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crudmudgeon: Kahr PM9 Specifications Caliber: 9mm Capacity: 6+1, 7+1 (magazine with grip extension) Operation: Trigger cocking DAO; lock breech; “Browning – type” recoil lug; passive striker block; no magazine disconnect Barrel: 3.1″, polygonal rifling; 1 – 10 right-hand twist Length O/A: 5.42″ Height: 4.0″ Slide Width: .90″ Weight: Pistol 14 ounces, Magazine 1.9 ounces Grips: Textured polymer Sights: Drift adjustable, white bar-dot combat sights Finish: Black polymer frame, matte stainless steel slide Magazines: 1 each: 6 rd flush floorplate & 7 rd extended grip Ratings (out of five stars): Ratings are based on other similar firearms. Final rating is not calculated from the constituent ratings. Accuracy * * * * | Dead on. The PM9 is as accurate as the user and ammunition allow. Ergonomics * * * * | Fits me great. Delightful to hold and shoot. Ergonomics Firing * * * * | Fun to shoot. That’s saying a lot for a small nine. Reliability * * * * | Chokes on Wolf ammo. Reliable with all other ammo tested so far (seven brands). Customization * * * | Lasers, grips, mag extensions etc are available. Overall Rating * * * * | The best pocket pistol I have tested to date. (via Gun Review: Kahr PM9 Initial Impressions | The Truth About Guns)
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crudmudgeon:

Kahr PM9

Specifications

  • Caliber: 9mm
  • Capacity: 6+1, 7+1 (magazine with grip extension)
  • Operation: Trigger cocking DAO; lock breech; “Browning – type” recoil lug; passive striker block; no magazine disconnect
  • Barrel: 3.1″, polygonal rifling; 1 – 10 right-hand twist
  • Length O/A: 5.42″
  • Height: 4.0″
  • Slide Width: .90″
  • Weight: Pistol 14 ounces, Magazine 1.9 ounces
  • Grips: Textured polymer
  • Sights: Drift adjustable, white bar-dot combat sights
  • Finish: Black polymer frame, matte stainless steel slide
  • Magazines: 1 each: 6 rd flush floorplate & 7 rd extended grip

Ratings (out of five stars):

Ratings are based on other similar firearms. Final rating is not calculated from the constituent ratings.

  • Accuracy * * * * | Dead on. The PM9 is as accurate as the user and ammunition allow.
  • Ergonomics * * * * | Fits me great. Delightful to hold and shoot.
  • Ergonomics Firing * * * * | Fun to shoot. That’s saying a lot for a small nine.
  • Reliability * * * * | Chokes on Wolf ammo. Reliable with all other ammo tested so far (seven brands).
  • Customization * * * | Lasers, grips, mag extensions etc are available.
  • Overall Rating * * * * | The best pocket pistol I have tested to date.

(via Gun Review: Kahr PM9 Initial Impressions | The Truth About Guns)

misfitmagpie: Welp, sorry about the quality of this. I draw lightly and my scanner f*cked up. So here’s a little guide as to how I draw cats. I think one of the most important things to remember when drawing animals is that their basics are not all that different from humans. Afterall, we all have the same basic blueprints. There are just a few things that are different. Well, I hope this helps someone out there.
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misfitmagpie:

Welp, sorry about the quality of this. I draw lightly and my scanner f*cked up.

So here’s a little guide as to how I draw cats.

I think one of the most important things to remember when drawing animals is that their basics are not all that different from humans. Afterall, we all have the same basic blueprints. There are just a few things that are different.

Well, I hope this helps someone out there.

crudmudgeon: Tom Mix Duesenberg There’s no documented evidence that cowboy actor Tom Mix ever owned this particular Duesenberg Model J with custom speedster bodywork. The story started while the Duesenberg, chassis number 2522 and engine number J-462, was in the care of Oklahoma collector James Leake in the 1970s, and the whole-lotta-bull association stuck. More recent attempts to provide the Duesenberg a nickname have resulted in “Big Cow.” Whatever anybody decides to call it, the Duesenberg will make another run at the auction block at next month’s Worldwide Auctioneers event. What historians seem to agree on is that the Duesenberg, formally known as J-462, originally wore a Gordon Buehrig-designed, Murphy-built Beverly Berline body atop its lengthy 153.5-inch wheelbase and that it left the factory with the same 265hp, 420-cu.in. straight-eight engine that powers it today. Thanks to fanciful and imaginative storytelling surrounding J-462 over the last several decades, however, little else is certain about the car. For instance, when it was originally built. Worldwide advertises J-462 as a 1932 model, but its auction description noted that the original owner is not known and that Duesenberg sent J-462 to its factory testing branch in Los Angeles in May of 1935 before selling it to financier Stanley Kahn of New York. However, Bonhams, which attempted to sell J-462 at auction last August, noted in its description that Duesenberg historian Chris Summers believes J-462 was actually built closer to 1935. “While the dating of the chassis is irrelevant in terms of performance specifications, it is possible that the dating was intentionally modified to lend more credence to the Mix provenance,” Bonhams wrote. It gets better. Nobody’s certain who substituted the speedster body for the original Beverly Berline body or when that substitution took place. Both Worldwide and Bonhams imply that the third owner of J-462, a Virginian named David Clark, did so in California sometime in the late 1940s or 1950s (Bonhams noted that he used “an amalgamation of Cadillac and Oldsmobile body panels”), but neither offers any reason for the switch. Nor does anybody offer an explanation for why Leake began associating J-462 with Tom Mix, who died in 1940. After Leake, J-462 then passed through a few more hands until it ended up in the collection of John O’Quinn, the late Texas lawyer who had a predilection for Duesenbergs. Perhaps because of J-462′s ambiguity, it failed to sell at Bonhams against a $400,000 to $600,000 pre-auction estimate. And perhaps because of that no-sale, the O’Quinn estate will be offering J-462 without reserve (but still with a $400,000 to $500,000 pre-auction estimate) at the Worldwide Auctioneers Houston Classic Auction, scheduled for May 5. (via Tom Mix Duesenberg steered toward Texas auction | Hemmings Blog: Classic and collectible cars and parts)
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crudmudgeon:

Tom Mix Duesenberg

There’s no documented evidence that cowboy actor Tom Mix ever owned this particular Duesenberg Model J with custom speedster bodywork. The story started while the Duesenberg, chassis number 2522 and engine number J-462, was in the care of Oklahoma collector James Leake in the 1970s, and the whole-lotta-bull association stuck. More recent attempts to provide the Duesenberg a nickname have resulted in “Big Cow.” Whatever anybody decides to call it, the Duesenberg will make another run at the auction block at next month’s Worldwide Auctioneers event.

What historians seem to agree on is that the Duesenberg, formally known as J-462, originally wore a Gordon Buehrig-designed, Murphy-built Beverly Berline body atop its lengthy 153.5-inch wheelbase and that it left the factory with the same 265hp, 420-cu.in. straight-eight engine that powers it today. Thanks to fanciful and imaginative storytelling surrounding J-462 over the last several decades, however, little else is certain about the car.

For instance, when it was originally built. Worldwide advertises J-462 as a 1932 model, but its auction description noted that the original owner is not known and that Duesenberg sent J-462 to its factory testing branch in Los Angeles in May of 1935 before selling it to financier Stanley Kahn of New York. However, Bonhams, which attempted to sell J-462 at auction last August, noted in its description that Duesenberg historian Chris Summers believes J-462 was actually built closer to 1935. “While the dating of the chassis is irrelevant in terms of performance specifications, it is possible that the dating was intentionally modified to lend more credence to the Mix provenance,” Bonhams wrote.

It gets better. Nobody’s certain who substituted the speedster body for the original Beverly Berline body or when that substitution took place. Both Worldwide and Bonhams imply that the third owner of J-462, a Virginian named David Clark, did so in California sometime in the late 1940s or 1950s (Bonhams noted that he used “an amalgamation of Cadillac and Oldsmobile body panels”), but neither offers any reason for the switch. Nor does anybody offer an explanation for why Leake began associating J-462 with Tom Mix, who died in 1940.

After Leake, J-462 then passed through a few more hands until it ended up in the collection of John O’Quinn, the late Texas lawyer who had a predilection for Duesenbergs. Perhaps because of J-462′s ambiguity, it failed to sell at Bonhams against a $400,000 to $600,000 pre-auction estimate.

And perhaps because of that no-sale, the O’Quinn estate will be offering J-462 without reserve (but still with a $400,000 to $500,000 pre-auction estimate) at the Worldwide Auctioneers Houston Classic Auction, scheduled for May 5.

(via Tom Mix Duesenberg steered toward Texas auction | Hemmings Blog: Classic and collectible cars and parts)

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