Mystery Gun- What is it?

[DWalt]

It seems to have dropped off the radar - just like "Fast and Furious."

 

[Eddy's Shooting Sports]

We will hear more someday, but not before some mysteries are solved. It seems it is everything we want it to be, but where it travelled after leaving Springfield is still being established...

 

[Masterpiece]

We will hear more someday, but not before some mysteries are solved. It seems it is everything we want it to be, but where it traveled after leaving Springfield is still being established...

Greg,

Thanks!!...Greatly appreciate you taking the time to post this update for us!!

 

[SW-686]

Bump

Bump to the front for an update......

 

[Eddy's Shooting Sports]

Sorry. No update to speak of. Everything has stalled. Wish I could say more.

It's definitely a Smith & Wesson though.


Greg David

 

[Oyeboteb]

Definitely S & W was my bet from the get go.

But, as for the 'why' make a SA Prototype on a large Frame or any Frame, in the time period it was apparently made ( which by the details, would seem to suggest early to maybe mid 1890s), to me is a real mystery!

Still on the Edge of my Seat for hearing what-all has been figured out about it, by whom-ever it is, it had been examined by, in this mean-time..!

 

[Silhouette]

It's definitely a Model 38 Hand Ejector, made from 1898 to 1902. It fires the old .38 "short" cartridge.

 

[Eddy's Shooting Sports]

It's definitely a Model 38 Hand Ejector, made from 1898 to 1902. It fires the old .38 "short" cartridge.

Apparently you didn't read the thread.

 

[DWalt]

It's definitely a Model 38 Hand Ejector, made from 1898 to 1902. It fires the old .38 "short" cartridge.

Please tell us more!

 

[MrSurly]

Hours! I just found and read and read and read...this thread for HOURS!!!

And now?!?!?????
What do I do now? I hafta go to work, fellas...I must sleep; I don't know if I can even function now.

Talk about your cliffhangers!

 

[A10]

Glad the thread got bumped.......any news?

 

[Eddy's Shooting Sports]

Nothing new to report. I've talked to the owner of the mg several times since things stalled and there has been no communication about it.

Maybe someday.


Eddy's Shooting Sports

 

[DWalt]

"...since things stalled ..."

I really have to wonder what the reason for the stalled situation could be. It's not like it's an NSA surveillance project, just a simple historical inquiry.

 

[Doug M.]

True, but everyone involved, and likely anyone they would have told about this (assuming they even thought it mattered or ever would), is long dead, and the odds are that the records from that time period (same issue) are long gone, too.

 

[GaryS]

Other than that, what's the hold up?

True, but everyone involved, and likely anyone they would have told about this (assuming they even thought it mattered or ever would), is long dead, and the odds are that the records from that time period (same issue) are long gone, too.

 

[L Pete]

Hey, I'm growing old here.........

 

[TTSH]

Hey, I'm growing old here.........

Yeah, me too! We want to know!

 

[DWalt]

02-06-2013, 12:53 PM "Update: Professional high quality photos were taken and sent yesterday via USPS to a secret, undisclosed location for vetting. Hopefully, some of the questions will be answered..."

03-26-2013, 12:50 AM "A most distinguished gentleman from the S&W community is talking w/ the owner of the MG. Not my place to spread rumors, but it wasn't built in a Pakistani cave. Sorry for the cryptic double speak- but I do not want to spoil anything."

A year later, and nothing????????

 

[epj]

I couldn't read the whole thing. Did Mr. Jinks ever weigh in on this?

 

[DWalt]

Not here at least. If he did it was top secret, like everything else. We don't want Putin to know.