A little story...
Returned from Germany in 1997, to serve my last Air Force tour of duty in Colorado Springs. In '98, saw this 4-screw at a gunshow in the Springs. It wore a 4" barrel, and being a venerator of St. Elmer, I fell in love.
A Sig P228 with a lot of 13-round mags that had found their way home from Deutschland (this was the time of the Klinton AWB) made the trade. A friend's analysis, and later, a Jinks letter revealed to me that the 4" bbl was not original and poorly installed. A trip to Smith cured that; they reinstalled the barrel and the piece shot like a dream. Several years later, after joining this forum, I got a jones for a 6'5" bbl; found a correct one right here, in wax-paper wrap, for a reasonable price. Smith did their installation majick for peanuts. Tack driver; only shoot Skeltons (.44 Spl, 7.5 gr Unique, home-cast Lyman true-Keith 250 grains). Don't shoot her too often , but no guilt when I do. Might be one day a mighty elk will fall to her thunder; if not, she's a plain fun old girl my boys are going to fight over someday.
Returned from Germany in 1997, to serve my last Air Force tour of duty in Colorado Springs. In '98, saw this 4-screw at a gunshow in the Springs. It wore a 4" barrel, and being a venerator of St. Elmer, I fell in love.
A Sig P228 with a lot of 13-round mags that had found their way home from Deutschland (this was the time of the Klinton AWB) made the trade. A friend's analysis, and later, a Jinks letter revealed to me that the 4" bbl was not original and poorly installed. A trip to Smith cured that; they reinstalled the barrel and the piece shot like a dream. Several years later, after joining this forum, I got a jones for a 6'5" bbl; found a correct one right here, in wax-paper wrap, for a reasonable price. Smith did their installation majick for peanuts. Tack driver; only shoot Skeltons (.44 Spl, 7.5 gr Unique, home-cast Lyman true-Keith 250 grains). Don't shoot her too often , but no guilt when I do. Might be one day a mighty elk will fall to her thunder; if not, she's a plain fun old girl my boys are going to fight over someday.
Attachments
Last edited:
