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What a Man Wants!
- Thread starter Greg Derr
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another stunner. give palladin the watch, i'll take leftovers!
Whiskeywon
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Beautiful work as always. Such a shame Colt is a shell of it's former self.
quinnjalan
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Very nice....
cockpitbob
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What everyone else is saying. And of course, stunning photography that brings out the beauty.
The guns you post here are things of flawless beauty. What do their typical customers actually do with them? I mean, daily carry seems out of the question. Careful occasional carry shouldn't add flaws, but there are few situations where you can just take it out and pass it around for people to admire. Maybe they are treated like the diamond ear studs I got my wife for our 10th anniversary. She loves having them even though they just sit in the safe deposit box at the bank![[laugh]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/012.gif "Laugh [laugh]")
Yeah, that^^. Greg, do you mind a question?
The guns you post here are things of flawless beauty. What do their typical customers actually do with them? I mean, daily carry seems out of the question. Careful occasional carry shouldn't add flaws, but there are few situations where you can just take it out and pass it around for people to admire. Maybe they are treated like the diamond ear studs I got my wife for our 10th anniversary. She loves having them even though they just sit in the safe deposit box at the bank
Unless you are a Mass Statie at a pub on the cape..............................
I own a Greg Derr gun that I love, which while not a high gloss presentation piece, certainly looks like a work of art. I've never carried it, but I've shot it quite a bit. IMHO a tiny bit of wear doesn't ruin a great piece of engineering. I'd wager most of these guns are going to get shot at least a little bit, and pick up a ding or two on the magwell.
Rob Boudrie
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Beautiful as usual. It would add some perspective if the price charged were posted with photos of works by the master.
First thing I would do if I were to shoot that gun would be to swap out the extractor and keep the perfectly serrated on in the box. It's very common for high end guns with serrated extractors to have them break eventually, and it's very difficult to match the lines on a new one since the original was done in unison with the rear of the slide.
First thing I would do if I were to shoot that gun would be to swap out the extractor and keep the perfectly serrated on in the box. It's very common for high end guns with serrated extractors to have them break eventually, and it's very difficult to match the lines on a new one since the original was done in unison with the rear of the slide.
