greencobra
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the one you shouldn't like but do. and surprise, gets a lot of trigger time at the end of the day. mine is a 1911 style pistol i bought on a whim after walking into 4S just to look around and kill time. it was, and still is, a s&w e series in .45 auto. yeah, i'm a 45acp hold out, love the cartridge. the only reason i asked the salesman to take it out of the showcase was...ready...i thought it was a pretty gun. those fish scale slide cuts were new at the time and the pistol just caught my eye. they let me dry fire the gun a couple times and couldn't believe how really nice that trigger was. i'm thinking at the time, this was a mis-marked used gun in the new showcase section and the original owner had it worked on, or it had trigger work while at the factory in the custom shop. but why would it? i've never had the break measured, i don't know how many pounds it is. not wanting to let this one get away, i forked over the credit card and paid the $779 asking price. this was a while ago, don't remember exactly how long i've owned it but gotta be ~ 15 years. i'll have to look it up. i wanted to dress it up a little so i had esmeralda do the grips. the original design was what you see here, but i asked he to leave off the big celtic cross that was overlaid on top of the celtic pattern design. the wood is iron wood. they aged well over the years, i'm diggin' that patina the grips took on.
shooting the pistol...it surprises everyone. a buddy shot it in several bowling pin matches when they were super popular a few years ago and has begged me to sell it to him. i dunno, there's is a pistol he has i'd consider doing an even swap for, but...he's not ready. lol. this pistol is a keeper and shoots way better than i can. i should call and ask smith if they have any info recorded about this guns manufacture. you know, was it ever in the custom shop when it was being made. all of a sudden i feel like shooting it right now. i dunno. anyway, the photo below is said pistol.
it'd be fun to hear of any of your sleeper guns that surprised the hell out of you...and others over the years. show 'em off if you want, maybe you could tell us a little about them if you're so inclined.
shooting the pistol...it surprises everyone. a buddy shot it in several bowling pin matches when they were super popular a few years ago and has begged me to sell it to him. i dunno, there's is a pistol he has i'd consider doing an even swap for, but...he's not ready. lol. this pistol is a keeper and shoots way better than i can. i should call and ask smith if they have any info recorded about this guns manufacture. you know, was it ever in the custom shop when it was being made. all of a sudden i feel like shooting it right now. i dunno. anyway, the photo below is said pistol.
it'd be fun to hear of any of your sleeper guns that surprised the hell out of you...and others over the years. show 'em off if you want, maybe you could tell us a little about them if you're so inclined.
Well, if they're paying that little attention to it, why argue. Bought a bunch of their flies, and talked them down a bit lower for the 22A. It was filthy in and out, cleaned it up and got a new extractor and spring, recoil spring and recoil spacer from S&W. Ran perfectly, continued to run perfectly with whatever random ammo I threw at it. Okay trigger, decent accuracy, not ammo sensitive, mags weren't stupid money. At some point it stopped coming out of the range box between trips and just lived there.
