My mother carried a 1908 Colt Vest Pocket in 25acp. My daughter has it now.
How about your mother?
How about your mother?
It is Mother's Day! What does/did your mother Carry?
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venomballistics
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mine would give me a pat down before I made the door .... she didnt carry, and she never found my back up
ibewbull
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My mother did not carry.
She is an exception to the liberal New Jersey women though. She is pro gun and I thank her for signing for my fist .22 a Marlin Glenfield bolt action. It is now in the possession of my youngest son Samuel.
She is in her 80's now and recently asked about getting a revolver.
We will see? NJ is still run by the storm troopers as far as I know and how serious she is I don't know.
She is an exception to the liberal New Jersey women though. She is pro gun and I thank her for signing for my fist .22 a Marlin Glenfield bolt action. It is now in the possession of my youngest son Samuel.
She is in her 80's now and recently asked about getting a revolver.
We will see? NJ is still run by the storm troopers as far as I know and how serious she is I don't know.
COL Jagdog
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Most days she carried a 12-inch heavy ruler (from her Catholic school days in Philadelphia) which she would whack my hand or my rump with.
She now has a Browning .380 (Model of 1971). She is also 6 ft tall and played basketball in college, so not the kind of person you would mess with anyway.
She now has a Browning .380 (Model of 1971). She is also 6 ft tall and played basketball in college, so not the kind of person you would mess with anyway.
Kelly Green
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Mom carried a 'son of a gun', me, for nine months and said that was enough.
Fairlane67
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My children's mother carries a S&W Bodyguard .380
REM 3200
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A Colt 1903 model M in .32ACP. She had to give it up the last three years of her life because she was in a nursing home. She passed 2 1/2 years ago at the age of 97.
What did mom carry? The family. She was the backbone and the glue.
Born in New Jersey, raised in New York City, college in Hawaii (until 1941, that is), lived in France and Belgium during Korea; she wasn't, and isn't, a gun person. But she knows I am, and defends my right to be so.
Born in New Jersey, raised in New York City, college in Hawaii (until 1941, that is), lived in France and Belgium during Korea; she wasn't, and isn't, a gun person. But she knows I am, and defends my right to be so.
Gasman1972
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A grudge, if that counts.
StatesRightist
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Charter .32 Mag....38 was more than she could handle.
Arik
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A Moisin Nagant! After WW2 Every high school student in Soviet Union had to know how to use one.
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My mom never carried a gun. Cancer took her from us, a gun doesn't do you any good against a threat like that.
dynamike
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My mom carries m36 square butt that I owned for about 12hrs. until she saw it and decided she liked it! Oh well, at least it went to a good home. She says I can have it back if I think I'm BAD enough to take it!
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Some really nice thoughts here. Thanks for the comments. I started this post without saying anything about my mom. She's 91 now and in a nursing home. She wasn't you typical mother. She had earned her commercial pilot's license by the time she was 19 and enlisted in the WASPs at age 21 (yes, there were about 2,000 female Army Air Corps pilots in WWII.) She also served about 25 years as a probation officer. I once went to clean her Colt and discovered she's been carryimg it unloaded. She told me that she would never shoot anyone so it didn't need to be loaded. The regs only said she had to carry it...
I never knew of it till I was grown and out of the house, but mom had a .25 cal Astra Firecat. Don't know how often she carried it but I know she knew how to shoot rifles and other handguns.
Don
Don
G.T. Smith
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My Mom always kept an Iver Johnson 9 shot .22 revolver around the house when we were little kids (my 3 sisters and me). Dad bought it for her because we lived in the country and he had to stay and work in St. Louis where he could make a decent wage. Mom is in a nursing home now and doesn't really understand a lot of questions we ask, but i know she never got rid of the gun but I don't have a clue where it is and I can't bring myself to go poking around in her house while she is in the nursing home. Speaking of 1908 Colt vest pockets in .25, I recently traded around and got one built in 1922. I can see why your Mom may have liked hers. Great looking and good shooting gun for sure. My Mom will be 91 this year. She won a beauty contest at the nursing home the other day and her lawn at her house that I take care of, got lawn of the month for April!!!
Peace,
gordon
BTW, The Iver Johnson was built for a lefty like her. It has a thumb rest on the right hand grip panel. and that used to irritate the whatever out of me. Felt real strange trying to shoot it right handed.
Peace,
gordon
BTW, The Iver Johnson was built for a lefty like her. It has a thumb rest on the right hand grip panel. and that used to irritate the whatever out of me. Felt real strange trying to shoot it right handed.
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Smith357
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My mom has a .38 special American Derringer loaded with wadcutters and sporting pearl grips.
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