Another Jinks letter Karma Winner picked last post!!!!!

Great gun

Engine49guy said:
Sorry for the bad picture quality, Thanks for the GOOD KARMA!
This was my grandfathers .22, he passed away and left it to me,
It was the first handgun I ever shot and he also taught my Dad to shoot with it.

I only know that he traded a NAZI P38 for it from the war.

He said that they used to shoot pigeons in the area that is now the Giants Stadium in the NJ meadowlands in the 1940's.
If it could only talk...
By the way, I found out on this forum that it wasnt a piece of junk...

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Its an original grip numbered Beakert, grip number 567, could it be part of the first batch?

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PS,
I have a WWII Victory also, Is it 1 picture per customer? Or may we post more than 1?
Thank you again
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and great history...edit your post and add as many as you want
 
great karma

problem is narrowing it down to just one..
an early triple-lock .455 from 1914 ?
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or an 1905 target from 1911?
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either way,, please enter my name in your wonderfull karma..
 
I've got a few I've been considering, but only have pics of one right now. This is a 4" Regulation Police with a round butt. This is an early post war transitional. According to Mr Jinks, the stepped sq. butt grips were deleted after the war, but this one is still on "I" frame with the leaf spring. The "catalog" makes no mention of 4" roundbutt Reg Police. The grips, bbl, cyl, yolk, extractor & frame are all serial numbered the same. So I would like proof that this is the way it left the factory.

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Was also considering a blued 6" model 1896, & minty pre-24, if I get a chance before you pick the winner, I'll add some pics of them too- but they are pretty standard.
 
Only 2 that are worth lettering in my collection:
Performance Center 686 Hunter:
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or a M&P 38 I bought from an elderly lady, was her husbands fathers who owned a drug store near here. Seem to date form about 1936.
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To bad it has to be a S&W.
I just got my hands on a Colt "Lightening" model of 1877 that belonged to my wife's grandfather, sheriff of Creek County, OK right after Oklahoma became a state in 1907. Been in the family ever since so we know it's original. Guess I'll have to pay Colt for a letter on this one. Thanks for the contest.
 
Curtis,

Sir, I'll take a spot...

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Su Amigo,
Dave


(Edited for pic, forgot the d*mn picture...)
 
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I'd love a chance to get a letter on this M&P Target. Thanks for the generous offer!

I hope the picture comes through. First time posting a pic since the switch.

Donald
 

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I'll throw my name in the hat...

How 'bout a 1905 1st Change...

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Thanks for the fun Karma!:)
 
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Bump

Bare with me guys as I seem to be having pc issues at home and work.

In the mean time I have noticed one or two that needs to work on their post count (remember you gotta have 50) and the same with you must post a pic.

I got to thinking driving home that I'll make this a winner's option as for some guns a letter really doesnt mean that much.

So here's the option as you know I love to Karma knowledge. Winner gets their choice of the letter or a copy of the 3rd Ed. of the SCSW
 
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This Smith & Wesson 1950 Target .44 Special used to belong to a very good friend of mine, Bernie Petersen. I bought it from his wife, Janine (also a good friend), after Bernie died. I've always wanted to know the whole history behind this revolver.

Those of you who are from around the Moscow, Idaho area, or who went to college at the University of Idaho in Moscow, may have met or known Bernie Petersen. Bernie had a rock pit on his ranch where most of the students at the U of I went to shoot. Bernie knew more about firearms than any man I ever met, and the thing he loved most was Smith & Wesson revolvers. I met Bernie after I transferred to the University of Idaho in 1975. One time when I went to visit Bernie he was busy conducting business with another person visiting him. Instead of asking me to come back later he handed me this revolver and a whole bunch of handloads and said, "Here, keep yourself entertained until I'm done with these people. Then we can visit."

From Bernie's driveway I sat down with my back against the front tire of my pickup. With the gun in my hands between my drawn up knees I began shooting at dirt clods on one of his plowed fields. I was shooting at clods about one foot in diameter out to about 350 yards and hitting more than I was missing! Those I missed I hit close enough to scare the heck out of.

I became very good friends with Bernie and Janine. After I moved to Grangeville, Idaho to work for the U.S. Forest Service and got married, my wife and I would visit them regularly and stay at their house. We would often go to gun shows together. When I transferred to a Forest Service job in Alaska we still kept in touch, and we visited when we could. When Bernie died my wife and I traveled from Alaska to Idaho for his funeral. I stayed around for an extra week to help Janine prepare Bernie's gun collection for sale. His collection was large enough that I really needed more time, but my job would not allow it. Janine knew I really liked Bernie's 1950 Target .44 Special, and she sold it to me for a price that was fair for the both of us. She would have sold it to me for less, but I knew she needed the money and I insisted she take what it was worth. (I don't know about you, but I can't cheat the widow of one of my best friends.)

Unfortunately, in the 15 years since I had moved to Alaska the gun had been fired with some excessive handloads that had bulged the bolt cuts in the cylinder. (As much as I loved the man, Bernie wasn't the most careful handloader on the planet, and he liked Elmer Keith level .44 Special loads.) At the time, Smith & Wesson didn't want to work on the gun, but a well know custom revolversmith (who normally does custom conversions and doesn't normally take repair jobs) agreed to replace the cylinder and the front sight. (Bernie liked red inserts in his front sights and had put one in this revolver. I HATE red inserts and I had to have it replaced.) Luckily when I bought this revolver, Smith & Wesson had just brought out the Thunder Ranch .44 Special, so .44 Special cylinders were again available. The revolver was also out of time, so the revolversmith retimed it and did action job. It is now the finest and most loved revolver I own! It shoots amazingly well, and it has a double action trigger pull that is like velvet! I shoot it only with moderate handloads that will do anything I need done with this revolver (250 grain Keith SWC with 7.5 Grains of Unique). This load will kill a deer to as far as I feel comfortable shooting at one with a handgun, and it will puncture tin cans with pleasing regularity and sufficently impressive results.

Thank you for your offer to get a letter for the winner. It is very kind of you!
 
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Wow, very kind offer!
This gun, although a post-61er, is of interest to me as one of a later batch of 5" barreled, nickel M27s used by FL Highway Patrol. Yes, it has been converted to .44 Special, which is completely appropriate for this vintage, if not for collectibility.

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