Gone through fire was my first thought as well. Looks like guns that were recovered from my BIL/cousin's and sister's house after it burned to the ground about three years ago. Soak it in brake cleaner and it should be fine. That there done worked well for my eyes.
Nice book shelf show piece....
NRA Benefactor
A fella here suggest a product called Acid Magic. I guess they use it a lot in the Marine industries. It's like safe muriatic acid. Not much fumes, you can get it on your hands. Guess when they use tools in the salt water they of course rust right quick. Screw driver bits etc. They soak em in Acid Magic over night, oil them up and put them back in the tool box.
Don't know if it's potent enough to do much with this but absolutely nothing to lose. I might try the electrolysis deal too just for fun. I know it's never work again but would be nice to get some of the parts to move again.
Definitely a book shelf show piece. Not even mine yet, guy might want it back. If he don't want it, I won't throw it away.
In Memory of Paul "Dietrich" Stines.
Dad: Say something nice to your cousin Shirley
Dietrich: For a fat girl you sure don't sweat much.
Cue sound of Head slap.
RIP Muggsy & TMan
"If you are a warrior legally authorized to carry a weapon and you step outside without that weapon, then you become a sheep, pretending that JOCKO will not come today."
Thanks for the information, I hope I never need it!
I copied it to my email so I'll have it in the future.
Well the acting chiefs friend sent it with him for me to look at. It was apparently his grandfathers. It went through a fire at some point and apparently nothing has been done to it since. The chiefs a little vague on the back story, I don't think he really knows much about it.
He into old stuff like me but he made the comment he would have just tossed it. I could never do that.
The strange thing is as rusted as it is the US stamp is clear as a bell. That and 872 is all thats remotely readable on the whole gun.
In Memory of Paul "Dietrich" Stines.
Dad: Say something nice to your cousin Shirley
Dietrich: For a fat girl you sure don't sweat much.
Cue sound of Head slap.
RIP Muggsy & TMan
"If you are a warrior legally authorized to carry a weapon and you step outside without that weapon, then you become a sheep, pretending that JOCKO will not come today."
I gotta quit looking at the internet. Kentucky Gun has a Century Arms Canik TP9SFX with a Vortex Dot sight for just a smidge over 600.
One of the sergeants here has one and it's pretty sweet. I've not shot it but he says it's a real shooter
20 round mags (probably need them being 9mm) and lots of options in the box.
What do I need it for ya know? Maybe it's time for an intervention.
In Memory of Paul "Dietrich" Stines.
Dad: Say something nice to your cousin Shirley
Dietrich: For a fat girl you sure don't sweat much.
Cue sound of Head slap.
RIP Muggsy & TMan
"If you are a warrior legally authorized to carry a weapon and you step outside without that weapon, then you become a sheep, pretending that JOCKO will not come today."
Yeah, and I gotta stop visiting gun stores. I decided to pass on the BHP because I found a clearance sale on .38 sp ammo online. Bought 2,000 rounds for the price of the BHP.
If it's still there when I replenish my play money, I'll think about it.
Carry 38 ammo or practice? I gotta find some of that for the wife. Had to find anything around here that isn't +P.
I got lots of brass, guess I should load up some.
Did you find out if the BHP was really a BHP?
With my 4th job my play money adds up a bit faster, wife lets me keep 20 percent of everything I make on that job. But seems I spend it as fast as I make it and don't have much time to play neither. Something is wrong with this equation.
In Memory of Paul "Dietrich" Stines.
Dad: Say something nice to your cousin Shirley
Dietrich: For a fat girl you sure don't sweat much.
Cue sound of Head slap.
RIP Muggsy & TMan
"If you are a warrior legally authorized to carry a weapon and you step outside without that weapon, then you become a sheep, pretending that JOCKO will not come today."
Heck, I walked into an Academy store here the other day and saw two boxes of Aguila .32 S&W Long (lead round nose, 98 grain) on the shelf. Bought one of them ($21/50) just to plink through my new .327 Federal SP101. Hard to believe what used to be common cheap ammo is now difficult to find and so expensive.
Told my brother about the other box, so he went there the next day and saw 5 boxes on the shelf - he bought all 5. I don't like to hog all the scarce stuff though, prefer to leave some for the next guy.
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition
-Rudyard Kipling