Originally Posted by Jim Cirillo

I carried four handguns: two Model 10 revolvers, a Colt Cobra, and a PPK.

Originally Posted by Jim Cirillo

I bought the regular model and then the bull barrel when they came out with that modification. I think my bull barrel only cost $40.

Originally Posted by Jim Cirillo

Both were excellent shooters. With either one I could put a bullet in your right nostril or your left nostril, they were that accurate. The old one had dinnky sights, like a little slot. The bull barrel had better sights, plus I altered them. One of the fellas was an amateur gunsmith, and he actually filed a slot in the back of the rear sight and he put a blade at an angle so that was always shadowed, and made a nice, big, square notch in it- ah that worked beautiful. On the front sight I had a ramp cut flat so that I would have a better silhouetted sight picture. I did the gunsmithing on the action- it was smooth as silk.

Originally Posted by Massad Ayoob on recollections of Jim Cirillo

Jim was among the first to wrap his grips with friction tape to prevent hand slippage. It became a trend among PPC shooters. His duty guns, except for the backup in his pocket, were wrapped the exact same way, always including a homemade grip adapter with an exaggerated flange between the middle finger and the ring finger. (On the street in uniform, smart-asses would say, "Hey, Mr. Po-leece, your gun handle busted or sumpin'?" And Jim would reply with a wolfish grin, "Yeah, that's it. Probably won't work, huh?"