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Cigar Banter => Daily Cigar Deals Discussion => Topic started by: CigarBanter on May 18, 2021, 01:46:26 AM
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Happy Tuesday! In between insults we'll occasionally discuss cigars. Join in and perhaps learn something along the way. Warning: don't proceed if you have thin skin but don't be afraid to post either... And welcome aboard!
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Morning, all. CI with the twofer, Ccom with a trio of expensive sticks. Like the opposite of a twofer.
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Morning, all. CI with the twofer, Ccom with a trio of expensive sticks. Like the opposite of a twofer.
Good morning, Dave.
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It's already Tuesday, it's already Tuesday, it's already Tuesday...
Monday was pure hell. Wound up at the PC until 11:PM. Just a small break to scoff down some meatloaf.
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It's already Tuesday, it's already Tuesday, it's already Tuesday...
Monday was pure hell. Wound up at the PC until 11:PM. Just a small break to scoff down some meatloaf.
Well, that's just a damn shame. Still thinking you shouldn't wish away the week?
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Morning, all. CI with the twofer, Ccom with a trio of expensive sticks. Like the opposite of a twofer.
Specifically,
Joe:
Torano Hogshead Robusto (5.0"x54) - 20 / $42.50
Ccom:
Door #1 -
Graycliff 10-Year Vintage Maduro PG Robusto (5.2"x50) - 10 / $54.99
Door #2 -
Man O' War Armada Toro Grande Gordo (6.5"x56) - 5 / $39.99
Door #3 -
5 Vegas Big Five Toro Gordo (6.0"x60) - 10 / $39.99
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It's already Tuesday, it's already Tuesday, it's already Tuesday...
Monday was pure hell. Wound up at the PC until 11:PM. Just a small break to scoff down some meatloaf.
Well, that's just a damn shame. Still thinking you shouldn't wish away the week?
I'm really hoping the worst of it is over.
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The bad news is that my lottery tickets were a bust.
On the bright side, my UN contract was extended through the end of 2021.
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Daughter #2 got her first Pfizer shot yesterday. Two more kids to go.
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Morning, all. CI with the twofer, Ccom with a trio of expensive sticks. Like the opposite of a twofer.
Specifically,
Joe:
Torano Hogshead Robusto (5.0"x54) - 20 / $42.50
Ccom:
Door #1 -
Graycliff 10-Year Vintage Maduro PG Robusto (5.2"x50) - 10 / $54.99
Door #2 -
Man O' War Armada Toro Grande Gordo (6.5"x56) - 5 / $39.99
Door #3 -
5 Vegas Big Five Toro Gordo (6.0"x60) - 10 / $39.99
Those Ccom deals must've changed, because those weren't the offerings when I looked.
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The bad news is that my lottery tickets were a bust.
On the bright side, my UN contract was extended through the end of 2021.
Definitely a good news/bad news there. I've gotta sign up for the Ohio vaccine lottery today.
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Two-fer lull? Hoping the hardest part of Tuesday is over. Things are looking up.
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Two-fer lull? Hoping the hardest part of Tuesday is over. Things are looking up.
That's the spirit!
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Morning, all. CI with the twofer, Ccom with a trio of expensive sticks. Like the opposite of a twofer.
Specifically,
Joe:
Torano Hogshead Robusto (5.0"x54) - 20 / $42.50
Ccom:
Door #1 -
Graycliff 10-Year Vintage Maduro PG Robusto (5.2"x50) - 10 / $54.99
Door #2 -
Man O' War Armada Toro Grande Gordo (6.5"x56) - 5 / $39.99
Door #3 -
5 Vegas Big Five Toro Gordo (6.0"x60) - 10 / $39.99
Those Ccom deals must've changed, because those weren't the offerings when I looked.
Still expensive.
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Morning Tony and Golf.
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Morning Tony and Golf.
Speaking of golf, guess I'm going to have to dust off one of Dean's golf Avi's for you on Friday.
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Page 2 always feels so good!
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Today is Tuesday, May 18, the 138th day of 2021.
There are 227 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On May 18, 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Plessy v. Ferguson, endorsed “separate but equal” racial segregation, a concept renounced 58 years later by Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
On this date:
In 1642, the Canadian city of Montreal was founded by French colonists. (On this date in 1765, one-quarter of Montreal was destroyed by a fire.)
In 1652, Rhode Island became the first American colony to pass a law abolishing African slavery; however, the law was apparently never enforced.
In 1863, the Siege of Vicksburg began during the Civil War, ending July 4 with a Union victory.
In 1910, Halley’s Comet passed by earth, brushing it with its tail.
In 1927, in America’s deadliest school attack, part of a schoolhouse in Bath Township, Michigan, was blown up with explosives planted by local farmer Andrew Kehoe, who then set off a bomb in his truck; the attacks killed 38 children and six adults, including Kehoe, who’d earlier killed his wife. (Authorities said Kehoe, who suffered financial difficulties, was seeking revenge for losing a township clerk election.)
In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
In 1944, during World War II, Allied forces occupied Monte Cassino in Italy after a four-month struggle with Axis troops.
In 1953, Jacqueline Cochran, 47, became the first woman to break the sound barrier as she piloted a Canadair F-86 Sabre jet over Rogers Dry Lake, California.
In 1973, Harvard law professor Archibald Cox was appointed Watergate special prosecutor by U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson.
In 1980, the Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state exploded, leaving 57 people dead or missing.
In 1981, the New York Native, a gay newspaper, carried a story concerning rumors of “an exotic new disease” among homosexuals; it was the first published report about what came to be known as AIDS.
In 2015, President Barack Obama ended long-running federal transfers of some combat-style gear to local law enforcement in an attempt to ease tensions between police and minority communities, saying equipment made for the battlefield should not be a tool of American criminal justice.
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Ten years ago: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, resigned, saying he wanted to devote all his energy to battling the sexual assault charges he faced in New York. (The charges were later dropped.) The United States slapped sanctions on Syrian President Bashar Assad and six others for human rights abuses over their brutal crackdown on antigovernment protests.
Five years ago: In an unusual move, Republican Donald Trump released a list of 11 potential Supreme Court justices he would consider if elected president (not included was Trump’s eventual first pick for the nation’s highest bench, Neil Gorsuch).
One year ago: President Donald Trump said he’d been taking a malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine, and a zinc supplement to protect against the coronavirus despite warnings from his own government that the drug should be administered only in a hospital or research setting. Moderna announced that an experimental vaccine against the coronavirus showed encouraging results in early testing. The World Health Organization agreed to launch an independent probe into how it managed the international response to the coronavirus. A federal judge in Virginia ruled that a salvage firm could retrieve from the wreckage of the Titanic the Marconi wireless telegraph machine that broadcast distress calls. Ken Osmond, the actor best known for playing teenage scoundrel Eddie Haskell on TV’s “Leave it to Beaver,” died in Los Angeles at 76.
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Today’s Birthdays:
Actor Priscilla Pointer is 97.
Actor Robert Morse is 90.
Actor Dwayne Hickman is 87.
Baseball Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson is 83.
Actor Candice Azzara is 80.
Bluegrass singer-musician Rodney Dillard (The Dillards) is 79.
Baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson is 75.
Former Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., is 73.
Country singer Joe Bonsall (The Oak Ridge Boys) is 73.
Rock musician Rick Wakeman (Yes) is 72.
Rock singer Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo) is 71.
Actor James Stephens is 70.
Country singer George Strait is 69.
Chow Yun-Fat is 66.
International Tennis Hall of Famer Yannick Noah is 61.
Rock singer-musician Page Hamilton is 61.
Contemporary Christian musician Barry Graul (MercyMe) is 60.
Contemporary Christian singer Michael Tait is 55.
Singer-actor Martika is 52.
Comedian-writer Tina Fey is 51.
Rock singer Jack Johnson is 46.
Country singer David Nail is 42.
Actor Matt Long is 41.
Actor Allen Leech is 40.
Christian singer Francesca Battistelli is 36.
Actor Spencer Breslin is 29.
Actor Violett Beane is 25.
Actor Hala Finley is 12.
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Morning Tony and Golf.
Morning, Dave. Speaking of getting in the spirit, nice avi.
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Morning Tony and Golf.
Speaking of golf, guess I'm going to have to dust off one of Dean's golf Avi's for you on Friday.
I hope I still remember which end of the club I'm supposed to hold on to.
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Morning, muchachos.
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Two-fer lull? Hoping the hardest part of Tuesday is over. Things are looking up.
Spoke too soon. All hell broke loose.
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Morning Tony and Golf.
Hi there, Dave.
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Two-fer lull? Hoping the hardest part of Tuesday is over. Things are looking up.
Spoke too soon. All hell broke loose.
Yeah, well it spilled all the way over here. Please do something about it, wouldja?
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Two-fer lull? Hoping the hardest part of Tuesday is over. Things are looking up.
Spoke too soon. All hell broke loose.
D'oh!
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Two-fer lull? Hoping the hardest part of Tuesday is over. Things are looking up.
Spoke too soon. All hell broke loose.
Yeah, well it spilled all the way over here. Please do something about it, wouldja?
Sorry, Raz. Working on it...
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Two-fer lull? Hoping the hardest part of Tuesday is over. Things are looking up.
Spoke too soon. All hell broke loose.
Yeah, well it spilled all the way over here. Please do something about it, wouldja?
Sorry, Raz. Working on it...
Don't make me have to put this on your permanent record.
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Two-fer lull? Hoping the hardest part of Tuesday is over. Things are looking up.
Spoke too soon. All hell broke loose.
Yeah, well it spilled all the way over here. Please do something about it, wouldja?
Sorry, Raz. Working on it...
Don't make me have to put this on your permanent record.
Just do it, it's the only way he'll learn.
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Two-fer lull? Hoping the hardest part of Tuesday is over. Things are looking up.
Spoke too soon. All hell broke loose.
Yeah, well it spilled all the way over here. Please do something about it, wouldja?
Sorry, Raz. Working on it...
Don't make me have to put this on your permanent record.
Just do it, it's the only way he'll learn.
No, it's useless. I don't give a shit.
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Morning Tony and Golf.
Speaking of golf, guess I'm going to have to dust off one of Dean's golf Avi's for you on Friday.
I hope I still remember which end of the club I'm supposed to hold on to.
TWSS...
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Two-fer lull? Hoping the hardest part of Tuesday is over. Things are looking up.
Spoke too soon. All hell broke loose.
Yeah, well it spilled all the way over here. Please do something about it, wouldja?
Sorry, Raz. Working on it...
Don't make me have to put this on your permanent record.
Just do it, it's the only way he'll learn.
No, it's useless. I don't give a shit.
TWSS....again.... :-\
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Two-fer lull? Hoping the hardest part of Tuesday is over. Things are looking up.
Spoke too soon. All hell broke loose.
Yeah, well it spilled all the way over here. Please do something about it, wouldja?
Sorry, Raz. Working on it...
Don't make me have to put this on your permanent record.
Just do it, it's the only way he'll learn.
No, it's useless. I don't give a shit.
TWSS....again.... :-
That one was a little too real.
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Two-fer lull? Hoping the hardest part of Tuesday is over. Things are looking up.
Spoke too soon. All hell broke loose.
Yeah, well it spilled all the way over here. Please do something about it, wouldja?
Sorry, Raz. Working on it...
Don't make me have to put this on your permanent record.
Just do it, it's the only way he'll learn.
Or I could assign you to assist him.
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Two-fer lull? Hoping the hardest part of Tuesday is over. Things are looking up.
Spoke too soon. All hell broke loose.
Yeah, well it spilled all the way over here. Please do something about it, wouldja?
Sorry, Raz. Working on it...
Don't make me have to put this on your permanent record.
Just do it, it's the only way he'll learn.
Or I could assign you to assist him.
Then we're right back to the problem of someone not giving a shit.
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Two-fer lull? Hoping the hardest part of Tuesday is over. Things are looking up.
Spoke too soon. All hell broke loose.
Yeah, well it spilled all the way over here. Please do something about it, wouldja?
Sorry, Raz. Working on it...
Don't make me have to put this on your permanent record.
Just do it, it's the only way he'll learn.
Or I could assign you to assist him.
Have the bald leading the bald....
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Two-fer lull? Hoping the hardest part of Tuesday is over. Things are looking up.
Spoke too soon. All hell broke loose.
Yeah, well it spilled all the way over here. Please do something about it, wouldja?
Sorry, Raz. Working on it...
Don't make me have to put this on your permanent record.
Just do it, it's the only way he'll learn.
Or I could assign you to assist him.
Have the bald leading the bald....
You wound me, sir.
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If you now get a death sentence in SC, you get to choose between the electric chair and a firing squad!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/death-penalty-electric-chair-firing-squad-south-carolina-new-law/
...but with the cost of ammo these days....
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If you now get a death sentence in SC, you get to choose between the electric chair and a firing squad!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/death-penalty-electric-chair-firing-squad-south-carolina-new-law/
...but with the cost of ammo these days....
Heck, because of ammo cost, they are reducing the number of proficiency qualifying rounds from 50 to 25 for concealed carry [soon to be open carry] permit.
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If you now get a death sentence in SC, you get to choose between the electric chair and a firing squad!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/death-penalty-electric-chair-firing-squad-south-carolina-new-law/
...but with the cost of ammo these days....
Heck, because of ammo cost, they are reducing the number of proficiency qualifying rounds from 50 to 25 for concealed carry [soon to be open carry] permit.
I think I'll just stick with concealed carry, thanks.
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Two-fer lull? Hoping the hardest part of Tuesday is over. Things are looking up.
Spoke too soon. All hell broke loose.
Yeah, well it spilled all the way over here. Please do something about it, wouldja?
Sorry, Raz. Working on it...
Don't make me have to put this on your permanent record.
Just do it, it's the only way he'll learn.
Or I could assign you to assist him.
Then we're right back to the problem of someone not giving a shit.
Clearly, you're not a team player.
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If you now get a death sentence in SC, you get to choose between the electric chair and a firing squad!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/death-penalty-electric-chair-firing-squad-south-carolina-new-law/
...but with the cost of ammo these days....
Heck, because of ammo cost, they are reducing the number of proficiency qualifying rounds from 50 to 25 for concealed carry [soon to be open carry] permit.
Doesn't much matter. 50 rounds on paper do not better demonstrate competence than 25...or 10. Carrying a gun is easy. Using it is hard.
Also, when the average GI, police officer, or FBI agent has less training and practice than I have, the government has no grounds to assess competence anyway.
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Two-fer lull? Hoping the hardest part of Tuesday is over. Things are looking up.
Spoke too soon. All hell broke loose.
Yeah, well it spilled all the way over here. Please do something about it, wouldja?
Sorry, Raz. Working on it...
Don't make me have to put this on your permanent record.
Just do it, it's the only way he'll learn.
Or I could assign you to assist him.
Then we're right back to the problem of someone not giving a shit.
Clearly, you're not a team player.
I also don't use the new cover sheets on the TPS reports.
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Summer Sausage available at Atlantic Cigars. 15% off and a free koozie!
https://atlanticcigar.com/the-summer-sausage/
(Discount will Reflect at Cart Level)
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If you now get a death sentence in SC, you get to choose between the electric chair and a firing squad!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/death-penalty-electric-chair-firing-squad-south-carolina-new-law/
...but with the cost of ammo these days....
Heck, because of ammo cost, they are reducing the number of proficiency qualifying rounds from 50 to 25 for concealed carry [soon to be open carry] permit.
Doesn't much matter. 50 rounds on paper do not better demonstrate competence than 25...or 10. Carrying a gun is easy. Using it is hard.
Also, when the average GI, police officer, or FBI agent has less training and practice than I have, the government has no grounds to assess competence anyway.
True. That's what scared me a bit when I took the class. Probably half a dozen or so in the class had not fired a gun before. Why the hell do you want a conceal carry when you have no clue what you're doing?
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If you now get a death sentence in SC, you get to choose between the electric chair and a firing squad!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/death-penalty-electric-chair-firing-squad-south-carolina-new-law/
...but with the cost of ammo these days....
Heck, because of ammo cost, they are reducing the number of proficiency qualifying rounds from 50 to 25 for concealed carry [soon to be open carry] permit.
Doesn't much matter. 50 rounds on paper do not better demonstrate competence than 25...or 10. Carrying a gun is easy. Using it is hard.
Also, when the average GI, police officer, or FBI agent has less training and practice than I have, the government has no grounds to assess competence anyway.
True. That's what scared me a bit when I took the class. Probably half a dozen or so in the class had not fired a gun before. Why the hell do you want a conceal carry when you have no clue what you're doing?
I feel like that could be the tagline in an anti-NRA commercial.
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Time to put a button on this 2fer. Hazzuh!
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Before, and after.
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Afternoon!
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Before, and after.
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Looks good. You pleased?
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Two-fer lull? Hoping the hardest part of Tuesday is over. Things are looking up.
Spoke too soon. All hell broke loose.
Yeah, well it spilled all the way over here. Please do something about it, wouldja?
Sorry, Raz. Working on it...
Don't make me have to put this on your permanent record.
Just do it, it's the only way he'll learn.
Or I could assign you to assist him.
Have the bald leading the bald....
Damn, I thought we were friends.
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Before, and after.
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Looks good. You pleased?
Very. This particular old soldier needed to be in uniform.
But I do miss having a shiny one. So pondering how best to remedy that. ;-)
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Before, and after.
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They dirtied it?
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Relax
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Before, and after.
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They dirtied it?
Smartass.
They Parkerized it. From their advent through the start of World War II, M1911s were Blued. Originally they received a "Charcoal Bluing," which is gorgeous, but it's labor intensive and shiny. Shiny is not good in combat. It draws attention, which tends to be fatal. So by the end of WWI, at the government's insistence, the pistols were nearly matte black in color. Then the Government cancelled the contracts. The "War to End All Wars" was over so they didn't need pistols.
By the time Hitler had taken Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and France, the geniuses at the War Dept began to think they might should stock up on pistols, just in case this Hitler turned out not to be a flash in the pan. So they started to rev the manufacturing engines in 1941. Fortuitously enough, right about this time a fella named Darcy who worked for the Parker Rust Proof Company had filed a patent for a new acid-etching process that used phosphoric acid and zinc to cause a dark gray and extremely rust resistant finish to form on metal. It was far more durable than bluing, but was cheaper and required less labor. It wasn't as pretty as the Charcoal Blue finishes of early M1911s, but the prettiest gun in the world is the one that works after it's been through the mud, blood, and gore of combat and saves your ass when you're under fire. Parkerized guns don't mind mud, blood and gore at all. So all Government Model 1911s manufactured after 1941 and until the geniuses again cancelled the contracts in 1945 - like mine, which is from 1943 - were Parkerized when they left the factory.