Shooting fun with a prewar small ring

alvin · 12-13-2009, 08:21 AM

Steel is unlike vegetable which just putting it aside and it will be rotten easily. Gun degrades very very slowly, but it cannot have a pre-exist-condition for usage decades later, that's true. So the problem is not 100 years, the problem is unknown pre-exist-condition, which I had to take some risk. That's similar to health insurance or life insurance requires a physical condition report before enroll a customer, but I don't have that report for an old gun before shooting except visual inspection via nake eyes, which is not very reliable -- there could be pre-exist hidden damage. Nevertheless, so far so good though.

If a watch was built 100 years ago and it is in good shape, it still runs. I have seen numerous examples. Another more relevant example is 1911. US Army used many 1911 that had been stocked for decades as quality control pistol in 1980s pistol trials, and all of them perform well, even better than most newly made ones that joined the test.

Regarding spring's factory spec.... not documented. But I will track this one and measure quantitatively from some guns which come from independent sources.

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[Edit] Some Mauser variations are very hard to find replacement. Not including this one though. Decades later, it may become very rare, but not today. On the market, one like this without correct stock is around 1400 - 1800, equivalent of 5 Yugo SKS

So the risk is not huge.

12-13-2009, 08:21 AM	#9
alvin User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: US Posts: 3,843 Thanks: 132 Thanked 729 Times in 438 Posts	Steel is unlike vegetable which just putting it aside and it will be rotten easily. Gun degrades very very slowly, but it cannot have a pre-exist-condition for usage decades later, that's true. So the problem is not 100 years, the problem is unknown pre-exist-condition, which I had to take some risk. That's similar to health insurance or life insurance requires a physical condition report before enroll a customer, but I don't have that report for an old gun before shooting except visual inspection via nake eyes, which is not very reliable -- there could be pre-exist hidden damage. Nevertheless, so far so good though. If a watch was built 100 years ago and it is in good shape, it still runs. I have seen numerous examples. Another more relevant example is 1911. US Army used many 1911 that had been stocked for decades as quality control pistol in 1980s pistol trials, and all of them perform well, even better than most newly made ones that joined the test. Regarding spring's factory spec.... not documented. But I will track this one and measure quantitatively from some guns which come from independent sources. === [Edit] Some Mauser variations are very hard to find replacement. Not including this one though. Decades later, it may become very rare, but not today. On the market, one like this without correct stock is around 1400 - 1800, equivalent of 5 Yugo SKS So the risk is not huge.