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[ithacaartist]

Greetings, all,

Today was photo-shoot day in Mecklenburg. I'll be posting pics of two other of my guns from today's files, but I thought I'd start with this one, the M1900 bought at auction. The extractor on it was twisted a bit, as well as being somewhat bent. I resisted buying one of the ones "revshop" has for sale on eBay, @ $95, and our Lugerdoc helped me out with a nice strawed one that looks great, as you shall see.

I disassembled the gun entirely, the exception being the recoil spring, and removed the ages' deposits of gunk and goo and tad more rust from corners everywhere. Then I prepped and re-strawed the small parts and reassembled it. It is now wearing one of my Argentinian grip panels on its left side, so both now match at 20 lpi pattern.
As it is now, I think I'll refinish right over the pits and call it good after that. Refreshed straw has perked it up, for sure.