Old Corp
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Yep, as you see my location, I happily live on the NC coast --->
Two weeks ago Hurricane Florence rocked our world, and is still continuing to do so. Wife and I were very fortunate and only suffered minor property damage at home and a bit of fence work will be needed at some property I have my range on a few miles away.
Finally getting caught up on clean-up chores and helping a few neighbors, got out yesterday for errands.
I do follow on FB a LGS in a neighboring town and saw that they were advertising a 'flood sale' with deep discounts as, unfortunately they were indeed flooded. NO FLOOD INSURANCE..
Got to the LGS and they were still in salvage mode. Had been furiously cleaning, scrubbing, de-humidifying and doing what they could to hopefully save the business.
The location had never flooded before, not even two years before in Hurricane Matthew.
Talked to a clerk, he said they did remove most stock from the concrete floor, but again, due to history expected that to be sufficient.
He showed me the high water mark on a handgun display case - 35" in height. Nearly submerged all the glass gun cases. At least a couple hundred handguns.
The area was flooded and stock immersed for three (3) days.
The shop had some additional guys there and they'd been really busy doing their best to make the affected guns marketable at cost or below.
All guns were given a freshwater bath, dried, and then soaked in motor oil, sans grips.
I'd not really planned on buying much. Ammo was 75% off, but not many folks interested in ammo immersed for three days.
Looking at handguns laid atop one of the cases, I saw a RIA M1911-A1.
It had just come out of 'treatment' and still running a little oil. Finish looked good. It's a RIA - it's never gonna be pretty.
Then, I saw it was a .38 Super.
Darn.
It was marked down to $375.
Have assorted 1911's in .22, 9mm, 10mm and all the commonly seen barrel lengths in .45.
Don't have a Super.
It's a good shop. Very friendly and absent the attitudes so often seen in some LGS's. The owner is a retired LEO from that town and always down-to-earth and helpful.
So, bought the RIA.
Detail stripped it today, gave it a solvent soak (gas actually, it's all I had in quantity) and then a good clean and lube. Again, surprised the finish held up so well.
Looking forward to shooting it. Have not really owned an RIA, but sold many when working at a couple of LGS's over the years.
Do have a Charles Daly M1911 in .45 which is really just a deluxe finished Philippine pistol. It's performed well.
Hope this does as well.
The OE grips are off while waiting on some VZ Cherry Double-Diamonds.
Might have to do something with the GI sights at some point, but want to keep it plane-Jane mostly.
Any RIA .38 Super stories amongst all?
Two weeks ago Hurricane Florence rocked our world, and is still continuing to do so. Wife and I were very fortunate and only suffered minor property damage at home and a bit of fence work will be needed at some property I have my range on a few miles away.
Finally getting caught up on clean-up chores and helping a few neighbors, got out yesterday for errands.
I do follow on FB a LGS in a neighboring town and saw that they were advertising a 'flood sale' with deep discounts as, unfortunately they were indeed flooded. NO FLOOD INSURANCE..
Got to the LGS and they were still in salvage mode. Had been furiously cleaning, scrubbing, de-humidifying and doing what they could to hopefully save the business.
The location had never flooded before, not even two years before in Hurricane Matthew.
Talked to a clerk, he said they did remove most stock from the concrete floor, but again, due to history expected that to be sufficient.
He showed me the high water mark on a handgun display case - 35" in height. Nearly submerged all the glass gun cases. At least a couple hundred handguns.
The area was flooded and stock immersed for three (3) days.
The shop had some additional guys there and they'd been really busy doing their best to make the affected guns marketable at cost or below.
All guns were given a freshwater bath, dried, and then soaked in motor oil, sans grips.
I'd not really planned on buying much. Ammo was 75% off, but not many folks interested in ammo immersed for three days.
Looking at handguns laid atop one of the cases, I saw a RIA M1911-A1.
It had just come out of 'treatment' and still running a little oil. Finish looked good. It's a RIA - it's never gonna be pretty.
Then, I saw it was a .38 Super.
Darn.
It was marked down to $375.
Have assorted 1911's in .22, 9mm, 10mm and all the commonly seen barrel lengths in .45.
Don't have a Super.
It's a good shop. Very friendly and absent the attitudes so often seen in some LGS's. The owner is a retired LEO from that town and always down-to-earth and helpful.
So, bought the RIA.
Detail stripped it today, gave it a solvent soak (gas actually, it's all I had in quantity) and then a good clean and lube. Again, surprised the finish held up so well.
Looking forward to shooting it. Have not really owned an RIA, but sold many when working at a couple of LGS's over the years.
Do have a Charles Daly M1911 in .45 which is really just a deluxe finished Philippine pistol. It's performed well.
Hope this does as well.
The OE grips are off while waiting on some VZ Cherry Double-Diamonds.
Might have to do something with the GI sights at some point, but want to keep it plane-Jane mostly.
Any RIA .38 Super stories amongst all?
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