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Bill, thanks for the relook on this great early Pre-29. I'll send you a PM. I'm moving again!
Regards
Chuck
Regards
Chuck
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Thanks to lowgun for bringing back this thread. I may have seen it 5 years ago, but I'm not sure. I am sure that this is one of our classic threads. Great guns.
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Bill, we are finally almost settled here in your neck of the woods. Just saw your post and you are correct, we're not done with our little quest just quite yet, far from it! "Grail gun" is almost an understatement. That one will blow the socks off folks in the S&WCA if and when it comes to light. Thanks for keeping the dream alive friend.
Chuck
It's been a couple of years since Chuck "29-1" and I have discussed the grail gun that we are pursuing. I understand that Chuck has disposed of the "Miss Guns" but I am not sure of that. I am not a Smith and Wesson collector, but am assisting Chuck in his and my search for an important gun that will be of interest to all of us. I am only posting to keep this interesting thread near the top on the forum. Chuck and I are in touch and will keep forum readers informed.
Good......
.....gravy. What a piece with all the trimmings!
.....gravy. What a piece with all the trimmings!
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I am impressed. Great guns and display
Almost two years since I have discussed the "grail gun" that Chuck and I are pursuing. One poster opined that the grail gun could possibly have become a Fitz gun. I don't know what a Fitz gun is, but I'm sure it has something to do with originality. Chuck and I haven't discussed originality, but the original grips seem to have been trashed for or made into some kind of hand carved grips that I have not seen. I think even the carved grips have been lost. Maybe a Fitz gun is a gun that has lost its original grips and had them replaced with Fitz grips. How did I do? I have seen and photographed the gun and all metal is original. Stay tuned.
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Typically when I see someone online say a gun has been Fitz'd, they are referring to the front of the trigger guard being cut out.
I only have one "Fitz'd" gun, which I purchased for next to no money and I enjoy because of that, and by what a hilarious wreck it is:
It does however illustrate what I mean by the trigger guard being cut away, as Fitz liked to do.
Yup, Chuck, I still have the HP and some paperwork from Front Royal Supply. I have also added two Evaluators guns to my collection, both documented Van Orden Snipers, Model 70s purchased from Evaluators. Oddly, I shot many of my registered International Skeet birds at the Quantico range.
I have one HP that shipped to Evaluators on June 9, 1956. S111760. They took very good care of it.
A lot of times on older threads the pics go away for various reasons like hosting site issues.
shown50
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Did they say what the grail is? Is it some variant of a 29 or 29-1?
I see; thank you.
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