Ooooo! Oooooo! I want those stripey compact grips. Sent you a PM....

I've got seven of the ten....so how manly can they be, anyway?

As 1911fan said, lots of times the very dark black stains are oil or cosmoline soaked deep into the wood, or water stains that turned the wood dark. If the stock is soaked in cosmoline, leave it lay in the sun, or heat it gently with a heat gun, or like I do, prop it up in front of my (gas) woodstov...

Yep, terrible wood on some of those stinky old things.... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/choppermitt/m39/tikkaR.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/choppermitt/greasy%20mausers/120_2012.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/choppermitt/...

Well, I don't have an answer for you, I have lots of those things, and none of mine do that. But you might go over here
http://forums.gunboards.com/index.php
and ask the gang there.
Good luck

You know what they say, shot placement is everything

Sorry to hear you didn't make it. I am there every Saturday barring disaster ;) You'll need 48r of ammo to shoot the course-12r at 50y, benched, 18r at 25y, 12r at 50', 6r at 21'. Lots of fun, liberally mixed with good natured ribbing. I shot a great 50y string today, to completely fall apart on the...

Had a great time, was nice to meet some of you guys in person! Most of my friend are not gun people, (OK, none of them are), so it was great to be around so many like minded folks.
Thanks for setting it up, and let's do it again in March.

I've been shooting the BESA winter pistol league for 4 years, and it is a hoot! Some folks are pretty serious, most are not, lots of encouragement, lots of laughs.
Tons of fun for $20-I'll be there after (burp) having some effen breakfast tomorrow.

I've bought maybe half a dozen guns, pistols and long guns, from pawnshops in the last couple years. Everything I have bought from them has been a good deal-or it would have stayed in their case! Now, given the number of times I've stopped and looked at pawnshops, my batting average is horrible. Mos...

I have also shot thousands of these in 9mm, and .45. Never a problem, reasonable accurate. Cheap used to be $5 a box, now I don't usually see it below $8.