In his great bio "Will", G. Gordon Liddy writes of his start in the FBI and how there were two much older guys who were allowed to stay as long as they wanted. They were old S.W. lawmen who had been in many gunfights. They didn't give Liddy the time of day until they saw him shoot his Combat Masterpiece so well one day. One guy, obviously not a fan of the .38 said to Liddy," Want me ta' grind that front sight off that gun fer ya'?" Liddy said, "Why?" The guy said, " So it won't hurt as much when the guy you shoot with it takes it from ya' and shoves it up yer ---. He then handed Liddy his tuned up 5" Model 27 and said to try it. Liddy wasn't as good with the harder kicking new gun but was very impressed with it and the abilities of these two guys using these .357's. The old timer told Liddy to keep the gun cause he had another one and said return it when you get your own. Liddy's wife gave him a 3.5" 27 and he got a holster out of Texas (Myres, no doubt) as suggested my his new mentor. This gun was his pride and joy.
I paraphrased all this and the guns were probably pre-27's just to be technical.

At one time, Liddy's email address was "[email protected]"!

He isn't allowed to have any guns now.

Mike D.

But his wife has LOTS of guns, and they are scattered all over the house.....

Or so he claimed on his radio show once.

Dallas, November 1963.

I believe he said that she "kept them on her side of the bedroom"...

I think Liddy's wife actually passed away earlier this year.

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MARK

Wonder why one of the Republican Presidents has not given Liddy a full pardon. It is not like he was a mass murderer. He was just doing as ordered.

He knows where the bodies were buried,since he buried most of them. they are STILL afraid of him. He is one dangerous dude..Read "Will" if you don't believe me. He volunteered to be the fall guy for them

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I wouldn't be a bit surprised if he (or his lawyer) had filed a plea for relief from disabilities a long time ago.

Russ

I read "Will" nearly 20 years ago and remember this bit about the 357's (among other parts). IIRC, the two Texans said it was a waste of time to practice with 38's (in the 357), Liddy said he practiced so much that he wore away the skin on his trigger finger, and something about keeping two 357 rounds on the bottom of the pocket of your suit jacket so you could get it out of the way faster for a faster draw (again from the Texans, IIRC). G Liddy isn't someone I would want to mess with, but I'm sick of his commercials hocking gold.

I used to listen to the G man in the morning, then Rush at Lunchtime.

The G Man always came across as the real deal.

He's a blowhard felon who did very little street time as an agent, took a promotion to an administrative unit at headquarters, then bailed out to take a job as a lawyer. Typical "ticket puncher".

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Regarding the original quote, I think the reason for filing off the front sight was so it wouldn't hurt as much when shoved where the sun don't shine "if you pull that gun on a man with no intention of actually firing it," and not because he was shooting .38 Special.

Dave Sinko

I loved his show. He was hilarious and didn't take himself seriously for a moment.

He's definitely got his own ideas about things too. He's an animal "rights" type (not that extreme that I recall). I seem to remember him defending limited affirmative action in a debate with Ward Connerly!

The only reason he is dangerous is the man is a lunatic, IMHO.
A+1

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Right. I went by "memory" then read that part of his book afterwards. These oldtimers were .357 users and Liddy talked of practicing with the ammo you planned to use on duty like these guys did. Dave, that part of this book where that one old gunman explains to Liddy the thing about shooting to kill and "In this business the merciful man and the careless man end up the same way. Dead", or something like that, was my favorite part of it.