Some beautiful guns here....

My “WOW” gun is a bit more pedestrian....Model 66-4.

Love these photos...

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Mine is also the ugliest serious weapon I own. Pre 64 Model 70 serial number 11.

If I’m talking with someone who knows S&W’s this May 1936 RM usually comes out:




For sheer eye popping class it’s this one. Everybody knows the SAA:

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OK, WOW. I thought I was doing well with #201. I assume yours is a .30-06 also.

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Or to put something like this M66 into a non gun owner’s hands ....... normally, the reaction is priceless.




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Mark

No real WOW in my safe - just a bunch of shooters.
About the best I can offer is a 13-1 that is unusual because it is an early example built on an over-stamped 10-6 frame
An Inox (stainless) Jovino Terminator
And 29-3 Classic Hunter...

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Can we get a close up of the grip screw on the 19? The screw and the bushing make up a rather detailed and impressive escutcheon.

Nothing to be bashful about with a 13.....they comport themselves quite well on their own merits. 13-3 3 inch in blue and nickel.

If it's shear firepower, then it's this one...

Dang that "Like" button is smokin"!

The random dude/Uncle Larry aspect is a big deal. What might make a collector actually drool would probably get a shrug or even a sneer from Joe Average, and vice versa.

Case in point:



I tell casuals that I bought this when the store didn't have any phased plasma rifles in the 40 watt range. Lots of excited expressions. Serious gun guys see a ****** knock-off made from AMT rejected parts, and the most obsolete RDS on the planet. It does serve as a good example to youngsters of why forward serrations on slides became popular.

This usually gets a "Wow, is that legal?" from non-gun folk, and a polite "That's interesting" from serious shooters.





Since the move I've changed to a regular pistol grip, and made room for a mag in the well, since transporting like that is legal here in the Battle Born state. 120 rounds on board. Everything else was left like when it was CA legal.



I had one buddy, whose body was composed ~98% smarta**, who was a 60 gunner. When we'd be rehearsing and "simulating fire" he'd go:

"Bang!"
*racks action, opens cover, racks action, closes cover*
"Bang!"
*racks action, opens cover, racks action, closes cover*

and that's when the LT would start yelling.

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I shoot revolvers at two ranges where revolvers are almost never seen, and I've introduced several novices to the hobby, and the public here is completely uninterested in wheel guns, at least until they shoot them.

On the other hand, I was at my range doing FFL paperwork to pick up a polished stainless CZ 75B I ordered. The place was busy, and the pistol case sat opened on the counter for maybe half an hour. Every single person who walked by seemed compelled to make a positive comment or stop and ask about it.
Seems bottom feeders are in fashion around here.

My boxed set ...... a 6 1/2inch 98% Registered Magnum (original grips were MIA) with it's understudy a anib 6inch pre model 17 (1957)...... both wearing Grashorn no bark stags.

Shown them off at the NE Ohio Bunching a couple of times.

Also my set of 3" 66-3s with checkered Spegel Boot grips.... one still unfired; the other < 100rds w/ boxes and docs,....... I've got a 3" 66-4 for carry.

I had to edit this because I sold off the 4" Model 10. This is the only one I've got now that I think fits the bill.

5" Model 10-5





Any imperfections you might notice are the result of my lousy photography, not in the guns.

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My WOW piece is just a shabby little pristine 29-2 with Keith Brown grips. Sorry, that’s the best I can do.
Dave
SWCA #2778

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Fire Chief, Retired

Good thread, but guess I can say that I'm still 'in pursuit' of my 'wow gun'.
The hunt is more fun than having it laying in the back of the safe.

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Oh absolutely! My comment wasn't to deprecate the value of the 13 at all - they're an excellent fighting revolver.
It was just to say that mine isn't much to look at - unlike that beautiful salt-n-pepper set of yours!

My all numbers matching, 1941 Mauser P08. Picked up outside of Bastogne in January of 1945. Yes I have papers & pictures in my safe deposit box supporting that claim.




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My Circa 2004, Limited Rare Ruger Gold Label
"Dickinson Style Action" Side by Side Lever Action
Shotgun with two Right and Left Charge Holes for
12 gauge shotgun shells.

English style straight grip. Paper thin changeable
choke tubes (skeet, improved cylinder, modified,
full). Extremely light weight shotgun.

Only used in South Dakota during Pheasant Season.

Those boxed of Shells sitting there are the cleanest
shooting I've found.

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My wow weapon is a Barrett M-82A1.w/Bors. But don't take it to the range if low profile is how you roll, It becomes the center of attention quick!! I do let folks take a shot or two with it no charge. I figure the more folks who shoot a 50 BMG are more folks who will help me if my range ever decides to disallow the 50. or those D.C Clowns decide we can't have them anymore.

My Colt Trooper, nickel, 357, hand cannon.

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Two come to mind. First is a pre 36 Chief Speciall that my dad had when he was an agent. The second one is a special order pre 64 Winchester M70 in .375 H&H. Was sent in the white to Marker Machine Company in the late 50's to be "black chromed" on the barrel and trigger guard/mag box, and the bolt assembly a regular hard chrome plating. It went to Africa, not with me, but the original owner, and accounted for two Cape Buffalo and a few others. I am the third owner.

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My wow caliber. Bright polished Delta that started out as that ugly brushed stainless wearing customized grips with Delta medallions with its ivory grips in the background.




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This pair sometimes gets a "wow" or a "sweet!"

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My Parker O frame DH 16 ga Damascus shotgun is the most attractive gun I own.

I can never see enough of this gun. I'd love to have one, I just have difficulty at their current values. I wish it had been a standard catalog length. I've made due with a 5" 25-7. Can't complain, but I'm still missing the 5", ejector shroud, Model 29.

Nice Luger - though not many would be willing to go to the lengths you probably had to to get it.
Thanks for being there in 1945 so we can all be here.

Not to pick nits, but I have never heard or seen that type of action referred to as a "lever" action.
I've seen them referred to as a "break" action or a "break open" action, but never a lever action...

Those are a couple of canons! Very nice!


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These are my wow guns,single prefix letter,single # 3.(40years old)
Dick

Those are some absolutely gorgeous guns, guys! I own nothing even remotely, in the same league. But this got some “wows” from folks at the Tanner Gun show, today. I took my 4” 629-6, holster-shopping. Hardly a revolver in the place, much less a 44 mag Smith. Several vendors asked to handle it. Lots of compliments on its feel and appearance.
It’s also the one that gets the most attention at the indoor range.
In a world of polymer wonder pistols, even a non-pinned, non-recessed, internal-lock-plain-as-day, Smith and Wesson revolver stands out as something special.

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It is not a Smith & Wesson. It is a Colt Model 1851 Navy that was presented to Captain John C. Lowry of the 107th Illinois Infantry, Company E. Factory engraved with ivory grips.

The 107th Illinois Infantry was organized at Camp Butler and mustered into service on September 4, 1862. John Lowry enlisted as a Sergeant in Company E. They were assigned to Louisville, Kentucky on October 12, 1862 to guard the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. Lowry later rose to the rank of Captain.

The 107th was later involved in numerous campaigns, including the siege of Atlanta, July 22 to August 25, 1864. The regiment lost 3 officers and 27 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded, and 122 enlisted men by disease during the was. Total 152.

I only show this gun to special friends, and they understand that when history was being made, this artifact of history was there. I sure wish I could find a photograph of Captain Lowry. I would like to know what he looked like, and maybe, just maybe, he would be posing with this gun. One of my friends has requested that I give the gun to him in my will. That I can do.

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My WOW gun is an Arrieta 578 16-gauge shotgun that my family gave to me in the year 2000. Old piece of stump wood and scratched up metal.

Arrieta 578 in 16-gauge with 28-inch barrels choked SK1 & SK2.














South Dakota pheasant


Oklahoma bobwhites


Alabama bobwhite and Jake


Arizona Mearn's quail


Thanks for looking at my Arrieta 578.

God bless,
Birdgun

This is as close as I have...



... and a couple more of the details on the left side...

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Engraved S&W fan

Beautiful engraving is utterly hypnotizing to look at. Hard to fathom the years of experience and the hours that go into just one piece of work like that. "Wow" isn't a fitting enough word.

Yea people like the strangest. These aren't Smiths though

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My WOW gun is in better company and better hands. Today's WOW gun helped to place a gifted young buck in a cooler of ice for needed meat in the freezer.

Thanks, but I'm not that old (only 61), this was passed down to me by my step-father, who did "go to the lengths" to get it.

Now THAT is what I cal WOW! Thanks for sharing it.

A bit different. Norinco 86S bullpup AK47. Please forgive the awful picture and background.

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These are mine from my meager collection.

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My "WOW GUN" is this Belgian DeFourny 10ga.magnum. It is one of only six like this example imported by Continental arms in NYC between 1954 and 1956. French Walnut, Bohler steel, unique trigger guard/stock fitting and 32 lpi checkering. I inherited this fine shot gun from my grandfather in 1973; he rarely shot it ( heavy recoil) and gave it to me. It has not been shot since, and I consider it a very unique treasure

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This High Standard Sentinel Snub Revolver Model R-108 gets the most attention from non-gun hobby friends and gun folks alike.

It was purchased at a Gibson's Discount Store in Oklahoma 44 years ago tomorrow for $62.88.

Some of the comments include them saying they (or their Dad, friend, relative, etc.) used to have a gun like that and they remember seeing or shooting it.

Some just think it is pretty and unique that it has the box, papers, and receipt all in one package. Others just had never seen one but had heard about that model gun.

It has been both surprising and enlightening to me that sometimes the guns we S&W aficionados drool over get a cursory look by "regular folks" (I mean that in a good way) and how something else gets their attention. That eye of the beholder thing proven once again!

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I don't have any particular revolver with a lot of wow factor. However I do enjoy a few mdl 66's.
A common response from non gunners is "why do you need so many of the same model?"
I never have a good response that makes sense to them. I guess that's just not necessary.
Top to bottom:
66 no dash
66 no dash
66 -2 w/ TTT
66-1

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Have to be this one

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p8riot, that is a fine war trophy.

My father-in-law, James Bullock, brought back a Luger from Europe. He was an artillery forward observer and took his Luger off a dead German officer. Toward the end of James' life, he told me the story of how he acquired this Luger. James had been attached to a US infantry unit. James called in artillery fire upon a German position. The US infantry went in and overran the enemy position. James followed behind the infantry and came upon a German officer laying in a stream. The officer's wounds were consistent with shrapnel wounds. James said,"...he didn't look too good."

Linked is an article written about my father-in-law's Luger by a gun writer friend of mine. The Luger is in our gun safe.

Guest Post-Luger Bring Back from WWII - The Firearm BlogThe Firearm Blog

Staff Sergeant James Bullock's Luger


p8riot, thanks for posting that Luger of yours.

God bless,
Birdgun