Actually picked up this 3.5-in. bbl. '70s (my) era iteration of Patton's Killing Gun and Dick Tracy's preferred gat at a gunshow two Saturday's back. Should have never brought all my rathole money with me!
Did not need it but the All-consuming need for a Model 27 Snubby has been on me since I read, in the early '70s, about Jelly Bryce and other local LE gunfighters hired by J. Edgar for the nascent FBI eight decades ago.
Nyeti and a local pal who's probably bought as many big Smiths and Colt's as DB in past few years are to blame. Contacted both after a 72-year-old fellow traveller walked around with The Grail in his hand and gave me a dizzying (to me) price. Both said "they ain't making no maux! "
Prolly gonna run it at the Revolver Roundup on Day 1 in a few weeks.
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Immediately grabbed up an Old School Don Hume rig just to protect its gorgeous blue finish. One of my younger detectives saw it the other day said : "is that a blued gun? It looks like some sort of deep blue chrome..." I said, "that's what blue used to look like."
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