I attempt it? No! I have too little patience. I have thoroughly enjoyed following all your work. I hope you will continue to share with us. Thank you again.
Cotis
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Allright, I have had enough of you and these target photos You need to quit shooting so accurately, you are giving the rest of us a bad name (or at least a small complex).
I'd love to have one of Shotguncoach's rebuilds. A true master of his skill.
OP
I greatly appreciate the compliments - thank you. I've only been doing this for 18 months and still consider myself an apprentice. These are still practice/learning projects and each one teaches me something new. I will admit that they are turning out much better now than when I began.
Someday I would like to start doing this "for real".
I have no ambition to become a general purpose gunsmith and spend the rest of my life installing red dots from Amazon on Mosins. (What do a beginning gunsmith and a medium pizza have in common? Neither one can feed a family of four.) I like to work on Smiths, Rugers, and 1911's and that's about it. I'll never be another Nelson Ford, Bill Davis, Ron Power, or Hamilton Bowen. I'm hoping to be able to retire from my real job in 3-4 years and make a little money on the side buying other people's junk and turning it into not-junk and maybe (just maybe) if I get good enough, do restorations and mild custom work for other people.
In the meantime I'll keep chugging along learning as I go. When I think my work is good enough to start selling the projects, this group will be the first to know. I need to have a conversation with Lee first though....when I start selling, the HomeSmith posts could be considered to be "advertising" and I want to make sure he's cool with that.
