OH my aching doggies… Sigh…
Three days of walking around on a hard concrete floor has my dogs ‘barking’ and then some…
My impressions were that the crowds were down, but a lot more women shopping alone or in packs, including home defense shotguns, carry pistols and CCW purses (there were at least four or five people selling directly to women which I believe is good)! ARs are coming back to reality (e.g. stripped ARs back below $1000) lots of barrels available, LOTS of nicky neat scopes/red & green dots (good = pricey), high dollar stuff was higher than last year, and even ‘junk’ pieces were pricey if either S&W or Colt on the side. The one thing I didn’t see were the big displays from manufacturers that were there in the past, and some of the bigger ‘players’ were scaling back. The blame seems to lie with Ebay (pieces/parts) and online gun auctions (trojan bidders at the last minute) and lots of guns with huge reserves on them.
The true idiocy is now becoming original wood stocks for pistols/milsurp rifles! I saw $500 for an original set of late 60s Python grips, $550 for an original 1903 C-stock with cartouches!!!
I saw milsurp parts going for big (to me) $$, $200 plus for complete 03-A3 bolts, $50 for complete barrel bands and milled bayonet lugs, etc; and I saw a guy spend over $1400 for an M-1 JUST to get the Winchester receiver out of it (he said he had all Winchester parts to build a complete Winchester M-1).
Forty-mumble years ago we literally FILLED a long bed pickup with 1903, 1917, M-1, M-1 Carbine and M-14 stocks that were ALL perfect and we sold them for $25-$40 bucks up through the late 80s… sigh…
And a damn wooden rifle box full of 1903 and 03-A3 parts including complete bolts, receivers, scope mounts, barrel bands and misc. parts we sold for $100 because we got tired of moving the damn thing around (it took two of us just to slide it across the floor)… double sigh…
Here are couple of better pics of the K-22 (again thanks to Tam for the advice), it was built in 1975, and on further inspection, looks like it was ONLY test fired! And in answer to the emails; yes, I did get the box, paperwork and tools with it.
There is a small nick in the left stock just forward of the screw, but I’m not going to worry about it…
Right side, it’s nicely blued!
No powder residue showing on the cylinder…
And no muzzle wear showing at all!
And I swear at LEAST a 12lb trigger pull in DA… Trigger finger is gonna get a workout breaking this puppy in…
I’d be happy to break it in for you.
That could be handed down one day to the next generation of grand-nfo’s.
Ed- LOL,come on down!
LL- That’s the plan, broken in of course… 🙂
Hey Old NFO;
Very nice pistol, I like the idea of passing down to your kids, kinda like a heirloom gun. My son will get my guns…when the time comes. Unless he turns into a crackhead or something worse. Now that my AR is done, I need to start rebuilding my Garand, the short stroke issues, bad oprod, and unsafe barrel. All is going to be $$$$
Remember the “toothpaste action job”. Remove sideplate, fill the action with toothpaste, replace sideplate, dry-fire a few hundred times (with snap cap, of course). Remove sideplate, wash out toothpaste thoroughly, lube, and you should find the trigger a lot smoother. Doesn’t do much for the weight – that comes with range time – but smooth will beat light every time, IMHO.
I showed our landlord and buddy how to do that to a rather gritty Taurus snubby, and the difference between before and after was like night and day.
I have a Taurus 941 UL snubbie that could use that treatment. SA pull is passable, but the DA is da pits! I’m going to give this a try – thanks for suggestion, I was not aware of it before.
Bob- Thanks! And yes, PLEASE change out that damn barrel!!!
Peter- Oh… THANKS! I’d forgotten about that trick… Now need cheep gritty toothpaste…
That is pretty sweet looking. If you need a home for it when you travel. . .just saying.
Real Sweet Looking
Come to think of it, I have its big brother: my Grandpa’s silky-smooth pussycat 1961 nearly un-fired model 10-5 — after all .38spl is just a bit bigger than .22lr. 🙂
Brigid- Yes Ma’am… 🙂
Rick- Looking forward to shooting it!
NC- Oh… PICTURES??? 🙂
Those K frame .22s should have sweet trigger pulls in both DA and SA. Actually in SA all you have to do it breath hard on it. Sort like a 1911 I fired a couple of years ago in Texas! 🙂
At least my Model 18 has a smooth as glass trigger pull.
TOTW- Yeah, but I need to get the DA portion broken in… sigh