Author Topic: picked up a neat gun today (Read 664 times)

Lloyd Smale · « **on:** April 21, 2006, 03:13:36 PM »

was out to the range shooting my para p18 9mm and a guy i know stopped by and we were shooting the crap and he tells me he has a series 70 goverment blued that he thinks is unfired in 9mm. He went home and got it and it was indead unfired and he had the box and papers that came with it. i shot 200 rounds through it and the dickering started. Needless to say it came home with me. I just love the bluing on those old colts.

257 roberts · « **Reply #1 on:** April 21, 2006, 03:58:51 PM »

How much?

257 roberts · « **Reply #2 on:** April 21, 2006, 04:00:08 PM »

How much?

slink · « **Reply #3 on:** April 21, 2006, 05:21:48 PM »

in the full size guns, or they tend to not be very reliable. Just not enough recoil to move that big, heavy slide. I love the alloy commander in 9mm, tho. It is every bit as "hard" to control as the full size and wt GM in .45, so why waste 10c more per shot on .45 ammo?

I use a "chopped", Detonics length, Colt steel slide .22 unit, on an alloy framed 1911 and it's every bit as "hard" to control as a P35 Browning 9mm, so I save another 10c a shot that way. Instead of having to fire 15,000 rds a year of .45 to stay on top of my skills, I fire about 1000 rds of .45 (in an alloy Commander) 5000 9mm's, 10,000 .22's, and have considerably more fun at the range. $1000 a year, instead of $3000+. Not a bad savings. It more than paid for the "new" guns, mags, etc in the first year of owning them.

Lloyd Smale · « **Reply #4 on:** April 21, 2006, 10:45:35 PM »

traded him a kimber cdp 3 inch and he threw in 300 bucks. so i dont think i did to bad. As to reliablity. Like i said this thing was new in the box and had never been pulled down and even oiled. I was shooting my para with light loads 125 round nosed cast and 3.6 grains of 231 and it ran 200 of them without so much as a bobble even with the factory spring and i had to drop to a 9 lb spring in the para and that suprised the hell out of me. Only bobble the gun made was the lee 105 swc .38 bullet. That bullet is by far the most accurate out of the para but it would hang up on the feed ramp in that gun but id about be with a little polishing id get that one to feed too. Dont know if ill keep it yet or not. But for now the thing is just to pretty to part with.

williamlayton · « **Reply #5 on:** April 21, 2006, 11:52:45 PM »

Good move Lloyd.
Blessings

Mikey · « **Reply #6 on:** April 22, 2006, 05:00:38 AM »

I'm jealous Lloyd, that was a good deal. Mikey.