The Watering Hole

Mornin',

Another day of misty rain, wind, clouds and cool temps. Currently 44, may make it to 53.

Ditches working as expected. Everything else is wet, so short day at the farm.

Long time farmer friend has a daughter in law that grows flowers in a greenhouse, just a mile from the farm. Stopped and picked up a hanging basket and large potted flower mix for the front of the house, made the wife happy.

Watched the Kentucky Derby, quite a spoiler the winner was. Some people may have raised their tax bracket if they bet correctly.

Looks like we are headed to the beach for the car show. Wife showed no interest until she saw our usual place was available. Okay by me, I do miss not having a car to cruise in and put in the Mustang show, but that will come with time as full retirement picture becomes clearer.

Today will be inside stuff and little of that if I have my way.

Have a great day.

wookness said:

That post was epic, on a 'gym' from WY scale, BW but contains some good wisdom that reminds me of Uncle Ron whose last name happened to be Wisdom. I'm remiss in not saying how much I enjoyed seeing your pic w/the grand's the other day. It's a good un, & I did enjoy it. I passed on yer suggestion to tell the bride to have that myriad of things done yesterday, so she could take today off but it was cause for a grin, so thanks for that too.

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Thanks wook. Have a great day at the club.

gmd1950 said:

Epic indeed Wolfe, had to read it twice to soak it all in...impressive.

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gewehrfreund said:

Epic multi-quote/post Brian! JimWY would be proud of you . . . . . . . . or jealous.

As for the above, you forgot to add, "Make sure your will is up to date and affairs are in order"

Happy Sunday/ Child-bearing persons Day.

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Thanks folks. Did think of JimWy while composing. I quite enjoyed his masterful collected multi quotes. Wonder what became of JimWy. Hope he is doing well.

Szumi said:

I have two different recoil springs, neither one made it more reliable.

I like that it looks like a 1911 and has a fair amount of heft due to the zamac construction. Important areas have steel reinforcements in it so they built it with durability in mind. I can't find a replacement rear sight that fits it as I have to run the elevation all the way down. The rear sight groove isn't to my liking either.

It is a bit harder to clean now as I have a suppressor adapter on it that has to be removed to get the slide off. When I do that the sleeve around the barrel is free and the barrel will fall out.

It works best with HV ammo, for some reason loves a bucket of golden bullets. Talk about fun, a bay full of steel and a full bucket of bullets.

Since it is my only pistol that can accept my suppressor, it is going to get a lot more use and attention.

This is a gun you have to clean every time you take it out and sometimes while out.

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Thanks for the Walther Colt 1911-22 report Wes.

At one time I had a Chiappa 1911-22, bought on impulse while being strongly encouraged and enabled by the lady friend that was with me at the time. One of the few firearms that I have sent down the road. Almost thought I was going to have to pay someone to take it. Now that I think about it, it may have been replaced by a Sig branded GSG made 1911-22 or two, maybe three. I should go to the vault at the warehouse and czech. I really should downsize.

Curious thing about the Golden Bullets. A friend's son has a built tricked out Ruger 10-22 with the heavy barrel and all the werks. Dang thing absolutely loves the GB.


Happy Mothers Day to all the Mothers, members Mothers, and members wives here. Moms are to be celebrated for the greatness they are. For many Moms, it is the hardest job there is. I know my Mom werked hard in her Mothers position. Always a capital M for Mom. I'm sure I didn't make that job any easier for her at times. I'll visit her and my wife later today.


A very good friend's son graduates college today. After 4 years at a private school he has elected to hotdog it for a year.


A dry beautiful sunny 62°A morning. Woo Hoo.

Have a great day my friends.

I went grocery shopping, hoping for a deal on something, I didn't score. I looked at some bovine goodness but didn't see anything that filled all the boxes. Cheap, thick, likely to grill good. I have a pre-avian flu chicken frontal unit defrosting. I think I need to grill.

I did return some bottle and cans. Twenty-four 2 litre Diet 7up bottles will fill a large trash bag.

Rummaged around the garage and found the box that my air conditioner was packed in. I saved it for target backers. Sliced out a side, poked it and attached some 12 gauge solid wire and pinned an I.B.S. 100y Hunter target on it. Loaded up my cz457 and suppressor and headed to the range. Sure was windy, I was alone on a Sunday morning. Not normal. Cardboard fit the rabbit wire strung at 100 just fine. No hangovers.

I shot a bit, an older gent showed up and did a function test, didn't even want to see his targets. He asked if I was shooting a pellet gun, said no, can, played show and tell.

Rifle has a significant POA shift. It shoots 3.8 MOA high with the suppressor on. Thankfully windage change is in the noise. I'm going to have to czech this with some Eley Club and SK Standard+ to see if it is consistent.

It has a distinctive sound to it, I think it is the plastic fantastic stock reverberating. I may be buying a stock for it soon. I already have the bottom metal to do this.
I bought the rifle shortly after buying the suppressor that had a 11 month jail sentence and with covid and stuff I've only shot it once before and that was indoors at 50 feet. With CCI SV it isn't impressive. I hope it shoots way better with some better ammo. I'll pick a calm day to do it.

There was trash all over, the one trash barrel was overflowing, the place was a mess. After I finished shooting I used the trash bag I used to bring the 7up bottles to reverse vending to police the area. It looks much so better now. I did get a reward out of this, I spied some cardboard wedged under the trash barrel and put it in my bag. Under the cardboard was most of a pack of A-14 small bore targets that I will put to use with my CM-2 one of these days.

I hope every one is having a great day and those with moms still with us are spending the day with her.

The range went well. The two new magazines, combined with the new main spring have solved 100% of the feed issues on the TPT-92 . (Trailer Park Trash)

Unfortunately, the new mag spring did not correct the OEM mag issues. Likely the follower as Kevin has advised.

I was still having struggles on the plates with it, so I broke down and put it on paper.

I'm in the market for a new 9mm. Some things I can't fix. I'll have a good look at the sights, but I don't think this pistol is going to make the cut.


The Iver Johnson 1911 that I'm tinkering with shot great. Grouped great. So it's not me.

Shotgunning was fun, but I missed most every target going away. Frustrated I was.

I was shooting the A-5 16ga with the Cutts and a Spreader Choke.

The water is geauxing way down, and the mosquitoes were not quite as annoying as on Friday.

eflyguy said:

What are you looking for?

I'm not selling but between my daughter and I we have quite a variety of 9mm pistols, for competition (USPSA), carry, and home deference. I am no expert but I can offer our experience. We regularly practice drills with all of them laid out on the bench.

I consolidated down from other calibers many years back, the only exception is a 1911.

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Basically I'm looking at one of four:

CZ 75 Tactical Sport Orange. Available from my distributor.










Sig P210 Target. None in stock. I'd have to pay retail, which I hate to do.





A RIA, or similar, 2011 would be my first choice, were they not made of Unobtainium.
I'll NEVER fork over the cash for an STI, or a Wilson







Lastly, and perhaps most budget friendly
The Girsan copy of the High Power. I can make 'those offensive parts' fall out.
They aren't in stock right now, so I'd have to look for one in the retail world.





Those are my thoughts.