Not in my house yet, but they both should be within a week. They're both first-year-production guns, although I'm sure some will laugh off the first while drool over the second.

The first is a genuine, first year production Intratec TEC-9 with all the accessories, including the factory soft-case (Intratec sold the TEC-9 in a cardboard box with a soft, zip-up case from 1985-1986 only). Unlike your stereotypical TEC-9, this one has milled steel "button" sights that present a far better sight picture and alignment than the gratuitously ugly stamped sheet metal sights that were spot-welded on the later guns. Another difference from later TEC-9's is that during the 1985-early 1987 timeframe, Intratec's quality control was actually pretty good. Virtually all of the guns from this period that jammed or broke did so because one wasn't feeding them the correct 115 gr. FMJ ammo. As for accessories, I got an early design screw-on muzzlebreak (which should be useful as a thread protector), three early production magazines, the zip-up case with gold lettering for "INTRATEC" (1985 only), and a nylon sling (early style white lettering for "INTRATEC"...only Interdynamic used gold lettering on the slings).

The second, a C&R military rifle, will actually interest you guys, and I'm going to make a post about it on the military semiauto board after I make one here. It's an Albanian SKS, but to be honest, I've never seen one quite like it. It's one of the less common, "undated" guns, but it seems to throw a monkey wrench into the theory that all of the undated guns came at the very end of production in 1979 and 1980. The serial number is 0188 and it has a matching dark wood stock, not the orange shellac stock I've seen on literally every other undated Albanian SKS. The sling is like nothing I've ever seen outside of one of the slings on Yooper John's page featuring a few Albanian SKS slings. It's practically white (faded khaki?) and the forward part of the sling attaches pretty much like a Nagant revolver lanyard (although given how Enver Hoxha had driven Albania's economy into the ground, I'm not totally convinced the clasp in question didn't start life out as part of a Nagant revolver lanyard!). Basically, all signs point to it being a very early example of a 1967 (especially the low serial number)...but it's undated. If you have any info you want to contribute about this oddball, just go over to the military semiauto board.

Three Christmas Eve pistols!!! :-D



-Kahr Auto-Ordnance 1911A1 GI Model ("Selectively Gunsmithed" so that virtually all of the pre-Kahr AO parts were removed and replaced with USGI or Colt parts)
-Enfield No. 2 Mk. I Revolver
-Romarm Draco AK pistol (looks nicer with my 75-round drum in it, though...)