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skeezix

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I think I vaguely remember someone looking for a HD with s/n S74062.

If you are looking for that gun, I found it at a gun show today. Didn't buy it - don't need it.

Seller said he had the box and some of the "stuff", and that he bought the gun 18 years ago from a "youngster". Grips are diamond magnas - didn't look to see if they matched. Looked to be a 90% gun. Of course, he's real proud of it -- $1,200, but he'd probably come down a couple hundred.

Sooooo, if you're looking for that gun, I know where it is. Contact me today or early in the morning and I can go back and get further details and maybe take some pics and text them.
 
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SaxonPig said:
Wow. What are the odds on that?
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Back when I was going to Auburn in the '70s, we had a local gun shop that had all sorts of goodies. One of them was a Colt Gov't Model, serial number C88. Of course, I couldn't afford it.

Flash forward to a mid '90s Alabama Gun Collector's Association show at the Birmingham Civic Center. I was walking and looking when I spotted a old Colt on a table. I picked it up and sure enough, it was C88! The owner told me that it was his father's gun and that the father had sold it around 1970. He had found it at a show in '92 and had bought it back. I passed on the info that I had about its whereabouts for several years. Have no idea where all it had been.
 
Saw a story in the paper a few years ago where a son wanted to get his WW II vet dad an M1 Garand as a present so he bought one from a dealer and presented it. The story said the rifle was the same one the man had carried in the war. I found that impossible to believe and figure the man said something like "It's the same as the one I carried" and the reporter misunderstood.

Weirdest gun thing I have experienced is I had a 1949 dated Brno sporting rifle stolen in 1985. Maybe 5 years ago I bought a similar rifle and the serial is 5 numbers apart from the stolen one.
 
SaxonPig said:
Saw a story in the paper a few years ago where a son wanted to get his WW II vet dad an M1 Garand as a present so he bought one from a dealer and presented it. The story said the rifle was the same one the man had carried in the war. I found that impossible to believe and figure the man said something like "It's the same as the one I carried" and the reporter misunderstood.
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Seems I saw that in an NRA mag years ago, and it supposedly went that the old man had memorized the serial number and his son actually found the gun accidentally and purchased it, I seem to remember it as a true story. If it wasn't it should have been; that would be a five and a half million to one odds . . .
 
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