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from this morning... Paco holding his old S&W .45. This gun was a total wreck, missing the hammer and other parts. Someone had tried to chrome-plate it and totally messed the gun up. Gary Reeder took it and completely restored it. It took a year or more to hunt down some of the missing parts but he got the job done. The old gun is beautiful .. completely remarked like originally. Paco just recently got the gun back and this morning his daughter sent me the photo. I called and talked to him and he is totally excited to see the restoration.
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I love good news.... 8)
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Lookin' ready! Is that a mdl 25?
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Griff wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2023 3:39 pm Lookin' ready! Is that a mdl 25?
No .. it's an old long-action .45 ... maybe the civilian version of the 1917? I am not really very familiar with the old S&W guns.
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JimT wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2023 5:25 pm
Griff wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2023 3:39 pmLookin' ready! Is that a mdl 25?
No .. it's an old long-action .45 ... maybe the civilian version of the 1917? I am not really very familiar with the old S&W guns.
Heck I'm not that familiar with new ones!
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Great to see two old warhorses still rarin' to go!
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What arclight said. I hope Paco gets to shoot that beauty real soon.
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Cool!. That's great news for sure.


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Cool Roscoe. Curious, has he always been cross-eye dominant?
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samsi wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2023 7:13 pm Cool Roscoe. Curious, has he always been cross-eye dominant?
I really don't know.
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It’s a 1917 resighted……I think good ole Paco is sighting down on an NVA insurgent…..or maybe a NYC druggie.

I like how the front sight is with the “glare reducer” is cut on the proper side.

I shoot the same way…right arm strong with the left eye…….rifle is shot from the left shoulder…extreme left eye dominate….
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Thanks Six. I was slightly left eye dominant when I was younger but shot enough to train the right eye to take over. Now older, the left eye definitely sees better but I'm being bullheaded about retraining myself - again.
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Samsi…..don’t think into it….just shoot however you feel more comfortable with……not like the Catholic nuns who would beat your knuckles with a ruler if you were writing left handed……


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samsi wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2023 7:13 pm Cool Roscoe. Curious, has he always been cross-eye dominant?
I think so. I can’t put my finger on why, but I shoot that way and remember from a ways back that he does.
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Reeder took a derepit old gun that barely was useful as a boat anchor, and made it young and functional again...!!! 8)


.....so.....maybe I need to send MYSELF into Gary Reeder for a 'restoration'.... :D
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Very cool! Always love seeing and old Smith back to like new again!
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Tycer wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2023 10:19 pm
samsi wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2023 7:13 pm Cool Roscoe. Curious, has he always been cross-eye dominant?
I think so. I can’t put my finger on why, but I shoot that way and remember from a ways back that he does.
Well I guess I'm gonna have to try it since it seems a lot of the cool kids do it! :D
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Good to see Paco Jim, thank you.
Good to feller that restored that revolver.
I bet it could tell some tales if it talked!
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Born left handed, neither eye dominant. I can shoot left handed just as well as right handed. Was beaten into being a right hander as a toddler.
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piller wrote: Thu Feb 16, 2023 2:58 am Born left handed, neither eye dominant. I can shoot left handed just as well as right handed. Was beaten into being a right hander as a toddler.
this is amazing ! same story here, I was able to bat and pitch right or left handed. terrified Mom so I was "trained" to right hand everything. i rebelled by eating with my left hand, which i still do. i am right eye dominant and now can't shoot left handed.

Ugh, training !

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Grizz wrote: Fri Feb 17, 2023 1:42 pm
piller wrote: Thu Feb 16, 2023 2:58 amBorn left handed, neither eye dominant. I can shoot left handed just as well as right handed. Was beaten into being a right hander as a toddler.
this is amazing ! same story here, I was able to bat and pitch right or left handed. terrified Mom so I was "trained" to right hand everything. i rebelled by eating with my left hand, which i still do. i am right eye dominant and now can't shoot left handed.
Ugh, training !
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Same here... Was forcibly trained to write right handed in school... Many years later Mom got upset as she's also a lefty! But, really neither eye dominant so when Dad taught me to shoot he suggested it go at it as a righty, less limiting on guns, etc. I still find it VERY hard to shoot with both eyes open. I've only been able to do it with my AR and scope at 1-power and concentrating hard. It's more time consuming than just closing the left eye and getting on with it!
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Griff wrote: Fri Feb 17, 2023 2:23 pm
Grizz wrote: Fri Feb 17, 2023 1:42 pm
piller wrote: Thu Feb 16, 2023 2:58 amBorn left handed, neither eye dominant. I can shoot left handed just as well as right handed. Was beaten into being a right hander as a toddler.
this is amazing ! same story here, I was able to bat and pitch right or left handed. terrified Mom so I was "trained" to right hand everything. i rebelled by eating with my left hand, which i still do. i am right eye dominant and now can't shoot left handed.
Ugh, training !
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Same here... Was forcibly trained to write right handed in school... Many years later Mom got upset as she's also a lefty! But, really neither eye dominant so when Dad taught me to shoot he suggested it go at it as a righty, less limiting on guns, etc. I still find it VERY hard to shoot with both eyes open. I've only been able to do it with my AR and scope at 1-power and concentrating hard. It's more time consuming than just closing the left eye and getting on with it!
that is really interesting! i had binocular vision shooting right handed and up to a certain point in time i could see the front bead superimposed on the animal with no blurring. i learned to shoot with both eyes open, that's how Dad instructed me, and that's how i shot until the eyeballs rebelled and i started squinting. Ugh, ageing!
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I can shoot with either eye or both. I am pretty consistent no matter how I do it ... I shoot equally lousy in all modes. :)
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:) I'm in the same club. Shoot equally poorly with either hand.
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Awesome! Thanks for the post, on both Paco & his Smith .45….
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I needed a pick-me-up. Thanks Jim! :D
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