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David - I'd say your second paragraph description above more or less describes both gun and box. The gun was described as Good-VG by the seller when I bought it and I had no idea it came with the box. The box does have some dings on the back, tiny tears where the underpaper shows, and a small...

D. C. Wilson, Thanks for this advice. I knew that a gun in the original box will bring somewhat more than without but had no idea how prices have exploded. I have a Smith & Wesson M&P shipped December, 1941 to the dept. who distributed them to various agencies. I have the proper box for it...

Quote: "Seeing a Pre War box that someone gladly gave $1000 for." I'm astounded. Was that a box for a Kit Gun or are all Pre War boxes going for large sums of money?

An older gentleman I knew well retired from the U. S. Marshal's Service. I used to get him to tell me stories about what it was like. His main job was accompanying prisoners who were being moved from one place to the other. He said he had a stock question he asked them, "What did you think...

Apparently you've not thrown a lot of them either.

All you would have had to do is unscrew the top, if there is powder (or TVT) there pour it out. If you had, I'll bet someone already had done that and detonated the fuse. Simple.

No, everything about the rifle was as issued. As I remember (no I wasn't there) all bullets which hit the target frame penetrated the four inch planks and buried themselves in the sand. They closely estimated the remaining velocity by means of a primitive (but operative) telephone. The shooter...

Well, there was some pretty good long range shooting at Sandy Hook, N.J. in 1874 with an issue 1873 Springfield rifle in .45-70 caliber. The shooter hit the six foot bullseye at a range of 3000 yards, almost two miles. With open sights.

I wasn't in the Korean War but was stationed there for a while. It was not a "conflict" as those who would rewrite history proclaim. And I can vouch that the weather there was cold. If you would like to know what it was really like, I would invite you to read " The Coldest Winter" by David...

#4 - Can't stop laughing.

My state has a tax known as Use Tax. An example is a grocer takes a can of peas home for supper, he must pay the Use tax on that can of peas to the state. Or if you order something mail order you are obligated to send the tax, just like you bought it in state, to the Revenue Dept...

Quote: "hinged cardboard box with a light green label........ I can say for a certainty that this is the correct box for a .38 M&P shipped in December, 1941. Your serial number predates mine (8846XX) by several years but the box could be correct for your serial number. The color of the box is...

Quote: "Does anyone have a Sears & Roebuck catalog from 1959?" I don't have a catalog but just a few years after that I took my first job in a town of 30,000 in SE Kansas. A co-worker showed me a flyer from Sears advertising "British Army Rifles, .303 caliber, good condition." Can't remember...

That's happened to me at Dick's too. First time on .22's, next time on 9mmP. I just laugh it off. I think maybe next time my escort will be a good looking single woman about 30, or 40, or..... Yeah, dream on.

Tragic. And on Christmas Eve yet!

I agree, it should be restored, but in todays dollars would be a fortune. I'm sorry I didn't quite understand your last paragraph about the boy skating down the frozen river pulling the kids on sleds and "passing them out." Out in a lonely field about a mile from our house there is what we...

My old Lyman manual shows 6.4 grains of Unique or 13.5 gr #2400 will get you up into these velocities but there is a "strong caution" these loads are to be used in Heavy Frame guns only. But like you say I'd never get that from a 2" barrell and wouldn't try those loads in my Pre-War S&W M&P.

Shovelwrench, thanks for that info. I'm not familiar with that powder they are using, I use Unique for heavier loads.

I read about these either here or on another forum. Seemed it was a 158 gr LSWC bullet at around 950-1000 fps. Does anyone have the specs on this. Would be using them out of a 2" barrel/ Thanks/

I read about these either here or on another forum. Seemed it was a 158 gr LSWC bullet at around 950-1000 fps. Does anyone have the specs on this. Would be using them out of a 2" barrel/ Thanks/