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Frankly I would be happy if it was safe and worked. Reading on antique radio forums shows that this model needs upgrades to make it safe and reliable. However, what I know about electricity or radios doesn't count as knowledge. If this radio were mint and it isn't, but not bad, and it was updated with appropriate tubes, capacitors, transformer, wiring they sell for about 800.00 plus. I suspect mine, with very minor veneer damage and non op is worth at best a 100.00. This model of Zenith is supposedly very common. My brother and I used to listen to shortwave broadcasts on this when we were kids about 50 years ago. Quite a bit of info on parts and they are available. Which is good because I need to repair some of the preset switches. I've got the schematics and plenty of people have rebuilt these but I am not sure about tackling this project. Too bad that someone doesn't rebuild just the radio chassis so that I could buy one, and send them my old one as part of the exchange. [IMG]http://i862.photobucket.com/albums/ab181/graycrait/Zenith%201005%2010S464/Zenith1005.jpg[/IMG]

Something went haywire in my 1940 Zenith floor model 10S464. Does anyone know of someone who restores these in mid TN? Also and this is a shot in the dark, does anyone know who either rebuilds the "radio" chassis to modern or at least more efficient updated parts including speaker. I like the radio's looks but I am not tied to tradition when it comes to performance. After looking online at the antique radio forums it appears to be a terrible sin to replace the guts of one of these with modern components except where safety is concerned. I have sinned many times and replacing the guts of an antique radio with new components would stand well down on my own list of wrongdoings. I'm willing to take the chance. Craig in Clarksville

Now that is a great pistol!

Mike.357, Wine was: Renwood Syrah 2004 and Our Daily Red 2010 Oh Shoot, Eccentric - me? Maybe I am. Reminds me of a time when the planning staff of a military division HQ asked me to come over and review one of their plans. I asked the "Jedi Knights" why they asked me to look at their plan. I was told that I didn't look at things the same way as most others and that they wanted a different perspective. I guess eccentric can be a good thing - sometimes.

Mike.357, I probably shouldn't tell what I traded but then maybe it will show folks what a softy I am and show that I like trading and shooting more than possessing. Frankly, I can shoot any handgun well enough but I do have favorites. I traded one of my Glock 17Ls, a 1st Gen G17 and my frankenstein G26 .22LR. The guy I traded with has a butt load of Sigs but wants to go back to Glocks and I happen to like single stack Sigs but hadn't owned any but have shot them before. This guy has 24 ARs, around 16 Sig 556's and no one, including him, kinow how many handguns he has. He is eccentric. The wine I got was nothing collectible or remarkable, and it goes rather quickly with me. Most who know get that I am a sucker for dry and red. He is a good dog man, so I give a lot of latitude to folks who can handle and understand dogs. I was also out to a fellas "estate" today in my '91 F150 with '88 Mustang V8 engine and Flowmasters looking at his old 10/22s and giving him '71 and '56 Remingtons for an indetermined amount of time until I get his 10/22s back to 100% reliable with crap ammo. I may have traded 700.00 worth of Remington's for 300.00 worth of 10/22s. I can't understand how a couple can live in a 6,000 sq ft house, has horse and cow barns, but no livestock, dogs or cats. I am looking for a nice older H&R Sportsman .22 revolver to trade for. Craig in Clarksville

Man, I have to get an MSAR to get the X-Five back!? Damn!

TMF, nothing I have shot in handguns can compare to the X-Five, however it is a beast in size and merely a range toy unless you it is your nightstand pistol with a railed light or you have specific tactical application for it. However, FIST did get me to trade the X-Five for a neat AR project gun. If you like the X-Five but really like .45 ACP I would recommend you try out a Sig 220 SAO in .45ACP. The best handgun shooter I have ever seen (ex-Army, cop and now FBI SWAT) carries 1911's every day but tells me that if you want to have the equivalent of a $3K 1911 just buy a Sig 220 SAO. Oh Shoot, ATF trifecta, that is a good one. I gave up smoking some years ago though, but not shooting or wine drinking. So maybe I am still under the ATFs radar... hmmm, probably not..

I picked up a pair of Sig 239s, a 10/22 with a 16.5" threaded barrel and two bottles of wine in a trade. I surely like shooting the single stack Sigs. One has a short reset trigger which I may end up switching out to standard reset. [IMG]http://i862.photobucket.com/albums/ab181/graycrait/TwoSig239s.jpg[/IMG]

http://www.doubletapammo.com/php/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_27&products_id=152&osCsid=gvhegmu8omqapmpgeo3meln780 those rounds should be amusing through your hogleg

Flitz on the end of the cylinder works if, like your revolver, is stainless. Flitz will work on the frame too.

Damn! I just traded my Sig X-Five Tactical for a 20" pre-Freedom Group Bushmaster Hbar that is the easiest shooting AR I have ever shot. I am modding the gun a bit more to see how it will shoot with a 24X Mildot scope. Now you folks have me searching for a better barrel and certainly a better trigger. Then like a darn .22LR I need to match brand, charge, shape, etc. of bullet to the barrel. Chasing accuracy in any rifle is somewhat maddening, probably somewhat of a waste of time and resources in practical terms, but challenging.

Daryl, Resist all temptation for at least a couple of months to modding out your 10/22. As it is it is probably minute of squirrel head at 50 yards with any ammo you stick in it. The one mod you should first consider for your vintage of 10/22 is this: http://www.coolguyguns.com/Ruger-1022-trigger-job-kit_p_95.html Without a good trigger anything else you do to the gun is wasted effort IMHO. The next best mod you could do is this: https://sites.google.com/site/quesplace/ Have your bolt and barrel done by Que. Find a decent scope and a 40.00 Tasco 3-9x40 ain't that bad and is actually pretty decent for 97% of any shooting most of us do with a .22 semi auto.

I have had and still have night sights on some of my pistols. But my night gun at the house, a G17 has a weapons light on the rail and conventional sights. I have a weapon light and laser on my home defense shotgun. I have a weapon light on my self defense AR, which as a civilian I don't plan on doing any long night shots.. I am not LEO or any longer in the military. Who, as a civilian, does aimed fire at night with a pistol to save their butt? I've heard something that seems to sound right in that most civilian encounters it will be dark/3 shots/3 seconds/3 yards. I'm thinking most of us have bought into a marketing "thing" when it comes to night sights. OK, to find the gun at night they may be a good thing, but when I go to bed that G17 is in the same place every night, as is the shotgun. I can find them with my eyes shut. Just for the sake of argument can someone make a clear case that most of us need night sights on their self defense handguns?

You may want to try a Star BM or BKM. These are the perfect sized 9mms. Not too small and not too big. It is shame that no current manufacturer is making a steel or alloy/steel gun in this size. My last one looks a little pimpish thanks to one of our TGO members and his gun coating skills. Robertson's Trading Post has some: http://www.gunsamerica.com/Search.aspx?T=Star%20BM [img]http://i862.photobucket.com/albums/ab181/graycrait/ChromelinedStarBM.jpg[/img]

Or just get one of these in .45ACP from Davidson's. [IMG]http://i862.photobucket.com/albums/ab181/graycrait/DSCN1336.jpg[/IMG]

MY yes, SKS for AK any day, I've only had 3 SKS's and they all worked no matter how I tried to Bubba them up. My last 20 gauge pump is with a local LEO as the house gun as we speak.

Best reason to have the 10/22 is the zombie rodent wars. the next best thing about 10/22 for the hobbiest is to be able to try out different barrels without having to hire a gunsmith. Not only can you choose length, profile, twist rate, and chamber size but you can do it by simply removing and replacing two bolts that hold the barrel to the reciever. Head spacing issue can be addressed by having the bolts squared and shaved a bit and shims can be added to the barrel shank. Just stock they are reliably minute of gopher head all day with nearly any known .22 ammo and little cleaning. 10/22 came out in '64 and has sold somewhere just south of 6 million last I have read. 10/22 reminds me of the AK 47 and Glock. Simple, easy for owner to mess with. Throw a 1911 and AR in the mix and those 5 guns, plus a Ruger MK series .22 pistol will likely be the best guns to survive the impending zombie wars with. OK, OK, throw a Remington 700 in 30.06 and call it a day. Jeez, add a Remington 870 or Mossberg 500. So: Zombie practical arsenal: 1) Ruger 10/22 2) Ruger MK series .22LR pistol 3) AK 47 4) AR 15 5) 12 gauge pump 6) 1911 .45 7) Glock 9mm 8) Remington 700 30.06

If you want an AR style go like a couple of others have said with S&W M&P 15/22. However you could buy a base 10/22 and put your own together or get: Talo and Sports South are selling "tacticool" 10/22s if your FFL can get their hands on one of these. http://www.ruger.com/products/1022DE/models.html Scroll down to the Tapco Fusion or ATI folding stock models.

I have done much the same thing as Dolomite on an old beater Llama for a friend of mine. The Gunkote turned out well. Degreasing is everything as Dolomite said. I learned this the hard way, but fortunately I had plenty of Gunkote. I can't emphasize gloves enough and fashion some kind of hanger to hang the slide in the oven, to grasp while painting 360 degrees and to hang for curing. Remember - on the Glock slide you have the striker channel liner to get out and you may as well order one to replace the one you will need to dig out unless you have the special tool for channel liner removal. Reusing a banged up channel liner is probably not a good idea for reliability. Sometimes I am lazy and just use some flat rattle can paint on guns. Just make sure the slide is degreased, follow the directions, allow enough time between coats and give it about 4 coats. That way you can simply tape off the inner working areas of the slide. Gunrunner32 has cerakoted a number of guns and parts for me. That guy is a pro. Lastly, the Tenifer steel treatment is probably still intact on your slide unless you used some crazy diamond abrasive and got into the metal pretty deep, therefore it won't rust any more than it would if it were painted, so unless the color of "pewter" steel bothers you function/durability won't suffer.

As some have said before, when the XDS comes out in 9mm I will give one a whirl. Until then I say the most sublime carry semi is graycrait's LC9 "special edition," with RTK trigger, Galloway Precision trigger bar and dual 15lb recoil spring, and has a handy thumb safety, but (ruger) stupidly only designed the safety for right handed use. The way they designed the safety ambi would have been easy. [IMG]http://i862.photobucket.com/albums/ab181/graycrait/LC9RTKGP.jpg[/IMG]

I've shot/owned both the LCR and S&W 442/642 in multiple copies. The LCR is initially the easier one to shoot as the recoil seems to be managed a bit better with the poly frame and big grip. In an oustide the waisteband holster the LCR is really nice. The S&W carries a little easier in other styles of carry. I also think you can shoot the S&W quicker as its cycle seems shorter. I was in a snubbie oriented handgun carry class some months ago and started the class with an LCR, but about 1/3 of the way through I switched to a S&W and stayed with the S&W the remainder of the class. I traded the LCR shortly after that experience.

TankerHC, well said. I had always heard through the rumor mill that Walmart, due to its huge contracts has special runs from the manufacturers just to fulfill Walmart bulk purchases. But I guess that flies in the face of common sense when you consider most cost effective operations utilize some form of just in time delivery to alleviate storage/excess inventory issues. Which I guess means that Walmart will experience shortages in certain models just like any other LGS when the manufacturer can't meet demand. However, I am wondering and will have to look into how Walmat ends up with its guns. Do they really just get them from RSR, Ellett Bros., AccuSport, Lipsey's, etc., just like any local gun store? I am also wondering if Walmart gets a significant better deal than a LGS on their wholesale costs? I expect they do or they buy them annually at a contract price that maybe only Walmart/Big Box can afford or special pricing due to volume. I dunno and it doesn't directly effect me much as I buy so few new guns, mostly parts nowadays. But in the end it is customer service that wins the day, and those hard to get items that the big box doesn't sell. I wish I could walk into a store that had all the Glock, Ruger MK I/II/III and 10/22 aftermarket all in one place! I suspect I would be the loan customer though depending on location of that store and then it would still have to have significant online sales. Speaking of that how do those little online retailers stay in business when they are up against Brownells or MidwayUSA selling oftentimes the same thing? Are both the little and big online guys both doing drop shipments?

I got a set of the Rowdy Yates stands several weeks ago and have used them a few times now. Easy to set up, take down and carry. If you have wind take some tent stakes stake them 4 or 5 feet out from the stands and run some string over the bottom cross bar furring strip. [url="http://targetmeister.com/"]http://targetmeister.com/[/url] Craig in Clarksville

No, the bolts aren't blackened, I'm just a bad photographer. The Archangel target stock is the best stock for the money in my opinion. Yeah you can buy better stocks for a lot of money, but why do that? If you want a really accurate .22 just buy an Anschutz and be done with it. My goal in 10/22s these days is to keep the cost within reasonable rates, yet still explore new things in shooting (i.e. long range rimfire). I've had $300.00 10/22 barrels in fancy wooden stocks chambered for specific ammo using 300.00+ scopes. And I could still shoot as accurately or maybe better as that 10/22 did with a CZ 452 - yes it is maddening. And again, Yes, I did spend 350 clams on that toggle receiver but that was cheaper than buying a Biathlon rifle and I wanted to see how those systems work without going to the Winter Olympics and kissing someone's xxx to look at their rifle or spending the same amount of money as I would on a car just to have a Biathlon style toggle system. My ideal "conventional "10/22s" - yes, you have to have two: 1) Running Boar Green Mountain (120.00) barrel in a Tapco tacticool stock (89.00) a vertical foregrip (20.00) and some type of good optic for faster shooting, including moving targets. 2) Long barrel, either Green Mountain 28" or Urban Rifle Supply 29" (159.00), Archangel target stock (90.00), with good optic/scope for off-hand or bag shooting. In either case if you wanted to upgrade accuracy you could send your bolts and even these aftermarket barrels and have them tuned by Randy at CPC or Que. Will they then be Olympic grade rifles - no, not even Kidd or Volquartsens are used in the Olympics. If you want a real .22 rifle that will make you the envy of all the range ninjas then I suggest one of these: [url="http://www.champchoice.com/cat-Anschutz-402.aspx"]http://www.champchoi...schutz-402.aspx[/url] I've heard many times that the fellas at Champions Choice are top notch and they are right here in TN. You might want to try these also: [url="http://www.champchoice.com/cat-Feinwerkbau-404.aspx"]http://www.champchoi...erkbau-404.aspx[/url] or maybe one of these: [url="http://www.champchoice.com/cat-Walther-405.aspx"]http://www.champchoi...alther-405.aspx[/url] However, in the .22 game no matter how much you spend on a 10/22 it will not put you in the just linked class of rifles for accuracy in the games in which they are played. Craig

[url="https://www.uromed.com/blog/2012/08/21/paraplegic-trevor-baucoms-involvement-with-team-smith-wesson/"]https://www.uromed.com/blog/2012/08/21/paraplegic-trevor-baucoms-involvement-with-team-smith-wesson/[/url] I did some minor work on Trevor's S&W M&P before he started practicing for the Steel Challenge . There is a warrior.