Show us your Guns!

[DeaconKC]

Beautiful! It's a rich looking gun!

 

[Yahoody]

I suspect there is a lot of history there in the last 129 years! Too bad they can't talk

 

[Yesteryear]

My two favorite handguns in their corresponding presentation cases; the S&W Model 29 and Walther PPK! Both have been made famous on the silver screen, in Dirty Harry and James Bond. They are equally great in real life!

 

[Yahoody]

1904 Colt 44-40, with original ivory, that I have been shooting recently. Top right is a 15 yard group from this gun. And I own the flyer, it wasn't the gun.

Pretty good I think coming out of that ratty looking, original 117 year old, black powder etched, bore

 

[DeaconKC]

Gentlemen, you have three guns that define beauty and performance.

 

[M Brown]

Just one rifle...a Marlin 22 Carbine semi auto that I bought new in 1968. It's dispatched everything of need for the past 50+ years. Still has the original scope on it too.

 

[Bushman]

I just got this beautiful nonfiring Denix M1 Carbine today!

 

[Yahoody]

The art of Paul Persinger. May be the best ivory carver working with firearms that America has seen in any Generation.

 

[DeaconKC]

That is a handsome acquisition!
And Yahoody, those grips....Wow!

 

[belfastboy]

I don't have a picture.....last week I gave my Daisy pump action BB gun to a friend to gift his 11 year old. A few days afterwards our Federal gov't included BB guns on the list of those 'weapons' to be made illegal. I am not making this up.

 

[DeaconKC]

@belfastboy Good on you for your gift! And our current "leaders" here in the US aren't much smarter...

 

[belfastboy]

@belfastboy Good on you for your gift! And our current "leaders" here in the US aren't much smarter...

I forgot to mention the BB gun was 60 years old. It was a birthday gift for my 11th birthday.

 

[1955mercury]

Saw this S&W PC1911 in a local pawn shop Friday. And now for the rest of the story.

 

[DeaconKC]

Very nice! Is that an alloy frame?

 

[1955mercury]

Yeah. Smith & Wesson says it has a scandium alloy frame, what ever that is.

 

[DeaconKC]

Scandium is an alloy of aluminum and Scandium, a very GOOD combination! Congrats, that is really desirable.

 

[jkingrph]

Scandium is an alloy of aluminum and Scandium, a very GOOD combination! Congrats, that is really desirable.

Yes, and very light weight. I have a little J frame revolver, Model 342 I think, hammerless, double action only, titanium cylinder, It's so light it hurts to shoot with standard 38 loads.

 

[DeaconKC]

Yes, and very light weight. I have a little J frame revolver, Model 342 I think, hammerless, double action only, titanium cylinder, It's so light it hurts to shoot with standard 38 loads.

If you can find a grip called the American Classic by Pachmayr, it might help. Still fairly narrow but has a wood backstrap and rubber up front, it can help those "rowdy" little guns.

 

[1955mercury]

Ordered this Ubertti 1866 Yellow Boy in .44-40 two weeks ago and it finally arrived today.

 

[jkingrph]

Scandium is an alloy of aluminum and Scandium, a very GOOD combination! Congrats, that is really desirable.

Scandium is NOT an alloy but an element of the group of transistion metals, with atomic number 21, also called a rare earth metal.

The S&W 342 Ti lite has a titanium cylinder and a frame that is an alloy of Scandium and Aluminum, no idea what the proportions of each might be. From my brief reading the Scandium adds considerable strength to the Aluminum alloy while keeping weight down. This paticular gun has a stainless steel rifled barrel liner and the bulk of the barrel is an alloy shroud. The guns advertised weight is 10.8 oz and is +P rated. I have never shot such ammo in mine, standard pressure stuff hurts enough. I have a set of Craig Spigel rosewood grips on mine which are a little fatter than the factory grips and they do not help much.