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    Revolvers Revolvers 1911s Stephanie B's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Duelist View Post
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    This one is supposed to date to 1930. Six-digit serial, starts with a 6. The grips are a bit older. I found them at a gun show and paid almost as much as I did for the gun.
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    When I got it, it was wearing this set of rubber grips. I got a set of magna grips as soon as I could, and put a T-grip on it too. That's how I usually shoot it.
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    It's a former department of corrections gun, but doesn't say from what state. I rescued it from a pile of more modern model 10's, but wish I'd bought one or two of them, too. It's been loaned out to family members a time or two.
    Nice! I may get a Tyler grip adapter for mine.
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    Heh.

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    That revolver seems to shoot very well! What load were you using, Stephanie?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lex Luthier View Post
    Heh.

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    except Godzilla

    That revolver seems to shoot very well! What load were you using, Stephanie?
    .38 lead round nose Geco from the local Rural King.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stephanie B View Post
    It shot pretty well. The sights are not terribly easy to see, compared to a Model 10 or a 10-5. I had no trouble keeping in on minute of thug, double action, strong hand only at 50'. The only issue was the gun twisted around in my hand a little. So I might have to get a grip adapter for it.
    Those tiny sights are hard for those of us with post-40 year old eyes. My 2" 1948 M&P is nearly unusable for me in regards to sight picture.

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    Heck, I can't see the sights on late Model 10s very well.
    This is not a new problem, if you follow the S&W board you will occasionally see a pre-war gun with a fixed taller flat rear blade set into the topstrap across the old hogwallow notch.
    H. Bowen had a neat but hideously expensive high visibility fixed rear scaled to fit J Smiths and Ruger SP.
    I once saw a similar sight on a M&P but the shop mentioned no longer lists it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dagga Boy View Post
    Those guns, and those cops are why I collect what I collect. I imagine the officer got a pat on the back from men he respected as his "therapy" and was as hard as woodpecker lips. Great find.
    I finally got around to running a search for officer and found this obit.. His last name was Merritt, not Merrill. (I found the note that I made at the LGS when I bought it and the guy who sold it to the store came over to talk to me.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stephanie B View Post
    I finally got around to running a search for officer and found this obit.. His last name was Merritt, not Merrill. (I found the note that I made at the LGS when I bought it and the guy who sold it to the store came over to talk to me.)
    Also, the gun's seller was his nephew-in-law, not his brother-in-law.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stephanie B View Post
    Screwheads don't show signs of being buggered up.
    I'd bet a PF dollar that the sideplate hasn't been off since it left the factory.


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    Quote Originally Posted by okie john View Post
    I'd bet a PF dollar that the sideplate hasn't been off since it left the factory.
    If the department had an armorer, he probably had the right screwdrivers.
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    I Owe You Guys an Apology

    I did take it to the range after I bought it.

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    Shot at ten yards, a mixture of SA and DA. Ammo was Geco LRN, which seemed appropriate for the gun.
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