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Post by wheelnut on Feb 26, 2023 2:28:11 GMT -5
Digging through parts to sell I've put together the idea for a "Franken" gun if you will which is my last "custom". It's all at Hamilton's shop, waiting in that line. Bore diameter is .223 or so. I started with the witness hunter and thought that all 10mm's shot that well by default. This is not the case, the witness 10mm is the best long slide 10mm and this includes guns 2x the price. Years ago Lothar Walther made .40s&w barrels that I had threaded for a comp and reamed for 10mm.
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Post by gnappi on Feb 27, 2023 23:02:22 GMT -5
Digging through parts to sell I've put together the idea for a "Franken" gun if you will which is my last "custom". It's all at Hamilton's shop, waiting in that line. Bore diameter is .223 or so. I started with the witness hunter and thought that all 10mm's shot that well by default. This is not the case, the witness 10mm is the best long slide 10mm and this includes guns 2x the price. Years ago Lothar Walther made .40s&w barrels that I had threaded for a comp and reamed for 10mm. When I tell shooters about my witness hunter they poo-pooh it.
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Post by webber on Apr 8, 2023 9:54:13 GMT -5
On the second page the pic of the SA that belonged to Elmer Keith. Read the description and closely look at that gun.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2023 11:35:40 GMT -5
On the second page the pic of the SA that belonged to Elmer Keith. Read the description and closely look at that gun. Here you go. This Keith gun matches the description
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Post by aciera on Apr 8, 2023 11:54:57 GMT -5
I have many “Grail Guns”. Some I have acquired and then realized they were not really what I wanted and moved them down the road. The Ruger Old Army converted to .50 caliber by David Clements is my ultimate Grail Gun. When I finally decided to have him build one he had stopped doing them due to supply issues. I finally found one exactly like I would have had built I jumped on it. I just had it engraved by Rocky Sharp through Bobby Tyler. I might have it buried with me. I like sharing it so here is another pic At 70……every time I see that gun I want a BP gun for the first time in my life.
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Post by aciera on Apr 8, 2023 11:59:57 GMT -5
I just got my grail gun I never considered. Not custom,and I can make most anything, a friends carry for about 40 years……an old 1911…..beater. Wouldn’t trade it for the set of 475&500 maximum with Persinger ivory from 1986 in a Huey case………
But would trade them for one more conversation……
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Post by rexster on Apr 8, 2023 14:51:25 GMT -5
For a number of years, I had thought I would like single action sixgun, probably quite short-barreled, probably custom, with a bird’s-head type of grip, to be my carry gun after I retired from from LEO-ing, and free of being required to be armed only with weapons that complied with PD rules. (I had to qual with every handgun I used as a carry or back-up gun, 24/7/365, and revolvers had to be double-action.) Well, I am glad that I did not order or commission such a sixgun, because I reached the age at which rounded-grip weapons became painful to shoot right-handed, if chambered for any seriously-powerful cartridge. I now do much better with squared-off grip frames, that make firm contact with the “heel bone” area of my hand, and have barrels with some heft to them.
Several of my accumulated USFA sixguns can now be considered “grail enough.” I am truly blessed to have them.
If it is OK to expand this grail quest to auto-pistols, I reached a grail quest, in late 2021 or early 2022, when I acquired an original-configuration (GI-spec thumb and grip safeties*) Les Baer National Match Hardball 1911 pistol. I love the undercut front sight, and Bo-Mar rear sight. This one was acquired pre-owned, but pristine. Les Baer frames fit my hands noticeably better than a GI-spec/Colt original-pattern frame, allowing the weapon to sit lower in my hand, which mitigates muzzle flip. Of course, the solid steel, and relatively low bore axis, of any full-sized 1911, and the gradual acceleration of .45 ACP, results in a nicely “orthopedic” pistol. Life is good.
*Wide thumb safeties, plus a beaver/duck-tailed grip safety, can get in my way. Another of my Les Baer pistols, a Monolith, needs to have its thumb tabs re-contoured, or the whole thing swapped-out.
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Post by aciera on Apr 8, 2023 17:06:28 GMT -5
For a number of years, I had thought I would like single action sixgun, probably quite short-barreled, probably custom, with a bird’s-head type of grip, to be my carry gun after I retired from from LEO-ing, and free of being required to be armed only with weapons that complied with PD rules. (I had to qual with every handgun I used as a carry or back-up gun, 24/7/365, and revolvers had to be double-action.) Well, I am glad that I did not order or commission such a sixgun, because I reached the age at which rounded-grip weapons became painful to shoot right-handed, if chambered for any seriously-powerful cartridge. I now do much better with squared-off grip frames, that make firm contact with the “heel bone” area of my hand, and have barrels with some heft to them. Several of my accumulated USFA sixguns can now be considered “grail enough.” I am truly blessed to have them. If it is OK to expand this grail quest to auto-pistols, I reached a grail quest, in late 2021 or early 2022, when I acquired an original-configuration (GI-spec thumb and grip safeties*) Les Baer National Match Hardball 1911 pistol. I love the undercut front sight, and Bo-Mar rear sight. This one was acquired pre-owned, but pristine. Les Baer frames fit my hands noticeably better than a GI-spec/Colt original-pattern frame, allowing the weapon to sit lower in my hand, which mitigates muzzle flip. Of course, the solid steel, and relatively low bore axis, of any full-sized 1911, and the gradual acceleration of .45 ACP, results in a nicely “orthopedic” pistol. Life is good. *Wide thumb safeties, plus a beaver/duck-tailed grip safety, can get in my way. Another of my Les Baer pistols, a Monolith, needs to have its thumb tabs re-contoured, or the whole thing swapped-out. I orders a 1911 3-4 years ago. Only custom I have ever ordered Still going through what I want on it. More I shoot…..the more refined it gets. I may even go to 10mm…….the options are endless. But no flash and no lightning flashes. Strangely it may be the last build he ever does. My life gets stranger and stranger. Have 2 unique and impossible to reproduce 1911 s and going for a third. World is strange. And I shoot them all
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Post by matt56 on Apr 8, 2023 18:53:30 GMT -5
I have always had a lot grail guns, several I’ve acquired multiple versions because I like them so much. The 357 max super Blackhawks are probably the prize of my single actions
The one that got away, the one I can no longer afford, a 629-4 backpacker. Several thousand made, not rare, just scarce. Never put my eyes on one, never offered the chance to buy one at a price I thought fair, it’s the one hole in my collection that was once obtainable. It’s been my #1 since I started collecting smiths.
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Post by bushog on Apr 8, 2023 18:59:06 GMT -5
The Bowen Best Grade guns were my grail guns, along with my last in MO/first in WY Linebaugh pair and John’s first Bisley Vaquero.
Most of these have gone on for others to enjoy. I’ve been really fortunate to have owned some of the best of the best…
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Post by cowpuncher on Apr 8, 2023 19:42:13 GMT -5
Current grail gun: Looking for a Linebaugh super grade in any caliber!
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Post by pbcaster45 on Apr 8, 2023 20:27:54 GMT -5
Here's my quest gun! Took years to get it - delivered by John Linebaugh himself when he visited OKC for my second Linebaugh Seminar.
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Post by pacecars on Apr 8, 2023 20:34:30 GMT -5
This John Linebaugh .500 Bisley Vaquero is pretty high on the list
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Post by bigbrowndog on Apr 8, 2023 21:13:03 GMT -5
I’ve got a Gallagher, Huntingtons, and a Bowen, I’d like to find a nice Linebaugh, Stroh, and Clements. Nothing special or fancy just something that is useable, but if I don’t I’m ok with that too.
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Post by aciera on Apr 9, 2023 1:03:33 GMT -5
The Bowen Best Grade guns were my grail guns, along with my last in MO/first in WY Linebaugh pair and John’s first Bisley Vaquero. Most of these have gone on for others to enjoy. I’ve been really fortunate to have owned some of the best of the best… Just saw a Missouri gun that was # 3 build in the stainless series with his castings. Early Missouri The others may be gone. But you have been spoiled forever
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