What a great thread - HDs, .32/20s, and blues music!

I don't have much to add about HDs, never having owned or even shot one, but the regional aspects of the popularity of the .32/20 is fascinating.

When I worked in Twin Falls, Idaho, one of my best friends was a TFPD detective who began his career many years earlier in Blaine County, Idaho. That area is now a ski resort (Sun Valley) with Bruce and Demi and Arnold and Clint and Tom Hanks living there, but back in his day it was a wild and wooly old west town.

He had to buy his own gun and the chief told him don't even bother with anything but a Smith .32/20. Everybody on the PD and SO carried them, so thats what he got. He loaded it up with the rifle loads and sallied forth to fight crime.

He's now about ready to retire at the age of 60, and has to carry a Glock .40 like everybody else in the world, but I suspect when he gets to carry what he wants again that M&P will go back in his waistband.

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