Over the weekend, I ordered a set of Altamont RB boot grips, rosewood, Smith medallions. Around $61 delivered. UPS says I should have them by Friday. My $28 Bianchi Accumold duty holster arrived yesterday from Optics Planet. I'll be stylin' old-school by the end of the month.
I'm very happy with my Bud's purchase!
I sanded down the grips and restained them and have a holster to wear at my house in NC. I purchased this gun solely for snake shooting in NC, but it handles so good I might consider another S&W revolver in the future.
Firemanjones.. That's how it starts.. With one. Soon you'll have 2. When you go for #3 its all over. You will be in full blown addiction by then And 1will become 21!
The Aussie's as well as many European countries (including the U.K.) reverse the month and day when writing the date shorthand.
I use to work for a U.S. subsidiary for an Australian company and it would drive me crazy. The only thing worse was the fact that every document they e-mailed was sized for A4 paper.
My latest VPA Model 10 arrived today. This one's a 10-11 dating to 1999. A bit of a surprise as my last VPA was a 10-5 from 1975.
This is my first MIM Model 10. I know the purists will cringe, but the lockwork is smooth as warm butter and I have never had MIM part fail. Its a working gun, not a safe queen.
Came to me in a plain brown M&P 40 box. Wearing the nastiest rubber grips I've ever seen. Took them off in the store and threw them away then and there.
Overall condition is very servicable. Usual character marks and holster rubs. Couple light rust spots under the rubbers.
Getting it home, first order of business (after imaging) was to remove the sideplate and give everything the obligatory KROIL soakdown. Inner workings were pristine as was the bore. The rust spots cleaned off completely with bronze wool after the KROIL soak.
And 1will become 21!
