Are there any working guns out there?

[sw357nm]

While this forum has some exquisite safe queens I only occasionally see real working guns. Some of you must have a few with a few dings and blue wear that are actually used in the hills and trails, or on duty protecting the public.
I really admire a gun that shows honest wear, because then I know that it was performing the duty that was intended.
I would love to see what you have as your working guns.
Here is my 44 Special Pre-Model 21 that regularly keeps me company in the mountains of New Mexico
John

 

[Art Doc]

Ha! Everything I own is a working gun. But some have worked harder than others.

 

[phenson]

I think this one would qualify.

 

[David LaPell]

I have a couple of working guns.
My non Smith carry gun, (for when you don't care about fit and finish)

.38 S & W M & P Lend Lease tht gets shot on a regular basis

My Model 29-2 that is my definite working gun

 

[Double-O-Dave]

Here's my EDC: S&W Model 432PD (.32H&R Magnum), and NY Reload Seecamp .32ACP.

Regards,

Dave

 

[pred]

A not so old but honest wear model 49.

Peter

 

[29aholic]

Working guns

I have posted this one several times. My very first 29 once a 6" that I trimmed to 5". I shudder to think how many rounds have been through her.

And my newest summer gun, a 1956 pre-40

 

[Photog]

Here is an early 29 that I bought about 30 years ago and then sent to S&W to be reworked. It needed a new front sight. Anyway this has been carried on countless camping trips and hikes, as well as a car gun on many trips.

 

[fyimo]

I own a fair number of S&W revolvers and the only one with significant wear is my Pre 36 which I carry daily.

 

[eaglebeaver]

Love um

Now we're talking! The beauties are nice but honest work guns have a beauty of their own. My favorite is a M49 similar to Pred's. The stories some of these guns could tell!

Eaglebeaver

 

[JohnK]

ALL my handguns are woods, and trails guns. Even my two 3" barrel Model 66's (gasp)

Not always been that way.

I woke up one morning at the age of 65, and realized I'd better start using them, before I was on the wrong side of the grass.

Been a lot happier ever since.

 

[EQGuy]

Here is my model 58 I purchased in the late 70's while living in Anchorage. I carried it while doing field work in the Bush in Alaska. I remember one time we were flying in a Hughes 200 about 100 feet off the deck in the Alaska Peninsula and a huge Brownie stood up and waved at us and invited us down for dinner. The pilot and I both agreed that we did not want to develop engine trouble anywhere around there. Anyway it was a comfort to have my model 58 during times like that but I sure am glad I never had to use it.

 

[sw357nm]

Thanks for showing your real working guns. Those are all nice pieces.
John

 

[Iggy]

This picture has been posted before. Another Model 58 that did it's duty and is now semi-retired.

 

[redlevel]

This one has spent a lot of hot, humid Georgia summers in my hip pocket. It has been dunked in the creek when I fell in while working to get an irrigation pump primed, been soaked when the lines blew out in the middle of the night while I was working on them, and been sweated on and rained on. I bought it in 1973. t has provided lot of peace of mind I've pictured it here before, and here it is again.

 

[will5a1]

Both these pre-15 get a workout, the top one more so, shooting SSR in IDPA.

And this little M&P has a regular job, excuse the ugly but comfortable pachs:

 

[sigp220.45]

This Model 10 worked the streets of Twin Falls, Idaho:

 

[jpz]

Here is my working 19.

 

[Joni_Lynn]

No, I don't have any working guns at all.

 

[snw19_357]

Here's a 5-screw HP that has seen a little work.