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Old 07-05-2014, 08:50 AM
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I have a T-Lock in my S&W Rusty Relic collection that once was the rarest production T-Lock, a 7 1/2 inch barrel with service sights, that has about 3 inches cut off the barrel with a machete. The outside has more craters than the Moon, but inside it's minty and shoots just fine. It was captured from a rebel in the Haiti Banana Wars in the 1920s by a Marine Corp friend of mine, Sgt. Ed Craig, later Lt. General in WW2. Ed.
Very cool. Eddie Craig collected several good pistols in the banana wars and lost them on a shipwreck, as I recal from one of the historical books. Awesome that you knew him personally and have one of his war souvenirs!!!
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