OldArcher
Member
I'm member of quite a few fora, but this is the first dedicated to the company that made my first firearm, Smith and Wesson. I remember her as if it were just yesterday... She was beautiful, honest, faithful, and true. She was a stainless steel Model 10, and oh, how she could shoot... I'd just gotten back from Vietnam, and saw her in the glassed case of a pawn shop, Ben Milgrim's, in Joplin, MO... The year was 1972, and my town didn't have a shop like Steve's Trading Post, that would come into being years later...
Ben was elderly then, but sharp of mind, and clear of eye. He treated all folks honestly, and it seemed to me, especially military and former military. I got a great deal from Ben, and bought lots of ammo from him over the years...
Somehow, over the intervening years, revolvers seemed to dim, as faster shooting, higher round count semi-automatics took center stage. I, too, followed that siren's song, and my S&W Model 10 and I parted company... More fool, I, methinks...
Now, after many years of being in the thrall of Colts, Kimbers, Taurus', Rugers, and Glocks, I, and the world, have turned... Oh, I still have my Glocks- they've saved this old Confederate carcass often enough, but there's a new love on the horizon, and her name could definitely be named after my favorite Lady Politician and Patriot...
"The Governor" has captured me, lock, stock, and soon to be, four smoking barrels... (And, no, I never buy just one of any weapon...) I've had Tarus' Judge, and believe me, it cannot, in any way, hold a candle to the S&W Governor. Fit, finish, balance, quality- all are in S&W's corner... I lucked out, and should be receiving them at the beginning of next week...
I'm here, at the S&W forum, to get back into battery... I've dug out my much used Book of Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting by Ed McGivern, forerunner to the great Jerry Miculek, and family, of revolver shootists, extraordinaire... I was taught to shoot single action revolvers by a man from Utah, who was once a good friend of The Duke, and who had things in common with Louis L'Amour... I'll never know why I forsook the revolver, as it never failed me, contrary to my history with semi-autos...
Well, I'm back, and the feel of a S&W revolver in weakening hands may well be the last sensation I have, someday, if this old world keeps going the way it appears to be going... Push comes to shove, we all go back to our beginnings... For me, it was the perfect fit of an S&W revolver, weapon that was pure, true, and ever faithful... As said, I'm back, and now, I'll never leave...
OldArcher, out...
Ben was elderly then, but sharp of mind, and clear of eye. He treated all folks honestly, and it seemed to me, especially military and former military. I got a great deal from Ben, and bought lots of ammo from him over the years...
Somehow, over the intervening years, revolvers seemed to dim, as faster shooting, higher round count semi-automatics took center stage. I, too, followed that siren's song, and my S&W Model 10 and I parted company... More fool, I, methinks...
Now, after many years of being in the thrall of Colts, Kimbers, Taurus', Rugers, and Glocks, I, and the world, have turned... Oh, I still have my Glocks- they've saved this old Confederate carcass often enough, but there's a new love on the horizon, and her name could definitely be named after my favorite Lady Politician and Patriot...
"The Governor" has captured me, lock, stock, and soon to be, four smoking barrels... (And, no, I never buy just one of any weapon...) I've had Tarus' Judge, and believe me, it cannot, in any way, hold a candle to the S&W Governor. Fit, finish, balance, quality- all are in S&W's corner... I lucked out, and should be receiving them at the beginning of next week...
I'm here, at the S&W forum, to get back into battery... I've dug out my much used Book of Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting by Ed McGivern, forerunner to the great Jerry Miculek, and family, of revolver shootists, extraordinaire... I was taught to shoot single action revolvers by a man from Utah, who was once a good friend of The Duke, and who had things in common with Louis L'Amour... I'll never know why I forsook the revolver, as it never failed me, contrary to my history with semi-autos...
Well, I'm back, and the feel of a S&W revolver in weakening hands may well be the last sensation I have, someday, if this old world keeps going the way it appears to be going... Push comes to shove, we all go back to our beginnings... For me, it was the perfect fit of an S&W revolver, weapon that was pure, true, and ever faithful... As said, I'm back, and now, I'll never leave...
OldArcher, out...
