Thoughts – Page 30 – Scattered Shots

Nelson Ford Q&A #20, S&W Spring Loaded Hammer, 357mag Carry Guns, Stories From The Work Bench

US CALIBER .30 M2 AP ACCURACY

The .30-06 Government , or US Caliber .30 is a a classic round everyone knows. I think it has probably been used for everything you can use a rifle for at one time or another. It was the US service round for a million years before being phased out. It had several different martial loadingsContinue reading “US CALIBER .30 M2 AP ACCURACY”

Boland FK Gun From MGC SHOOTIST (1990)

The FK Gun was built for J. Bartell in themid-80s and used HK P7 mags.

CT Brian Full House Custom – 1982 Colt Govt Mod 1911 — Classic Combat 45

A really classy, early Combat Auto built by Tim CT Brian on this 1982 Colt 70 Series 1911. Finished in a beautiful blued over hardchrome, it is just hard to beat a 2-tone with a Bomar and a Barsto! Classic 80s style build.

Yost Custom – Ted Yost Custom Colt 1911 Government Model – 1* Elite – 45 ACP Hardchrome

A classy, dressed up Colt 1911 1* Elite build by Ted Yost. Built circa 2004, it has everything you need and nothing you don’t, with a good looking, hard wearing Hardchrome finish.

S&W Model 10-6 Part 2

My attempt at finding a variety of high quality HPs in .38 locally has not be very productive. Looks like I will have to go out of town or order online. I did manage to get some handloaded stuff from a friend who shoots 38 and got out to the 50 and 100 yard lineContinue reading “S&W Model 10-6 Part 2”

A Double From Nelson Ford A Special PPK & S&W 1896

Today we talk about a great little gun that lead the way for modern pocket carry and had life as early police department sidearms. Today we have a WW2 bring back trophy Walther PPK with Party Leader Grips. A rare historical artifact.

New Colt Rifles

“Colt is excited to announce the release of four new SKUs in the Enhanced Patrol Rifle lineup — the EPR II and EPR II PRO models — now live on the Colt website and available for customer orders and shipment. The next evolution of Colt’s established carbine platform, the EPR (Enhanced Patrol Rifle) II blendsContinue reading “New Colt Rifles”

Jason Burton — Early Yost-Bonitz — Custom 1* Springfield Armory 1911 — 45 ACP

Nelson Ford Q&A #19, Marlin Action Work, Loctite, Competition In the 80’s, Cylinder Threads S&W Revolvers

In this video we go over action work on Marlin lever guns, my experience shooting combat matches in the 1980’s, going to deep checking 1911 frames, Loctite and alternatives, left/right hand cylinder threads on Smith & Wesson revolvers and much more.