Recent content by Snuffy2

Does anyone have one of these (the new fold-in-the-middle 9mm carbine)? The review in AR has done flung a cravin' on me......

Diamondback accuracy fix Several have commented about the Colt Diamondback .22s poor accuracy compared to S&W .22s. I have both a M18 and a DB, and the DB got to where it wouldn't hit squat. I finally got it down on my bench one day with a lead remover cloth on a jag and began pulling strips of...

Well, mine has an A. Could someone tell me what that means?

I rescued one from hockshop hell a few years ago - only one I have ever seen in the wild. Had an old and much-used Mexican made IWB holster with it, and the whole rig spoke of long use but good care. I'd give about anything to hear some of the stories it could tell if only it could talk.

Early Magnas Yep. A different photo but of the same Tipton family. There weren't as many kids in the one I saw. There were traveling photographers in those days who would get the whole family out in the front yard and they would usually pose holding treasured possessions. Over in the mountains...

Last night I was reading an article about the Cades Cove community in East Tennessee. There was a photo of one of the prominent families in the cove, dated 1930. The two older sons, as was the custom back then, were posing with their handguns prominently displayed, and one of these gentlemen was...

Gone but not forgotten I once had S870028, a blue 4" that had previously belonged to my uncle. I loaned it back to him and it was subsequently stolen in a burglary. It also had the one-line address. I still have the original numbered grips, which my uncle had swapped for some Franzite fake...

I picked up one in remarkably similar condition last year at an auction in middle Tennessee. S/N K 950XX - a bit earlier than yours. Some honest wear and a couple of old chips out of the original numbered grips, just enough to give it character. I'd a dang sight rather have a gun like that than...

to JP@AK Thanks much for putting my Uncle's M&P in your database. I know it's a REAL long shot that the gun even still exists. I have the original numbered grips, and a nicely tooled L.D. Turner holster he carried it in, but the gun is gone.

Beagleye, I jut noticed the Fire Department emblem - you wouldn't happen to be a smokeater, would you? My Dad tillered the hind end of No. 1 ladder in Chattanooga for many years.

Chattanooga - I live in Middle TN now, but grew up in Chattanooga (back in the bad old days before the yuppies moved in and civilized it). I remember when virtually all the Chattanooga cops carried nickled 4" Model 10s with fake stag plastic grips. I ran across one at a gun show a couple years...

I know this is a shot at the moon with a BB gun, but if anyone ever runs across the gun referenced above, would you please post a thread on here about it? This gun was my uncle's service weapon back in the 1960's when he was a deputy sheriff in east Tennessee. It was stolen in a burglary in the...

Depends what you want it for. If you want a nice gun that you don't have to make any apology for, spend the same money and get a better one. M17/K22s are out there. OTOH, if you want/need a working gun to drag through the brush, sweat on, get muddy, and then let the rain wash the mud off as you...

One more for the list Found a nice old Model 40 no-dash at a gun show today. S/N L27xx. Three-screw frame, smooth low-horn grips numbered to the gun, with gold colored medallions, and the late-pattern latch. Incredibly tight mechanically, with just enough honest blue wear to give it a little...

Cranking the rear sight all the way down is an old trick to make an adjustable sight more resistant to knocks and bumps. The rear sight on my shorty Model 19 has had the stud filed down so the sight body can be screwed down into hard contact with the frame, the notch adjusted for windage, and...