I couldn't have been more than ten or twelve years old when my Dad put me between his knees and let me shoot his police service revolver. It was a Model 1905, 4th Change S&W .38 Special. I have never, not to this day, felt an action like that. I still have it. There is no word in the dictionary to describe it. Smooth or silky would be an injustice to it's feel. It also had what I can only describe a a hair-trigger on single action cock. It was nickel plated with Stag grips with a Fray grip adapter. Dad also carried it at the F.B.I. Police Academy in the early forties. I have a 1974 Jinks letter stating in was shipped in 1938. The letters then didn't give a lot of detail. I would never put a value on it. It is too dear to me. Needless to say, I have been in love with firearms ever since.

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We all have a memory of when we first were allowed to fire a gun as kids. I can recall my Dad letting me shoot his new Winchester Model 62 .22 pump at a bottle cap target he had set up in a tree stump about 10 yards away. I lay prone and he told me how to sight the cap at a 6 o'clock hold, take a breath, let it 1/2 out, and sqeeze the trigger! I hit the cap! I got to shoot about 10 shots at that cap, until it was little pieces, then he took the gun and began shooting sparrows out of the air as they flew by. I was about 5 yrs. old and it was several more years until I realized that every one didn't shoot like he did! Later he taught me how to do that also. I still have that Winchester rifle, serial number 810, but it's about wore out. Ed #15

One of the first handguns I handled was my father's Marine Corps US&S, it had a couple lesser peers in dad's inventory. An early Stevens single shot, a .22 derringer, and a Smith .38 1905 3rd change. Over the years that .38 has been the benchmark for action "feel" and intuitive handling...I've shot it a little and it's terrific...my son will inherit it...