Maybe 25 years ago, back when Gun Shows were really worth walking thru, happened to pick up this Randall knife. Never have worn it, or actually used it, it just seemed like a really handsome knife. I can't recall what I paid for it, and have given it to my son like most of my other blades. I also can't recall what the "name" of this particular knife is.
About a decade ago, was at a LGS, and a good friend, an IDPA shooting buddy, suggested I look over a TRP newly placed in their used gun case. I happen to like 1911 pistols, and speaking with the counter chap, also a friend for years, he told that someone had bought it, but "...didn't have the tools to shoot it." Came home with me, with case and manual and such.
Springfields are/were sighted to shoot at the 6 o'clock on the bull, and I like my pistols to shoot precisely to my point of aim. So sent it to Dawson for a new front sight. Then took the pistol about north 50 miles north of Charlotte to a respected "race gun" builder, who disassembled the TRP on his workbench, and then picked up his tools and files and in about an hour put it all back together and handed it to me and said "...lets go out back and shoot it."
It already was a smooth, silky pistol, but after his work bench, it was just a new pistol. It handles all my reloads perfectly, and when I sometimes think about a full-on custom 1911, I just remind myself that my TRP really is just that now. TRP's are just big, heavy, beastly guns.
So, a pic of the two on a rock in my back yard.
All the best.... NAM VET