10/30/08

I'm keeping the 1911. All this time I have been trying to convince myself that the Judge was what I wanted but for some reason I just wasn’t having any success. Oh, I'll probably buy a Judge in addition to the 1911, but I'm not selling the 1911 to finance it just now. John gave my e-mail address to some dude who said if I wanted to sell, he’d “take it off my hands” for me. I wrote back and said I had decided to keep it unless he made a monetary offer I couldn’t refuse. I just read his reply and all he’d offer is what I paid so… no. I took it inside and cleaned it up last night. I really need to get a barrel brush and brush out the barrel, duh. I need to buy a cleaning kit for it. I loaded the rest of my Hornady TAP Personal Defense ammo into the new clip I bought last week. I guess I need to buy yet another clip for the range ammo. Can’t have too many clips, I say. I'm sitting on three clips with nineteen rounds loaded in them right now. Well, not literally “sitting on” them, they are at the house. I think I will buy one more “range clip” just for giggles. Hell, I'll probably load it with six or seven Winchester range rounds too, just to be ready. No, I won’t load it with any more TAPs, mainly because all I have are already loaded. John, all this gun stuff is your fault. Ok, so here’s how last night went. I met John at his house and we discussed what we were going to do. He called the guy at the range to see what the plan was with the 1911. When he, range dude, wasn’t ready to buy right then, I said I would keep the gun. Like I said before, I'd been trying to convince myself that it was the right thing for me to sell it. It wasn’t. So with that part of the evening settled we really didn’t need to go to the range. I still wanted to because I'm so bullet happy, but we forewent it. I called Kevin to see how long they would be at their shop and told him we were on our way. We arrived to find a much nicer, if old and dusty, alignment machine than I expected. We’re talking real computer laser leveling and all that jazz. We loaded it into Fifi and headed to the shop. We rolled Shichi out and made room for the alignment thingy. With that in place we pushed Shichi back in and headed to dinner. Red Hot and Blue won the coin toss. From there we went back to John’s where I piled into Darth Versa and went home. I knew I had a 0700 h meeting today so I wanted to be in bed at a decent hour. Of course I spent time cleaning the 1911 before calling it a night but I did not turn on the TV. That would have kept me up way too late. Oh, I turned off the lights so I could see these glow in the dark sights John was talking about. They are pretty cool. Of course I was still night blind from just having turned off the lights so all I could see were the dots. There was no way I could have used them to aim at that juncture. I didn’t try them again once my night vision had recovered. I'll do that one of these days. Yeah, I think keeping the 1911 is the right way to go. I have always wanted one, this is a nice stainless steel model, I like the way it shoosts, and I'd never be able to replace it at that price. Oh, and once I get paid again tomorrow, the “I'm broke as” regret will go away as well. Well, I think I'm just going to call this a short rant and go do other stuff. Have a day.