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Best Birthday Present EVAR

So my brother being as awesome as he is decided that I needed to have a gun for my birthday (and christmas and next birthday and so on...). He's been watching this Charles Daly 1911 on an online gun auction site here in Arizona. The guy wanted $350 for it and he decided that was a good deal and that he'd pay to have it refinished and get a few of the internals replaced, a few of them needed it pretty badly anyway.

The very first thing I bought for it was some new grips a la http://www.vzgrips.com/ which are awesome by the way. I also cleaned it thoroughly in the first few days I had it. I discovered that the hole the extractor is in has probably never been cleaned and was filled with crap. So my brother seeing as how he works at a CNC mill agreed to take the slide in and clean it in their ultrasonic bath. What he didn't tell me was that the parts-wash would remove the finish on the slide too. So now it's got this awesome "I've been used in several wars" sort of look to it. Luckily that won't last for too long since it's going to eventually get refinished.

It also looks like I'll be joining my brother at the NRA exhibition in Phoenix, AZ this coming weekend as well as my gunny friend Pete who'll be there with a press pass.