Recent content by Maj Dad

I got the lead removal cloths from Brownell's, and one of them easily removed the blast marks from my nickel 44 - front of the cylinder looks fantastic! Get one or two - they're inexpensive and really easy to use. Brownell's says that the dark discoloration on the cloth can be ignored, but it...

Never used Flitz in the Army. It was always Brasso for us, and I have some of that too. Had to pick up my first bottle of Brasso in several years to polish one of my old belt buckles that is suitable for civilian dress attire. We used Brasso but also Flitz to touch things up without having to...

I do not like the delicacy of the original lock works, so I don't care how they are replaced, but I would want something more durable, and something that does not require factory training and years of experience to work on. Without Jerry Kuhnhausen's books, specially The Colt Double Action...

That's funny. Used it in the Army long ago and far away - but I will definitely pick some up. And you never know when you might need to polish up your uniform brass... ;-)

Wow! Thanks to all of you for some superb pointers! I have seen several that could fit the bill, but I just have to decide, now - I will let you guys know which way I go, but this is the quality stuff I was looking for. Hand salute! :thumbup: Cheers, George J.

doubleh speaks the truth. Kroil and time, and maybe a little heat will do it if it can be done. It has salvaged so many frozen screws/nuts on guns, cars, and machinery left out in the open that I don't bother with other penetrating oils, effective though they may be. It's hard to improve on...

I am looking for a well-made, lined, preferably flap holster for a very nice 6" nickel M29, and my usual source (El Paso Saddlery) really doesn't have one I like other than a shoulder holster, which may be what I wind up with. I would really like to browse other makers holsters, but I haven't...

If 22 32 refers to Kit guns, it is for the J frame size. I have a 4" .22/32 Kit gun and it resembles a K frame until you compare them side by side. I don't know anything about Lawrence's numbering system, so this could be totally in left field...

I recently joined the S&W Collectors Assn after I started squandering my children's inheritance on these old beauties. My oldest is a Mod 1905, SN 856XX, manufactured between 1906 - 1909 that Driftwood probably dated for me a few years back. Next is an immediate postwar Mod 1905 SN C 9451XX...

I have an absolutly beautiful M29 with a nickel finish, and while I have been cleaning guns for ~60 years, I would like to ask for your input as to which solvent/cleaner will remove the black ring blasted onto the cylinder throat environs by those magnificent 44 mag blasts. I ask because I...

The first S.N. letter prefix after the war was S, and though initially they had the old long action, the shorter pull was introduced not long after production ramped back up. Don't know offhand when the S.N. prefix changed over to C, but I have a pre-Model 10 M&P S.N. C 370721 mfg in the...

Well, I corresponded with 2 members of the S&W Collectors Assn and S&W Historical Foundation, and it is not a 34-2 but a .22/32 Kit Gun, mfg ~1956-57. I didn't notice and failed to mention that the number 342 (no spaces, no dash) which the dealer interpreted as a Mod 34-2 is on the frame and...

Thanks, guys - validated my suspicion that it was a good buy. I knew it was smaller than the K frame, and that was one reason I liked it - I've had several K frame target pistols over the years, during the waning years of the center fire pistol matches, and a couple of J's (36's & a 642). This...

I've always wanted a Smith 22, and just happened across this one on GB. I looked around a little (here and elsewhere), and $600 didn't seem grossly overpriced. The pistol looked nice, and since I'm trying to spend my kids inheritance one gun at a time (and they can deal with selling), I made a...

Yeah, the Belgians/Germans/Europeans love their proof marks. Honestly, I like them - adds character. You can probably find a reference on line for the requisite proof marks used at the time if you are on "a mission from God..." :cool: And that is some very well executed checkering - top notch...