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Attn: Doc, and others (not watches)

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Hope you guys don't mind, but I moved the posts (most of them) about guns to it's own thread and kept the watch posts in the watch thread. I'm easily confused don't ya know.
 
DrEntropy said:
IMHO one of the fundamental skills for kids to learn is firearms discipline. Weapons handling. Your daughter is fortunate to have a dad who takes responsibility to teach her.
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I couldn't agree with you more. Familiarity with firearms is something I think all of us should learn at an early age. It gives us respect for what a firearm can do without making us afraid of them. I started shooting when I was either five or six. My ex didn't let me start our kids that early but my boys are decent shots, my youngest (the marine) consistently qualifies as expert in both rifle and pistol. And my daughter is learning, though she has a long ways to go still.
 
Basil said:
Hope you guys don't mind, but I moved the posts (most of them) about guns to it's own thread and kept the watch posts in the watch thread. I'm easily confused don't ya know.
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I defy being pigeonholed. My 1908 Colt Officer's Model and my 1885 Elgin Dexter St. This Officer's Model is currently the oldest Colt I own, I know 113 years old is rookie stuff and I can do better. The Elgin is the first watch I ever bought for my self. I bought it with some money I had saved up from mowing lawns when I was in jr. high. I wore it throughout high school and into college.
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I confess I'm a piker when it comes to either. Both my firearms and timepiece "collections" are kind of left-handed. NOTHING like Walt's! Mine were acquired due to familiarity (the Walthers & P-238) and the desire for conceal-ability for EDC. The timepieces were either gifted, inherited or caught my attention at the time. Truly impressed with what Walt has managed to find in the way of Colt examples, too. Some stunning pieces.
 
I took the gun safety courses as a Boy Scout decades ago, those of us who grew up in the country mostly did. And it wasn't unusual for some farm kid to come to school with a rack in the rear window of a family truck containing one or more rifles/shotguns. No one then thought much of it.

I used to hunt some with my dad then, never got much as my reflexes just weren't fast enough. And haven't shot in years now, although I do have a small collection of antiques.

Pre 1808 3rd pattern brown Bess
period converted cap and ball from a flintlock
1830s Brunswick British rifle, has only 2 grooves cut inside the barrel
1830s rifle made in northern Ohio, family piece
2 1853 3 band Enfields
1870s short level Martini-Henry
1880s long lever Martini-Henry
1895 pattern Mauser rifle
several old shotguns that came down through the family

Don't know that any other than the shotguns and maybe the Mauser would be safe to actually shoot. The early flintlocks and cap and ball barrels aren't much thicker that water pipe, says a lot about the power of the powder in their day.
 
Thanks Doc. My eventual goal is to own at least one example of each model of what Colt produced in the pre-war period. It's a fairly ambitious goal but I have a decent start on it.

Mike, that's a pretty respectable collection you have. I know a guy that owns an old short lever Martini Henry and he shoots the snot out of it.
 
Thanks. I had a chance several years ago to grab most of the 1800s stuff, the rest came from family and I was the only one interested. I have this thing about being able to hold history in my hands, even if it may or may not have done much. The Brown Bess for example is a British Army piece and being sometime before 1808 when the British east India Company who provided them started stamping a seal on the breech, is old enough it could have served against Napoleon. Can't ever know since they're not serial numbered but, kind of neat to think, maybe it was at Waterloo.
 
This is the only Colt I own, inherited from my father. It's a 1903 vintage New Army in 41 Colt. Dad and the sheriff in Meridian MS were drinking buddies. The sheriff took it from a bad guy and gave it to dad way back in 1947.
 
DrEntropy said:
Wow! What does he have to do to get ammo for it?!?
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He loads his own. 577/450. In order to make the brass he uses 24 gauge brass shot shells. It seems like a hassle but he says it's a lot better than paying for ready made brass.
 
waltesefalcon said:
He loads his own. 577/450. In order to make the brass he uses 24 gauge brass shot shells. It seems like a hassle but he says it's a lot better than paying for ready made brass.
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Thought so. It'd be a real bite to pay someone else to do it.
 
Man, I don't know how I never saw this thread when it started back in 2016. I'd love to crack a beer or Mason jar with some of you old timers though and talk old iron for sure. We have a bunch of stuff in the safe. As far as daily carry like the thread started with, USP subcompact or Glock 19 with the belt clip gets the daily duties. My watch is a lot less sexy than most of you guys, as it's the issued Gshock. Knife is usually either an Emerson commander or a Kershaw. Great thread
 
anarchy99 said:
Man, I don't know how I never saw this thread when it started back in 2016. I'd love to crack a beer or Mason jar with some of you old timers though and talk old iron for sure. We have a bunch of stuff in the safe. As far as daily carry like the thread started with, USP subcompact or Glock 19 with the belt clip gets the daily duties. My watch is a lot less sexy than most of you guys, as it's the issued Gshock. Knife is usually either an Emerson commander or a Kershaw. Great thread
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It started as a thread about watches that quickly grew to include guns. Bas split it into two threads yesterday.
 
anarchy99 said:
Man, I don't know how I never saw this thread when it started back in 2016. I'd love to crack a beer or Mason jar with some of you old timers though and talk old iron for sure. We have a bunch of stuff in the safe. As far as daily carry like the thread started with, USP subcompact or Glock 19 with the belt clip gets the daily duties. My watch is a lot less sexy than most of you guys, as it's the issued Gshock. Knife is usually either an Emerson commander or a Kershaw. Great thread
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Glad ya found it, J!

Found and scanned pix of my Old Man's bring-back P-38, these were 35mm with a fixed lens SLR in about 1966. I know I've better/sharper medium format shots but haven't found 'em yet. Weapon stolen (suspect one of my brother's "friends") in the late '70's and the photos with the larger format camera were good enough to read the serial number for the stolen weapons report. Insurance replaced it with one of the NATO issue ones, not the same!

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Lovely couple of P-38s gentlemen.

Doc, I see your backdrop for the photo of your old man's Walther. My grandma had an entire roll of swastikas that she kept in her cedar chest. Her dad (he was in his 40s during the war) was in the 45th infantry and they took a flag factory in France, he cut about 8 or 9 swastikas off a big roll and sent them home. They were kinda large and had dotted lines around them for the workers to cut them out and sew them to the flags.
 
That background is a flag Dad and his crew "liberated." I've a photo someplace of he and the crew on their quad-fifty, mock-cleaning one of the barrels. If I find it I'll scan it. I've got the flag.
 
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