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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Big Frank on October 23, 2008, 05:09:36 AM
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I was looking at the owners manual for my Colt AR-15 today. I was thinking about the thread The "Wet" AR and wanted to see what the manual says. I think it takes about a dozen drops of oil to do everything except the bore.
Anyway, in the back of the manual is my purchase date in 1987. It was $576 new from my co-worker who was a part-time dealer. It will be 21 & 1/2 years old next Tuesday. If it was a person it could drink and vote and drive a car. It's only needed a few things in all that time, like a set of gas rings.
Time flies when you don't know what you're doing. I've had my Ruger 10/22 since the late '70s when I was in high school. 1978 I think. It was $63 or $67 IIRC, and that's with a $150 real walnut stock. I'll have to dig out the receipt later. It's needed a little work over the years too. I replaced the barrel once. The firing pin too.
I tend to buy a gun I want, keep it, and never trade it in. Are you celebrating a 10th anniversary, 20th birthday, or anything else for your old guns?
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Are you celebrating a 10th anniversary, 20th birthday, or anything else for your old guns?
You're weird, you know that?
Me, I got a 37 year old Colt Mk IV Model 70 that I bought brand new when they first came out for the princely sum of $190! Thought I had broke the bank. Put on adjustable sights, flat mainspring housing, recoil buffer and checkered grips. Hmmmm,I think our anniversary is coming up soon. Might have to take'er out to celebrate.
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My first handgun...Llama model IIIA in .380. Same features as a 1911. Purchased for $69.99 in 1972 by my wife as a surprise for my 22nd birthday. I didn't buy it because it cost too much. She had been saving money for it since my last birthday. Still have the gun, still have the wife.
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My first handgun...Llama model IIIA in .380. Same features as a 1911. Purchased for $69.99 in 1972 by my wife as a surprise for my 22nd birthday. I didn't buy it because it cost too much. She had been saving money for it since my last birthday. Still have the gun, still have the wife.
Both sound like KEEPERS to me! ;)
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You're weird, you know that?
Tell me something I don't know. :)
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I have a S&W Model 28 that I bought for $125 in 1973, haven't had to do any work on it. Around 1979 traded a 125 Kawasaki street/dirt bike and about $125 for a Colt 1911 that I still have. Still works great.