Working man’s guns - post your guns no matter the make that earned their keep

jjmIII_Ruger · #**101** 12-22-2021, 10:37 PM

I have two that have seen service. Both Model 10's.

First is a CAI Import, rack # JP 596.
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And a CDC gun that I cleaned up a little bit.
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Rock185 · #**102** 12-23-2021, 02:07 PM

I carried this Colt Government every working day for several years. It still looks respectable because I have a bead blast cabinet, etc. and have refinished it more than once.

VictorLouis · #**103** 12-23-2021, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by WCCPHD

Here's my contribution. All law enforcement guns.

......... North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement Division

A.L.E.'D.

Gotta love some of the acromyms.

BARgunner · #**104** 12-28-2021, 11:13 PM

This one's from 1951 and was issued to the Washington State Patrol. It makes a great house gun.

Muley Gil · #**105** 12-29-2021, 12:46 AM

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Originally Posted by BC38

That was my first gun.
Has the paddle type break open lever on the tang behind the hammer and the little button on the right side that slides up and down to select which barrel fires, right?
Shot many a rabbit, squirrel, and quail with that little gun.
Until some burglars stole it from our house.

Yes, mine is set up the same way. It has a threaded plug in the butt and I usually had a small baggie of .22 LRs stuck back there.

Faulkner · #**106** 12-29-2021, 02:11 PM

No doubt the gun that has been in my hand almost daily for 23 years is my personal owned Glock 23 Gen 3 that I carry on duty. If I could pick any firearm to carry in my duty holster, or for off duty concealed carry, this would still be it. Like many back in the late 1990's I resisted considering the "ugly plastic gun", but I gotta testify that after a zillion rounds down range and with every day duty holster use it has not malfunctioned on me even one time.

I'm not a Glock preacher and I realize there are those "blued steel and walnut" folks who dislike them, mostly out of their ignorance, but that's okay. I have revolvers and 1911's in my collection that I like and shoot often, but I'm thankful for the training officer than introduced me to Glocks and the one that rides in my holster whenever I pin on the badge.

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One of my other most used workhorses is a Ruger MKII that my wife bought me as a gift when I graduated from college. In it's original configuration it was a MKII Standard Stainless with 4.75 inch tapered barrel. It was my sidearm of choice anytime I was out hunting and I'd used it for years and taken dozens of squirrels and rabbits and other vermin around the homestead. Then about 10 years ago I had a hankering to upgrade it with a Tactical Solutions PAC-LITE upper. This conversion turned a really nice and accurate shooter into a tack driver, and I've taken dozens more small game with it since, and even took a coyote with it from my tractor.

I own over a dozen .22 revolvers and pistols, but this is the one that is typically holstered on my belt if I'm not carrying a centerfire handgun.

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nipperdog · #**107** 12-30-2021, 03:20 PM

Here's my Charter Arms .45 Colt Bulldog and a Bulgarian Makarov that I re Barreled to 380acp

Rock185 · #**108** 01-12-2022, 05:34 PM

Another of mine, a model 66 carried for several years before the L-Frame Smiths became available. Very few original parts left on this one.

lestert357 · #**109** 01-12-2022, 07:22 PM

My RM REG 5008 that served with the Kansas City PD from 1939 until 1957. Somehow this gun missed the refinish/rework process that most of the KCPD Pre-War Magnums were subjected to, and so this one retains its original finish as well as its original matching number Magna grips. It came to me in 2016 from a private seller on GB that resided in Kansas City at the time. I have subsequently added the box, SAT, .357 Magnum Brochure, holster, hat, a number of badges and shooting medals, and of course the Historical Foundation Registration Certificate.

BC38 · #**110** 01-12-2022, 07:38 PM

OK, here are a couple.

First is a known "working man's" (LEO) though it isn't badly worn other than the target grips. It is a 28-1 that has a King County Sheriff property tag on the side of the grip frame under the targets.

Next is an early 13-1 built on an overstamped 10-6 frame. I have never lettered it, but its holster wear and the 13-1 history with LE agencies makes me strongly suspect it rode on a LEO holster for a few years.

B.Thomas · #**111** 01-12-2022, 08:04 PM

I have a 1969 Colt Python service pistol and badge that are touchstones to me.

These belonged to my Grandfather. He was known as Wild Bill to the men on the force. He’s been gone for 32 years now but he is remembered every time I look at either of these items.
As a child, when I’d go some where with Grandpa, he’d always whip that badge out when paying at a restaurant or at a store. He was retired but he never let that stop him haha.
My father gave me his pistol and badge in a new wallet for Christmas about 6 years ago. This gift will be with me till death.

A man that Grandpa hired right out of high school in the late 60’s was visiting and I showed him the Colt and badge and he started crying and said that “Wild Bill” would set the pistol on the corner of his desk pointing at the door. He said he’d never forget that pistol or Bill.

Grandpa moved to Arizona when he retired with my Grandmother.
He would call long distance once a week to talk to me and no one else. I thought he was nuts for doing that but later realized why he did and glad he did.
He told war stories and old police stories and Grandma would get so mad haha.

William B Thomas, Chief of police. Willoughby Hills Ohio
1956-1977

Jocko-44 · #**112** 01-14-2022, 11:10 AM

HP Model 28 no dash. Carried many years by an Ohio Officer.

LCC · #**113** 01-15-2022, 01:22 AM

A 66 from a North Carolina PD. Laser accurate, so clean had to belong to a desk jockey. Best $295 I ever spent.

wood714 · #**114** 01-15-2022, 02:41 AM

Only gun I have other than my model 60 that a cop carried as a back up.

From the looks of this, it never saw any use.

Rock185 · #**115** 01-15-2022, 05:02 AM

A Colt Model 3 5 7, carried by a California deputy sheriff.

LCC · #**116** 01-15-2022, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by wood714

Only gun I have other than my model 60 that a cop carried as a back up.

From the looks of this, it never saw any use.

could you imagine the public outcry if a LEO was spotted with a fixed bayonet on his long gun..lol

Rock185 · #**117** 01-15-2022, 03:41 PM

A S&W 640 and 642. One or the other carried as a second weapon for some years.

DR505 · #**118** 01-15-2022, 04:07 PM

First is my 1st handgun, a S&W Model 27-3 4" I bought for my first police academy. Worked very well and always liked it (still have it).

Second, a Colt Combat Elite I bought the day I got my commission. I carried this in the military...especially when I was attached to the US Border Patrol on the US/Mexico border during the "War on Drugs." No uniform during that tour. I shot this 1911 extensively. It was pretty beat up so I had Wilson Combat fix it up, and they had Turnbull Restoration re-blue the slide. Now I am almost afraid to put it in a holster!

Finally, I carried this Glock 21 on my hip for nearly two decades while I worked as a Fed. Retired now, so don't carry this much. I will pass all 3 down to my son.

Seven High · #**119** 01-15-2022, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Scharfschuetzer

"Soldiers are working men, too".

I agree totally.

On the rifle side during my military career (both sides of my LEO career, VN to the GWOT): I carried or used the M60, the M240 GPMGs; the M16A1, M16A2 and the M4A1 rifles/carbines. On the long-range side, I used the M14, the M21, the M24, SR25 and the Mk 13.

On the pistol side, it was the 1911A1 and the M9. I had an M9 fail me on one deployment and thus I'm not really a fan of the model.

I wish I could have kept one or two of those rifles.

The pistols below are post retirement and were bought for the memories. The Zippos are from different deployments. I still use 'em to light a cigar now and then.

Would you please tell us about the details of the M9 failure while on deployment.