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Armybrat

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  1. Well, I don’t qualify to order CMP firearms.
  2. Am hearing there will be some more CMP releases of 1911s & M1 Carbines (I think) pretty soon.
  3. Here’s the 1918 vintage 1911 carried in WW2 by a close family friend who flew a C54 over The Hump to China. He passed away at age 97 about 15 years ago. He was a past president of the Hump Pilots Association. My brother owns the old pistol with its issued shoulder holster now.
  4. Ordering a firearm online can be a PITA sometimes. Here’s part of an email I sent to my FFL…..
  5. Never saw a tent at any of my high school track meets.
  6. Yep, those too. He’s lucky they didn’t send a crop duster to pick him up.
  7. Those MGA wood floorboards bring back the memories…..one of mine caught fire in 1965. Lulz.
  8. Downgraded from a Gulfstream to a Challenger. Lol
  9. ^^ Different set of circumstances now - we were already in a depression then and did not have trillions in foreign debts to contend with. Will Orange Guy blink first? Who knows, he’s such a loose cannon anything could happen.
  10. Improvements over a real GI 1911 are the 3-dot sights (which I can actually see) and the lowered ejection port.
  11. That derringer looks like 1/2 of my grandma’s Sharps 4 barrel .30 rimfire. (Her 21st birthday photo taken in 1898)
  12. Hearing her two little dogs yapping up a storm late one night my MIL, who lived alone, brandished a tiny potmetal semiautomatic Titan .25acp to scare off an intruder who was attempting to to break in her kitchen door. I was unaware she owned a firearm at the time, and was kind of bemused that she had bought it at her small Texas town hardware store without requesting any advice from me or other relatives. Thank goodness though she probably saved herself from great harm or loss of property if she had been unarmed. Anyway, I persuded her to allow me to buy her something more suitable & reliable than the Titan. She was familiar with firearms from years before, being taught to shoot handguns & .22 rifles by her father. So I bought this 1982 production Model 36 for her to keep in her nightstand. She was well able to handle it after a shooting session at the local landfill. That is all the “training” she wanted to do, as she really wasn’t a gun aficionado- but did recognize their utility for personal protection. After she passed away at the age of 85 in 1995, my wife inherited it as a part of her estate. Later on we passed it on to our son who still owns it (along with the box & papers). BTW - son owns also the little Titan .25, which out of the hundreds of firearms owned by my immediate and large extended family, is only the second gun that has actually been used in a self defense situation. It has had less than 50 rounds fired through it in all those years. (Pardon the dark background - I posted this on the S&W forum and don’t know how to switch it to normal)
  13. This one in Oklahoma is popular…among many: https://www.sgammo.com/catalog/rifle-ammo-sale/223-556mm-ammo
  14. A friend in Las Vegas said he has waited 4 years for Gator to hold this pose long enough for a photo. When a Golden Retriever (Gator) identifies as a sea lion….
  15. Hope he doesn’t lose a lot of sleep.
  16. My Defender was a package deal with”deal” that included two extra mags & the two bags. Nothing special at all.
  17. A Garrison has a few upgrades: A Defender is really just a Milspec but with plainer grip panels and comes with only one magazine:
  18. Username fits response to topic.
  19. I paid $559 + TTL for my last one in 2024…..this very basic lower end Springfield Armory Defender - it came with 3 magazines, a range bag, and a smaller bag.
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