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GENELEO

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  1. GENELEO

    memorial day

    After 22 years military, (Vietnam Vet) and 20 years LE (Retiring June 30, 2009), I think about it all the time. Everyone should.
  2. I've tried repeatedly on my M-3, and could never get it to work.
  3. Ditto!! Cutting the end square to the bore is allmost impossible, without chucking it in a lathe. The benelli barrels are too expensive to follow that "gunsmith's" advice. IMHO.
  4. Amen to the "heavy handed cleaning". In the past month, I have replaced the barrel seal on three different Remington 1100's, and none of them were "worn out" all were either nicked, or torn when the owner carelessly cleaned the gun. On the oldest 1100, the piston and piston seal were actually eroded, and the barrel seal would have been useable, if the owner had been more careful in dissassembling the shotgun.
  5. The FED EXCISE TAX is tax exempt on dept. purchase only. When I buy for my use, even as a LEO, I have to pay the tax, UNLESS, I can get the dept. to sign of on a form stating that I am making the purchase for ON DUTY use only, which they will not do. Hope this helps.
  6. I just bought a repair kit for an 11-87 just a couple days ago, Remington calls the material "Viton", what ever that means. All the "older" cars used rubber components, but most modern "rubber" components are either silicone or a high silicone content mix, as real, or natural rubber detereorates rapidly. Look at natural latex gloves. The ones we carry on our gunbelts have to be replaced every few months, but the nitrile gloves hold up for a long time.
  7. I was surfing around on Sniper Country Emporium, where I have purchased several firearms, and located the following Benelli Supersport, NIB. Any interest, take a look. http://www.snipercountry.com/forsale/Display_Message.asp?Message=0000013989.txt
  8. Silicone(?), rubber won't hold up to the heat from the gas, or the gun oils and lube.
  9. Sounds like a good dealer to do business with. There are a few still around. Good luck.
  10. If you look in the BLUE BOOK, as a guide to commercial gun traders, it is suggested that the dealer pays from 10 to 50% of the value of a firearm when purchasing a used gun, or taking it in, in trade, so YES, it doe's mean something to a dealer. BUT, you are right also, when you say that a dealer will rape you, but only if you let him. I have a about 60 guns, and they don't eat much, and they will sit a looooonnnng time before I will give one away to a dealer. I know in my mind when I go into a store, or a gun show what I paid for a gun originally, and I will not come out on the losing side. If I work a deal with a dealer, I expect to allow him a little profit, but he won't get rich off of me. A gunsmith friend of mine has a motto he trys to live by in his business, "you can shear a sheep many, many times, but you can only skin it once". Most business now don't realize that, just look at the prices that they want to charge you, and they're guns "don't eat" much either, but if they don't move them out the door, then the dealer "don't eat" either.
  11. Canada? I thought that was the flag of the great state of kalifornia.
  12. Same here, they're everywhere!!!!!
  13. Check these out, found them a few minutes ago. http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=128865787 http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=128984053 Just a couple, there are plenty more. Hope this helps.
  14. According to the BLUE BOOK OF GUN VALUES 29th edition (one year old) the benelli in 100% condition is worth $825.00, in 98% it is worth $700.00. The Ruger in 100% condition, is listed as $460.00, and 98% as $345.00. unless the barrel is rollmarked as "125 grain bullet", then add another $100.00. The values in this book are based on NATIONWIDE averages of actual market values. So the values will vary depending on certain areas of the U.S. Hope this helps.
  15. After 22 years in the military, and now 20 years in Law Enforcement, I have heard the very same thing, that magazine springs will take a set. A friend of mine found a loaded .45 Colt mag that had belonged to his dad, that had supposedly come home from WW2, it was loaded in a dresser drawer. After removing the top 2 rounds from the mag, the remaining rounds fell out, and the spring remained collapsed inside the magazine. I have purchased several semi-autos of various makes that were "police trade ins", and after comparing free lengths of used springs to new springs, the used springs were shorter, they had "taken a set". They were shorter, thus weaker, thus worn. I just measured my 5 year old springs from my Glock 22, and compared them against a set of new spare springs, and they are the 1/8 inch shorter. I swap the mags every 28 days. I'm satisified.
  16. If you purchased it locally, take it back to the dealer, and ask him to "swap it out" for a non-defective firearm. It will also tell you how eager he is to please his customers, and whether you want to deal with that dealer again.
  17. "Spring tension" will not weaken a spring, BUT, a spring being constantly under tension will. That is why the military, and some LE agencies advise that you only load your magazines to 90% of capacity when they will be loaded for a long period of time. I keep two "full sets" (3 mags each, Glock 22) that I swap out every 28 days, when I go from the day shift to the night shift, to keep the springs in the mags from taking a "set". It works the same basic way with all springs, if it stays under tension, it will eventually "take a set" and reduce the effectiveness (power or strength) of the spring. Most modern firearms, have a high quality steel in the firing pins, and firing pin springs and it will not harm them to be dry fired, as in releasing tension on the firing pin spring for long term storage of a center fire cartridge weapon, BUT it will damage a rim fire weapon, as it will "peen" the edge of the chamber where the firing pin strikes it.
  18. Sabot slugs are designed to be "spin stabilized", as would happen through a rifled barrel, or rifled choke. If it isn't spin stabilized, "accuracy suffers".
  19. GENELEO

    Sabots?

    It won't "hurt" anything but accuracy. The sabot was designed to be "spin stabilized", and the spin assists in discarding the sabot, without disrupting the projectile itself. Hope this helps.
  20. If it didn't prove effective, 100%, meaning the intended target is no longer breathing or doing anything else. The lawyers would be lining up to take your home, car and everything you will ever own the rest of your life in the insuing lawsuit. In "normal" home defense distances though, just about anything coming out of a 12 gauge bore at standard velocity wil leave nothing but a bloody rat hole, with a lot of what use to be inside leaking outside.
  21. GENELEO

    gun oil

    I had a son-in-law that was deployed on a ship in the Navy who was on a port visit in Naples Italy pick some up for me from a small Italian gun shop, a while back. OK, but I wouldn't go to Italy to buy it. CLP is better IMO.
  22. IF YOU HAVE IT, A TRUCK BROUGHT IT Not this time.
  23. I have an M-3, and have never seen any other fore end than the one that came stock. There are "pistol grip" style butt stocks, Benelli makes them and so do some other aftermarket mfg,s. Just look around, and you should be able to find one. E-Bay, Gunbroker, etc.
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