Recent content by ctully

Thanks it is a really cool piece. This pistol was passed down to me from my PawPaw, but it was originally his Uncle's back in the day. Not a fan of the tacky plastic stag grips at all. I'm keeping the Model 38 (the golden goose outta the bunch of pistols I received) as it is, because Pawpaw...

They did a good job at cutting the barrel, at least to my untrained eye. There is a weld mark or scratch at the back of the front sight though. Was this typically done at government armories or private gunsmiths after government sale?

Like many others in this forum, I recently inherited some of my Paw Paw's pistols. The one in question has a 43xxxx serial #. It's a Hand Ejector with a 4 inch .38 S&W CTG barrel and fixed sights. There are several V marks and W under the Cylinder yoke along with the factory production #...