[Rapier]

There were several buys at the show and as usual with a good buy, your traveling mate tells you just after..... A guy had a pile of Win white box 223 ammo for $4.00 a box. By the time I was told, zip was left. I had paid 12.6 cents a round for primed and processed military in Tulsa. But commercial loaded for 20 cents is quite a deal. I found some Rem Express 7.5s at 1 1/8 in 16ga for $10 but passed as my 16s are all old and I wanted regular target stuff for them. I was walking down the isle behind a guy who stopped and scooped up 4 boxes of Hornady 224 bullets for $5 each. Luck of the line on that deal.

Now one of our guys bought a Rock River 5.56 Operator for $995 and I came close to buying the 308 version for $1,500. But it is new and no one knew anything about different uppers and the ability to use say an AR-10 upper in the RRA Operator. The Operator in 308 weighs about 9.5 pounds a good bit lighter than the AR-10 and especially my old AR-10T which required a gun bearer to follow you around.

Oh, I did trade off my Browning Grade V gun for a Browning sxs BSS 20ga with 28 inch barrels, plus a pile of green dollars for boot. I happen to have a carrying case and hard trunk for it so all is well. I bought a Para Ord CCW LDA stainless gun in the box. Both nice guns. Then I went looking for 45 bullets, just bullets, only thing I found were 230gr FMJs, perhaps a bullet shortage there.

I just got my imitation ivory grips back yesterday, had the laser guy put the 101st patch on the right grip and the Recondo patch on the left grip. I got those grips at the show for a test bed. They look pretty good, now to the store for some India Ink. If it works out, I will try a set of white bone grips on my long slide and the CCW-LDA.
Ed