Bubba Fett

I'll take two!

I carried a 4" 1911 from RIA in .45 for a long time. If their 9mm are as good, they'll probably be perfect for you (with some money left in the budget for ammo!) I don't carry mine anymore, because I had a small (range remediated) malfunction during a tactical pistol class after about 1000 rnds through the gun. It's still my favorite range gun and I've not had a single problem with it since, but I lost my "confidence" in the gun as an EDC. Plus, they're heavy and I'm lazy.

https://www.academy.com/shop/pdp/game-winner®-gun-cleaning-toolbox I bought one of those on sale for $20 a few years ago. Stripped the finish and re-stained it, then covered my terrible job with a bunch of stickers and pins from my favorite gun manufacturers. Holds most of my stuff decently well. I use some old pretzel rod tubs to hold my patches. Before that, I used a Homer bucket with one of these (or something like it): https://www.amazon.com/Bucket-Boss-10030-Bucketeer-BTO/dp/B00GK4TOWK/ref=asc_df_B00GK4TOWK/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=167152075853&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12381272050078821990&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1025990&hvtargid=pla-312236746975&psc=1

So I'm on Amazon, looking at the small "necker" sized knives to throw in my EDC backpack as a backup. And I says to myself "Bubba, no. If you buy any more knives, you're going to get yourself in trouble." So I muster the last of my willpower and head to TGO, to drown my sorrows in gun porn. The next thing I know, I'm spending $20 on Amazon for my 9th new knife of 2019. Thanks a lot!

I'm really hard on pocket clips, too. I like a deep carry clip, but wind up banging it on just about everything. I replaced the clip on my Spyderco with one from this company: https://mxggear.com/ After just over a year, the color is wearing a little thin, but the clip is holding up great structurally.

I've got about 100 rounds through my Security 9. Had one failure to feed in the first magazine, but no problems since then. And I'm feeding it garbage. I've been seriously considering swapping out my TCP for that LCPII for pocket carry.

Anderson lowers are like cats. Once you've got one and you start to get comfortable with it, more start to follow you home. Next thing you know, you're sitting in your room going "Where did all these come from? And how am I going to feed all of them?" But like, in a GOOD way.

This guy has been walking by the cameras every morning about an hour before sunup the past two weeks. Haven't seen him before. There is a sizable rub and scrape about 20 feet to the right of the camera that I'm really hoping is his. Muzzle load can't get here fast enough.

Thanks for the tip. I hadn't thought about that - so I went back and used a wire wheel on my dremel to remove the paint and all the underlying rust until it was all shiny. That paint was really on there, which gives me hope this might work when I get the rust out. Then I repainted. I'll let it dry all week and shoot the gun this weekend. Deer season will be the test.

Went ahead and painted it this weekend with some high-temp engine paint. Seems to have done the job. Time will now tell if it rusts under the paint.

That pretty well cements my opinion that an M&P will be my next handgun purchase.

Many mistakes were made before he asked for the gun. I can't even comprehend approaching anyone - much less an armed cop - while they're actively taking fire. I don't think of myself as a coward, but I am not an idiot, either.

That's the saddest truth I've read all day.

I found this picture online of a similar muzzle loader, with similar rust. Where the finish is rough on his, up near the breech plug, mine is pitted there and rusts (even when smeared with grease). I am thinking of painting the inside of the breech with black high-temp engine paint to protect it. Would that hurt anything?

I probably wasn't clear in my description. I did replace the plug, but the rust is on the wall of the breech itself, just above where the breech plug screws in. Just where it catches all of the heat from the percussion cap. I will try to get good pictures tonight, but it's tough to photograph.

Awesome. Thank you. I'm going to put the three of these together and print them poster-sized on the plotter for the wall in my office. Cool, functional decor!

Ah-ha! That makes more sense. Thanks!

I'm going to try this. That sounds awesome!

I've got an older CVA Muzzleloader that my Father-In-Law gave me a few years back. Nothing special, but special to me as it was a gift. When I got it, it was in really rough shape. Rust and pitting in the barrel, stock was filthy, sights were broken off, breech plug was seized, etc. I cleaned it all up aesthetically and functionally and I've been hunting with it for three years. There was some rust/pitting just on the inside of the receiver, just beside the breech plug, where the percussion cap and the striker are. I scrubbed the active rust out, and I had been trying hard to keep that area clean and oiled, but every time I take it out of the safe there's fresh rust in that area down in the pitting and around the first few threads of the breech plug. No matter how well I clean and lube it before I put it away. I assume this is from the combination of temperature and grime from the percussion caps. Is there anything you fine folks can think to do to protect that? I tried using a bluing pen to blue the area, but it never changed color and doesn't seem to have fixed it. My guess is the barrel is stainless and therefore won't blue? Would using a high-temp automotive engine paint up around the breech plug protect it? Might look silly having a black stripe inside the action, but if it keeps the thing from rusting out on me I'll live with it. I tried to get pictures, but couldn't capture the area due to the shadows and all. Photographer I ain't.

This is a great chart I haven't seen before. I'm going to print it as a reminder when I clean. I assume the Gs mean Grease and the L's mean lightly coat or some such?

I had a Don Hume do something similar. I rubbed the inside of the holster with leather conditioner, wrapped the front of the gun in a few wraps of packing tape and, with the gun holstered, let it sit in the sun for a few hours. Between the heat of the sun warming up the leather and the leather conditioner softening it a bit, it relaxed enough that it was never a problem again.

Shame you didn't recover any of the AP cores. I'd have liked to see that, myself. Around here I'd have to use a proper Hollywood-grade silencer on a job like that or the neighbors would be down my throat from the south end.

It's sickening. If a car is used to kill someone, they blame the driver. A gun is used to kill someone, they blame the gun. This guy had the money and time to buy whatever he wanted. He'd have just filed the paperwork and bought a full auto if he wanted one. With no history of crime or mental illness there was no reason he couldn't buy whatever he wanted. Like so many others before it, no gun law they've proposed in the wake of this tragedy would have actually prevented it. But we'll give up more of our rights for the illusion of safety because decisions are being made based on emotion instead of facts and reason.

Yikes. Bought my wife a Gen 1 PT111 a few years ago. It was her carry gun for a while and I even took a few classes with it. Sold it a while back. I'll let the buyer know he needs to check this out. Thanks for the heads up!

I picked up a 4-pack of "Reusable Car Dehumidifier" pillows at either Sam's Club or Costco a few years back. I keep two in my safe, one in my car and one in the cabinet I store my ammo in. https://www.amazon.com/Zarpax-LV-A300-Reusable-Dehumidifier-Single/dp/B00PZ3VC36 The blue dot turned white on the one at the top of the safe within a few days of putting it in, but none of the others had ever changed from blue. When I introduced grandpa's rabbit gun to the safe (which had been in a laundry closet since the 70's) both in the safe turned pink within a few days. I've been nuking them per the instructions on the back every time they turn pink (twice each now) and they're finally staying blue for about the past week. Around the same time I moved my ammo into my uncle's old navy footlocker (looks way cooler in the office than the Ikea cabinet did!) and it is starting to turn pink, too. I'll probably be nuking it this weekend. Dad got four of the same at the same time I got mine (I gave them to him for his birthday. Ain't I thoughtful?), and he has had to nuke the one safeguarding his ammo once since he added some old milsurp ammo to his cabinet a while back. I'm pretty confident they do the job reliably, given the factors involved whenever they have changed color. So I trust them. PS: After my trunk opened during a rain storm, I moved all four packets into the trunk of the car for a week after to help everything dry out. I was nuking all four ever day as they'd turn pink within a few hours of putting them in the trunk. They left behind a "dry" smell that reminds me of old cardboard but I've never noticed that in the gun safe.