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TINCANBANDIT's Gunsmithing: December 2013
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A blog dedicated to the love of guns, gun restoration, repair and customization. Wednesday, December 18, 2013. I have blogged about the trends of personalizing guns in the past. We looked at Zombie guns. And even pink guns for women. Well now there is something new: Steampunk. I'm not really sure when this "movement" began, or even what it meant so I checked Wikipedia. So why am I blogging about a "subgenre" of science fiction? They are making guns. The celebrated Dr. Grordbort is selling his Infalli...
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TINCANBANDIT's Gunsmithing: October 2013
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A blog dedicated to the love of guns, gun restoration, repair and customization. Thursday, October 31, 2013. Since it is Halloween, I thought I would post something that relates to the holiday. Additional pictures including one with dimensions. It is large enough to fit a 6" N frame S&W. Here are some others I found online. Here is some Coffin Case cases, these are intended for guitars, microphones and drum sticks, but they are kick ass gun cases as well. To kill the werewolves? Carved to look like vampi...
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TINCANBANDIT's Gunsmithing: June 2014
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A blog dedicated to the love of guns, gun restoration, repair and customization. Thursday, June 26, 2014. History's Most Notorious Guns. History's most notorious guns. In no particular order. The Derringer percussion pistol that John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. The assassination took place at Ford's theater in Washington D.C. on Good Friday, April 14th, 1865. The Italian Mannlicher Carcano Rifle used to shoot President John F Kennedy on Friday November 22nd, 1963. The 380 ...
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TINCANBANDIT's Gunsmithing: August 2013
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A blog dedicated to the love of guns, gun restoration, repair and customization. Saturday, August 24, 2013. Mob Guns.not what you are thinking. Most of my followers know about my love for Doug Turnbull's. Work I discovered another company that does excellent restoration on turn of the century firearms. They are called Mob Guns. Their work is exquisite to say the least. They are selective about which guns to restore and are also quite good at posing the firearms for the pictures. Links to this post. I the...
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TINCANBANDIT's Gunsmithing: May 2013
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A blog dedicated to the love of guns, gun restoration, repair and customization. Wednesday, May 29, 2013. Stainless Steel Media Tumbling. I have been reloading for close to 20 years now, My Father and I started with some old equipment we bought at an estate sale. We now have our own set-ups and reload almost every caliber we own. Last year I bought myself a stainless steel media tumbler from these guys: http:/ www.stainlesstumblingmedia.com/. Anyway, I decided to make a post about how this stuff works.
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TINCANBANDIT's Gunsmithing: September 2013
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A blog dedicated to the love of guns, gun restoration, repair and customization. Sunday, September 29, 2013. To Reload or not to Reload. Whenever the topic of reloading comes up, the question is always asked:"do you really save money"? The answer is: It depends on the caliber you are reloading. For this discussion we will be talking about brass cased, boxer primed (re-loadable) jacketed ammunition. 9mm Parabellum 115gr FMJ can be purchased for $10 - $15 for a box of 50, at the retail level. On the other ...
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TINCANBANDIT's Gunsmithing: Gun Porn for January 2017
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A blog dedicated to the love of guns, gun restoration, repair and customization. Monday, January 9, 2017. Gun Porn for January 2017. I decided to do something different with this months gun porn. In the past I had one dedicated to the Ruger Vaquero. We also did one on Pinto revolvers. And this month I wanted to dedicate it to a "style".I really like the look of a high polished stainless or nickel plated gun with mother of pearl grips. Last year I posted about giving my Smith and Wesson. Remember, " Only.
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TINCANBANDIT's Gunsmithing: March 2014
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A blog dedicated to the love of guns, gun restoration, repair and customization. Wednesday, March 26, 2014. Troubleshooting a Lee Enfield Rifle. The Lee-Enfield Rifle served the British Empire and Commonwealth Nations as their service rifle from its adoption in 1895 through both World Wars until 1957. Although it is no longer the official service rifle it is still used in many offices for training, as a sniper rifle and as a ceremonial. This was a rifle that was clearly ahead of its time. If you ever won...
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TINCANBANDIT's Gunsmithing: Pintos
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A blog dedicated to the love of guns, gun restoration, repair and customization. Sunday, September 6, 2015. Pintos.not the econobox Ford from the 70's. Or a horse with multiple spots of white, brown or black. (if you search for "Colt Pinto" you might find the picture below.). And not the bean.(note the name S&W on the can.you will get this in a search if you don't spell out Smith and Wesson). Smith and Wesson did produce a number of factory Pinto revolvers over the years and even some automatics. Oth...
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TINCANBANDIT's Gunsmithing: June 2013
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A blog dedicated to the love of guns, gun restoration, repair and customization. Sunday, June 30, 2013. The Zombie craze hit the gun industry a few years ago and has been propelled by the interest in the Zombie genre movies coming out of Hollywood. A new one was just released: World War Z. This movie is based on a novel of the same name. This genre is usually characterized by the use of the color neon green (sometimes neon orange and red are used as well), the bio-hazed symbol and/or a big letter "Z".
