Buy A Gun Day Purchases...

[Tweed]

It's a 940 Centennial Stainless. S&W made them from 1991 to 1997. The one in the picture was made in 1993.

Sweet - where did you find it? blue northern?

 

[dwarven1]

Mice, beware!

Got me a new mouse gun for BAG day - scored a Beretta 21A in .22LR. Always wanted one of these... they're just so CUTE.

I'm off to Riverside to hunt some mice with crfriend.

 

[EddieCoyle]

Sweet - where did you find it? blue northern?

Nope. I got it from a friend of a Bugs100.

 

[dwarven1]

The good, the bad and the ugly

The good: first target, shot at 50 feet.

The bad - after that, it started having FTFs, FTEs and some just plain weird... like this below.

The Ugly:

I tried oiling it a bit, I tried using different brands of .22 (Remington HP, Federal HP and CCI MiniMag) and they all gave problems. I suspect I know why it was so cheap...

I'm going to give it a good cleaning and see if I can't get it to behave better next time. Although it didn't look that dirty before... I thought it was just dry.

 

[Pilgrim]

try CCI Stingers. they have worked for me when nothing else has.

 

[LoginName]

Good thing there wasn't enough force for the slide to set the round off.

 

[cdkayak]

Here is today's pre-bag day purchase, we'll see if anything catches my eye at the show tommorow.

How do you like the KelTec? Have you had it out to the range yet? I've been toying with getting one of those for a while.

Let us know when you've got a range report.

 

[Jose]

P1 range report time.

Pistol is very accurate in combat conditions. Once I got used to the difference in trigger pulls, keeping them in a palm size group at 15 yards firing very rapidly was no difficult task.

Even the Euro style mag release is not a big deal once you figure out how to do it quickly. Slide lock, move support hand to butt, snap back mag release with left thumb (this will let the mag pop out about 1"), then use the other four fingers to strip the mag out using the tab at the front of the floorplate. Mag then drops free. Insert new mag, reach over top and do the push/pull.

It fed ball and Winchester Silvertips equally flawlessly.

 

[EddieCoyle]

P1 range report time.

Pistol is very accurate in combat conditions. Once I got used to the difference in trigger pulls, keeping them in a palm size group at 15 yards firing very rapidly was no difficult task.

Even the Euro style mag release is not a big deal once you figure out how to do it quickly. Slide lock, move support hand to butt, snap back mag release with left thumb (this will let the mag pop out about 1"), then use the other four fingers to strip the mag out using the tab at the front of the floorplate. Mag then drops free. Insert new mag, reach over top and do the push/pull.

It fed ball and Winchester Silvertips equally flawlessly.

Jose,

How was the DA trigger pull? I tried out a P38 once and found the DA pull to be horrendous. I'll end up getting either a P38 or P1 eventually, but if the P1 is better, I'll look for one of those.

 

[Jose]

The DA pull IS heavier than a stock S&W revolver, but it is actually pretty predictable. It seems to stack up near the end of the DA travel, so you can stage it just like a DA revolver.

After the first shot, it is a breeze.

 

[Joe R.]

No picture as in no digital camera...

My BAG day was to pull my ex-PU sniper out of layaway at Northeast Trading. It's a 1943 Izhevsk that the shellac on the wood looked quite " cooked. " Barrel wear is there but is still good enough for use. I cleaned off the crud last night and the wood looks good! I've contacted JimR to have the bolt worked on and Frank Robertson contacted me also. He has a 4 month backlog because of his brother's death, his health, and his work. I have a scope coming from Ammunitionstore.com that is supposed to be original. If it is, the rifle will have a real scope, real mount, and a repo base.

These milsurp toys are draining the bankroll!

Joe R.

 

[SKS Ray]

Shellac is easy to work once you get the hang of it. If you scrub down the stock free of dirt and grime, generously wipe it down with denatured alcohol to soften up the old shellac, then put a coat of new finish on with Zinser shellac thinned with denatured alcohol.
You can rub it in with a lint free rag, but you have to work quick because it dries very fast. When you're done you'll never be able to tell the stock was refinished or had flaking.
I like using the amber shellac on stocks with a reddish tint to them. Sometimes if you use plain shellac it looks lighter in areas where it was flaking, but amber blends in well.

 

[medic12]

Mine is a day late due to the Sunday. I just picked up a Bushmaster M-4 type AR at Tombstone today. Price was right and I thought I should pick one up with all of the legislature. Plus mine was funded by those nice folks down at Foxwoods. Hopefully I will be able to figure out this pic thing.

 

[Joe R.]

Shellac is easy to work once you get the hang of it. If you scrub down the stock free of dirt and grime, generously wipe it down with denatured alcohol to soften up the old shellac, then put a coat of new finish on with Zinser shellac thinned with denatured alcohol.
You can rub it in with a lint free rag, but you have to work quick because it dries very fast. When you're done you'll never be able to tell the stock was refinished or had flaking.
I like using the amber shellac on stocks with a reddish tint to them. Sometimes if you use plain shellac it looks lighter in areas where it was flaking, but amber blends in well.

The cracks in the shellac would have been fixed doing this - it was the almost dark brown on the handguard that I didn't want to keep on. I stripped it off and maybe will put some back on after the scope base is put on.

Joe R.