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Here are a couple of mine: A TDE "North Hollywood" .44 Automag. Of the original 9000 (approx) pistols made, TDE North Hollywood production counts for about 2500 (again, approx). Even rarer is this "America Remembers" General George Patton commemorative revolver in .45 Colt, made by Uberti. There...
I knew a guy who kept his S&W 25-5 loaded with five rounds -- only the empty chamber wasn't the one under the hammer, it was the next one up. He thought that if someone grabbed his gun and pulled the trigger, it would give him time to apply the appropriate response upon the person's head. I...
I own a 625-7 "Mountain Gun", which I've had for at least 20 years. I LOVE it. I've shot hundreds of rounds through it. It hits what I aim it at. The DA trigger pull isn't quite as fine as some of my older Smiths but it's good enough. It's light (but not too light) thanks to the profiled barrel...
Nope, Remington-UMC, Springfield Armory (the original government one), and North American Arms (exceedingly rare!) also made 1911's for The Great War... nice article here: https://www.rockislandauction.com/riac-blog/1911s-of-the-first-world-war
Me too. A problem I know all too well. The problem is time, money, places to shoot, and folks to go with (it's no fun by yourself). All my old shooting buddies have moved on (trying to recruit new ones, but they have the same problems -- no time, no money). I've got a lot of guns, and...
Personally not interested in a 9mm 1911. However, I do have a Star Model B Super in 9mm, which is kind of the same thing, and I'd love a .38 Super or two. Go figure.
Had one. It was "quirky", to say the least. Very often, the first rounds loaded from the magazine would not feed into the chamber; there'd be various failures to chamber, double feeds, etc. However, once you got the rifle "hot", it would run just fine. It seemed to hit what I was pointing it at...
I can testify that the bluing on recent S&W guns is definitely weaker than on older guns. I've had a couple of modern blued Smiths -- a 29-8 and a "Smith & Walther" PPK. Full disclosure, my hands seem to be somewhat acidic and this can affect metal finishes. Within a month, the backstrap on that...
I have to pick just one??? That's not gonna be easy. I guess I'd have to say my favorite is probably the 25-5; I mean, I have four of them so I must like them.... other than that, my old "pre-18" K-22 is my absolute favorite shootin' revolver. It was the first handgun I ever shot and I'll never...
Dad carried his Model 60 in a leather belt holster (over which he'd wear a jacket). He had a couple of them; one was definitely a Lawrence but I'm not sure what the other was (I don't have access to them right now). He also had a shoulder holster (another Lawrence) but I don't recall seeing him...
They're just as good as any other S&W 1917, but they were better when they were first being imported (because they were dirt cheap... *sigh* another missed opportunity...).
I'm a bit of a PPK collector. I owned a blued S&W PPK for a while -- it is, so far, the only PPK I've sold. I never even got to shoot it, which is probably for the best. The trigger action was gritty and seemed heavier than any other PP-series pistol I've ever tried. The slide felt like it was...
I passed on a Registered Magnum several years ago -- it was very affordable, but the gun had been completely refinished and was now a hideously ugly weird light gray color. I was unimpressed. In retrospect, it would have been a great project for Turnbull. Oh well, live and learn (I did not pass...
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