I'm a hopeless addict

AGE · 05-08-2005, 12:12 AM

I slipped again. Who will start a Gunitis AA for us weeklings??? I had 1911itis for years, never cured but in remission after 2..OK3...maybe 5-6 or 10. who knows? Lost count. Then Lugeritis...1..2..3--sick, sick, sick. Now it's Colt Single Action Armyitis, much worse than either of the others--do you know what these pills cost these days? Wow. Seduced by a 100% original 4 3/4" blue (so pretty) .45 SAA today. A 1978 model in absolutely unfired condition--I'll fix that next week, they gotta shoot (why I don't know) or out they go. Tell me, how do you cure this disease (these diseases, I love too many different models)? It always seems that I have more guns than I need but never as many as I want. How come?

On the other hand, you guys (and gals) are probably the wrong people to ask. Your answers will probably be to recommend more expensive pills. Maybe gun rationing is a good idea after all.....nah, I'd die without more pills.

Edward Tinker · 05-08-2005, 12:49 AM

welcome to the club sir, although i think I caught it from you, as all of the ones you listed, I have too....

Although I need a beatup first gen SSA, mine are 3rd and one 2nd gen

Ed

AGE · 05-08-2005, 09:28 AM

Ed,

It's like they just follow me home. I can't deny them a home...poor lonely things. Anyway, the disease is a lot more fun than most (diseases). Wonder if Blue Cross covers the pill costs. Won't hurt to try...now if I can get a prescription and hide it from the wife.....

I've parted with a few ugly ones (screwed up by prior owners) in the past. Always regretted it afterward. Now I have 3, one 2nd gen. (.45) and two 3rd gen. (.44 & .45). Real beauties.

Ron Smith · 05-08-2005, 09:39 AM

Al, So.... what's the problem? Take two cartridges and call me in the morning.

Edward Tinker · 05-08-2005, 03:11 PM

Well, I don't shoot my SSA's, but they came from my father in law after he passed away, they are too nice, seems a waste to me, but what the hey. I have "clones" I shoot...

Ed

Hugh · 05-08-2005, 06:00 PM

The SAAitis is the worst kind, those babys are EXPENSIVE. Sure glad I recovered from mine, only have 2 and a Bisley left. However all that money went into Mannlicher Schoenauer rifles and Lugers so I guess I'm still afflicted with collecteritis!

Edward Tinker · 05-08-2005, 09:46 PM

hey Hugh, are you a long way from San Antonio? Going there next week for work conf.

Ed

AGE · 05-08-2005, 10:43 PM

Hugh,

I would think SAAs should be plentyful in your area. In every western I've ever seen there are a lot of them dropped or thrown away. In your dry climate they shouldn't rust and should be perfect when you dig them up. Man, some of the old westerners like Josey Wales carried about 6 or 8 of those things. I would have thunk quite a few would have dropped out of his belt and pockets.

Hugh · 05-08-2005, 11:37 PM

Ed,

About 300 mi, if you ever get to Houston, I'm only about 40 miles away.

Rod WMG · 05-09-2005, 03:13 PM

AGE, I do live in a dry climate. I think I'd like to have had Lee Van Cleef drop all them guns he had tied on his hoss in "the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." (I think that was the one.) Ida picked em up and dusted em off fer sure.

John Sabato · 05-09-2005, 04:12 PM

SAA's?

Add one more to the crew... I only have one, an 1884 first generation (black powder) .44-40 that I inherited... with one piece elephant ivory grips...

but I do have some additional parts... I intend to sell in the near future... some assorted .357 , .45 and .44 barrels and cylinders... keep an eye posted on the For Sale forum... I will be needing the money for the 03-A3 project rifle I am getting as a surprise for my Dad's 60th reunion of the 9th Inf Div ... He carried one for the whole war.

Hugh · 05-09-2005, 04:48 PM

Al,

You got the wrong part of Texas. I'm down here in the SE part where it is Humid-hot-and wet. If a SA was dropped here it would create a wave in the swamp water!

AGE · 05-09-2005, 05:05 PM

Hugh,

Never heard that Texas had anyplace like that. Sounds like Florida to me. John Wayne and the Cavalry were always running around in the sand according to carefully recorded Hollywood screen history--Never rained in a Wayne western. For that matter, Clint Eastwood's characters never had any storms except sandstorms either. Are you trying to say they were'nt altogether truthful?---nah, that couldn't be. Texas is just one big sandbox according to them.

Edward Tinker · 05-09-2005, 06:38 PM

except for Austin, it has nice rolling hills and a friend with a nice collection

And when I went to their gun collecting meeting, a bunch of true gentlemen... Now my wife wants to move to Austin

oh well, much worse places to live!

Ed

pipeman45 · 05-10-2005, 02:59 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by AGE
I slipped again. Who will start a Gunitis AA for us weeklings??? I had 1911itis for years, never cured but in remission after 2..OK3...maybe 5-6 or 10. who knows? Lost count. Then Lugeritis...1..2..3--sick, sick, sick. Now it's Colt Single Action Armyitis,

"Remission?" I think not. You have slipped into the advanced stages! No hope for you now my friend. Just set back and enjoy the ride.

Rod WMG · 05-10-2005, 04:35 PM

Well, I have to describe Texas (Resistol over red heart) now.

First, it's big, second, it's very varied.

In far East Texas the average rainfall is more than fifty inches per year, in far West Texas, where I am, it is ten or a little less. The terrain is flat, hilly, mountainous (small ones), depending on what part of the state you're in. There are forests and desert.

It's farther from here to the Houston area than to California.

I could go on, but you get the picture.

pipeman45 · 05-10-2005, 07:00 PM

Some people just don't realize how big Texas is! Part of it is swamp,part is desert,and part is mountains. This state covers more ground than some countries.

AGE · 05-10-2005, 07:02 PM

Rod,

I guess we really know that. Still, it's fun to tease y'all.

AGE,

From the Gator State, my adopted home where it never (well almost never) snows. (I'm really a Yankee liar from PA, the land of potholes and taxes).

Rod WMG · 05-11-2005, 11:23 AM

I just figured there might be some who hadn't visited the whole state and might need the info. Teasing is okay, I've told my share of FloriDUH jokes. Haven't been there since I was a kid, though.

Ron Smith · 05-11-2005, 11:45 AM

A friend of mine is or was a real working cowboy and wrangler from Idaho.

We were in a gunshop one day, and a jobber for a gun distributor came in. Kind of a dumpy goofy guy. Gary was wearing a new "Silver Belly" Stetson hat and his usual White's packer boots.

This jobber look at him and in a trying to be funny tone said, " I'm from Texas and y'all gotta find out how real cowboys dress. Nice try though." Gary looked at the guy and said in his cowpoke twang, "TEXAS!? Isn't that back east somewhere?" Another guy in the shop mumbled "Think it's in Northern Mexico." The jobber did'nt say another word.

No slam intended toward Texas. Just thought it was an amusing story.

Ron

05-08-2005, 12:12 AM	#1
AGE User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 597 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I'm a hopeless addict I slipped again. Who will start a Gunitis AA for us weeklings??? I had 1911itis for years, never cured but in remission after 2..OK3...maybe 5-6 or 10. who knows? Lost count. Then Lugeritis...1..2..3--sick, sick, sick. Now it's Colt Single Action Armyitis, much worse than either of the others--do you know what these pills cost these days? Wow. Seduced by a 100% original 4 3/4" blue (so pretty) .45 SAA today. A 1978 model in absolutely unfired condition--I'll fix that next week, they gotta shoot (why I don't know) or out they go. Tell me, how do you cure this disease (these diseases, I love too many different models)? It always seems that I have more guns than I need but never as many as I want. How come? On the other hand, you guys (and gals) are probably the wrong people to ask. Your answers will probably be to recommend more expensive pills. Maybe gun rationing is a good idea after all.....nah, I'd die without more pills. __________________ Al Eggers (AGE) NRA Life Member

05-08-2005, 12:49 AM	#2
Edward Tinker Super Moderator Eternal Lifer LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: North of Spokane, WA Posts: 15,926 Thanks: 2,014 Thanked 4,523 Times in 2,089 Posts	welcome to the club sir, although i think I caught it from you, as all of the ones you listed, I have too.... Although I need a beatup first gen SSA, mine are 3rd and one 2nd gen Ed __________________ Edward Tinker ************ Co-Author of Police Lugers - Co-Author of Simson Lugers Author of Veteran Bring Backs Vol I, Vol II, Vol III and Vol IV

05-08-2005, 09:28 AM	#3
AGE User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 597 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Ed, It's like they just follow me home. I can't deny them a home...poor lonely things. Anyway, the disease is a lot more fun than most (diseases). Wonder if Blue Cross covers the pill costs. Won't hurt to try...now if I can get a prescription and hide it from the wife..... I've parted with a few ugly ones (screwed up by prior owners) in the past. Always regretted it afterward. Now I have 3, one 2nd gen. (.45) and two 3rd gen. (.44 & .45). Real beauties. __________________ Al Eggers (AGE) NRA Life Member

05-08-2005, 09:39 AM	#4
Ron Smith User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Orygun Posts: 4,243 Thanks: 118 Thanked 245 Times in 150 Posts	Al, So.... what's the problem? Take two cartridges and call me in the morning. __________________ I Still Need DWM side plate #49... if anyone runs across a nice one. What ~Rudyard Kipling~ said...

05-08-2005, 03:11 PM	#5
Edward Tinker Super Moderator Eternal Lifer LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: North of Spokane, WA Posts: 15,926 Thanks: 2,014 Thanked 4,523 Times in 2,089 Posts	Well, I don't shoot my SSA's, but they came from my father in law after he passed away, they are too nice, seems a waste to me, but what the hey. I have "clones" I shoot... Ed __________________ Edward Tinker ************ Co-Author of Police Lugers - Co-Author of Simson Lugers Author of Veteran Bring Backs Vol I, Vol II, Vol III and Vol IV

05-08-2005, 06:00 PM	#6
Hugh RIP Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Southeast Texas Swamp Posts: 2,460 Thanks: 2 Thanked 165 Times in 64 Posts	The SAAitis is the worst kind, those babys are EXPENSIVE. Sure glad I recovered from mine, only have 2 and a Bisley left. However all that money went into Mannlicher Schoenauer rifles and Lugers so I guess I'm still afflicted with collecteritis! __________________ *TRUMP FOR PREZ IN '20!*

05-08-2005, 09:46 PM	#7
Edward Tinker Super Moderator Eternal Lifer LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: North of Spokane, WA Posts: 15,926 Thanks: 2,014 Thanked 4,523 Times in 2,089 Posts	hey Hugh, are you a long way from San Antonio? Going there next week for work conf. Ed __________________ Edward Tinker ************ Co-Author of Police Lugers - Co-Author of Simson Lugers Author of Veteran Bring Backs Vol I, Vol II, Vol III and Vol IV

05-08-2005, 10:43 PM	#8
AGE User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 597 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Hugh, I would think SAAs should be plentyful in your area. In every western I've ever seen there are a lot of them dropped or thrown away. In your dry climate they shouldn't rust and should be perfect when you dig them up. Man, some of the old westerners like Josey Wales carried about 6 or 8 of those things. I would have thunk quite a few would have dropped out of his belt and pockets. __________________ Al Eggers (AGE) NRA Life Member

05-08-2005, 11:37 PM	#9
Hugh RIP Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Southeast Texas Swamp Posts: 2,460 Thanks: 2 Thanked 165 Times in 64 Posts	Ed, About 300 mi, if you ever get to Houston, I'm only about 40 miles away. __________________ *TRUMP FOR PREZ IN '20!*

05-09-2005, 03:13 PM	#10
Rod WMG User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Edge of Texas Posts: 514 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	AGE, I do live in a dry climate. I think I'd like to have had Lee Van Cleef drop all them guns he had tied on his hoss in "the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." (I think that was the one.) Ida picked em up and dusted em off fer sure.

05-09-2005, 04:12 PM	#11
John Sabato Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The Capital of the Free World Posts: 10,153 Thanks: 3,003 Thanked 2,304 Times in 1,096 Posts	SAA's? Add one more to the crew... I only have one, an 1884 first generation (black powder) .44-40 that I inherited... with one piece elephant ivory grips... but I do have some additional parts... I intend to sell in the near future... some assorted .357 , .45 and .44 barrels and cylinders... keep an eye posted on the For Sale forum... I will be needing the money for the 03-A3 project rifle I am getting as a surprise for my Dad's 60th reunion of the 9th Inf Div ... He carried one for the whole war. __________________ regards, -John S "...We hold these truths to be self-evident that ALL men are created EQUAL *and are endowed by their Creator* with certain UNALIENABLE* rights, and among these are life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness..."*

05-09-2005, 04:48 PM	#12
Hugh RIP Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Southeast Texas Swamp Posts: 2,460 Thanks: 2 Thanked 165 Times in 64 Posts	Al, You got the wrong part of Texas. I'm down here in the SE part where it is Humid-hot-and wet. If a SA was dropped here it would create a wave in the swamp water! __________________ *TRUMP FOR PREZ IN '20!*

05-09-2005, 05:05 PM	#13
AGE User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 597 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Hugh, Never heard that Texas had anyplace like that. Sounds like Florida to me. John Wayne and the Cavalry were always running around in the sand according to carefully recorded Hollywood screen history--Never rained in a Wayne western. For that matter, Clint Eastwood's characters never had any storms except sandstorms either. Are you trying to say they were'nt altogether truthful?---nah, that couldn't be. Texas is just one big sandbox according to them. __________________ Al Eggers (AGE) NRA Life Member

05-09-2005, 06:38 PM	#14
Edward Tinker Super Moderator Eternal Lifer LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: North of Spokane, WA Posts: 15,926 Thanks: 2,014 Thanked 4,523 Times in 2,089 Posts	except for Austin, it has nice rolling hills and a friend with a nice collection And when I went to their gun collecting meeting, a bunch of true gentlemen... Now my wife wants to move to Austin oh well, much worse places to live! Ed

05-10-2005, 04:35 PM	#16
Rod WMG User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Edge of Texas Posts: 514 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Well, I have to describe Texas (Resistol over red heart) now. First, it's big, second, it's very varied. In far East Texas the average rainfall is more than fifty inches per year, in far West Texas, where I am, it is ten or a little less. The terrain is flat, hilly, mountainous (small ones), depending on what part of the state you're in. There are forests and desert. It's farther from here to the Houston area than to California. I could go on, but you get the picture.

05-10-2005, 07:00 PM	#17
pipeman45 User Join Date: May 2004 Location: Kentucky Posts: 539 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Some people just don't realize how big Texas is! Part of it is swamp,part is desert,and part is mountains. This state covers more ground than some countries.

05-10-2005, 07:02 PM	#18
AGE User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 597 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Rod, I guess we really know that. Still, it's fun to tease y'all. AGE, From the Gator State, my adopted home where it never (well almost never) snows. (I'm really a Yankee liar from PA, the land of potholes and taxes). __________________ Al Eggers (AGE) NRA Life Member

05-11-2005, 11:23 AM	#19
Rod WMG User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Edge of Texas Posts: 514 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I just figured there might be some who hadn't visited the whole state and might need the info. Teasing is okay, I've told my share of FloriDUH jokes. Haven't been there since I was a kid, though.

05-11-2005, 11:45 AM	#20
Ron Smith User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Orygun Posts: 4,243 Thanks: 118 Thanked 245 Times in 150 Posts	A friend of mine is or was a real working cowboy and wrangler from Idaho. We were in a gunshop one day, and a jobber for a gun distributor came in. Kind of a dumpy goofy guy. Gary was wearing a new "Silver Belly" Stetson hat and his usual White's packer boots. This jobber look at him and in a trying to be funny tone said, " I'm from Texas and y'all gotta find out how real cowboys dress. Nice try though." Gary looked at the guy and said in his cowpoke twang, "TEXAS!? Isn't that back east somewhere?" Another guy in the shop mumbled "Think it's in Northern Mexico." The jobber did'nt say another word. No slam intended toward Texas. Just thought it was an amusing story. Ron __________________ I Still Need DWM side plate #49... if anyone runs across a nice one. What ~Rudyard Kipling~ said...