My pleasure, guys. I really enjoy playing with the firearms of this period, when we were just starting to figure out metallic cartridges, but were still tied to black powder. In the grand scheme of things, it was a relatively short period, but it sure produced some nifty firearms.

My new Colt I picked up yesterday. Going to the range on Friday.
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My Uncle was in France in WWII. He gave this to my Father when he returned. It has been sitting in a box in the closet since. My father passed about 8 years ago. Mother recently gave it to me. Complete with original holster, clip, and tool.
For the first time it is now legaly registered, along with a 1968 Walther PP he had.

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Brand new Colt 1911? I wasn't aware they were making them again. That's purty.

Nothing as pretty as many spoons posted here, but it shreads paper just as well - an H&K P30 in 9mm guise...http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1413513539.jpg

Nice HK! How do you like it? I just got a HK USP45 and I really like it.

Dave

I was thinking about one of those HKs as well. I hear they are rather nice, I haven't shot one personally.

The HK P30 is a fantastic handspoon. Extremely reliable - it simply does what it is supposed to do: it consistently fires off round after round of bullets without any drama. German engineering. After over 3000 rounds that have been put throught it, I've had 3 or so FTF's, and about 5 FTE's. (Most of the FTE's were likely from limp-wristing the shot). Doesn't matter what type of Ammo I use -- FMJ, Home Defense, or other - it just eats it right up.

The grip is the most ergonomic grip I have found: it comes with three different sets of grip widths and back strap sizes for complete customization. I fired my HK and a Glock 21 side by side, and the Glock's grip felt like I was holding a 2x4 plank compared to the HK.

The only complaints I have read about is the trigger action, which is known to be a little cluncky and on the heavy side: it's no high-end 1911 trigger. But personally, I'd rather NOT have a hair-trigger on a spoon that I use for personal / home defense...

The HK is a bit pricier than many spoons - but it is one of the few spoons that are completely ambidextrous - the safety, mag release, slide lock are all ambi. I shoot primarily lefty, so this was a must for me. On some spoons, you can switch some of these components from side to side: this is not the case with the HK - it has redundant controls. That's not very effective if you are forced to shoot with your non-dominant hand and have to fumble with the mag release since it isn't under your thumb...

-Z

Not a spoon....


Wilson Combat Tactical Supergrade



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1970 3-screw "NIB".

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The sbr spoon git a kx3 muzzle device and a mini ACOG this week...hope to get her out to play tomorrowhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...psfptdwcxi.jpg

Flaming Pig eh?

I opted for an STD on my 7.5". Couldn't bring myself to drop so much cash on a tube with a hole in it. ;)

Simple Threaded Devices

I got the pig cheap off some guy who didn't realize that hanging half a pound at the end of a 14.5" barrel wasn't the best idea.
I had a levang Comp before....similar concept to the STD
The ACOG.....yeah, even heavily discounted, they ain't cheap

Again? They actually never quit making them. Production was way, way down for awhile and they certainly were not "Colt quality", but all of that is behind them. Quality is back, better than ever, and production is increasing as well.

Yer killin' me, Craig. Awesome score...

When it comes to optics, buy once...cry once.

Never knew that, I thought they reduced pistol production to the old school revolvers.

Today's gun show score: A Whitworth Express Rifle in .375 H&H. These were imported by Interarms in the '70's and '80's, made in Manchester, England on a traditional Mauser '98 action. They did move the safety from the bolt shroud to the right side of the tang, but other than that it's a faithful copy of the Mauser. Traditional English express rifle, with the one standing leaf (for 100 yards) and two folding leaf (200 and 300 yards) rear sight, along with a big gold bead front. Pretty shadow line cheekpiece as well. It appears to be new and unfired.

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Just a random thought here.
It seems there is some looking down of the noses for our creative use of the term spoon. I do hope those people realize why that started and why it is important today to keep that going, more today then when it started
Just sayin'

I bought a Marlin XT-22 at for $199 and it came with 2 separate mail-in vouchers for a total of 1050 rounds of 22lr ammo.

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Posted at Spike's Tactical's Facebook page:

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Got my first Colt tonight. There will be many more.
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Thinking about buying this Parker VH from 1920, (the bottom spoon) it is from an estate buy that which I picked up a couple of really clean and well kept hardware store sppons...sorry for poor pic.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1414190650.jpg

Posted in another thread, but we don't seem to have any pics of spoons in action. This is her all time favorite spoon.

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But this one is all hers.

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New Pony in the Herd.............
 

Just added this one. It is a WWII vintage (1943) Colt Officers Model .22 rf. Stocks were done by Lew Sanderson. I have only seen one other set of his stocks with the finger grooves and they were on a 1911.

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Made a few holes in paper on sunday
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Fred, how do you like the grooves?

"plinking" at 800 yds....smiling.:D
Remington 700 courtesy of very nice Army sniper trainer...
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My daughter and her boyfriend out for a day of fun in the desert. Gotta love a Sig with a silencer :D

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Got an MVB ARC stock for the AR spoon. Collapsed, OAL is dead in 22"http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...ps9nyqy8ke.jpg

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.500 S&W..really not that bad of a kick but you better be ready.

My absolute favorite carry gun. That looks to be a 1903 .32. Now start looking for the M1908 .380.

you should grab the M 24 above it as well....the Parker with the english stock is either a bespoke gun or a restock. I would defiantly grab that.

A friend of mine passed away in January 2014 who had been in the gun biz for about 50 years and just missed being on an Olympic shooting team, some of whom he trained . Ian forgot more about spoons than I will ever know. So Ian's extensive collection of everything from Assault weapons, target arms (swiss), sniper rifles, Springfield's to flintlocks went to auction in May and in November in OC CA. Everything Ian had was top notch. Ian's friend list was a virtual who is who in the Gun biz, SD Hughes, Ron Long, Tom Rowe, Lou Forte, Don Nygard, Gene Shuey, Joe Poyer, Donald Stoehr and Fred Datig among others.

In the first auction I didn't know it was Ians collection, where I bought a Homer Dangler custom Flintlock rifle and a custom half stock percussion rifle. After the auction I got to talking to the auctioneer about who had consigned a good potion of the arms and low and behold it was Ians estate. In the second auction I knew that a Parker Hale Volunteer LRML was going to come up, which I was going to go after and got for a song. So here it comes the virtual prize of Ians collection a SD Hughes Custom built 1877 LR Sharps rifle....that I wanted....Ian spent 30 large building that rifle, my cut off was 10 large and I stuck to that figure, it going for 13..8. From what I understand it went to a friend of Ian's in the audience. However as a consolation prize I got the following...an ED Brown Custom Marine Corps Sniper rifle in 308 with a McMillian A4 stock, hand lapped Shilen Barrel and the commercial version of the MC Unertl M3 sniper scope...and I know Ian is rolling over in his grave at what I got it for..but I think he would be happy that I got it as I was one of about 20 people Ian had wanted to leave something to.

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Hey Bill, that guy has the same name as you. Good job you guys

Thanks :D