Sunday, March 29, 2009

Miscellenia...

I'm still not up to generating the post about how awesome my pseudo-instructor experience was at the range yesterday (HINT: If you want all the RO's to come over and tell you what an awesome instructor you are, pick Annie Oakley for a student. It makes you look good.)

Also, the Sunday Smif will be along shortly.

In the meantime, strange heretical thoughts have been wandering through my mind about converting my 1911's into K-frame Smiths. I don't know what it says about me that, years into this game, if I was going to pick up one of my guns and make the bazillion-dollar shot cold, it would be with a Smith revolver, shooting double-action, and not one of my kilobuck custom 1911's.

Anyhow...

Getting ready to go to teh blogmeet at the Brewpub. More later.
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15 comments:

New Jovian Thunderbolt said...

Ifn you don't want one of those superfluous 1911s, I can help you out by taking one off your hands.

1:32 PM, March 29, 2009
Anonymous said...

Unfortunately for us, you know what those 1911's you've got are worth. No corvettes in a garage for us here. SIGH. Keep us posted.

My local range and gunshop just convinced me to buy a Smith 625-9, .45 Colt with 4 inch barrel and adjustable sights, new in box, that had been sitting too long on the shelf. Just ordered speed strips, and looking at holster options.

Ya know, since Obama's election, I'm at +7 on my number of guns.

1:33 PM, March 29, 2009
Jenny said...

Wow... whatever happened to the Tams from once upon a time who had One of Everything?

I'm thinking it must be the juju emitted by all those old Smiths around. Ya can't trust them, you know. They spin backwards. All that widdershins is addling your mind, and turning your eyes from The One True Browning.

Repent, sinner!


*snicker* :)

2:57 PM, March 29, 2009
J.R.Shirley said...

Huh. I'll believe more blogposting today when I see it. :-D

Have fun & wish I were there.

3:31 PM, March 29, 2009
Anonymous said...

Tam,
Would a 10-7 with 2" barrel in .38spl be of interest? It's a nickel-plated belly gun with a bull barrel. First gun I bought after coming back from vietnam in 1969.

I'm looking for a MILSURP 1911A1, ideally built in 1943 or so, ideally built by Colt, etc.

Not a race gun--a stock marine pistol.

TC
Leatherneck
tom.carter@osd.mil

3:36 PM, March 29, 2009
Noah D said...

thoughts have been wandering through my mind about converting my 1911's into K-frame Smiths

And previously Tam was the one warning against too much Dremeling...

3:48 PM, March 29, 2009
Caleb said...

Well, if you're letting go of a 1911, let me know, because I'll sell some plasma to buy it.

5:35 PM, March 29, 2009
Kerry said...

I wish I'd been at your end of the table to hear, first hand, the story of Annie Oakley.

Kerry

6:05 PM, March 29, 2009
Jennifer said...

Awe Tam! Welcome to the dark side. Glad you're finally going along with the wheelie girl crowd. :)
My first love was a 627PC. Smith & Wesson makes a sweet wheelie.

6:41 PM, March 29, 2009
Anonymous said...

You know who Annie Oakley's coach was, don't you.

8:04 PM, March 29, 2009
Brian Dale said...

My first thought was, "Oh noes!Theyer all goin to be gonnn!!!eleven." Then I realized that I'm not competing with you for old Smith revolvers. Besides being at nowhere near your level as a shooter, I'm not a real collector and I'm looking for a few simple, popular models (18 or pre-18; 10 or 13; maybe a 19 later on).

I read Xavier's stuff and I'm familiar with Jim March's revolver checkout. I've been reading your words for a few years. Do you have any further nuggets of wisdom you're willing to pass on about finding good, older, mechanically sound, shooter grade Smith & Wesson revolvers?

wv = "carat:" well, that's à propos.

9:10 PM, March 29, 2009
Tango Juliet said...

I dunno. The only breakdown I witnessed today during two ISPC classifier runs was a Smith revo (625).

Obviously, they're crap. :)

OH OK, a CZ75 choked quite often but I'm sure it was ammo related.

10:10 PM, March 29, 2009
Anonymous said...

Lorimor, was that CZ being fed Sellier & Bellot? 'Cause you know, you can't expect a Czech gun to work without Czech ammunition...

everybody knows that.

10:51 PM, March 29, 2009
Anonymous said...

I love wheel guns!! But I will NEVER! be without a 1911!!! My smiths and colt wheel guns are my babys But my true love is the 1911.

12:06 AM, March 30, 2009
Hunsdon said...

Tam, every American's birthright is not a degree, it's a 1911 (or, perhaps, a 1911A1). Sell all but one.

As for the "one shot, cold, for a bazillion dollars" thing?

Oh yeah. My five inch Smith & Wesson 27 would be the pistola of choice there.

WV: Quall. It could be "qualifying" but I prefer to think that it's when you QUELL your THRALLS.

1:59 PM, March 30, 2009

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