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My DVD player broke down years ago and we just updated my little den. We got a new HD TV and since I still have a ton of DVDs but no player I looked into them. We got a thin little new player (about 10”X8”X2”) about $40 and it’s great. Why let all those movies go to waste.

Or you can skip all the plots and just watch this. A compilation of Clint, I mean Harry, shooting bad guys. https://youtu.be/T3FmFIfl7jQ?si=i6T0MnlwhexWgWN9

In the 90s I bought a Remington 572 slide action .22 in a pawn shop but didn’t like it and sold it. I then got a 552 at the same place for $275. Just the other day I slid an old Mossberg scope with mount onto it. The scope was in my dad’s stuff when he died. I’ll position it correctly at the...

I’ll probably be taking an hour drive soon to look at what appears to be, in profile, an M&P Target Model. I mean the rear sight looks right but no top view of it in their Guns International ad. But the front sight is shaped like a standard rounded pre war M&P. My question to you all hear, is...

A few years ago I bought about eight pairs of grips from a gun shop “junk” box for $3 each. Included were round butt Farrants and the cut frame Hurst grips mentioned earlier here. I traded the Hursts off but soon after that store had a consignment 2” Model 10 (0r pre 10) with bobbed hammer...

Yes, and if removed they could only work on another modified gun. But they are contemporary to this one and obviously used by someone who knew what they were doing. I found a set of smooth dinged up John Hurst cut frame grips for $3 but traded them off because what’s the odds I’d ever find a...

I saw an older Python in a local gun shop with Farrants and I knew it had to have a cut frame that someone will only discover later. Recently someone on Colt Forum had Farrants on a new snub Python. I asked if he cut the frame under the grips and he said he did. I thought it was gutsy to do that...

yes, from the greatest worst movie of all time “Plan 9 From Outer Space”.

When I was around 15 in the early 70s my dad and I were at his friend’s house and he pulled out this big weird “Army rifle”. Years later my dad bought it for $175. It was an unmodified 1941 Big Johnson with a refinished stock. When my dad died I kept all the guns with sentimental value...

I got these long ago in the ads here when John would have a batch of new ones for sale. I wanted real dark rosewood and he had these cocobolas. They have beautiful grain when you look real close. On a 24-3 .44 Special here. I love them.

Well, your mom sure chose what I consider the perfect gun. Better than a target sighted 19 for her purposes. Great story. I have a 3” 13-3 which people seem to prefer, but I kind of. Like your mom’s better. As a bonus hers has recessed chambers.

I really like this one and would jump on it if I saw one like it for sale. I think I see a screw hole for a short ejector housing. I like it without it.

Both of these GWs were my dads from the late 50s when I was born. The serial number on the chromed .22 serial # starts with a “0” meaning it was bought as a kit gun and put together. The action is whacked out as you can see. 30 years ago I asked my dad if he wanted the .44 Special reblued for...

I bought these grips when they were being sold in the classifieds here some years back. While most gravitate to the real vibrant more visible wood grains I wanted cocobola. all the grain is still there but you have to look real close. I got this gun new after reading the Skelton Shooting...

I bought a 4” 24-3 .44 Special in 1983 when Skelton did an article on their reintroduction. A few years back I got a 4” 29-2. It was beautiful but I preferred the 24 with moderate handloads to the heavy recoil magnum. So I sold it and used the $ to get another Colt SAA. I don’t miss it at all...

In 1980 I spent $35 for my first sambar stags (Colt SAA) from Melvin Tyler sight unseen and they were excellent. I also bought great Ajax stags and prices creeped up to $95 in the late 90s. The more well heeled shooters at cowboy shoots looked down their noses at them preferring ivory. But they...

In 1999 I was in a pawn shop with my wife looking at a 4” stainless Colt Python. It had sat there for over a year at $475. I had $200 on me and my wife said just put it on layaway and I did. I’m not fond of stainless so didn’t buy it earlier. Later I was thrilled to discover it wasn’t stainless...

Great deal, Sarg. But no offense. I was a fan of Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, though I do still have some Sgt. Rock comic books.

In my favorite gun shop about eight years ago I saw a Remington Model 81 .300 Savage with tang sight for what looked like $50. It was reblue over some pitting. I said, “Hey, you forgot the first digit on the price tag” and the store owner said No, it’s $50. I bought it, sold the tang sight for...

In 1983 I bought S&W Model 34 .22 in a pawn shop for $189. I liked it and shot it a few times then the pawn shop called and said the gun had previously been stolen and they needed it back. But they gave me $450 credit in the store. I chose a 4 3/4” 1966 nickel Colt SAA .357 for that exact price...