Mcgivern Outdoorsman confirmation!

[AZ Rebel]

The factory letter came with the HD when I bought it. I did submit for the McGivern OD. How does one go about getting a corrected letter? Am I paying another $100 each?

 

[SS336]

No one was implying that it increased the value of a gun. Just stating the fact that S&W sold and shipped guns to many hardware stores back in the day. I'm old enough to remember a time when many, if not most small town hardware stores sold guns.

I was raised in the 50's till I joined the Navy on a cattle ranch in South Park Colorado. We went into the town of Fairplay for "shopping". The drug store in Fairplay sold guns just to the left of the soda fountain. don't know how or where he got them for sale.
Just a side note to say back in the day all small towns had a gun store some in unusual places.

 

[DARE]

AZ Rebel, I have had several letters with wrong information. I contacted Don Mundell, the Smith & Wesson Historical Foundation Historian. Don graciously sent corrected letters at no charge.

 

[Truckman]

Just a side note to say back in the day all small towns had a gun store some in unusual places.

True...Up until a few years ago we had a shoe repair shop here in Conroe with an FFL...Not much inventory, but it sure smelled good in there......Ben

 

[zywina]

Serial number on the right stock?

No, didn't find the original grips, bought from a friend's estate!

 

[wheelgun610]

True...Up until a few years ago we had a shoe repair shop here in Conroe with an FFL...Not much inventory, but it sure smelled good in there......Ben

And once upon a time, you could have a Class 1 FFL, and could legally sell guns from your home, as long as you had a room with an exterior entrance and the room was inaccessible from inside your living quarters. Most small towns had one or two of those.

 

[Truckman]

And once upon a time, you could have a Class 1 FFL, and could legally sell guns from your home

I had one of those too until I had so many guns I decided to build my own gun store...Then I sold it and retired (again) so now I'm back to guns trying to overtake my living space...What's a poor guy to do?......Ben

 

[DCWilson]

Are we to understand the that the eight .38/44s listed in the shipment register clip in the top post are all McGivern ODs?

Interesting that 44388 is a shipment to McGivern, which invites us to think it has a five-inch barrel. I already have 44389 recorded in my McGivern OD roster with a note that it too was shipped to McGivern. I am now wondering if the higher number was a typo in the source material. (But perhaps not, as McGivern was known to receive multi-gun shipments from S&W.)

The Wm. Hoegee Company was a major S&W receiver and distributor in Los Angeles in the first half of the 20th century. I have a few revolvers that passed through their hands.

 

[glowe]

David, I think there might be confusion is between a "McGivern Model" and McGivern shipped guns. Ed owned many guns over his shooting career. I have nowhere near all the guns he owned in my database, but have 11 Registered Magnums and 4 Outdoorsman that shipped to Ed. One of video of him shows him at a shooting exhibition unloading a trunk of guns onto a blanket and assume he shot them all that day. (1;45 minutes into the video) below. Ed also held several multiple gun records, shooting several guns for time.