Thursday, May 21, 2009
Reasonable rundown of amusing Pelosi tricks.
For both geographic and historic reasons I find this wildly amusing.
Glock trigger job
I have a lot of colts. And for almost all of them there is a vague sense of guilt when I throw a bunch of bullets through them. Yeah, they are made for it. Yeah, the purpose of a tool is to be used. But: they are not made anymore, so use is terminal.
I've always liked glocks since they are the oppostite: completely anonymous, replacable and reliable. Use it up? Buy another just like it. You won't be able to tell the difference. Pull the trigger? Something will come out the other end, unlesss you've screwed up reloading. Something breaks? Almost anyone can replace almost anything on a glock in less than 10 minutes. Seriously. Try doing that with a colt.
But with that said their out of the box triggers suck. Fortunately it's pretty easy to fix, even if you are not mechanically inclined. The AGI video on them is good, but this web page works too: 25 cent trigger job.
I've always liked glocks since they are the oppostite: completely anonymous, replacable and reliable. Use it up? Buy another just like it. You won't be able to tell the difference. Pull the trigger? Something will come out the other end, unlesss you've screwed up reloading. Something breaks? Almost anyone can replace almost anything on a glock in less than 10 minutes. Seriously. Try doing that with a colt.
But with that said their out of the box triggers suck. Fortunately it's pretty easy to fix, even if you are not mechanically inclined. The AGI video on them is good, but this web page works too: 25 cent trigger job.
9x25 load data
9x25: a 10mm case necked down to take a 9mm bullet. Pretty cheap in terms of projectiles. Pretty enthusiastic in terms of noise: if you ever have undesirables shooting next to you at the range, this is good for crowd control. It puts the tactile back in "concussive."
If you have a glock 20 you can get a drop in barrel from lone wolf. The amount of flame that comes out of the ports will be sufficient for most purposes.
Here's some old load data. Note, it is fairly conservative (as in at least 2gr conservative in my experience). As always: if you go beyond max data you will blow up your gun and get laughed at.
More load data at glocktalk.
If you have a glock 20 you can get a drop in barrel from lone wolf. The amount of flame that comes out of the ports will be sufficient for most purposes.
Here's some old load data. Note, it is fairly conservative (as in at least 2gr conservative in my experience). As always: if you go beyond max data you will blow up your gun and get laughed at.
More load data at glocktalk.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Useful dfariswheel posts, part I
If you care about colts (and who doesn't!) it's a good idea to combine google with "dfariswheel" and read the results (or "dfariswheel colt" "dfariswheel python" etc). He's a very good retired colt gunsmith, with high standards in terms of The Right Way to do things.
Must read
Great post on Colt revolver timing checks:
Great posting on how to identify the period of different python grips:
General
Dealing with leading:
Minimal screwdriver set for colt work:
Who to have work on Colts:
Finishing
Awesome post on the "world's best wood finish:
Has my gun been reblued:
Colt will restamp some parts:
How to deal with rust:
Touching up a stainless finish:
Removing nickel plate:
Plum-colored parts are not necessarily from reblue:
How to store guns long term:
Gunsmithing
Putting dots on front sights:
Where to buy colt parts:
Neat trick for dealing with a too loose latch pin hole:
Recommended schools that teach gunsmithing:
Not a good idea to mess w/ MKIII, KC and similar actions:
Sunday, May 17, 2009
O is for Bankruptcy
Nothing to do with colts other than if the country is destroyed, so too are the rights on the inhabitants.
A graph that everyone should see (I'd also like to see everyone get a bill in the mail as to what they owe, hopefully around election time):
And then a helpful illustration of what, exactly, cutting $100M from the current budget looks like:
If Bush was a drunk frat boy that fished a couple dollars out of your jacket at a party, Obama is... well, I'm blanked on the right analogy. The guy who ditched the party to steal the money printing equipment? But still, he'd have to load the paper (and carry the result), which would limit the amount actually made, so that doesn't really work. Perhaps a hyper-active child spastically hitting the keys of a calculator whose minus and division keys he ate, leaving only digits, plus and multiplication?
Hat tip: Volokh and The Atlantic.
A graph that everyone should see (I'd also like to see everyone get a bill in the mail as to what they owe, hopefully around election time):
And then a helpful illustration of what, exactly, cutting $100M from the current budget looks like:
If Bush was a drunk frat boy that fished a couple dollars out of your jacket at a party, Obama is... well, I'm blanked on the right analogy. The guy who ditched the party to steal the money printing equipment? But still, he'd have to load the paper (and carry the result), which would limit the amount actually made, so that doesn't really work. Perhaps a hyper-active child spastically hitting the keys of a calculator whose minus and division keys he ate, leaving only digits, plus and multiplication?
Hat tip: Volokh and The Atlantic.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
recent pickup: bi-centennial python
Lately my buying habits have been closer to profligate than penurious. But sometimes you have to "invest"! (More on this later: guns are the only thing I have that have gone up in what people will pay.)
First investment property: LNIB bicentennial python. The thing is the most LNIB of any LNIB python I've seen. I'm not sure how it got seperated from the other two guns in the set, but I'm glad of it. This is my favorite special edition python that colt has done (though there were so many, I've seen relatively none) --- most others seem to have a weird explosion of engravings that seem tacky.
I really like the grips --- unfortunately I haven't seen them anywhere else. The closest ones I know of are the "oversize ebony" grips at grips4guns.com
Kind of cool to see the .357 on the right side of the barrel:
New posts start here
Just got onto blogger, so pulled in a bunch of old posts to consolidate. Most of the entries now should be new.
This is how we roll
"One story claims that a well-known prestigious car manufacturer would not hire a machinist until he had successfully demonstrated his filing skill. He was given an iron bar and an iron plate. When he was finished the bar had to be filed square. The plate had to have a square hole filed through it. If the square bar did not fit perfectly into the square hole no matter how it was turned, the machinist did not get the job." --- the home machinist's handbook.
dfariswheel followed up with
A similar test for skills was given by English custom gun makers.
You had to file from irregular metal a perfect 1" square, a triangle, and other shapes, and file two pieces of metal to such a perfect flat surface that they would stick together if pressed against each other.
One story I read was by a British soldier being trained as an armorer during the early, bad days of WWII.
The country was literally expecting the Germans to land at any moment, but he and other men were having to try to file these shapes over and over to get them perfect.
All they were going to be was standard parts switching armorers to do fast repairs of damaged weapons, but the people running the department were determined to not allow pre-war standards to fall.
Insane python barrel prices
$355 for a 6" blued barrel: http://gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=127700114 Plus it's a "brand new" barrel w/ gold lettering, which almost certainly is a contradiction...
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