Since it snowed, the Vendors at the show were almost giving stuff away to make expenses.
The shotgun is still a question mark as far as it's linage. It is shootable and that's what I was after.
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The revolvers do make nice Christmas Tree ornaments ;D
Quote from: MountainDon on February 10, 2010, 02:39:54 PM
The revolvers do make nice Christmas Tree ornaments ;D
And earings, cufflinks, tie tacks, paper weights...Etc. They are also fun to shoot and try to hit something on purpose.
My dad always said, "Money don't grow on trees." But it looks like firearms do. [cool]
Some more nice finds.
Quote from: poppy on February 10, 2010, 06:46:50 PM
My dad always said, "Money don't grow on trees." But it looks like firearms do. [cool]
Some more nice finds.
I figured they were worth ten bucks for the pair. The grips go for 30.00. Then 50 for the shotgun, I was happy ;)
Since you all think my pine background is funny....I changed irt to the REAL picture :P :-\
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nice score, what are the details on those revolvers? are they shootable?
project guns are fun.
Yep, both shootable. Both .32 S&W. One is an Ivor Johnson. One is a Harrington Richardson.
.32 revolver, isnt that what charles bronson used in deathwish? he walked the city at night and when he saw a mugging or the like he just shot and killed the bad guys. sorry, it's my only cultural reference to the .32 caliber. still a nice find.
The .32 S&W (short) is a very old low power cartridge. I think he used the .32 long. There is also a 32 magnum and a 32 acp and probably a batch more.
The .32 S&W was the mainstay pocket pistol cartridge for a long time. That's why there are so many of the old guns. When the NY police started carrying guns, it was a .32 that they carried in a special pocket in their coat.
A lot of these old pocket pistols were hammerless. That was a S&W invention that most manufacturers copied. The reason they invented hammerless wasn't so it didn't snag when being carried in a pocket, it was because a little girl was hurt playing with her fathers gun and was able to cock the hammer.
Everybody had a .32 or.38 (S&W short) at one time. It truly was the carry gun of America for a time. If you were a farmer, you had one and a single barrel shotgun and a single shot .22 and maybe a deer rifle.