Let's see some of your classic handguns

[The Real Hawkeye]

Here is a 1966 S&W Model 10, Colt Trooper .357 Magnum, Colt Detective Special, Colt Pocket Auto in .380 ACP, Belgian Browning High Power, and a 1933 Colt Government Model.

[10-Ring]

Classic guns...
Start w/ my 1911's
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r208/10-Ring/P1020712.jpg

my Practical BHP
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r208/10-Ring/P1040078.jpg

and my P7M8
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r208/10-Ring/P1040068.jpg

OH, and maybe my Python
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r208/10-Ring/P1020622.jpg

[SnWnMe]

http://www.alvarfamily.com/springertopqtr640.JPG

[aaronrkelly]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v67/aaronrkelly/Carry%20Pics/vintagecarry.jpg

[gunfish]

Here are the four models of S&W 44SPL hand ejectors.
http://img27.photobucket.com/albums/v82/gunfish/44group.jpg

[The Real Hawkeye]

Gunfish, now that's what I'm talking about! Love the Model 1926 on the far right. :D Awesome, dude!

[1911Tuner]

Oh...My...GAWD! Hide those before the Old Fuff sees'em! He ain't gettin' any younger, and he'll likely have a butt-hemmorhage...:D

Meanwhile...Here are three of my pretties that I happen to have pictures of.
Top is an original 1919 USGI Colt. One of the last 2500 that Colt shipped.
Bore is clean and bright, with rifling almost as sharp as the day it was made.
Have fired a 2-inch/25 yard group through this one from the bags with PMC ball.

Second is a minty 1945 production Remington Rand. As nearly new as any that I've ever seen.

Third is a reblued, but mechanically near-new 1925 production Colt commercial Government Model.

I have more, but the post is gettin' a bit crowded.

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e243/1911Tuner/Colt.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e243/1911Tuner/45RR.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e243/1911Tuner/25Colt.jpg

[The Real Hawkeye]

Very nice, Tuner. Question: Are those original grips on the commercial Government Model? I have a 1933 commercial Government Model (You can see it in the picture I posted above) that came to me already having had a bad reblue (if you can even call it a bluing job, since it looks more like a matt black) and wearing plastic GI grips, which is all wrong for a commercial GM. Would like to find a pair like you have there, assuming those are original, or like the originals that came on the guns back then. Any advice?

[jad0110]

22LR Smith & Wesson K-22 Masterpiece, M17 no dash manufactured in 1959 with the orginal diamond magna grips:


http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q139/jad0110/Smith%20and%20Wesson%20K22%20Model%2017%2022%20LR/K22_12-3.jpg

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q139/jad0110/Smith%20and%20Wesson%20K22%20Model%2017%2022%20LR/K22_12-1.jpg

[1911Tuner]

Those are the original grip panels...and up until about a month ago, I had a set that I swapped for a set of double-diamond walnut panels over in Randleman.

You can get a set of full-checkered mahogany grips from Brownells for about 18 bucks without the gunsmith discount...or $14 with the discount. A little
roughin' up...a dark stain, and some boiled linseed oil...and they'd be hard to spot from a distance unless a real ringer is lookin' at'em.

[The Real Hawkeye]

Thanks. That's what I'm going to do.

[Boxhead]

How about Ruger's first Blackhawk, one with standard grips and one with optional walnuts. Both from 1958.

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-7/1055658/SBH420.jpg

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-7/1055658/SBH394.jpg

[vanilla_gorilla]

1981 Belgian Hi Power. Made only a few months after I was.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b53/vanilla_gorilla911/gunpix011.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b53/vanilla_gorilla911/gunpix009.jpg

[The Real Hawkeye]

1981? I have underwear older than that? :)

Nice High Power. Did you hard chrome it?

[Rembrandt]

Each is an example of a classic that others are measured against.....

S&W .44 Mag, S&W model 41, BHP, S&W 17 Masterpiece, Colt Gold Cup, Desert Eagle.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v405/Rembrandt51/PerformanceCenter44.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v405/Rembrandt51/Model41-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v405/Rembrandt51/DesertEagle6in.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v405/Rembrandt51/Img_1445.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v405/Rembrandt51/K17-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v405/Rembrandt51/Firearms/GC2.jpg

[Cosmoline]

I don't know. To me the concept of a Classic handgun and porting just don't go together.

[230HB]

Tuner you better make sure you keep them beauties locked away if Old Fuff ever comes a callin`. He might just offer a couple of Collies for `em and you know you`d have a hard time refusin. :eek:

[1911Tuner]

Did somebody say...High Power?:cool:

Early 70s production Browning. Tryin' to negotiate a deal on an early 40s Inglis with tangent rear sight and the...*ahem* original/as-designed internal extractor. This one's a shooter. As accurate as any I've seen...at least in my hands and with my tired, old eyes...and as near as I can tell, it'll chamber a brick.

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e243/1911Tuner/P35A.jpg

[JonP]

My 1925 Colt 1911 Commercial, all original....doesn't shoot like an 80 year old gun!

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f252/jonpackard/1911.jpg

[JonP]

Then there's my M1 Carbine:

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f252/jonpackard/Carbine.jpg


and my 1903 and M1 Garand....

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f252/jonpackard/M1and1903.jpg

[1911Tuner]

JonP...That Colt was born before 1925, mah fren. The 1925 had all or most of the "1911 Improved" or A1 modifications, depending on the exact production date. Scalloped cuts behind the trigger guard...Arched mainspring housing...Short trigger...Long grip safety tang, etc. Yours is pure slabsided 1911. PM me with the first 3 digits of the serial number and I'll try to nail it down for ya. Scroll up to Post #7 to see a 1925 commercial Government Model and note the differences.

Nice rifles, by the way. I'm an old '03 fan myself.:cool:

[Black Majik]

Paging Mr. Holbrook, paging Mr. Holbrook :D

[NORTEXED]

Inherited from my great uncle:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v368/NORTEXED/Mvc-3s-1.jpg


1917 Colt

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v368/NORTEXED/Mvc-008f.jpg


I have replaced the wooden bullet blocks I made in the display case with 2 "period boxes" of Western .45 L.C. and .380 Lubaloy bullets in excellent condition.

[PX15]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a73/Laserlips/100_5040.jpg


I just love old snubbys..

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a73/Laserlips/100_5812.jpg

And all things "Walther"


JP

[SaxonPig]

Hell, everything I own is a classic. But I don't think we've seen a Luger yet. For my 21st birthday my mother bought me a 1918 stamped DWM P08. It was stolen in 1987 with all my other guns but I found another one almost the same except it had some unit markings on the front strap. They translated into a police unit in Wolfsburg. I had this pistol out to the range last week and it put four rounds into an inch at 15 yards with a flier opening it up to a hair over two inches. Not bad for an 88 year old pistol.

http://www.fototime.com/9A277CAC5CDF623/standard.jpg

[lwrnc1963]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v712/lwrnc1963/DSC00461.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v712/lwrnc1963/DSC00460.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v712/lwrnc1963/DSC00449.jpg
My 2" square butt modl. 10, my MKII Webley and my cut down S&W modl. 1917

[PX15]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a73/Laserlips/100_5833.jpg

Ah...

The exceedingly rare and ever so elusive Galesi pistol........

Each handmade by an Italian artisan in a small shop in Merde'galesi, Italy. Only 55 produced, and less than 7 brought home by GI's returning from the Italian/Sicilian conflict of 1965-66.

Purchased at great expense from the estate of one of those very soldiers with the caveat that it would never leave my possession until death darkens my sight and my breath has left my mortal coil.

Upon my demise it will be carefully and lovingly wrapped in a small bed of otter feathers and dropped over Lanes Bridge into the turbulent waters of the awesome Altamaha river..........

Never to be seen by the eyes of mortal man again....

JP

P.S. Of course if I get a legitimate offer exceeding $17.00 I might consider parting with it.

[The Real Hawkeye]

P.S. Of course if I get a legitimate offer exceeding $17.00 I might consider parting with it.Best laugh I've had in a while. Thanks. :)

[The Real Hawkeye]

Here's my not so cut down M1917.
http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/member_images//1150888-M1917Kitchen.JPG

PS, yes, I know my finger is inside the trigger guard.

[tipoc]

S&W pre M 27, 6 1/2" barrel from 1954.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v432/tipoc/pre274.jpg

And the daddy of the .357 Magnum a 38-44 Outdoorsman from 1931, first year of production.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v432/tipoc/outman6.jpg

tipoc

[tipoc]

Colt New Service in .45 Colt from 1921.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v432/tipoc/ColtNS6.jpg

At 15 yards.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v432/tipoc/ColtNS5.jpg

tipoc

[The Real Hawkeye]

You guys have some real nice eye candy there. Keep 'em coming. Can't get enough. :D Love that Outdoorsman.

[tipoc]

.38 Hand Ejecter Model of 1905 Fourth Change Target Variation. An excellent shooter.

tipoc

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v432/tipoc/38hetarg2.jpg

[The Real Hawkeye]

Very nice!

[tipoc]

S&W M1917, .45 acp. This gun left the factory in April of 1917. Some homegunsmith tried to convert it to .45 Colt and mucked it up. Gene Williams of Texas rebuilt it for me. A decent shooter.

tipoc

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v432/tipoc/SW451.jpg

[The Real Hawkeye]

Awesome! Is that real ivory?

[tipoc]

Hawkeye, I could spoil you, but I won't. So last up two classics of a different type.

Colt Combat Commander built by Bob Chow of San Francisco, master class bullseye shooter and former member of the Board of the NRA. Old school gunsmithing from back in the early 80s. Note the S&W K frame sights fore and aft.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v432/tipoc/comc6.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v432/tipoc/comc5.jpg

Colt GM built by Armand Swenson in the 80s.

http://www.hunt101.com/img/434568.jpg

http://www.hunt101.com/img/434571.jpg

That's enough for now.

tipoc

[TIMC]

Hers are some of my old classics

Colt Peacemaker made somewhere around 1905
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/timc/Coltwithflag-1.jpg?t=1166758138

Colt 1911 made about 1916
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/timc/Colt1911usaflag.jpg?t=1166758221

Double date P-08 Luger 1915 1920
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/timc/P08luger.jpg?t=1166759423

Walther P-38 unknown date of mfg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/timc/Waltherp38.jpg?t=1166759466

[XavierBreath]

To contrast with Tipoc's Chow gun......A Colt 1911 built by J.E. Clark.
More on this gun at this link (http://xavierthoughts.blogspot.com/2006/08/clark-combat-colt-1911.html)....See the guts of this gun here (http://xavierthoughts.blogspot.com/2006/09/jeclark-1911-unveiled.html).
I still shoot the fire out of it.......

http://www.bayourovers.com/ClarkCustomColtSeries701911LEFT.jpg
http://www.bayourovers.com/CLARKSandWrearsightLEFT.jpg
http://www.bayourovers.com/Clark1911shotsfired289432.jpg

[XavierBreath]

http://www.bayourovers.com/ColtOfficial876PoliceRIGHT.jpg
http://www.bayourovers.com/OfficialPolice86897OpenCylinder.jpg

[XavierBreath]

http://www.bayourovers.com/ColtWoodsman.jpg
http://www.bayourovers.com/WhitneyWolverineandcan6678.jpg
http://www.bayourovers.com/plinkers.jpg

[XavierBreath]

http://www.bayourovers.com/SmithWessonK38CombatMasterpiece.jpg

[XavierBreath]

http://www.bayourovers.com/Smithandwessonmilitarypolicestag.jpg

[XavierBreath]

http://www.bayourovers.com/VintageColtCCW.jpg

[tipoc]

Hawkeye,

Nope not real ivory, they are from Ajax if I remember right.

Xavier, How's that Whitney shoot? Those Herritt's look good on the Ruger by the way.

Below a Radom Vis from the first year of the Nazi occupation of Poland. IMHO one of the best 9mm service pistols ever made.

http://www.hunt101.com/img/385530.jpg

tipoc

[The Real Hawkeye]

Xavierbreath, I have a Pocket Auto exactly like yours. You can see a picture of it in my first post. Great guns, aren't they? Everything is so precision in it. Just shot mine yesterday, in fact, and it's dead on, making tiny little groups in the bullseye at seven yards like a target .22.

One problem that I have been having is the mag latch on the bottom of mine occasionally sticks so I cannot open it quite enough to remove the mag. Had to take it in to a 'smith twice to get the mag out. Smith takes it in the back and fiddles with it until he gets it out, but doesn't really fix anything. Any clue as to what's going on there?

[The Real Hawkeye]

Thanks for the advice on the grips, Tuner. It looks much more period correct now.

[denfoote]

Classic Walther PP 7.65mm.
Actually it's a Maunhrin, but after the war, that was the only way to get a Walther!!

http://usera.imagecave.com/denfoote/FrenchPP.jpg

[Gewehr98]

1918 DWM Luger:

http://mauser98.com/lugerdoubtfire.jpg

1961 S&W Model 52 in .38 Special Mid-Range:

http://mauser98.com/m52drivetest.jpg

Nothing warms the heart as much as the old familiar 1911A1:

http://mauser98.com/gookcupskinner.jpg

[Ala Dan]

a Les Baer TRS 1911 .45 ACP~!:cool: ;) :D

[CountGlockula]

Wow, these are all beauts!