Snub Fans

les.b · #51 11-07-2016, 11:20 PM

Hey Doc.... I guess that we both love snubbies!! And Since you like snubbies, as well as I do, how about this ad from 1946? I'd sure like to get my hands on one of these babies, to keep my 1949 M&P company:

But back to the issue of .32s. I simply can't get enough of them. The ones that I posted earlier, and copied below are just a few. I also have quite a number of .32 Automatics. But I'll stick to snubbies in this thread:

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Originally Posted by les.b

Doc:

I like the Regulation Police .32s also, in fact I like all .32s, here is my almost mint RP which came with the box, papers and half a box of ammo for under $400:

Here's another Regulation Police from fifty years earlier... Still on the I frame back then...great little shooter:

Here are a couple of country cousins, pre model 30s, known back then as .32 Hand Ejectors...one I frame, the other "Improved" I frame:

Just for the heck of it, how about one of my purdiest Colts? Colt Pocket Positive .32 Colt New Police (same as .32 S&W Long)...this one is almost mint, but it gets shot anyway. All my guns get shot some. There are so many that have followed me home over the years that they have to take turns!!:

If you are willing to go up to the .38 S&W cartridge, though, you can still stay with the I frame and go with the Terrier:

Here's another early J frame that sometimes gets carried, I bought this one from a fellow forum member last summer, a Chiefs Special Hammerless, later called the Centennial, still later to become the Model 40:

Also from the early 1950s, and bought from the same forum member last year, is a "Baby Chief Smooth Ramp" :

Best Regards, Les

two-bit cowboy · #52 11-08-2016, 08:27 AM

Two more I's.

Top: HE.32, 3¼", July/Aug '52, appears as new.

Bottom: Mod. 31, 2", ~'58, gently used

Cheers,

Bob

M1A · #53 11-08-2016, 05:42 PM

Chief Specials. Inherited from a CPD Commander. The chrome job was a backup, and sadly not factory chromed.
I have shot them a lot, certainly more than the late Commander. Quite a guy. I miss him.

Bikes · #54 12-04-2016, 07:21 AM

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Originally Posted by DocB

Bikes. . .that Lawrence chamois lined holster is so rare. When I was a kid in 1960 I ordered one. It is the only one I have ever seen in person. Let the holster go with the gun some years later. Needless to say the holster is worth much more today than the gun I bought it for.

Thanks, Doc...I did not know that.....here they are together....

MetalMan · #55 12-04-2016, 10:17 AM

I've picked up 4 snubbies this year....2-J's (36, 60-15) and 2-K's (66-4, 19-5).

The 19-5 was a "friends and family" sale from my brother-in-law who is retired LEO. He has a safe full of long and short guns. Most of the handguns are Colt revolvers and pistols. The 19-5 was an oddball that he didn't particularly like to shoot. I was more than happy to take it off his hands!