Dreams Can Come True.

It arrived yesterday. The FedEx box showed the Kansas City address of CZ-USA as the sender. My anticipation had me childishly giddy. Really. I know, very immature, but I had been waiting since April for this Dan Wesson custom pistol. My Gun Club handled the transfer, and then, off to my shop to field strip and clean the factory oil from the 10MM, Black, "Valor" 1911.


I will be testing this new pistol and 500 rounds of 10MM ammunition this Monday and Tuesday. Bird season opens in Maine on Wednesday, the first of October. Four of my dearest friends, my two sons, my brother-in-law, and myself, leave Sunday morning for the seven to,eight hour drive from Portland, Maine, to our lakeside cabin near the Canadian border. We will be situated roughly in the middle of four and one half million acres of trees and wildlife known as the North Maine Woods. It is quite a spectacular place.

Being roughly three to four hours from the nearest hospital, with no cell service, no electricity, no running water, (you get the picture). We adhere to some very strict rules pertaining to safety. If you get seriously injured out there, you will likely die before you see a doctor. Anyway, we will be throwing lead down range from a wide variety of ordinance, and we will all be extra careful whilst doing so.

I just put the finishing touches on a .880 bore Black Powder cannon. We will use it to "announce" dinner. It should fling an .875 steel ball a good distance out into the lake. My new Dan Wesson is going to be very loud. The "88" is going to make bystanders wish they were wearing their brown boxers.

So, the dream is about to become reality. Shooting my "Dream 1911".  Its a Dan Wesson custom "Valor". It is chambered in 10MM Automatic, it has a relieved slide stop pin, Clark ribbing on the top of the slide, an enhanced magwell, tritium night sights, VZ Frag grip panels, four pound trigger pull, lowered and flared ejection port, extended magazine release, checkering on the mainspring housing and fore grip. A bunch more "standard" features too. With the pistol finished in Black "Duty Treatment", and the addition of a set of elephant ivory stocks...well...that my dear readers (if you're out there) is going to be the "bee's knees", in 1940's vernacular. For me, just perfect, really a dream.

Shoot straight, and do the right thing.

Gaff