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Jim Cirillo and his Model 10
- Thread starter dabney
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Don't leave Cirillo's partners Bill Allard and George Bauer off the list of noted gunfighters--both shared in many of Jim's encounters. I'm not active on the S&W Forum but I'm happy to see mention of my book "Jim Cirillo's Tales of the Stakeout Squad" mentioned. I still sell it through Gunbroker for $25. I haven't offered it on Amazon at a reasonable price and I haven't accepted an offer from a mainstream publisher to put it on the market as I like to have some filter over the readership, and I figure Gunbroker members are going to be good people.
You wrote a fantastic book! I make a point to read it at least once every year.
Hill536
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I was NYPD from 1973 until 1975 when a bunch of us got laid off. One guy in my Pct had a brother in the Stake Out unit and knew Jim.
Not returning to NYPD I went Fed and ran into him at FLETC in Georgia in the mid 80’s. I was attending advanced training, particularly at the range where Jim taught. Pleasant guy but all business. He spoke highly of the Ithaca but we were bound by REM 870’s. Pistols were center issued Model 66’s.
Well one drill was shooting from a moving. car from about 7 yards using the shotgun then the pistol. 12 rds each, with the car parallel to the firing line and doing maybe 5-10 mph. The drill called for shooting six targets then the car reversing for another six shots at the same silhouettes etc..
Well here is my description as to what I told Jim afterwards. I shot a possible which he’d not seen before. He asked me how I did it. (Not really knowing.) I said … “Well, you know how the Lone Ranger holds his pistol up to his ear then points his gun out and shoots the gun outta the bad guys hand!” It’s kind of like what I did.
A second or so went by and he roared! Big smile and said get out of here!!
An all around real deal. Was happy to make him smile.
Not returning to NYPD I went Fed and ran into him at FLETC in Georgia in the mid 80’s. I was attending advanced training, particularly at the range where Jim taught. Pleasant guy but all business. He spoke highly of the Ithaca but we were bound by REM 870’s. Pistols were center issued Model 66’s.
Well one drill was shooting from a moving. car from about 7 yards using the shotgun then the pistol. 12 rds each, with the car parallel to the firing line and doing maybe 5-10 mph. The drill called for shooting six targets then the car reversing for another six shots at the same silhouettes etc..
Well here is my description as to what I told Jim afterwards. I shot a possible which he’d not seen before. He asked me how I did it. (Not really knowing.) I said … “Well, you know how the Lone Ranger holds his pistol up to his ear then points his gun out and shoots the gun outta the bad guys hand!” It’s kind of like what I did.
A second or so went by and he roared! Big smile and said get out of here!!
An all around real deal. Was happy to make him smile.
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