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This one is from 1919, my one and only hammerless.

 

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I was wrong, I forgot about the Model N, my other hammerless from 1911. Maybe I can stretch to include a couple of Belgian cousins a Model 1922 in 7.65 Browning and a Model 1955 in .380

 

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Why I will never come close...

 

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New toy

A Pocket Hammerless and a Pocket Positive! Both of them very nice examples, as well. Quite a nice way to start a weekend!

 

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Wowee Grreat stuff...
Mind if I play Thru?

M1903 Du Mond Target Pistol 422770 1922
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I do believe if you show up with that for the center-fire match you might even turn the heads of the guys shooting S&W Model 52's

 

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Before or after I Win the match with this Tack Driver?

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ei8ht®
Junk Yard Colts
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Oh, I want to be there!!! I can hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth now!! The Smith guys all downcast and muttering how if Star was still making wadcutters how it'd been different!!

 

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Here's a Savage built US Model of 1928A1.

 

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She's gotta meeting with the Boss in 5,4,3,2...

Me thinks she will get the promotion...

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One of the first things about small country airports, everyone in the office pretty much knows who's supposed to be there, on sight.

Secondly, if someone there tells you to stop, something besides moral imperative is backing up that command.

 

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Even if If I bring my own Plane?

She'll have your Cherokee in her log before you get to the tiedown.

 

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Touch and go, not staying where I'm out gunned...

She likes Aeroncas and Citabrias

 

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Does she like 1903 Colt hammerless?

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Definitely, shiny objects may catch her eye, but as a lady of taste and breeding she prefers they be elegantly refined. Cheap and tawdry are not in her lexicon.

 

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After World War II, the US authorities procured several thousand FN 1922’s to arm the German railroad police (Bahnpolizei) in their occupation zone. By the time they were delivered, the US zone as such didn’t exist anymore, and the pistols went to the Deutsche Bundesbahn, where they entered service in 1951. The FN 1922 remained the Bahnpolizei’s standard sidearm until it was replaced by the Sig-Sauer P6 in 1978/79.

The Bahnpolizei did not fool around. (No German cops did) In 1972 my ex-wife was returning from a shopping frenzy at the big PX in Frankfurt. There was some kind of commotion and a couple of Bahnpolizei were chasing some guy along the platforms in the Hauptbahnhof. One of the cops yelled for him to stop twice, "Halt oder ich schieße!" He did not yell a third time. She said the cop fired once, the guy went down and they were all over him.

She didn't know what it was all about, but she was certainly more subdued around German cops after that.

 

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Another treasure from the Grafenwöhr Rod & Gun Club from late in 1978. The Bayerische Landespolizei began issuing the H&K P7 so their Walthers were available surplus through the US Rod and Gun Clubs, as well as commercial sources like Waffen Franconia. For 75 bucks, you got a box with a pistol, two mags, one with a finger rest and one without. Inside the lid, the name of the cop who had it last. The ByP in an oval property mark is X'd out.

 

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...Permanent Display in ei8htland...

Worthy of a pilgrimage...true believers filled with awe and wonderment!

 

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Can I play too? A couple of Iver Johnsons and a trio of Smiths, all hammerless.

 

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I am not usually a fane of engraved pistols, either, but that one looks pretty tastefully done. Laser engraving? Don't imagine many folks are doing it with gravers and chasers any more.

 

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This going to take more than a little getting used to

 

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Nothing quite so fancy as a Gates transmitter. The main AM station here is a Heathkit DX-100 and a Hammarlund HQ-140. By the time you were going into TV I had left Collinwood and polka music for sunny southeast Asia.

 

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If I'm lucky sometimes I can find a period correct Departmental corect
badge to go with a Police Pistol I have,
This time I accidentally bought a Pistol
that matches a Badge I did not even know I had.
ZOTS right between the eyes.
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Man, when you get lucky you don't fool around. Have you checked your pockets for old lottery tickets?

 

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It is in fact the House Gun do to its simplicity.
No safety, if it rattles when you shake it...its Loaded.
(note to self...
all guns are always loaded especially the one's that are...)

Certainly less emotional attachment than one of the hammerless. It would be hateful to have some pot-bellied detective scratch his initials in it and deposit it in some Cuyahoga county evidence locker while they try to figure out if some miscreant deserved the shooting he got.