Recent content by wonchester

I added a picture of the left side grip frame in original post

Here are pictures of my engraved M-29-2. From reading the Nahas/Supica book, I assume the RS marking on the right grip frame is for Refinished Standard, but I cannot find a good reference to the "E in a circle" on that same side. Any help will be appreciated.

My comment about not many of the 300 2" Victory Models being around today was made before I found out from Charlie Flick that maybe 14-15 of these guns are extant. That is 5% of the total in that shipment. I suspect quite a few more will show up in the coming years.

Texas Star, Great comments. I would hope that someone, somewhere would have a picture of such guns in use at places other than where the DSC 2" Victory Models were used.

My thought is if these 300 guns were used for such purposes as guards in the San Francisco area (maybe some at Ft. Mason), many would have shown up in the US after the war. They have not. One scenario might be that with the American fliers leaving the Flying Tigers and rejoining the Army Air...

I got a good deal on the gun from a gun store that sells based on their cost. I will say that I am intrigued by the 1942 shipment of 300 of these guns to Ft. Mason. I suspect they were not meant for use by Ft. Mason personnel. According to written history, Ft. Mason was a major west coast...

Regarding the comment about "the condition could be better", that is what I told the person in the gun shop when I first saw the gun. He laughed and said, "How many of these have you ever seen?"

Watchdog, Thanks for posting the pictures so everyone can view the gun. Initially when I tried to post using Photobucket, they would not post. Finally, I was able to break the code on direct posting from jpg's on my desktop and I replaced the Photobucket messages and the thumbnail versions...

David, I finally figured out how to attach desktop jpg. I was in contact with Kevin before picking up the gun. I had a copy of his article on 2" S&W's as well as Charlie Pate's book which details this gun.

Kevin, Thanks for the comment. I am not familiar with the process for posting on this forum without using an instrument like Photobucket. I guess I will have to find the forum's tutorial and learn how to do that. It is certainly straight forward to do that on The Colt Forum.

David, I could not find how to upload to the Forum Server. I will continue to see if I can. SN is V 176834 on frame, barrel, cylinder and right grip reverse. It does have lug on barrel. Appears to be one of 300 that shipped to Ft. Mason in 1942.

2" Victory Mdl. I apologize that Photobucket will not allow third party posting. I was able to post pictures directly from my computer on The Colt Forum in their Lounge if you wish to view them.

Roy Jinks Letter I just received a letter from Roy on this gun. It was shipped in 1940 to a store in Maine and it had the original small pre-war rear sight and the King front sight with the normal low profile blade. Roy stated the sights were modified after the war with the Micro-type rear and...

WTB: Nice, original pre Model 10 2" bbl. (95% or better)