BL(FG)T

Bacon-Lettuce-Fried Green Tomato sandwich,  with fried eggplant on the side. Fattening? Yes. Delicious? Absolutely!

New Rig

Well, here it is, a strong side belt slide holster for a 1908 hammerless.

 On a related note, my wife says I should think about business cards, a small-time website, and investing in a machine like a Tippmann Boss...

Frankly, right now I have enough business to keep me entertained and with a little bit of spending money in my pocket. I worry that advertising will get me enough business that I don't have any free time left. The wife says not to be afraid of success.

I'm not sure I'm ready to take the leap right now. I know that the potential for a cottage industry is here, but I don't want to bite off more than I can chew, and end up damaging a reputation before I have a chance to establish a good one.

Thoughts?

Good/Bad

Took the Colt out and shot it today. The good news is it runs like a top!

Those are CMP air rifle targets. The black is 1.5 inches across, iirc. As you can see by the top 3 targets, the gun is capable of good accuracy. I threw one on each, but that's my fault, not the gun's. The targets were shot at 7 yards. I did some basic dirt-shooting, and put about 50 rounds through it, both Speer Lawman and Hornady Critical Defense. The damn gun ran so great and shot so accurately, I'm not gonna change a thing with it (much to the relief of McThag...).

Ok, I'm going to change one thing, which brings us to the bad: I broke those cheap faux-ivory grips.

It will have to live with chipped grips for a month or so while I rebuild my gun fund, but I'm definitely gonna need a new set.

I Made Me Another Holster

For my Colt!

I plan on making a belt and another OWB holster for my 3-inch S&W model 36 that match. I feel like this Colt would make a great backup to a Smith wheelgun.

I don't know why I'm digging the thought of that setup... but I am, nonetheless. I know I can carry a Glock 19, without a reload, and have less weight and more bullets, but I'm just... hell, just digging the thought of those two guns as a New York Reload type setup.

So I'm gonna go with it.

Happiness...

... is a freezer full of meats! It makes me feel downright successful to have lots of protein, in multiple varieties at my fingertips!

There's about 25lb of meats, there. And there's 3 chickens, a Boston butt, and a soup bone in the deep freeze. And 2 more pounds of burger in the fridge for grilling this evening.

Ah, heaven!

Edit to add: Wife was incensed that I didn't mention that she found great meat deals at the local grocer. 

I figured that it went without saying that everything good in my life is because of her!

Berry's

I like their bullets, and they come in a dandy little plastic box that is great for storing completed cartridges... the problem is the boxes come with 250 bullets, but only hold 200 finished cartridges.

Ah, well!

Single Stacks

Aside from my affinity for the S&W j-frame, have I mentioned that I like single stacks?

The Ruby and the Colt

Last weeked, while at my Dad's, he passed on a Legacy firearm to me with an interesting history.

It's a Ruby handgun, which was made by the Spanish under multiple contracts for the French army during WWI. There is almost no parts standardization to speak of, to the point that buying an extra magazine for one of these guns is a craps-shoot. It may not work in a given Ruby.

The one give to me was likely a surplus purchase after the Great War by my father's great uncle, Roy.

Roy was a cop, and a colorful character, and dad says he never remembered seeing Uncle Roy without the Ruby tucked into his waistline. Roy had some interesting adventures with this little pistol, that still survive in family lore. I will keep the Ruby happily as a legacy gun, and a testament to just how basic a firearm can be, and still provide service through a century.

The Ruby was a cribbed copy of a wildly-successful-at-the-time design, the Colt Pocket Hammerless.

As I recently posted, I put one of these on Lay-away. The finish is about gone, but the counter-guy let me field-strip it, and the internals are in great shape. Someone used the hell out of it, but took good care of it, too. I'm not sure what I'll do with it, other than carry it; the Pocket Hammerless is a Grail Gun for me. Once I have it home, I'm going to get to a range and shoot the hell out of it. Once I determine that it is reliable, I plan to carry it regularly. This gun, in its condition has little collector value, and I want a shooter, anyway. It may become a  candidate for a re-finish. Possibly in Nickel. I will pick up an extra magazine if I can find one, and depending on how it shoots, I may order a set of Wolff springs for it. I may end up replacing the sights, but I want to shoot it first, to see if I can acquire them okay. I have heard that the rear sight dovetail and front sight stake-hole are the exact same as on 1911's, so finding a set of sights may not be too hard.

Whatever I do to it, I'm looking forward to giving the old pony a good home, where it will have a purpose again.

More Leather

I had a guitar strap and a set of coozies commissioned this week.

The musician is also a sailor,  hence the nautical theme.

I have been experimenting with  Hi-Liter dye that darkens the leather in any creases or cuts, and I'm really liking the way it makes a piece pop!

Got his Wolf

This past week, my son completed his last requirements to earn his Wolf badge, and advance to Bear scout next year.

We planted trees at a local park as a community service project. To say I'm proud is an understatement. Both sides of my family -and my wife's family- have a long history in scouting. He was proud of his accomplishment, and I was sure to make certain he knew I was proud of him, too.

Hopefully one day he will be the next Eagle Scout in a long line of Eagle Scouts.

He's the one in the hat, to the right of the picture.