It followed me home from the last Austin show. After some digging I've determined it's a Gibbs No.7 - not really historically accurate in any sense as far as I can tell, but an offering I found intriguing nonetheless.
I.e. - I walked by the table, a small voice in the back of my head said...
A late acquisition. This one's a five-screw K-frame, on the market before there was such a thing as the Model 10. As best I can decipher, production was sometime in the early '20s. The nickel finish came somewhat later.
I also happened to wander onto the Cabelas website, and since...
Lately I've been dabbling in technical drawings (again) - mostly a mix of old airplanes and old guns. It's still an airplane kick at the moment.
This is the latest. It goes to a small pulp-ish fictional project of mine.
It's getting there, but not quite finished. I think it needs...
Cool. I was under the impression there was a six month delay. Perhaps that was for another animal.
Anyway, I was considering sending mine to Paul Krogh and seeing what he could do. The springs need to be changed, as does the bolt handle (mine has the new one, which looks nothing like the...
If you can lay hands on a copy, read CW2. It's fiction and long out of print, but it's worth the time. I think the author was Layne Heath...or something along those lines.
It's one of those books they'll have to pry from my dead fingers before I give it up.
It was a wonderful thing, seeing the ban go. Now if we could just be rid of all the leftovers that resulted.
I mean, really - who wants a five-round mag for an M1 Carbine?
Blasphemy, I say.
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