Like Wayne said, it looks like a revolver set up for PPC. Late enough to have the replacement bull style barrel, early enough that it doesn't appear to have had the PPC custom sights that allowed having a precise zero at the different ranges with your wadcutter ammo.
Last edited by TCinVA; 08-17-2020 at 04:38 PM.
3/15/2016
Originally Posted by That Guy
Definitely for 1935!
(From Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting by Ed McGivern)
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
Going by the photos, she wouldn't have to date herself. I would've gladly dated her.
I've seen photos of WWII GIs on patrol with their trigger fingers indexed properly. With the Garand I had, disengaging the safety was a PITA.
Good on her. We had a similar case that my trial partner and I prosecuted. A key witness was a female RSPD detective, deprived of even a tape recorder, but kept meticulous notes. Sometimes justice is a best dish served cold: https://trib.com/news/local/crime-an...d9d1052a1.html
Reminds me way too much of the fun we had back in the days of the 70s in the police world!Going by the photos, she wouldn't have to date herself. I would've gladly dated her.
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Lost a chance to get a six-pointer when I was a little careless in disengaging the safety and there was an audible click.
That was a weird rifle. With GI ammo, it was about as accurate as Michael J. Fox throwing rocks. With Winchester Silvertips, it was a tack-driver. I traded it away for a custom-built 486 computer.
(I later bought another one from the CMP. Lots of fun ensued in the office the morning when the FedEx dude delivered it.)
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
I participated in some PPC matches circa 1985. I used an S&W 586 with the adjustable front sight and a trigger job performed by a good local ‘smith. I shot a lousy score my first match. A month later I received a trophy in the mail for highest rookie score. I was the only rookie shooter!
This thread came up in another where I posted Scott Reitz going over some of his former duty gear including a revolver that's a dead ringer for the one in the original photo:
...so that could very well be her duty revolver, tricked out with a heavy barrel similar to what Reitz discusses for LAPD. As heavily as agencies in that region borrowed from one another the idea could well have spread to or from LAPD.
Neat stuff.
3/15/2016
There was nothing like the smell of alcohol on freshly-mimeographed copies[emoji6]
I EOD’ed in 1998 with the INS. Huge monochrome CRT monitors on PCs… There was still a typewriter in every desk. Carbon paper forms were still typed (I-213 love). Fingerprint cards were typed and then ink rolled, and we dropped them in a box.
Every Monday, an assistant would gather the fingerprints from the prior week, and mail them to the FBI. About two weeks later we would get a phone call that someone was wanted…. “Uhhhh we deported them about 48 hours after we arrested them”. Keep in mind, this was only 20 years ago. And we did not have an automated fingerprint scanner yet.
Resendez-Ramirez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81..._Res%C3%A9ndiz and 9/11 finally got us a budget to get an instant fingerprint check.
It does not seem like that long ago, but technology wise, it was eons ago. In the academy, we had no cell phones, we stood in line to use pay phones, and call collect or use a gov issues calling card. Fax machines and dot matrix printers with tractor feed paper still hummed in the office too.
And VHS held the cutting edge training of the day. Good times…
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