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Don't know if anyone saw this auction which ended yesterday. Just incredible what some of these older firearms will fetch! http://classic.gunauction.com/...cfm?itemnum=14428710 | ||
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And who says that an idiot scratch will make them a 1911 hard to sell. ------- A turbo: Exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens, and you go faster. Mr. Doom and Gloom "King in the north!" "Slow is smooth... and also slow. | |||
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Very cool. "Fire Blue" controls are very appealing. I wonder what it would cost to send a fairly generic Colt series 70 1911A1 to Turnbull to have the small parts done in "fire blue". I'm sure it wouldn't cost $75K. "Like a horse has its rider, and the sky has its moon, a man has his loneliness, mistaken as pride." -Longmire | |||
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E tan e epi tas |
Wahoo they take Visa.  "Guns are tools. The only weapon ever created was man." | |||
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If you're going to spend $75k for a gun, at least it's a hundred year old classic in great shape as opposed to something that has slide cuts and was blinged out. What, me worry? | |||
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But they charge 3% extra for credit cards. That 3% would have more than paid for my Les Baer Stinger Monolith! | |||
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| E tan e epi tas |
3% won't matter to me. I don't have a 75k limit......well that and the inevitable murder at the hands of my wife. Either or won't matter to me. "Guns are tools. The only weapon ever created was man." | |||
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On a serious note I TOTALLY get the collector aspect of this but it wouldn't float my boat per say if I had the coin. At the end of the day it's a 1911. A very desirable, cool 1911 but basically an ubiquitous 1911. The fire bluing is awesome though. If I am dropping that kind of coin I want one of the .45 Lugers from the trials or something really odd like a Bergmann or one of the almost ran early semi autos. I like the borchardts too. I dig the old steampunk clean slate of paper engineering. Part of me wonders if there would be a market for "art" guns so to speak. Not weapons for the sake of weapons. I mean if you need a gun/weapon/tool go buy a Glock 19 and be happy and confident you have a superior "weapon/tool". But I wonder if there would be a market for some old school "toys" or "kinetic artwork" if you will. I really dug the Remington R51 because of this.......until it was revealed to be a steaming turd of course. "Guns are tools. The only weapon ever created was man." | |||
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| E tan e epi tas |
......and I just distinctly heard some of you mutter "get a rope". Dammit I'm armed and don't judge me.  "Guns are tools. The only weapon ever created was man." | |||
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I had to drop out of the bidding when my credit card hit its limit of $74,999...  Beware of a man whose only pistol is a 1911, he's probably very good with it. | |||
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Thought it was gonna be a Singer from the title. | |||
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"Fit and finish" is horrible (checkout the tooling marks inside the slide), this wouldn't even make a good base for a custom. Pass...  “People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.” –Chuck Palahnuik Be harder to kill: https://preparefit.ck.page | |||
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$75k and they charge the buyer $50.00 for shipping? I'd pass! "I'm not fluent in the language of violence, but I know enough to get around in places where it's spoken." | |||
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I'll take two. One for each hand. "You know, Scotland has its own martial arts. Yeah, it's called Fuck You. It's mostly just head butting and then kicking people when they're on the ground." - Charlie MacKenzie (Mike Myers in "So I Married an Axe Murderer") | |||
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Well my take is thank God these are available to anyone with the coin. I dont have it but in a free market YOU might. One thing about fire arms is they ARE history. An | |||
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