{"id":2385,"date":"2008-07-09T20:23:07","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T01:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2008-07-09T20:23:07","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T01:23:07","slug":"new-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2385","title":{"rendered":"New project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is never gonna be a showpiece, but I&#8217;ve cleaned it enough to fire, and it fires reliably, even moderately accurately considering it&#8217;s poor (I&#8217;d say 9%) barrel. (yes, Tam, the 90% was a typo) but it will be a good shooter. Meet the Colt 1908 in 25 acp:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2384\" height=250 alt=25acp1.jpg src=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/25acp1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was enough crap and rust and dirt that it would not cycle  at all. So I cleaned it, laid the slide and frame on some crocus cloth to find out how deep the pits were, and reassembled. It has gone to the range and proven it&#8217;s function. Now I will polish it as best I can, sandblast that which can&#8217;t be polished, and put it in the soup for a while. <\/p>\n<p>I joked with Tam that this looked like it had been reblued with a magic marker, but when I soaked it in Brakleen, the dark rubbed away just like marker. It will be a functional handgun when I&#8217;m done. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is never gonna be a showpiece, but I&#8217;ve cleaned it enough to fire, and it fires reliably, even moderately accurately considering it&#8217;s poor (I&#8217;d say 9%) barrel. (yes, Tam, the 90% was a typo) but it will be a good shooter. Meet the Colt 1908 in 25 acp: There was enough crap and rust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}