Not even sure what to say..... I hope you can restore your fathers gun. Godspeed.
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Not even sure what to say..... I hope you can restore your fathers gun. Godspeed.
Oh my:
I didn't gruff your mother still lived there.
All I can say is get your fathers stuff out and into your hands. Talk this over with your mother. Leave your brother in some other room. None of his damn business. This would be between you and your mother. Get what is yours from your father. Then just take care of your mother after that. Very basic stuff. Main point is to have good communication with your mother. Make sure she knows you will be there for her. Never ask your brother for anything. Doesn’t sound like he will pony up. Time comes if he mans up he’ll do it.
Till then just write him off and take care of your mother in spite of him. If there is any hope for him he will man up and follow your lead. If not all the bickering would not of done any good. Just don’t let your mother ever see you and your brother arguing
Totally separate your relationship with your mother from any feelings you have for your brother. Then tell your mother that’s what you are doing. Don’t think she doesn’t know her own sons. In other words. Forget your brother. It’s just you and your mom. Work on that and be true to her then he can be responsible for his own life.
Do Not Refinish that pistol. Its history of your family now. My dads model 12 does NOT have any blue left. You can twist it in any direction , any where.. Yes you read that right. But oh the story's about it, and the things it has done....Think about that...
Clean it up and shoot the hell out of it. That can be his memorial.
You can try to solder up the crack in the Liberty Bell, or you can enjoy it for what it is.
I saved my daughter's favorite book from childhood. Recently our 5 month old Catahoula mutt chewed it to pieces overnight. I had to explain to my daughter (now 14) why I was sad, because she did not remember that book at all.
When I came home from work that day, she had taped the book back together, hundreds of pieces, and left it on the kitchen table. It means more to me now than before the dog chewed it.
Good advice from Gabby.
I would clean it up and rock on.
I too have my father's 1911, a Springfield Armory plain Jane. He always loved the 1911 but never had too much money and never got one customized. So I decided to build it up as it would have been done in the '70s.
I like to think he'd have liked it.
Cat
Sorry about the 1911, sounds like a reblue is in order.
I have left powder in RL550 and 450 hoppers literally for decades, just topping off when
it needs it. Can't imagine the "fertilizer" comment unless you don't plan on being back until
about 2150 or so.
Bill
probalby a bit pitted so a nice blueing job isnt going to work. I think before i had it matte blued id consider one of the new high tech coatings.
I had actually used the at home gun finishing on it before I gave it to him. Those areas were good. It was where it was bare steel (where it was worn) it was rusted. Slide rails the worst for sure.
It functional now. Gonna leave it as is. Shoot it every now and then and keep it as a reminder of him and how NOT to trust my brother to do somethings.
The plastic tube on the powder measure will turn colors and crack over time if powder is left in it.
I would just refinish the 1911.
A good refinish with Gunkote and you will not even tell the abuse
"FYI it's illegal to carry a firearm in an ICC stickered truck." I will repectfully disagree, as long as you are compliant w/ state law, it is perfectly legal as far as I know. "Which is why no truck drivers carry a firearm", ok.
Osteodoc, I totally identify with your frustration over your brother. My best friend's brother and brother in law are the same way, and both were made that way by their respective parents. One set of parents was stern and unforgiving to the point that the kid grew up to be a people pleaser who can't think for himself. The other one had every thing given to him and was rewarded for his tantrums, now he believes he is entitled to the family resources for the rest of his life. They had totally different upbringing yet the result was much the same!
Post up a couple after pics of the 1911 for us.
Gabby do you know where to look up the no firearm in truck law, I have drove all my life and never heard of that, except in certain states and cities. I even buy a permit when entering Canada.
Brownells Oxpho blue is a great cold blue.
I use it on my varmint rifles. Just buy CM alloy steel barrels then use a single application. Three or four would make it pretty. I burn them out from the inside not the outside. CM last longer than SS. I've never had a barrel wear out from the outside.
Mix transmission fluid. (ATF) with 50/50 % odorless kerosene. Sold as lamp oil in hardware. Use that as your gun oil wipe down and whatever. ATF has loads of anti rust inhibitors in it. Slick enough.
Come to think of it starmac. It's what my company told me. That would be ADM Trucking. Possibly they lied to us.
That would of been circa 1990. Which is 23 years ago. Wasn't to many months after I stopped driving for them that the President went to prison for lying. It's possible.
We were Decatur Illinois based so it may have been state law.
I generally had my AMT 380 In my pocket and my 9x19 in the pit. 06 in the box. First Gulf War was starting up. Was pulling fuel tanks with that stupid ethanol. Back hauling sub octane. Perhaps it's a haz mat thing? Bee a long time since I took the test.
Rick's tip about soaking rusty guns in kerosene is a good one. It works and seems to neutralize the rust so it does not re-appear. One of my kids left a pair of side cutters in the yard, I found them about two years later and they were a solid mass of rust. Soaked in kerosene for a month, cleaned them up and am still using them and they no longer get rusty...they have a sort of patina on them that doesn't rust any more. I wouldn't call it rust blue but the kerosene did something.
Gary
Sounds like your brother should be living under a bridge somewhere.