kBob
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SO mom sold some of dad's gulf oil stuff Saturday and it got her in the mood to release a few of his things.
Oddly as it may seem one of the things I wanted was an old Spanish "junker"
Dad found it wrapped in an old oily rag as a teen and kept it.
When I was a young'un it was our HD gun along with a .410 single shot shotgun. Dad had six rounds of .38 Special that fit in the gun.
Fast forward to around 1969 and a couple of buddies and I took it out and fired it with a few green in crusted brass cases lead RNL .38 Special that one buddy's dad had carrier in his service belt way to long.
Even in 1969 the DA action was not reliable and we fired it SA and the cylinder would not come completely out of the window so the ejector did not work and we ejected with a Yellow Number Two Farber. We hit the planet every time.
Cleaned, it went back in an oily rag and has not been fired since. Dad took it apart as a teen and so did I and between us it got pretty well buggered up in the screw head department. It was always rusty in my memory, but seems much more so now.
about the only thing legible on it is the word "DETECTIVE" on both grip medalions and the same word in an oval on the removable side plate on the right side. There are the remains of other writing but many of the letters have "fallen in the pits"
OF course I can not find my Hoag's Pistols and revolvers at the moment ( soon as I when publisher's clearing house I am having our library organized!)
Anyhow I nominated it for ugliest high value gun ( well it is to me) of the day.....
-kBob
Oddly as it may seem one of the things I wanted was an old Spanish "junker"
Dad found it wrapped in an old oily rag as a teen and kept it.
When I was a young'un it was our HD gun along with a .410 single shot shotgun. Dad had six rounds of .38 Special that fit in the gun.
Fast forward to around 1969 and a couple of buddies and I took it out and fired it with a few green in crusted brass cases lead RNL .38 Special that one buddy's dad had carrier in his service belt way to long.
Even in 1969 the DA action was not reliable and we fired it SA and the cylinder would not come completely out of the window so the ejector did not work and we ejected with a Yellow Number Two Farber. We hit the planet every time.
Cleaned, it went back in an oily rag and has not been fired since. Dad took it apart as a teen and so did I and between us it got pretty well buggered up in the screw head department. It was always rusty in my memory, but seems much more so now.
about the only thing legible on it is the word "DETECTIVE" on both grip medalions and the same word in an oval on the removable side plate on the right side. There are the remains of other writing but many of the letters have "fallen in the pits"
OF course I can not find my Hoag's Pistols and revolvers at the moment ( soon as I when publisher's clearing house I am having our library organized!)
Anyhow I nominated it for ugliest high value gun ( well it is to me) of the day.....
-kBob
