Grayfox54

Damn! I hate to hear that. I was growing up in the 60s when he first made it big. Loved his music! And from the damned Covid too! As a young soldier in the early 70s, I went to the PX, bought a cassette player and the only three country music tapes they had. Conway & Loretta, Marty Robbins and Charley Pride. Man, I wore those tapes out!

CMP has just received a new batch of pistols and is currently taking new applications. However, it is a lottery system. New buyers will be given a random computer generated number and be offered a pistol when their number comes up. So there's no guarantees that you'll get one. However, I do believe everybody who applied in the first round did get a chance to buy. This is the way the first batch was sold. I did get one from the first batch and for $1050, I considered it a bargain. But also remember that the CMP guns have almost all been through an arsenal rebuild at least once and the vast majority are mixmasters. Any completely original pistols are pulled aside and sold at auction for much higher prices. Honestly, for $1800 I wouldn't consider the pistol you're looking at to be grossly overpriced if it is indeed all original. Although I would try to haggle a bit. BTW: looking at the pictures, that boogered up slide stop cut on the slide could be used as a valid bargaining point. On collectibles, Its the little things that count. Like i said, if you pass, I'm interested.

"Ghost Gun" is the new anti-gunner's buzz word. Expect a lot of this in the near future.

Hell Yeah! Shoot it! As long as you take good care of it, you won't hurt it any.

If you don't buy it, please send me the info. I'm definitely interested.

I'm no expert, but I did check the serial number which says its a 1942-43 Remington Rand frame. The slide is clearly marked Remington Rand and I don't see any arsenal rebuild marks anywhere. Bubba, I do believe you just might have yourself a completely original WW II 1911A1. You'd need to check markings on internal parts to be absolutely sure. But that is one Hell of a find! Most all G.I. 1911s have been arsenal rebuilt at least once. An unmolested all original gun is rare and quite collectible. I can't even guess as to its value.

The 1911 Forum is also very good. They have a sub forum specifically for U.S. issue pistols. As Kahrman suggested, good pics of all markings will be very helpful. Oops! I saw 1942 and just assumed this was a G.I. pistol. is it G.I. or commercial? Beltfed: Sorry, while the Blue Book may be a great source for information, its value estimates are out of date before its even published.

Very nice! I'm not a serious Colt collector, but I doubt anybody would get seriously bent over a bit of tape on the box.

The book is "Unintended Consequences" by John Ross. Part fiction and part history. Every gun owner should read it. edit:On second thought, I do believe Henry had a Lahti 20mm? Maybe its time to reread that book? Nothing better to do these days anyway.

Life Goals: Strive to be the person your dog thinks you are.

At 66 and recently diagnosed with COPD, I fall into the danger category. I honestly don't know about the vaccine. However, I do trust my Pulmonologist. So I'll go with his recommendation. He'd probably be the one to give it to me anyway.

I've come mighty close to dying twice. I don't want to die and plan on fighting it as long as I can. But I've come to realize that I'm not afraid of it. Not really sure why. I guess that as I get older that I know its coming and just accept that. It took the Angel of Death seven tries to get my Dad. I figure I should have at least several more in me.

i read his book many years ago. One of the reasons he was such a good fighter pilot in WW II was that he had 20/10 vision. This was before radar. He just saw the other guy first and took full advantage of it.

Yep, some of them were government grants and taxpayer dollars. But be aware that a lot of these grants come from private industry. IT is huge business and many of the corporate giants have a vested interest in helping fund its future.

You might be crimping too hard which can expand the shoulder. The .30-30 is notorious for this. Remove the depriming pin and run a loaded round through the sizing die again. Then see if it chambers.

I'm no gunsmith by any means. But I am a fairly good hobbyist. Pick a project and have at it. Learn as you go and be prepared to make mistakes. Sometimes costly mistakes. Good tools are a must and they ain't cheap. You can find most anything you need at Brownell's. You Tube does have some good videos, but as Xtriggerman said, some are total crap. So take 'em with a grain of salt. Above all, go slow and easy. Test fit often. Its easy to take metal off, but its awful hard to put it back if you take too much. I do mostly handgun work and that is generally S&W revolvers and 1911s. two books I highly recommend are Jerry Kuhnhausen's The Colt .45 Automatic and Smith & Wesson revolvers. He also has several other books on various firearms. With time and patience you can do some very good work with just simple hand tools. This is my DIY pride and joy. A custom S&W .45 Colt snubbie. I started with a bare nekkid frame and the barrel was originally a 6" .45 acp barrel. So I had to cut both ends. But bear in mind that when I built this I had access to a lathe at work and have since retired and can't use it anymore. You gotta learn to work with what ya got.

Nobody forced those kids to take out those loans. The problem is that many of them wasted the money on worthless degrees that won't earn them a living. Think liberal arts. They just wanted to be in college to party and have fun not to actually work hard, study and learn. Now they're buried in debt and just want to whine about it. My oldest got a 2 year Associates Degree from State Tech in computer science. He now makes a good living at it. Most of his education costs came from grants. Yep, free money you don't have to pay back. You just gotta be smart enough to know where to apply for them.

I never had the pleasure of meeting the man in person, but I always enjoyed his posts here. He will be missed. The heavenly band just got themselves one hell of steel player.

Many years ago when we first got married, my wife and I ran out of TP once. My wife swore it would never happen again. Since then we have always kept a hoarder size supply on hand. I still do. I got through the first shortage just fine and I'll get through this one too.

I made my monthly grocery run today. Much to my surprise, both Sam's and Kroger were nearly out of toilet paper. Very little of only two cheap brands on the shelves. When did this start again and WHY? It was pointless the first time around. I swear 2020 is just getting stupider by the day.

Open it with paint and reduce its size. Pop Pop. I have no idea what to tell you. All my PP series guns have worked just fine. Never a problem out of any of them. Had to have the TPH worked on to get it reliable, but they're noted to be troublesome.

Moped: First off, thank you for the kind comments. The Walther PP series are some great pistols. I went back and edited the pic to show what each one is. Its just been kinda dumb luck that I've stumbled across these over the years. and picked them up. The one on the bottom left is the current production .22 cal PPK/s made by Umerex for Walther. If you want a PPK/s in this caliber then this is the way to go. Original Walther made .22s are serious collector's items worth big bucks. Just a spare mag falls into unicorn territory at several hundred dollars. .32s can be had a reasonable prices. The problem is that most of them are WW II or earlier and these are the ones bringing thousands of dollars from collectors. If you can find one of the later made guns, especially Interarms, they can be had considerably cheaper. In many cases the guns are inherited or maybe traded for and the current owner doesn't realize what they have. All they know is that is just a measly, little .32 and ain't worth much. That's exactly the story behind my .32 PP. It was a former Police gun imported back in the 80s by Century. Young man inherited the gun and just wanted to get rid of it. I got that one cheap. BTW: twice I've had this one at the range and somebody tried to buy it right there on the spot. The only reason I own the S&W PPK/s is because it is in the scarce .32 caliber which is rarely seen. The last owner just knew it was a .32 and not that popular. But he did recognize the Walther name. I got that one at a fair price, but no great bargain. C'mon Now! Still waiting to see pics of your new toy!