A word of caution when dealing with snakes...

LuckyDuck

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    There are few creatures as beautiful or as deadly as the cobra.

    Snakes Vertebrate Reptile Serpent Indian cobra





    Naturally, men of our stock are attracted to such critters and for millennia have asked themselves "if only I could harness that beauty & lethality"...and our ancestors have forever thus tried to tame the beast only to find out generations later that the cobra cannot be tamed and once more-we found out that they're quite prolific and reproduce far faster than anticipated.

    Did you know a single cobra can lay between 10-30 eggs? I didn't before going down this noble endeavor and before I knew what was happening- I was left with a snake pit as deadly as they are beautiful...



    Trigger Air gun Silver Gun barrel Everyday carry





    I sought to my elders, I looked towards our ancestors on how I could possibly reign in this den of cobras and wield their strengths while understanding their potential for harm and also appreciating their beauty and suddenly a solution was presented from of all places but the jungles of Vietnam...

    I needed a bonafide snake-eater to watch over the rapidly growing snake pit... I searched high & low and found myself a true champion to watch over my flock...

    Knife Carbon fibers Everyday carry Hunting knife Scabbard






    Pictured above is my snake pit- a CCO, Kobra Carry & Kobra Gov't along with my latest addition to the Ed Brown Collection, a Gov't Special Forces model.

    -LD
     
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    MK20 said:
    I open this safe when I want to larp as a Boomer.

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    I've got to ask-

    Far right of your picture- the reddish recoil pad... Is there anything special you do to keep that in that condition?

    Reason I ask is I've seen a great many otherwise fantastic firearms have rubber recoil pads (often resembling that one on the right) that just degraded not from neglect but just because of age.

    -LD
     
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    LuckyDuck said:
    I've got to ask-

    Far right of your picture- the reddish recoil pad... Is there anything special you do to keep that in that condition?

    Reason I ask is I've seen a great many otherwise fantastic firearms have rubber recoil pads (often resembling that one on the right) that just degraded not from neglect but just because of age.

    -LD
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    I bought it like that. I got lucky.

    The old herters pads hold up really well. Silicone spray can bring one back if it is a bit dry.
     
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    ironman56 said:
    What !. No Easter egg
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    Nah- not in this one. Didn't occur to me to introduce an easter egg until I did a follow up post truth be told.

    That said- I think it's a good one in that it's blatantly present for those that know but also frustratingly absent to others. But that wasn't part of this thread. Just wanted to talk 1911's and EB's here.

    -LD
     
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    MK20 said:
    I bought it like that. I got lucky.

    The old herters pads hold up really well. Silicone spray can bring one back if it is a bit dry.
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    Appreciate the response-

    I inherited a Parker Hale in 7mm Magnum years ago from my uncle that was an absolute gorgeous specimen and had less than 20 rounds through her. My uncle kept up with the steel & wood but the butt pad absolutely disintegrated by the point I got possession of her.

    Moot point I suppose but I ended up cleaning the rifle up and selling it years ago to funnel the money/proceeds back into my Aunt's coffers. I never really had much use for a 7mm Magnum but the Parker was really something gorgeous to behold (aside from the disintegrating butt pad).

    -LD
     
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    XLR308 said:
    That's funny right there, the last time I saw someone called boomer here it was @308pirate calling me out as boomer for questioning the uber tall LPVO AR mounts.🤣
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    I really am a boomer by demographic. And I thought that was funny. Made up for the shock and horror that this thread was not about bore snakes, which is what I had imagined.
     
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    Alrighty-

    Did a bit of tweaking with the 5" Kobra & 5" Special Forces. and thought this may be of some interest to others and figured I'd share here...

    In both instances I added the EB one-piece "hardcore" magwell matching the finish and stippling pattern for each. If you haven't tried to undertake a magwell swap on 1911's it's really stupid easy to do. To make things easy, wrap a rubber band around the grip safety so it's depressed and keeps everything together (I found the rubber bands that wrap asparagus from the grocery store to be perfect). Grab yourself a 3/32" punch to knock out the mainspring pin from the frame (also should be easy/take only minimal pressure to push out) and a 1/16" punch to knock out the retaining pin in the mainspring itself (to snag the "guts" since you'll need them for the new mainspring housing most likely) but again once you depress the housing cap it'll push out with next to no resistance...

    Do everything in reverse and throw in the new mainspring housing and you're back to watching Jeopardy before the commercial break is over. So here's the end result of my tinkering...


    Firearm Gun Trigger Air gun Gun barrel


    Air gun Trigger Leather Gun barrel Silver


    Air gun Gun barrel Trigger




    Looks well enough and as expected the finishes match up perfectly. I was surprised how well the stock grips worked with the magwell addition (looks clean to me) but I may later decide to get some grips from VZ or somewhere else to cover up the mainspring pin on the frame... time will tell.

    The one part though that I was hoping for (and which I think will be of the most interest) is that I was hoping that the radius in the magwell would match up to the bevel in the frame and in that regards... it does not... Here's some pics of how it "matches up"...

    Air gun Silver Trigger Everyday carry Leather


    Air gun Silver Hardwood Shotgun Titanium


    Silver Carbon fibers Plastic


    Plastic Carbon fibers


    Air gun Silver Gun barrel Titanium Carbon fibers



    So not nearly as "clean" as I was expecting and "blended" it is not. That being said- does it do its "job" and still feed magazines? Yes, yes it does (certainly helps to have a bumper pad though).

    Air gun Trigger Gun barrel



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    Hit my pic limit... onto part II...
     
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    So that's where I'm at presently, was hoping it'd be a bit closer internally but it's flawless externally and functions as needed. I'll play around with it in this configuration for a bit and see how I like it. Worst case scenario I go back to the standard mainspring housings or decide to have the magwell blended.

    Hope that's of some help to someone here.

    -LD
     
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    BurtG said:
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    Fairly well covered in that regard...

    All of the 357 Sig sizes...
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    All of the 45ACP sizes...
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    Just two of the G20's (just randomly going through what pics I have handy at the moment)...
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    And without getting into the 9mm collection- here's just some of the G19 holsters I grabbed a few months ago, reckon that's around half of 'em...
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    That said- I love me a good Glock or two, but they just aren't a quality 1911...If you know, you know.

    -LD
     
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    LuckyDuck said:
    Fairly well covered in that regard...

    All of the 357 Sig sizes...
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    All of the 45ACP sizes...
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    Just two of the G20's (just randomly going through what pics I have handy at the moment)...
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    And without getting into the 9mm collection- here's just some of the G19 holsters I grabbed a few months ago, reckon that's around half of 'em...
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    That said- I love me a good Glock or two, but they just aren't a quality 1911...If you know, you know.

    -LD
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    All those guns and no evidence of actually shooting.
     
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