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The definition of "Mint" means: the person describing it has no imagination and is a mimic of all the other unimaginative people who misuse the term.

At that price I'd buy it, I'd own it, and I'd shoot it. All while feeling like I'd snuck up on a "real deal."

Never saw this great thread before. Very pleased. Just goes to show that .38 Special is much more than the current watery +P loads fired from sniveling snubs.

Absolutely! Steel for me. There's nothing that I can admire about aluminum as a material for firearms construction. I loathe it as much as I do plastic. Bought a new Model 642 in 1998 to try it out. It'd be long gone except for the fact that Mrs. BMc adopted it.

Thank you Neale! I'm big on Texas Independence Day, but then I would be since being a born and bed Texan. I'll celebrate with you. This is a Brill thread that keeps on giving.

Yeah DWalt. They're long past and and so am I, but we moved last fall and I'm now close to a range that holds Precision Pistol competition so I may dust off some target .22s and .38S, and the Colt Gold Cup and attend, just to provide some anachronistic comic relief.

Hmmm ... is this akin to keeping a trophy wife "new-in-the-box"? Very nice Colt! So that's what they looked like lying in a shop gun case back in 1957. Viewing the entire package is appreciated. Was the best year by the way. I'm a '57 model. I haven't held up so well though. Here's No...

My dad always called 'em scabbards.

Love the Lincoln. Thanks for the photographs! Hoping you'll feel better soon.

I'vd used that ammunition and similar for years in several top break Smith & Wesson revolvers with no apparent ill effects.

...and that's your opinion and your stickin' to it. I particularly like weight, care not one whit for the vaunted high capacity, and it was the 1911 gun, whether in Colt Government Model or US military contract guises, for those were the only 1911 guns one could get back in the 1960s when I was...

Thank you arabensburg for these informative posts you have shared here. I've enjoyed every tidbit, even over and above the holster business. Here's some photos of holsters on hand here, just to help things along.

I'm at least willing to depend on and carry the 1911 or a K-Frame Smith & Wesson. Looking like this endless crop of current plastic, tacti-cool, DAO, striker fired, cheap-o pistol baggage being marketed now is like staring down a hall of school lockers ...

The various High Standard Supermatics are worth the investment. Winchester Model 69A rifles are always appropriate.

I got on a long barrel kick around 1980 and gathered in a selection of blued K and N frame 8 3/8-inch barreled revolvers including a nice new Model 27 with the long snout. A year or so later I found a "deal" on a new blued 6-inch Model 27. For some reason the 8 3/8-inch was slower than the 6...

Very nice Charlie699! A Model 29-2 can scratch an itch for years and years. I was a young man, not quite 23 when I indulged my dreams and paid over retail for a new 8 3/8-inch Model 29-2 in early 1980. It remains one of the most itch-scratchin' pistolas I ever acquired. Unfortunately...

Junior league stuff Remington Model 34 NRA Target. This one now wears a tube magazine that better matches the rifle's finish condition. Quite accurate and the interestingly designed repeating action is fun to operate. Winchester offerings Model 57. Uncommonly found, this one's a sad...

I traded up to this Springfield Model 1922AII from a Remington 513T when I was young and continuing to dabble in small bore competition. Savage Model 1919 NRA. A dead end design that was soundly whipped by the Winchester Model 52 in the marketplace, but was an early effort to provide for a...

I'm just gonna resurrect an old thread I stuck up on this topic. Post number 42 contains results of +P handloading efforts. Some .38 Special Chronograph Tests I used to enjoy sampling all the powders and combinations, sitting at the reloading bench imagining the benefits as I assembled new...

For really big money there are quite a few Colts I'd rather have than a Boa. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/SAA_5773_oN.JPG