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01-31-2016, 02:51 PM
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Third Model Single Shot With Messed Up Barrel
Forty years ago I tried to buy this from my friend in Miami. Now we both live in Virginia and I finally got it.
Bob
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01-31-2016, 03:17 PM
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3rd Model
I would love to have your messed up barrel!!!!!!! All matching serial numbers? You have a very nice pistol, congratulations.
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02-04-2016, 05:14 PM
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Congratulations and thanks for sharing!! She is beautiful. I would love to know what Pope did to her.
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02-04-2016, 05:59 PM
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Well, Pope for sure installed his barrel liner---and may or may not have "messed" up the sights. I have a 1st Model with seemingly identical "messed up" sights, but they forgot to mess up the barrel---inside or out----damn it anyhow.(!!)
Ralph Tremaine
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02-04-2016, 07:25 PM
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I really like the finer sights, but they can be hard to get used to. Once you get your glasses and eyes figured out you can really them shoot well.
Shooting small targets at long range is very tough because the sight covers the target.
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02-04-2016, 07:49 PM
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I don't get it. Why did you say it's messed up?
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02-05-2016, 10:28 AM
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Because some old guy named Harry done went and changed the rifling. Then he put his name on it. At least he didn't add a driver's license number. Now I need to find another one that a guy named Roper ruined by replacing the factory stocks.
Bob
Last edited by red9; 02-05-2016 at 10:44 AM.
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02-05-2016, 10:48 AM
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How does she shoot?
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02-06-2016, 10:44 AM
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With excellent Pope rifling and a tight (but not Olympic) chamber, I would expect it to be a tack driver. Unfortunately, my shooting days are mostly over.
It hurts to see my groups with guns such as this (and my Outdoorsmans, Hammerlis, etc.), knowing what they are capable of and what I used to be capable of.
Bob
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02-06-2016, 01:25 PM
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My suggestion: Don't give up, shoot every day and have fun with it.
I decided to make my shooting hand gun therapy and have devoted at least an hour a day to it and guess what? Feel better, can walk further and shoot better and enjoy to my fullest.
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