Share your Christmas presents

BenEnglishTX · Post by **BenEnglishTX** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 7:20 pm

My sis presented me with an old Tompkins free pistol, circa 1947, on Christmas day.

The bore was pretty dark so I gave it a good cleaning then took it to the range. The grips were a hoot, having been carved for someone with *much* slimmer hands than me. It has an awfully nice trigger with no apparent movement. You just increase pressure to a certain point and it goes off. I couldn't feel it move at all.

This is the first 60 rounds. I was shooting at the back side of the target and turned it around so the picture would have some scale. Distance to the target was the spot downrange where the lousy lighting at my local commercial range did the best job of illuminating the paper, about 15 yards. Comments regarding my willingness to post public proof that I'm a lousy marksman are welcome. :-)

Anybody else get anything fun?

jhmartin · Post by **jhmartin** » Sat Dec 31, 2011 10:39 am

Where my Christmas dollars went:

WarWagon · Post by **WarWagon** » Sat Dec 31, 2011 11:34 am

And here's where my Christmas... and birthday... and vacation... and my sock drawer dollars went:

Still a month out on a front sight!

k9jri · Post by **k9jri** » Sat Dec 31, 2011 5:59 pm

My Christmas from my wife :)

orionshooter · Post by **orionshooter** » Sun Jan 01, 2012 11:03 am

Kjri please tell us that beautiful gun is !!!

k9jri · Post by **k9jri** » Sun Jan 01, 2012 11:10 am

orionshooter wrote:Kjri please tell us that beautiful gun is !!!

It is a Weihrauch HW75 SSP .177 air pistol. It is almost a match quality pistol but not quite as good a shooter as my IZH 46M. All metal, very smooth cocking cycle and typical German quality.

The scope is the Leupold 2x20 EER handgun scope. I prefer to shoot it at 10M without the scope though.

Mike

Roadthing · Post by **Roadthing** » Sun Jan 01, 2012 2:23 pm

I got a mec handstop, and a trigger hand glove.

Doug

Shooterer · Post by **Shooterer** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 8:44 am

1. A case of Wolf MT
2. 600 Hornady 75gr BTHP
3. 2 CZ452 magazines

It was a very happy holiday.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 11:04 pm

jhmartin wrote:Where my Christmas dollars went:

You bought a wife?

Jack Milchanowski · Post by **Jack Milchanowski** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 6:17 am

I bet it was a son-in-law. Congrats!

jhmartin · Post by **jhmartin** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 11:18 am

Anonymous wrote:You bought a wife?

Ha HA ...paid for the wedding!
And yes, got a great son-in-law

That's Kaite in the front ... my youngest "Crazy Rachel" in the back

EdM · Post by **EdM** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 11:40 am

BenEnglishTx:

I did not receive any shooting related gifts but wanted to say what an interesting item yours is. Quite unique.

Hope it provides you much enjoyment.

Ned

BenEnglishTX · Post by **BenEnglishTX** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 12:37 pm

EdM wrote:...wanted to say what an interesting item yours is. Quite unique.

Hope it provides you much enjoyment.

It already has. I've put several hundred rounds through it, already.

The best thing about it, though, was the way it demonstrated the thoughtfulness of my sister. I feel greatly blessed to have a sibling who, though she has no great interest in shooting, would go to the trouble of seeking out such a perfect gift.

I'm also very lucky that she's incredibly easy to shop for. Anything gold and glittery will make her squeal with delight. She's been that way for 50 years and I doubt she'll ever change. :-)

Bowman26 · Post by **Bowman26** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 5:55 pm

Odd I got rid of a wife lol. "Crazy Rachel" looks like she is a kick to be around you can just see it in her eyes. I thought that before evening getting to your comment haha... Congrats on getting one off, is the crazy one still available? ;)

As for my present to myself since my ex didn't seem to want to give me nothing. It is currently being built. Rem 700 action with a SS Kreiger .264 barrel chambered in 6.5x47 Lapua being bedded into a Robertson/Pharr RT/S Silhouette stock. Will post pics when completed.

Bo

BenEnglishTX · Post by **BenEnglishTX** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 7:47 pm

Bowman26 wrote:"Crazy Rachel" looks like she is a kick to be around you can just see it in her eyes.

I wouldn't pay any attention to that. The nickname from her dad might be reliable; a picture taken on a wedding day isn't.

I'm a former wedding photographer. All the women in all bridal parties are, for that one day, insane. It comes with the territory.

jackh · Post by **jackh** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 8:30 pm

BenEnglishTX wrote:...........All the women in all bridal parties are, for that one day, insane. It comes with the territory.

Ha! Been there seen that. On Holidays too.

Two beautiful girls. Congrats.

Trigger control?

jhmartin · Post by **jhmartin** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 9:48 pm

Available? = Junior in HS
Insane? = True, all had fun that day
Trigger Control? = All my girls shoot ... Daddy taught them "Aim low ... double tap"

GCSInc · Post by **GCSInc** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:23 am

Joel,

I think Jack was speaking of your "two" daughters...

Been there, done that... I have two daughters cause I didn't want three!

Spencer · Post by **Spencer** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 1:08 am

back to the OP

might seem stange to some that it would be shooting related, but I got a Stanley Lunch Box / Vacuum flask combo.

I often spend a day at the venue and need to take the vittles with me and the Stanley combo fills the need nicely: salad plus some cold meat or salmon, a couple of poppers of fruit juice and a flask of coffee made the way I like it.

add the morini and a brick of .22 - it's a hard life, but sombody's got to do it.

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Share your Christmas presents

Share your Christmas presents

Weihrauch HW75

Cause I didn't want 3...