Not at the Vegas show, with $pecial arrangements!

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D*mn Joe you gave away my super secret trick for finding those perfect moulds!!!  
Mike

Small world Mike I joined the Navy Jan 4,72 and was in San Diego march or April at SSC/NTC at MR "A" School for 12 Weeks, even though I had earned my Class "A" Machinist card by then. I was also at the Foot Print of the Pacific early 1973 on the way to Vietnam to patrol the coast and fix Tin Cans, went back to Diego Garcia in 1983 on a Navy provided South Pacific Cruise, we had 400+ Wins aboard and there was plenty to drink and very nice groomed beaches to party at, and some awfully (HUGE  ) nice Hammer Heads swimming in the pool/lagoon!
Mike

Email me if you want to BS....Mike

Joe, 

You almost brought a tear to my eye.    

The wire wheels most think of are best left to the bench grinders and drill chucks for getting rid of buzz-box slag. 

But those real fine wire carding wheels are a whole nother deal altogether.    

BP wrote on Oct 17^th, 2011 at 11:31pm:


Seeing some of the buffed molds on ebay will make you cry, thats for sure.  LOOK! I cleaned er up, REAL GOOD!   


                Joe.   

         

Now if you acid dipped or wire wheeled a few of those unscupulous dealers you might teach them a lesson, or not. Once a Fecal Head always a Fecal Head. 
I always ask when I talk to the auctioneers if the guns appear to be cleaned up, or polished up in any way shape or form. I have had a couple these last 2-5 years flat out ask me why in the world would I ask about that. And I  take the time to explain that if anything has been done to refinish them, over clean them or polish them then the  offer would go down drastically. I have seen to many fine collector grade firearms destroyed to the point of being junk, one auction house in Nevada a couple of years back sold the most god awful bunch of firearms crap ever un loaded at an auction. This mess belonged to a California collector who supplied the movie studios, he even had real  machine guns and larger, had anti tank, anti aircraft and all. His building was a fortress looking affair in Purump. That old fart had welded with an arc welder onto some of the rifles to modify them for something. All I can say is they weren't pretty or right. He had moved to Nevada to get away from our state Gestapo.
Always check real close or get burned.
Mike

SSDave, you noticed the shotgun receiver, the wrong type of saddle ring, looks like color case by TORCH method. Blued barrel. Looks like a bunch of left over parts assembled by some one at Numrich arms maybe.
Mike