Dranoel
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So many favorite characters, Good guys, bad guys, romance even some comedic bits. From Wulfgar Reinhardt in Nighthawks to Roy Batty to Ettienne Navarre, Martin in Flesh and Blood (was the tipping point to me using my middle name instead of my first) , John Ryder in The Hitcher. Blind fury, Wanted Dead or Alive, The Blood of heroes and even Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And that's just his first ten years. So many great movies and roles. Once said he didn't care whether he played a good guy or bad guy, good or evil didn't matter as long as he could make the character Magical. In that, he was an unequaled success. Valhalla awaits you, Sir.
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1 hour ago, EEH said:
Cool story,,
How many times have you thought ,, what ever happened to that guy ?
Every time I put that coin in my pocket.
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Thanks guys. It's not really something I show off a lot. It's more of a reminder of a personal life lesson. Regardless our differences, we're all a lot more alike than we realize.
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Many, many years ago (1983), I was In the Navy stationed onboard the USS Nimitz. We pulled into Livorno, Itally for a 3 day port call. % min after the anchor dropped an announcement came across the 1MC. The was a Soviet frigate also in port. If we were going ashore it had to be in civilian clothes. NO ONE would be allowed on the liberty launches in uniform. If we saw Soviet sailors we were to avoid them at all costs. Cross the street, turn and walk away, go around the next corner whatever it took to avoid the possibility of a fight that could cause an international incident.
So a couple buddies and I ventured into port to have a look around. ("Have a look around" was code for find a place to get whiskey) We did a little sight seeing and around noon walked into a nice looking restaurant for lunch. No sooner had we placed our, order but the waitress sat three other young men at the table next to us. They were wearing Soviet Naval Enlisted Uniforms. My buddies went full panic mode. "What do we do? They're sitting right there! The s#!t is gonna hit the fan, I know it!"
I said, "Calm down. Nothing bad is gonna happen." The sailors heard me. So I looked over at them and said, "Any of you speak English?" Two of them nodded, "Da. Da. You are Americans from Carrier? " "We are. Pull your table over here." They looked at each other and then got up and shoved their table up against ours. We ate. We drank. We talked about everything 20 yr old guys talk about. Girls, cars, motorcycles, music, and what life was like on our respective ships. We also learned that we tell the same jokes. No one asked for classified information and none was offered. Just 6 kids from opposite sides of the world having lunch, drinking wine and talking about guy stuff. For FOUR HOURS.
As we got up to leave, I remembered that I had a 50 cent piece in my pocket that I had been carrying as my "Good Luck" coin. I pulled it out and put it in the hand of Yuri, Whom I had spent the most time conversing with. (can't recall his last name for the life of me but I couldn't pronounce or spell it either) "Something to remember me by." He had a surprised look on his face, said thank you and jammed his hand into his own pocket. He pulled out this coin and gave it to me. "что-то, чтобы запомнить меня." (Something to remember me by) We shook hands and went our separate ways.
And that coin has been in my pocket every day since. Closest thing I have to a challenge coin.
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I'll just stick with bacon grease. I know where it comes from and guaranteed non-toxic.
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Product is free but shipping and handling is more than the product is worth. Yeah, I see that way too much.
Or ads like "Free Credit Report". All they actually give you is a meaningless score number and to get any details you have to subscribe to their service at $80/yr.
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On 7/15/2019 at 5:56 PM, accu9 said:
I mostly use EGW's (made by Colt). Currently trying out the Clark Custom 4 finger spring in an open gun. They work well but are a little trickier to tune vs. the traditional 3 prong.
Definitely trickier, but because you can tune the disco and trigger return leafs independently, it allows for a lot more adjustment than a 3 leaf. I been using them since '92.
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1 hour ago, theWacoKid said:
I busted mine in very short order and was very disappointed in the tooling marks and geometry.
10k rounds? That's a good month or two.
Drilled a giant stop hole in mine in an attempt to get one more match out of it.
Fair enough, but I see a lot of slide lightening and thin areas that I know didn't come from Caspian.
As for tooling marks and geometry, I never seen a slide with unusual tooling marks. Even the Foster stuff (Caspians cosmetic blems) it's damn hard to find the flaw that kept it from the Caspian name. I have a couple Foster frames that I spent hours LOOKING for the blem and never found it.
Did you get the slide directly from Caspian?
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Fascinating. I been using them for more than 20 yrs and never had one fail. Some of my guns have over 10K rnds and a couple 38 supers that have fired major loads since the first round.
I'd love to see some pics of the failures.
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Caspian is still made in the USA and wait times are 4-6 wks depending on the options you choose.
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Barton 1792 warehouse collapse
Happened about a year ago, but as I understand it when all was said and done they only lost 1200 or so barrels. I've tried 1792 and have to say it had a very rich flavor profile. But with the loss of so many barrels being aged, the price may go beyond my budget.
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I was becoming disenchanted with NAStyCAR by the mid-2000s with the "Chase". They lost even more of my interest when they let the fans pick two drivers for the chase. When they changed to the "Stages" they lost me completely and even Tony could drag me to watch another race.
There's a LOT of better racing out there. NASCAR isn't even racing anymore. They turned it into WWF on wheels. It's just a show.
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14 hours ago, Hi-Power Jack said:
You should be able to get some low prices in the Dominican Republic.
I Haiti when he does that.
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On 6/24/2019 at 4:33 AM, GrumpyOne said:
Yuck. Nothing but a tourist trap. You can do everything you want to do in 1.5 days, and see more than you want to see in .5 days.
And, yes, this opinion is from experience. I've spent MONTHS working on that island.
Thanks for living up to your name.
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Nice job. I was never a big fan of all the fancy stuff. Make it accurate and reliable first, then worry about pretty. Yours is far from ugly.
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I enjoy my Sunday mornings. The only peace I get.
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What I did many years ago to improve my trigger pull was to make it as difficult as possible. I got a Daisy 1911 BB pistol. Absolute WORST trigger you can imagine. 1/2" pull at around 8 lbs and felt like rubbing two bricks together. Practice like that until you can keep the sights on the center of the target through the entire pull. Once you get to that point, your competition pistol is gonna be a dream.
I have always believed in making practice as hard as possible. It should be real work. Then the match is easy.
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Divorce her immediately!
Any woman that would do something like that for her husband MUST be batshite crazy.
Seriously, though, very nice pistol and the wife is a keeper. Any woman who understands what is important to to you is worth holding onto forever.
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BTW: On the subject of lightening; one of the new projects I'm planning is a new racegun built on a Caspian double stack with a commander slide. Taking 3/4"off the front of the slide will lighten it without compromising integrity.
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On 6/10/2019 at 1:11 PM, Th3Un4givin said:
I assume these cuts are from Caspian?
Yes. That is an ad straight from Caspian's website. Getting ready to order a couple High & Tights for new projects.
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If you have some sandpaper, (or the wife's nail emery) sand down the area under the afflicted finger to relive it enough to balance out the pressure.
If your sights are returning to original point of aim, that is more important than where the sight goes. So at this point, you don't want to change your grip. make the gun fit you.
Remember too, you don't have to have a death grip on the gun. If you're squeezing hard enough to cause pain, it's prob'ly a little too hard. Back off just a hair.
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Just a thought. I been using Caspian slides and frames for years and never had a failure.
Depth of color case hardening?
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Posted · Edited by Dranoel
How far into the steel does case hardening go? Will it effect the steel deeper than bluing?
The reason I ask is that I was having an idea for my next project and wanted to try something different. Most of my builds I blue then slide the polish the flats back down to bare metal. But I'm wondering if I can case harden the slide, then blue over top of the case hardening and then polish the bluing off the flats to take it back down to a polished color case hardening. Can I even blue over CCH?