K-38 ISP reunited with box

[rubiranch]

What are the odds of that ever happening??

Good on you.

 

[Justin T]

In milsurp circles, especially with Japanese collecting and Enfield collecting, it is common for people to participate in a sniper scope matching service, where people put mismatched or orphaned scopes up to try and mate them back with their rifles. Same thing for rifle bolts.

The box matching is very, very cool. A homecoming of sorts!

 

[younggun22]

In milsurp circles, especially with Japanese collecting and Enfield collecting, it is common for people to participate in a sniper scope matching service, where people put mismatched or orphaned scopes up to try and mate them back with their rifles. Same thing for rifle bolts.

The box matching is very, very cool. A homecoming of sorts!

I had a Canadian Long Branch No.4 T that I tracked down the original numbers matching scope for. Unfortunately the owner wasn't too keen on selling the scope so I ended up selling him the rifle as I felt they needed to be back together.

Pretty cool when it actually works out.

 

[tjpopkin]

ME TOO!!!!!

I had an Outdoorsman and at the S&WCA Meeting in Columbus, at the annual auction, I bid on a PERFECT red box. When I realized it matched my 98% gun, I actually paid $800 for the box. But they are together.....

 

[tjpopkin]

here is the pair

 

[Muley Gil]

So...did Indiana also issue those five-inch guns, or was it just IL?

The Missouri Highway Patrol issued 5" Combat Masterpiece revolvers that had the tapered barrel. Similar, but not the same.

 

[bigl1911]

On the Colt forum one of the members has a K38 5" shipped to Long Beach in 1962- one of some 24 similar configured revolvers. Is anyone aware of these guns and were they for LEO?

 

[Walter Rego]

On the Colt forum one of the members has a K38 5" shipped to Long Beach in 1962- one of some 24 similar configured revolvers. Is anyone aware of these guns and were they for LEO?

I have shown the gun here before, but for a refresher, it is a Model 14-2 in the high K551,000 S/N range and shipped to American Wholesale Hardware Co. in Long Beach CA on 1/13/64.
In the letter from Mr. Jinks he refers to it as part of a "Special Production Barrel Length Order" of 24 identical guns. I bought it at a gun show here in Sou Cal about 15 years ago and there are 23 more of them out there somewhere. 24 of them sure sounds like an agency order of some type. American Wholesale Hardware Co. must have been a fairly large distributor, I also have several Rugers that lettered to them from the 1960's.

 

[B/STOCK]

The Garand Collectors Association has listing of M1 serial #s so that guys from WWll and Korea have a chance to be reunited with their service rifles. Very cool.