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TPD, those are both beauties!
Very nice duo there TPD!
TPD, Buffalo Arms has a new batch of .30 Remington cartridges available now. I love model 8's and 81's. I have a project gun in the works. When I can run across a decent 8 in .30 or .32 caliber, it is going to get converted to .300 Savage from Model 81 parts I was given. Ammo a lot easier to find! My idea of the perfect Model 8 is a .25 Remington!!! It was a .25 that Frank Hamer was using in Corsicana Tx during prohibition when he was busting up stills. That's what the Remington sales rep was watching him make thrown target shots with!
That Smith is a skookum revolver!!!! My idea of a great revolver!!!
Nice pair!Here's this year's "Deadly Duo" for elk season!!!
While I carry modern professionally, I have a soft spot for the classic guns I grew up around and find them hard to pass up on the rare occasion I find them these days. Both of these had been on the Wish List for a long time. I apologize for the poor pictures.
Smith & Wesson Hand-Ejector .44 Special, ca. 1920. It came with modern N frame grips, but I found the correct ones about a month later at a gun show. I have used grip adapters on revolvers for 35 years. This one is actually for a K frame because it fits my hand better than the N frame ones did.
Remington Model 8, .30 Rem., made in 1930. Wish ammo was easier (and cheaper) to come by.
I'm less than enthralled with cartridges in the 30/30 and .30 Rem class despite the millions of deer they've taken. Still, I have to admit that the .35 would qualify very nicely as a Pacific Northwest woods gun. Within reasonable range it has plenty of knock-down and frontal area for elk and black bear and more than enough for blacktail deer. And despite the excessive enthusiasm for 'beanfield' cartridges these days the vast majority of big game in North America (and Africa I might add) is still taken at under 150 yards, probably under 110. Frontal area and long-for-caliber bullets still rule just as they did in the days of black powder cartridges. Hunting to me still means stalking or learning enough woodcraft that you can be where the game will be before it gets there.
Of course if everyone agreed with me all the major firearms manufacturers would have long gone out of business. A well cared for gun lasts for generations and there would be little market for the new ones. The biggest enemy of the firearms business isn't anti-gunners, it's the used gun market!
Wow, that's a beaut!
. "The biggest enemy of the firearms business isn't anti-gunners, it's the used gun market!"
And I generally ( and I said generally!!!) will not even consider the purchase of a firearm unless it is at least 60 years old. Having set at the bench, so to speak, I have my own opinions concerning modern firearms. Curmodgeon that I am, I'm a very biased fellow!
Then again, I really don't "need" anything else in the genre. LOL! But on the occasion, I always seem to drag another one home.
I've wanted one like that for years! At my current stage of life it isn't likely that I'll succumb to the itch but they sure are gorgeous. What caliber did he get? Something bigger than 45/70 I hope.
LOL! Yeah, last one I hauled home was 110 y. o.
This reminded me of a news bit from when I was in High School. A female reporter was doing the little human interest story at the end of the 10PM news in Chicago. Interviewing a lady who was celebrating her 100th birthday, she asked her about her health. The lady replied how she had always been very healthy and active. The reporter then asked her "So you've never been bed-ridden?" and the lady replied "No, but I've been rolled in the hay a few times!" The folks back at the studio couldn't even speak, they just waved goodnight!LOL! Yeah, last one I hauled home was 110 y. o.