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August 20, 2017
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Here is one that has been a safe queen since my ancient FFL days. 176XXX serial range. Bought in late '78 or early '79. I polished the trigger, installed an NOS late style checkered hammer, an EWK Patridge front sight blade and 4 slot barrel nut. I guess the Zebrawood stock qualifies as an upgrade, as well. I very judiciously stoned the full cock notch on the trigger, and polished it and the hammer nose with a Dremel/Cratex bit. Smoothed all internal contact points with oiled 600/1000 wet or dry, then polished all with crocus cloth - including the trigger return spring slot. I used crocus cloth on the spring itself, the OD of the hammer spring and the ID of the hammer spring seat. If you look closely, you can see the flat socket head overtravel screw that I installed to stop the trigger from peening the frame with the tiny OEM set screw. Re-doing the scruffy white outline on the rear sight blade was nearly the most labor-intensive of all. At some point, I guess that I will actually have to shoot it!
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December 5, 2008
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Very Pretty!
Now we need a range report.
August 20, 2017
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snake-eye said
Very Pretty!Now we need a range report.
Thank you. And right about that range report!
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February 20, 2008
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40 year old Dan looks dang good!!
If you're going to drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
August 20, 2017
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I had the dumb luck and very good fortune of meeting Dan in 1978, just a couple of months before he passed. Was there at the gate on a Saturday morning when Dan drove up in his blue Ford stakebed pickup. He was there to get the mail and I was there hoping that someone was at the factory. Got the 50¢ tour of the schoolhouse and had a good talk with him. Handled a prototype .44 frame casting, and he showed me the Sig P210 he kept in his desk drawer. Had he not died, the .44 was to help finance a gen2 .357. Too bad. One heck of a man. Since I lived across the US from Monson, he mailed me a copy of Blueprint for Victory by Robert DePugh, which I still have. Not signed, dang it all!
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