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Before making it to this post, I wondered if you mean Scheels.
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I need to go back there.
I don't often bare my soul, it's ugly and tends to frighten people.
6/29/2019 3:40:22 PM EDT
[#4]
We made it home heathens.
6/29/2019 4:21:23 PM EDT
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I need to go back there.
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Originally Posted By SecretSquirell:

Before making it to this post, I wondered if you mean Scheels.
I need to go back there.
We got to arrange that.
We've both been talking when.
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Originally Posted By ChuckD05:
We made it home heathens.
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Thank God. Is she improving steadily?
How you holding up as Cabana Boy?

(eye done that for MissB during heel surgery recovery)
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6/29/2019 4:32:16 PM EDT
[#7]
FML[facepalm]

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6/29/2019 4:56:13 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By WWIIWMD:
Our 375 H&H has Sako action

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That is beautiful!
6/29/2019 5:04:52 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By sea2summit:
FML[facepalm]

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Chinesican directions
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Originally Posted By sea2summit:
FML[facepalm]

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Have fun with that! Don’t forget the special 5.38mm Allen wrench!

6/29/2019 5:06:04 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By SpeyRod:
That is beautiful!
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Originally Posted By SpeyRod:
Originally Posted By WWIIWMD:
Our 375 H&H has Sako action

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That is beautiful!

Got to get more stuff photo'd, like about 10,000 photos worth

FNO, sortie from WY for 5 days.... double Nikon D's & macro
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Originally Posted By SpeyRod:
That is beautiful!
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Originally Posted By SpeyRod:
Originally Posted By WWIIWMD:
Our 375 H&H has Sako action

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That is beautiful!

Representative photos all, ours is 100.00%
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6/29/2019 5:06:50 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By SpeyRod:
Have fun with that! Don’t forget the special 5.38mm Allen wrench!

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Originally Posted By SpeyRod:
Originally Posted By sea2summit:
FML[facepalm]

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Have fun with that! Don’t forget the special 5.38mm Allen wrench!

Strippin' them Chinee heads!
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6/29/2019 5:07:14 PM EDT
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Just happened to look, total accident
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6/29/2019 5:08:45 PM EDT
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124000

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Originally Posted By WWIIWMD:
124000

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Consecutive! Nice!
6/29/2019 5:16:10 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By sea2summit:
FML[facepalm]

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Are you lost?

Again?
Without blood, it doesn't count!
"A gun, like any other source of power, is a force for good or evil, being neither in itself, but dependent upon those who possess it."
6/29/2019 5:24:10 PM EDT
[#18]
In on 8
Carry it, shoot it. (repeat forever)

4:1
4 is to mental as 1 is to physical
6/29/2019 5:25:39 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By WWIIWMD:

Thank God. Is she improving steadily?
How you holding up as Cabana Boy?

(eye done that for MissB during heel surgery recovery)
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She's rapidly improving!

Im enjoying my time as cabana boy as well.
6/29/2019 5:54:01 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Freakinout:
In on 8
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Vacation travel whore
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6/29/2019 5:57:27 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By ChuckD05:
She's rapidly improving!

Im enjoying my time as cabana boy as well.
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Originally Posted By ChuckD05:
Originally Posted By WWIIWMD:

Thank God. Is she improving steadily?
How you holding up as Cabana Boy?

(eye done that for MissB during heel surgery recovery)
She's rapidly improving!

Im enjoying my time as cabana boy as well.

Most gratifying. They take care of us & kids, run household world, cleaning (she wont abide a housecleaner), grocery, cooking, pets, vets, errands, shopping, nails/hair, car repair appts, on and on it goes.
Nice to take care of them for a "change"
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6/29/2019 5:58:06 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By ChuckD05:
She's rapidly improving!

Im enjoying my time as cabana boy as well.
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Originally Posted By ChuckD05:
Originally Posted By WWIIWMD:

Thank God. Is she improving steadily?
How you holding up as Cabana Boy?

(eye done that for MissB during heel surgery recovery)
She's rapidly improving!

Im enjoying my time as cabana boy as well.

Knee Scooter from heel surgery months
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Originally Posted By SpeyRod:
Consecutive! Nice!
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Originally Posted By SpeyRod:
Originally Posted By WWIIWMD:
124000

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Consecutive! Nice!
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6/29/2019 6:00:34 PM EDT
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Ran Scout Car/batt charge, weed eating windmill base, assorted errands/tasks, pups out to pod, vault duty, 80 degrees but 40 flippin' percent! Should be 21%
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6/29/2019 6:07:41 PM EDT
[#25]
Plum Gun is a tricky wicket... rare 1914 without dummy scratch or many rounds fired (the barrel is nearly perfect/matching), someone oiled this for decades to erode finish to this characteristic plum hue.

Colt 1921 Thompsons will take on this look, uniformly rubbed bluing but otherwise prime condition with minimal use has a look all its own.

The hammer sounds like a Rolex when cocking, handmade/hand fitment.

Top photo is largely how it looks in person but under true color temperature lighting the bottom coloring reveals a bit, here accentuated by lighting, these are Nikon shots.

The last year issued with lanyard loop magazines.

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Taken through the mag lens (hence curvature), one of 4 true temp 2 bulb spring loaded hinged flex lamps we have on the gun work benches.

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6/29/2019 6:10:38 PM EDT
[#27]
From the above pistol, 1913 mag bluing in sunlight

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6/29/2019 6:12:50 PM EDT
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Turnbull and others do yeoman work, but Colt bluing is not possible to duplicate in 2019, their bluing ovens use a hand applied mix of bone and coals

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6/29/2019 6:13:41 PM EDT
[#29]
Colt Commercial No. 52

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6/29/2019 6:14:27 PM EDT
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A 1914 the dummy used

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6/29/2019 6:15:21 PM EDT
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Slide/Roll Stamp and color detail 1918

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6/29/2019 6:17:18 PM EDT
[#32]
The Dremel Colt someone bought on GB ten years ago for about $4000.

All USMC pistols were marked "Model Of 1911 U.S. Army"

oops

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6/29/2019 6:20:24 PM EDT
[#33]
Oh Snap!

Mills discontinued Eagle Snaps in 1914, all web gear with these snaps are 105 years old or older.

This the familiar 7 December Hickam Field, Hawaii - 1912

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6/29/2019 6:21:23 PM EDT
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Freckling is a likely indicator of non-refinish, the more the merrier

Short stub early Colt hammer

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6/29/2019 6:25:59 PM EDT
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Distinctive General Shaver Division Remington Rand magazine with folded spot-welded spine and "G" marked toe

This 1944 Rand has no wear yet a machining fixture cut on the MSH bottom most likely a slip o' the hand

We forgive you: Nov-Dec 1944 & Jan-Feb 1945 Remington Rand produced 50,000 pistols per month for 4 straight months setting the WWII production record.



eta spot on
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A barrel with this wear pattern can have anything from 21 (3 mags of 7 from factory acceptance proof firing) rounds to 1210 rounds depending on coincidental fitment of slide, lug, barrel, receiver.

We have a Faithful Reproduction 2001 Colt with 4 digit round count that has about the wear of this barrel. There's no predicting how it goes... you got to examine the rest of the weapon to tell for sure

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[#37]
The rounded rear sight notch was used on all War pistols from December 1911 to early 1942 when it was squared into right angles.

This a December 1941 Colt shipment immediately before Pearl Harbor IIRC

Blackened minor parts is correct, firing pin, firing pin stop, slide release, thumb safety, hammer, grip safety

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[#38]
Blackened stock screws and pins too

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6/29/2019 6:34:23 PM EDT
[#39]
Colts Verified Proof and Assembler T

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[#40]
Blackened Rand minor parts. Nearly all pistols we see online and CMP are unicolor due to wear or refinish.

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6/29/2019 6:36:40 PM EDT
[#41]
Alternate angle, same pistol, true color temperature reveal

What! I thought these were park'd!

Yes they are... no company used the same formula as the other and some changed formulas during the War...

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[#42]
Just in case your eyes are playing you tricks, same pistol - different angle

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6/29/2019 7:32:24 PM EDT
[#43]
Grain and color study

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6/29/2019 7:33:01 PM EDT
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6/29/2019 7:47:11 PM EDT
[#45]
Very rare to see all 4 companies with original parts, 3 in quite similar condition, cant find those similar Colts pointing left photos.

Colt
Ithaca
Remington Rand
Union Switch & Signal

Parkerizing differences, in person its dramatic!




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6/29/2019 7:48:17 PM EDT
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6/29/2019 7:48:37 PM EDT
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6/29/2019 7:50:21 PM EDT
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6/29/2019 7:51:41 PM EDT
[#49]
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6/29/2019 7:52:14 PM EDT
[#50]
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