Well I DO live in the South!

I love the lady that comes and cleans my house.  Married and Mother of two young children and I hate to say it but one of such exuberance I can only tolerate it in small doses.
She's "perky" to the roof. 

Oh yeah, back to living in the South. If you come into humble abode there is nothing to scream "gunnie" in the common areas most guests of short acquaintance would note.

I have a "no live ammunition" rule for classroom instruction. This creates a problem for me as I am constantly getting ammo out of the range bag or stuffing it back in. So instead of sticking the ammo in a secure area like so:

I end up sticking it on a bedroom dresser of late. I also have to clear my carry handguns as well. 

Yes, that is stuffed "Nipper and Chipper" mascots for the RCA company well, back when they were RCA. 

Oh yeah, back to my point. When my cleaning lady is confronted with this kind of stuff she simply picks it up and dusts the dresser. I love it! 

Springfield Down!

There is no malfunction drill for this. Click, no bang. Tap and rack right? Yes, but behold. 

Broken firing pin on the Springfield SA-XD in .40 S&W. 

So do you carry a back up gun? They are mechanical devices after all. They can fail.

I know you are worried about my Springfield and the fact the firing pin is on back order. In fact almost every gun part I have ordered over the last month is so. You may be worried about my 40-fu. Never fear. 

My favorite .40 S&W. When you care enough to send the very best. A Model 4006 and as a bonus if you run out of ammo it makes for a really heavy blunt instrument! 

Happy Birthday!

If you get a chance wander over to Lagniappes Lair and wish Murph a happy birthday!

Now With 5% More Retro!

So the 2013 Mustang needed some more retro styling. As if it did not have enough right? Got these in today.

Rear window "classic" louvers. We shall see if the 3M trim adhesive gods smile upon my handy work. Not as cool as these though.

 













We are not done just yet. FoMoCo put a rubber ducky antenna on the ride? Seriously?  I acquired one of these for terrestrial reception now. 

In other retro news see the bronze bushings up there with the new aluminum antenna for the new ride? Door hinge rebuild kits for the 1971. If the current pins have worn through the bushings then weld the holes up and start over. The reproductions are crap and the doors are really heavy! 

I can't replace the anntenna on the '13 unless I have an antenna removal tool. For some reason its on back order. I have resisted temptation to go at it with a pair of needle nose pliers!  

 

Old School on Line!

So after a CCH class today a prior student wants personal instruction tomorrow. She is very logical and methodical in her quest for a Handgun suited for her. I get that. She seems to have found the Smith and Wesson M&P 9C as her choice after she shot several Handguns. Guess what. There are none to be had for love nor money here right now. 

She wants to continue training. I get that. So for tomorrow my full sized M&P VTAC 9 is in the range bag along with one of the new M&P .22s. 

That presents a problem for me. I will not go on the line without a weapon. The M&P is my carry gun. 

So tomorrow an old friend will be on my hip. A Colt Combat Commander .45ACP in a El Paso Saddlery rig.

    










I DO love this pistol. Its thirty years old and went to Blackwater while everyone else ran plastic bullet hoses. 

It comes at a cost however. During class today some asked about the hardware I presented. They were sharp. They wanted to know where to get a S&W Model 4006 or Colt Detective Special. I had to tell them that several Handguns presented during class were older than them. Nobody wanted to know where to get the Kel-Tec. 

I returned to the Fortress of Solitude. Congratulations to my students today! 


Sigh...

 

Hey Comrade!

So Tam throws some first grade snark out there on the North Koreans no less.  

So I went down the rabbit hole and found this: "In the mid-1990s, an automated exchange system based on an E-10A system produced by Alcatel joint-venture factories in China was installed in Pyongyang. North Koreans announced in 1997 that automated switching had replaced manual switching in Pyongyang and 70 other locales.[2] North Korean press reported in 2000 that fiber-optic cable had been extended to the port of Nampho and that North Pyong'an Province had been connected with fiber-optic cable".

I think that the landlines they DO have are in better shape than here. 

Aside from eating sawdust and dirt clods they do have these traffic signals in the Capitol City. 






Hmm... Comrade if I make an illegal turn do I go to the gulag? I mean really. They have cars? 

Badges, we don't need no stinking badges!

Well it beats going back to get a S*it load of dimes! 




I have watched the evolution of badges and such on the almost 50 year run of the Mustang. It has been interesting to watch this evolution. First a fender emblem from a 1964 (and a half). 

 











It sports the correct "C4XX" part number. It belongs to a ride I need to get to soon. Guess what? Clean it up and put new paint on the red white and blue "Tri-Bar" and you will be good to go. 

Then to the 1966 Fastback GT. 

   








The emblem denotes GT and the letters were a PIA to get right!  


Next the 1971 Fastback.

 













Decals this time around. Interesting to note if you did not have a Mach 1 you got this script emblem for the fender.

It looks similar to the script in the 1994 GT.

 

  












Then we look at the fender of the 1994.

 










No Tri-Bar but it does say GT.

Then to the "other emblems": FoMoCo capitalized on the long running history and stuck these on cars. Literally.

Ok, the Tri-Bar is back. I will give them that. 

 










Tri-Bar is gone. 

 












A horse shoe! Really?!?!


All of these emblems are plastic.

These are not. Serious business back in the day to let everyone know what was under that hood. 

289 V-8 as noted by the "V" under the cubic inch number. By the seventies the "V" disappeared. 

 



 

Now? Well I'm somewhat underwhelmed with the fender on the 2013 GT.

Yes I know it is a 302. Glad y'all got away from the 4.6 liter modular engine. I'm thinking I need some Tri-Bar Pony happiness up here. Just so I can run sorta old school.