Detective Special Picture Thread!

[rwt1405]

My two humble 3" DS's

 

[les.b]

Well....I have a couple of Detective Specials....

How about a "Detective Special" with adjustable sights and fancy barrel, sometimes called a "Diamondback"?

Best Regards, Les

 

[Trooper224]

My 1973 vintage Dick Special, with some newly acquired Colt branded Pachmayr's

 

[Etalksalot]

I'm enjoying all of these photos of such classic revolvers! Keep 'em comin'! My Colt DS was my first ever online gun purchase many, many years ago. Worth every cent! It was pretty much a grail gun for me. Love the snubs!

Very very nice lookin! I like it! It's definitely one of my top 5 or 6 guns as well. My top guns include the following, all blued and all snub in no particular order.

1. Detective Special 1st issue with RB
2. Diamondback with RB (doesn't matter if it's a full grip frame or short one.)
3. SB Model 36 (I have this one)
4 Model 15 (I have this one as well)
5. Model 10 RB
6. Model 31 (which are all SB)
7. Model 586
8. Model 19.

All Smiths would have to have magna grips and the Colts would have to have the magna grip equivalent, whatever they were called and they'd all have to be walnut. The Smiths, I'd prefer the diamond on it.

I have a ways to go, but one day I'll make it!

 

[Etalksalot]

Great pics! A deep blue glossy Snubby cannot be beat.

I agree 100%

 

[Etalksalot]

My 79-80 vintage Dick Special, with some newly acquired Colt branded Pachmayr's

Very nice! I'd love to have one just like that with the old style checkered walnut panel grips. I've seen pictures and it looks very nice. The gun in the picture is not mine, but that's what I'd like to have essentially. I love that look. Old school with even older school.

 

[Trooper224]

Very nice! I'd love to have one just like that with the old style checkered walnut panel grips. I've seen pictures and it looks very nice. The gun in the picture is not mine, but that's what I'd like to have essentially. I love that look. Old school with even older school.

Thanks. Mine came with the later wood grips.

They look classic, but are a bit small for me and turn the gun into a real knuckle buster.

 

[whataboutbob]

Etalksalot, just a joke, the second photo is of my Dad before he became a detective (special to me);hence the "pre" D.S.

 

[Stephanie B]

A Couple of 1970s DSs

 

[Wyatt Burp]

A 1949 DS to get me in the door, and 1980-something Agent to keep it company.

I really like these two. The stag handled one which looks like my Cobra, And I always liked the parkerized Agents of the 80s. I can tell those rubber grips fit the hand perfect. I want one!

 

[bmcgilvray]

 

[Etalksalot]

The first one, pictured with the New Service, has been my EDC for the last five years. It was made in 1994, and is a 4th issue, unless you're a real fanatic, in which case it's a 5th issue. It's being phased out as my EDC in favor of my newly acquired 4006. The DS will still go occasionally in a jacket pocket.

The other is my "true" 1st issue, made in 1933, which was the year they went from square to round butt.

The DS is my favorite snubby!

I like all 3 of them, but man that 1st issue is perfect! I like both the RB and SB. That is so nice! Beautiful gun!

 

[Etalksalot]

Another beautiful selection! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Etalksalot]

Colt DS
https://i.postimg.cc/nzjz8GML/Colt-DS.jpg

Colt Cobra
https://i.postimg.cc/2StNpRW4/Cobra-001.jpg

Had to put good years on the Cobra..
It bit me the first time I shot it....
Still have the original wood grips.

I really like that DS. I want one myself. If put the old school grips on it, it looks great. I posted a picture of one with them on the thread somewhere. Looks amazing. I saw one with a bobbed hammer online, it was blued and in mint condition with a bobbed hammer, and to put those grips on it, I'd carry it all the time. Very nice sir.

 

[Walter Rego]

I love my Model 640 but I sure wish it was easy to shoot as my Dick Special. This one just piles 'em up in the 10 ring on a silhouette target at 7 yards without hardly trying.

 

[ladder13]

Dick Special, Agent

 

[ColtCool]

Engraved DS with giraffe bone grips

 

[boykinlp]

Here is my only Detective Special. I think it is from 1964. Holster is a terrific SD Myres.

 

[Kifaru]

I picked this one up in August. Not shown is a vintage black, exposed-trigger holster. It came with the Pachmayr grips installed, so the original stocks still look pretty good. It's from either 1964 or 1967. It seems Colt used the same serial number several times. That serial number is also in common with a 1911 at some point.

 

[Onomea]

ColtCool, I like that giraffe bone. Very nice.