Recent content by dobypilgrim

My .38 S&W Victory is missing the top sideplate screw. Any help in finding one would be greatly appreciated. I can pay via cash, check, money order, credit card, or Paypal. Thanks in advance for your help. Doby Pilgrim Santa Fe, NM

Thanks very much for pointing out the barrel and ejector rod. There is no serial number on the barrel at all, and it doesn't look like there ever was one. So replaced barrel. I am sorry that I am such a novice. Should have pointed that out. I have a box of .38 S&W ammo someplace, and I will see...

I will send off for the letter next week. Meantime, here are some photos of it. I think I may have found the correct grips for it now.

Does this count? When I got it the grips were made of plywood and fitted with wood putty. Really. Butt has been shortened 3/4 of an inch. It feels a lot like one of my K Frames now. I carved down an old set of Jay Scott walnut grips that I got from Ebay for about $10. This one is my night...

"US PROPERTY" is on the backstrap. I was successful in getting some photos up at gunboards.com on the Modern Handguns Forum if you would like to see them. I am typing this from a Tablet and can't figure out how to resize the pictures small enough to fit here. I am somewhat tech challenged...

My photos are apparently too big to upload on this site. I will have to get them resized and try to upload them. I checked and it is still chambered in .38 S&W. Serial number C 269042. Grips are replaced, but early ones with the diamond. Lanyard ring is still present. Thank you to all here for...

Oh, and there is definitely no model mark inside the yoke.

Definitely .38 S&W and not .38 Special. It was just sitting there on the bottom shelf for several days because the sellers have it marked as an M&P in .38 S&W with no notation of the US PROPERTY mark on the backstrap. That ammo is tough to find or expensive, so nobody else had looked at it. I...

Thanks very much, gentlemen. It has the half round front sight. I will post pictures when I pick it up. At $250 I think I will letter it, along with 2 Victorys I recently picked up as well. The US Property mark is not only in quotations, it stamped in an almost italicized style. I recall seeing...

Today I bought a K Frame with a C prefix serial number. Five inch barrel, lanyard ring, square butt, .38 S&W caliber. I can pick it up probably on Tuesday. On the backstrap is stamped "US Property" with the quotation marks. It was being sold as just a regular M&P, but I figure there is a chance...

Yes, Roosevelt got around the Congressional budget process by using Lend Lease, so that we could funnel money without particular scrutiny into British and Commonwealth armies before we got into the war. Later it was just political expedience since we were Allies anyway. It just seems the...

I have not a "what" question, but rather a "why". I am new to Victory Models and have read through this thread thoroughly. I may have missed the answer but here goes: One of my Victories appears to be a typical Lend Lease with US Property and the GHD inspector's mark. As a Lend Lease item, it...