This weekend is the Alabama Gun Collectors Association's first show of the year. Dad and I went over to check everything out. We also met a very, very nice man. It was an honor to shake his hand and I said, "Thank you for what you did." on WF's behalf. But...I bought something. Something...nice. Behold: New in the box, Les Baer Premier II Super-Tac. Fully adjustable tritium night-sights. "Baer-coat" finish (basically black duracoat). 4lb trigger. Checkered front strap, back strap, and slide stop. All national match in-house custom parts finished to 0.003 of an inch tolerance. Certified 1.5-inch groups at 50 yards by Les Baer himself.
Seriously, how CAN they certify it without firing it? It's one thing to have an unfired collectors edition. It's another to have an unfired collectors edition guaranteed to hit the head of a pin at 50 yards... that has never been fired.
Thankfully, I missed apostle's comments because I was too busy masturbating. That is a magnificent gun. Absolutely magnificent. I would favor an ambi safety myself, being left-handed, but I'm guessing you got it right side only. Still, very nice. Very, very nice.
You're taking my never fired, literally. In fact, I removed it from the post. Almost every weapon ever made is test fired before it leaves the factory. Les Baer takes every gun to his range and fires 50 rounds through them himself before they leave the factory. Every Les Baer is certified to shoot 3-inch groups at 50 yards or it doesn't ship. For an extra-fee, they'll work it so it shoots 1.5-inch groups at 50 yards. I just didn't include the certificate and target in the picture because I was running out of room. Thank you. It has an ambi-safety. I'm not really happy about it, but this is as close a truly custom gun as I'm every gonna get, and Les Baer's warranty is unbeatable. If anything ever goes wrong, they fix it. Free. For the life of the gun. However, that warranty is instantly void if any other gunsmith even looks at the weapon. So, my choice is to learn to live with the ambi-safty or send it back and pay Les Baer's guys to take the weak side off. I think I'll deal. Besides, I like the way they set it up. The left side has a slightly larger than factory Colt manual safety, but the right side is a very, very thin, almost unobtrusive lever. The fully-adjustable night sights sold me. Going by his price list, they're a $375 option. Of course, they're covered under the warranty too. In ten years, when they stop glowing, I send the gun back to Les and he replaces them for free. You just can't beat that.
I've been doing some extra crunches to help me cope with the body blows the GF is sure to give me when she finds out how much I paid for something I can't carry at work.
A good strategy when dealing with wives and girlfriends and "purchases" is to emphasize how great a deal you got on whatever you bought, no matter how "great" the deal really is. Guns. Model kits. Electronics. Their brains are wired for "sales", so if you tell them that you got a "great deal" on something, their eyes will often light up and sometimes you'll get commended for shopping so smart.
From time to time, sure, but not every day. I'll mainly be sticking with my Glock 21SF until I can find a deal on a nickeled or hard chromed Sig P220.
Goddamnit...Just...goddamnit. Buyers remorse. I wanted a Browning BAR in .308Win since I was 16 years old. I finally bought one a few years ago, but it's so damned pretty, I don't want to take it with me, bounding through the woods, because I don't want to scratch it. I don't wanna carry Les 'cause I'm scared I'll scratch it.
Buuurrrrnnnnn. You realize what he's gonna do to you for that Then again my collection is so small I cant even have a safe queen yet
I once knew a guy who said that whenever he bought a new gun, the first thing he did with it when he got home was to throw it off the back porch. According to him, giving it its "first scratch" right off the bat meant that he didn't have to worry about "babying" it until it got one naturally.
I do the same thing. I get it home and the first thing I do is throw that fucker off the porch. The Wife didn't think it was a good policy with The Boy when we first got him, but I digress. But yeah, I don't own any safe queens. They all get scratched, banged up, and int he case of 1911, those damned takedown scratches, Hallowed Be John Moses Browning's name.
This is one of the reasons I like synthetic Vs. Wooden stocks. Yes Wood is infinitly more beautiful (in my opinion), but it is too easily marred. But the resale market is bitchy as all get out about wooden stocks. God forbid you actually use your rifle to hunt with and get even the slightest blemish on it. All of a sudden the rifle is worthless
I was lucky in that most every weapon I had as a kid my father originally had as a kid. My 410, my Marlin 35, my 20 Over'n'Under. It wasn't until I was 12 that I got a 'new' weapon, my Remington 20 Automatic. Then at 14 I got my Model 70 270, and it actually was new, as in right out of the box. Luckily it has a composite stock. Still managed to scratch some of the matte off the barrel though.
