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/nerd session activate

What a night. A great dinner. Great wife. Great whiskey and a dash of 1911's to finish it off.

I offer you the main course of grilled ribeye and onion, roasted asparagus with onion and garlic clove, tomato slices with balsamic reduction and fresh merlot parmesan. Dessert is a taste session of two rye whiskeys with a side of stainless 1911's.

/end nerd session

 

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Not today, and the pistols went back to the safe once the sipping started.

Life is good and 1911's make it better.

 

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Delicious-looking steak and nice 1911s, but aside from that I'm not sure what we are supposed to be talking about.

Everything and nothing. Just fooling around and engaging my inner nerd. It's been a good but busy day and I'm just unwinding. 🍸

 

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I catch flak because ribeye steak is a ritual in Texas and takes more than 30 minutes LOL. You have to let it warm up a while before you grill it. You don't rush it to the grill while the middle is too cold. Season it with olive oil, fresh cracked pepper, salt and garlic, leave it warming for 45 minutes or so. Then you get your fire just right - prime, red hot coals, small whisps of flame licking at the grill. A piece of pecan in the coals just before you start cooking at 700f or so. Then the steak hits the grill and the magic smells of grilled beef come alive. The smell downwind makes neighbors jealous. Flip it ONE TIME when it gets nice and juicy red on the top. Test it with your finger by pressing lightly...you can tell when it's perfect medium rare. Wrap in foil for a few minutes to let it rest. It deserves the rest, it worked hard for this, you worked hard for this.

It's time to enjoy. Time to relax. Place a flat of butter so it will melt across the steak. Slice into the steak and the umami flavor and smell permeate the atmosphere. The taste of the smoke kissed beef, the ribeye fat dissolves like pudding, the au jus runs across the plate. Drag your steak in the juices. Incredible.

I get the same satisfaction when I work on a 1911 and improve it. It's an art. I want to learn to be as good at 1911's as I am at steak.

 

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I have been eating a lot of steak lately. I was surprised how well a George Foreman Grill cooks a steak. I like the pretty rare so it only takes a couple of minutes on the grill. That looks like a very good evening. On a side note how do you like that Republic of Texas? Thinking about getting one if I can find one.

The Texas Republic is a cool pistol. Checkering on front strap and msh. The engraving is done well. Trigger decent. Slide to frame fit is average.

I got a fitted EGW bushing and plug. Changed the safety to left side only with an EGW HD model. Grip screws changed to the stainless straight head along with a new stainless pin kit. Greider short trigger. Stock extractor tuned to SteveinAllentown's specs. Small radius EGW fps and 14lb recoil spring. Stock sear and hammer tuned up, and frankly one of my better attempts. Trigger pull set to 4lbs.

Yeah it's Texas and I am quite fond of this one.

 

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Rye is close enough to bourbon hah. I do like Buffalo Trace as well as some Old Forester plus a bunch more. I also do nice peated scotch and scotch in general.

I like higher proof rye whiskey for its spice and forward flavor. It also makes a fantastic whiskey and coke! One of my fave rye is Saginaw.

I am learning some nice tequilas in the anejo and reposada styles.

 

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I think Hi-Point may be the ugliest semi auto pistol. Ever. But my svc mgr had one someone gave him years ago. I lubed it up and shot it. At close range it delivers lead like any other. As long as it runs reliable.

That being said, there is nothing to me like a 1911 in .45.

 

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Too many Americans never develop an appreciation for tequila, because all they've ever had is Cuervo Gold. I favor Don Julio Blanco myself...

I've been sipping on a bottle of Don Julio Anejo. One of my favorites so far is Clase Azul Reposado. Kinda' expensive though.

 

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Me and my Boy had hamburgers the last couple nights and I did, in point of fact, shoot it myself! View attachment 673271

Caribou. Some would say reindeer?

 

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That Colt MK IV 💯

 

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I am thinking we need an "Off Topic" Section like Glock Forum where we can brag about great meals, movie reviews and such. Of course this could be something for the Premium Member Section too.

That's why there are guns in the pics LOL.

Off topic would be better IMO - that way the non pay members could join in as well.

 

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I have some sotul - very similar but also different, than tequila.

 

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Wait. The frame has a carved butt that doesn’t match the MSH…did you change that as well?

No that is the way it came. I wonder if the msh is thick enough to match it. I'm not afraid of metal and files.

 

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need a little sirup in my whiskey, mixing these after my veggie burger

Wait....veggie burger?

 

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I just came back from some beautifully cool 45f days in northern NM.

 

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I have a big 36" oilfield pipe reverse flow bbq pit - I just don't use it as often because it takes a lot of fuel to fire the big girl up!

That coal can roaring with a grill on top can make some massive grilling heat! I like to see 800f around there.

Check out these tomahawks I did for a river house weekend with a group of friends. We even cook the potatoes and onions in the coals. You can see some peaking out below the steaks.

And yeah nothing beats a grilled ribeye for me!

 

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Steaks on the grill are great. But I can do a pretty good job on them with a black iron skillet on the stove when the weather is bad.

After my divorce I learned to do them the same way...although it brutalized the 900sq ft apt I was living in LOL.

Set the smoke alarms off more than once!

 

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To inject a little 1911 back into the conversation, I snagged a couple pistols today.

A new Colt Competition and a used Kimber TLE II with a bunch of internal upgrades.

Plus a bunch of parts arriving next week to continue the project.

 

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I snagged a few bottles last night.

Those who waste food have never been hungry. Having said that, I still can't eat liver!

I'll eat a55hole before I eat liver....

 

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Santa Fe? Chama? Taos?

No, we like the little bitty personable Sipapu.

We used to do Taos, Breckenridge, Jackson Hole years ago, gave up on the huge resorts.