Picture Thread...Veteran Wheelguns with the Scars to Prove it!

[Smithhound]

This is the saddest example I've ever owned. For two reasons.
One is obvious, a completely butchered 1920 DWM Artillery Luger, even sadder is that all numbers matched, including the magazine. Done who-knows-how-longago by someone with short pockets.
The sadder part is that the friend who sold it to me died one afternoon in our local pub while shooting pool with us. Took a swallow of beer, bent over the table to rack and went face down on top of it. After a few jokes about him kissing the table for luck, we realized he was out and rolled him off. His eyes were still open and he still had that goofy smile on his face. He was also dead as a stone.
Found out he had suffered an aortic anuerism (?) and was dead when he landed.
I had bought it for $200 a few weeks earlier, hung onto it for a few years after that and let it go to a Luger collector who could restore and appreciate it. Not my cup of tea.
RD

Edit: After posting this, I realized it did not fit this catagory. Sorry, just brought back memories. Please forgive.

 

[MTS Cop]

Model 10-6, retired from the NYPD. I wish this gun could talk.

 

[bmcgilvray]

My old favorite Model 10, a 1971 vintage gun I've had since Christmas of 1975. I've placed the wear on this one myself and it still sees daily use.

 

[TEB]

This is a Model 42, it's an airweight with grip safety. It was 99 percent when I bought it in '95. It replaced a 640 that I had given to someone.
My full size sidearms have come and gone but this little 42 has been a constant in my life for almost fifteen years.

 

[Gunhacker]

This an M&P 1905 1st change that lettered as being shipped to Pacific Hardware & Steel in San Francisco on July 30, 1906... just 3 months after the 1906 earthquake hit. Pacific Hardware & Steel was one of the few businesses that survived the quake and fires.

I'd love to hear the story it could tell.

The checkering on right stock panel is well worn in the area near frame backstrap, just to the left of the diamond. The rear of 1/2 moon shaped front sight blade was ground down to give it a patridge profile. It also looks like some kind of cleaning chemical stripped the bluing off where ever it dribbled out of the barrel and ran down the frame... this is the good side:

 

[mnrivrat]

Still Shoots straight and has some spunk left in her . I let her sit beside me at the computer just so that she doesn't feel unwanted.

 

[bwsmith2850]

A pair of workers

I found these orphans in the armory a few years ago and the Chief let me ransom them out. The Model 19-3 is from 1969 and the 28-2/HP from somewhere between 1978 & 1980. (A bit old for this thread, but wear takes time.) They had been collecting dust since they got replaced by the Berettas.

I don't know where they found the diamond grips on the 28. I thought they were long gone by '78. (Laying around the armory, I suppose.) I just wish they hadn't got so beat up. When they go into the woods with me they wear rubber grips so I don't chew them up more.

 

[Tempest 455]

Mid 80's 586 police duty model. It's hard to see in the pic but it has some age on it.