Blast from the Past

[surjimmy]

One you don't see too often. Trapper Arms Scorpion/S&W 39-2....I know very little about this gun, so Please. If you have any info to add please do so. Feel free to post any pictures you have.

 

[Officers'Wife]

It's sooooo cute!!!!

 

[surjimmy]

Never looked at it that way, but Thank You.

 

[RustyShackelford]

Devel, Paris Theodore....

There were a few full house custom jobs for the slick Smith & Wesson 39/39-2 models in the 1960s/1970s/1980s.
Top shop: Devel did great semi auto pistol work.
Paris Theodore was known by many as the American Q, . He reworked stock model 39 9mm pistols into the legendary ASP.
Even author John Gardner had secret agent 007 carrying a ASP 9mm in several popular novels. Bond also used the much detested Glaser Safety Slugs(blue).

If I were right handed and needed a great deep concealment 9mm(in the 1970s/1980s) I'd buy a ASP 9mm. That or maybe a SIG Sauer P225.

 

[Malamute]

Very cool piece of history.

I looks like about the size of the later 469's, though they were double stack.

 

[bannockburn]

I remember a Trapper's Gun Works back in the late '70s through the mid '80s. It was run by Lin "Trapper" Alexiou in Fraser, MI. He specialized in handguns for PPC, IPSC, law enforcement, and hunting. He primarily worked on S&Ws, Colts, and Rugers. I think the Scorpion was his version of a cut-down Model 39.