Grayfox54

In my experience I've found that Colt collectors aren't hurting for money and are more than willing to spend it on what they want.

I've already checked with my LGS and they don't have any or know when they will. No luck on-line either. There are two gun shows near me next month. I'll look, but don't have high hopes. My guess is they won't be readily available for several months. But I will buy the first one I find.

Well I guess I'll have to buy a new phone. I actually have no idea how many Gs my phone is, but its old. Mine actually gives a message "Phone Storage Is Low". My son looked at it and best he can figure is that the phone is so old that all the updates it automatically does has taken up most of the memory. Yeah, I'm technologically challenged.

If you have physical issues at all, you don't want a large dog. Especially a hyper active one. My disabled friend got a lab mix as a puppy. She's home with her every single day. The dog is now 9 months old, 50 lbs, extremely hyper active and an absolute danger. Not because its mean. On the contrary, she's as sweet and loving as you could hope for. The problem is that the dog is young, overly playful and doesn't know her own strength. My friend just isn't capable of keeping up with her. Because the dog is hyper, she's accidentally knocked my friend down several times and tears up anything she can get a hold of. If my friend does go somewhere, the dog has to locked in a wire kennel or she'll make a mess. Its not really the dog's fault. She's just being a puppy and having fun. Not realizing the danger she is. My friend has seriously considered rehomeing her. But she loves that big, dumb pup and just can't bring herself to do it.

Absolutely no doubt. She did fail miserably. But my questions are was she even there when the asst. director took the gun? Did she give it to him? Did she know he had taken it? There has been absolutely no mention of any of this. Last I heard, stupid isn't illegal.

I'm thinking more and more that the assistant director will be the fall guy. I've seen numerous references that he took the gun from the cart. Yet, other than who she is and her inexperience, there hasn't been one reference saying the armorer gave him the gun or even knew he took it. Was she even there? As I see it, Her only fault was not keeping better control over the guns. Last I heard, the Sheriff and DA have a press conference scheduled for tomorrow. Maybe they'll clear up this mess then.

The Hi-Power is my all time favorite 9mm pistol. I already own three versions of it. At the first opportunity, I'll have four.

Baldwin will likely walk on criminal charges, but the resulting civil lawsuits might ruin him. At least I hope so. I don't think the Hollywood crowd is going to support him. What with all the talk about unsafe practices on the set and Baldwin know to be an azz in general. Much of the stories I've seen have been pointing out how wrong this was. Several actors and the media have stressed the mistakes that led up to this unfortunate event. Baldwin may just find himself alone.

My only question is how soon will I be able to find one to buy?

Hate to tell you, but fire don't work. The roots will survive and just grow back.

As to why use real guns? They are readily available, look and sound right when fired with blanks, blanks are cheap. Movies have used real guns since the very beginning. Think silent westerns. Why not just add in CGI or other special effects to make it look like the gun fired? Because doing so is expensive, time consuming and requires high dollar experts to make it look right. The way I see it, at least three people messed up here. 1. The armorer should have checked the gun better. 2. The assistant director should have checked the gun before handing it over. 3. Baldwin should have checked the gun himself. Plus, as producer, Baldwin is ultimately responsible for everything that happens on set. It would seem that his money saving efforts led to a death. I sincerely hope Baldwin gets crucified for this. But I know it ain't gonna happen. Hopefully nobody in Hollywood is going to want anything to do with him for a very long time and he'll be put out of work.

Well it looks as if Miss Gutierrez-Reed is gonna be the fall guy. It seems that in a pod cast a couple of months ago that she commented about not being sure if she was ready to be a movie head armorer. I kinda find it hard to believe that a girl who has been shooting and handling firearms since she was big enough to pick one up would make such a mistake. But then, we all have brain farts now and then. Very sad indeed. Question: can you still get fingerprints off a fired cartridge case or does the heat destroy them? Seems it would be easy enough to check prints to see who actually put the live round in that gun.

Here's an interesting twist. The armorer was 24 year old Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the daughter of shooting legend Thell Reed. I find it hard to believe this girl would make such a stupid mistake. Did the assistant director grab the wrong gun? Why was a loaded gun there to begin with? This is getting stranger by the minute.

I was referring to real guns. I don't do plastic. Not even Springfield's plastic.

Congratulations on getting a fine piece of history! I haven't heard much about the CMP guns in quite a while. I guess they still have some then? I got one during the first round. Mine is a 1942 Colt frame with an Ithica slide.

WHOA! The interwebs are blowing up about this. Especially the gun forums. All kinds of stories coming out. Some have credible sources others are anybodies guess. One claims the non-union prop master/ armorer was actually a local and quite possibly a woman. Its said she brought the live ammo on to the set for recreational shooting. Somehow a live round got mixed up with the dummy ammo that was supposed to be used. I find this a bit hard to believe, but possible. Another said that it happened between takes and Baldwin was off on some kind of furious rant, screaming and waving the gun around when he fired it. Knowing Baldwins infamous temper, this may be plausible. Any way you look at it, there had to be more than one mistake made. Poor gun handling, poor judgement and plenty of stupid to go around. As to the truth, well we're dealing with Hollywood and a whole lot of money. Spin is the word of the day. Odds are that no charges will be filed unless there's a need for a scape goat. Baldwin will no doubt go free as he has too much money and influence in the liberal world. Unless the local LEOs are honorable men who can't be bought, we may never know what actually happened. Maybe the truth will come out in a couple of years when the civil suits finally go to trial.

Don't be at all surprised when Baldwin claims to be a completely innocent victim and never accepts any blame what-so-ever. In fact, don't be surprised when he doubles down on his gun control efforts because now he "knows" what its like to take a life. Btw: this azzhole anti-gunner has now killed and injured more people than I have in my 67 years as a gun owner.

Actually, he was the star of his own TV show. A spy series called "Cover Up". That's where it happened. It didn't last long.

I'm a bit of a sci/fi geek. But never really got into Dune. Never read the book. I tried to watch the original movie a couple of times, but never got past the first half hour. It always seemed to be more about politics and back stabbing than real sci/fi. From what I've seen of the previews, this is just another special effects driven movie with a so-so story. IDK, maybe I'll give this new version a shot.

Another anti-gun actor making big money using guns in a movie. I feel badly for the victims. No sympathy for Baldwin at all. A real gun person, even an actor on set, would have checked the gun himself before using it. Back in the 80s a hot, up and coming young actor, Jon-Erik Hexum, accidentally killed himself on set playing Russian Roulette with a .44 magnum loaded with blanks. The blank drove a piece of his skull through his brain. There is no excuse for bad gun handling. Even an anti-gunner should know that if you plan to make your living with one.

I'm not a fan of plastic from anybody. But it is nice to see Gluck lose.

Springfield don'rt sell no junk. Even if it is just a rebranded foreign made gun, you can bet it will meet Springfield's rigorous specs. I have high hopes for this one. But very likely it will be pretty expensive and take forever to get to the open market where guys like me can get one.

If it is a Springfield version of the BHP, I WILL buy one!

You might wanna check case length. Some of that brass may need trimming. Also possible that the barrel has a short throat and tight chamber. You may need to adjust OAL accordingly. Third possibility is that your over crimping and slightly bulging the shoulder.

I've mentioned disposing of my late friends collection before. He had a bunch of SKSs and Several Mosins. I think the most he ever paid for one was $100 and that was a scarce SKS that was still in cosmoline. Depending on exactly what it was, I sold them all for between $250 & $450. A very nice profit for his wife.