Swamp gun
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Swamp Gun !? I though Im was going to see what you used when hunting in thick wet bottom land . That colts looks more like a safe queen or very lightly used snubby .
Myswamp guns are from my first 42 years back in south west florida , a dw revolver 357mag with a red dot or a old 788 Remington 308 scoped with 2.5-10 . I killed many hogs and deer with hem .
Myswamp guns are from my first 42 years back in south west florida , a dw revolver 357mag with a red dot or a old 788 Remington 308 scoped with 2.5-10 . I killed many hogs and deer with hem .
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NOT too expensive/pretty, RELIABLE, easy to clean & get running again after that unexpected KERPLUNK into some skanky/stinky/slimy mess. Open sights at those close ranges that you can just rinse off. +1 Levers & shotguns. A bore snake & a toothbrush are must haves. Handguns??? BIG BORE 357 MINIMUM FOR ME, & a retention type holster. I've had vines unsnap holsters, steal my eyeglasses, pick the car keys from my pockets. Snapping turtles, Skeeters from the Jurascic period, bees, briars, snakes, gators, & FYI that cute little otter you see on TV aint all that friendly. The Sig p220 is pretty easy to carry & do an emergency clean out & get it running again. Sorry no nicely blued Smiths here.
NOT too expensive/pretty, RELIABLE, easy to clean & get running again after that unexpected KERPLUNK into some skanky/stinky/slimy mess. Open sights at those close ranges that you can just rinse off. +1 Levers & shotguns. A bore snake & a toothbrush are must haves. Handguns??? BIG BORE 357 MINIMUM FOR ME, & a retention type holster. I've had vines unsnap holsters, steal my eyeglasses, pick the car keys from my pockets. Snapping turtles, Skeeters from the Jurascic period, bees, briars, snakes, gators, & FYI that cute little otter you see on TV aint all that friendly. The Sig p220 is pretty easy to carry & do an emergency clean out & get it running again. Sorry no nicely blued Smiths here.
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Guys, "MPDC" is Metropolitan Police (Department) of the District of Columbia. As in, "drain the..." 
nachogrande
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NEVERMIND.
"MPDC" was NOWHERE in the OP.
Silly me went by the tittle of the thread.
Guys, "MPDC" is Metropolitan Police (Department) of the District of Columbia. As in, "drain the..."
"MPDC" was NOWHERE in the OP.
Silly me went by the tittle of the thread.
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A picture is worth a thousand words...or sometimes just four letters. 
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KEEP IT SIMPLE
FOR US SIMPLE FOLKS. I didn't bother to enlarge the pics, sorry.
FOR US SIMPLE FOLKS. I didn't bother to enlarge the pics, sorry.
Original swamp gun was a Marlin 12 ga bolt action with 20" bbl and poly choke.
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Well, regardless of whether it had anything to do with a natural, god-made swamp or a slimy, political hell-hole swamp like D.C., that is a very pretty Colt! Thanks for sharing it.
Cool serial # ??????????
Looks like my Dad's old off duty and Captain's gun
Looks like my Dad's old off duty and Captain's gun
bigggbbruce Yep been there and don't that too . Mine was a rem 511 P with a globe front sight . Go out for a ride , drink a couple beer it was legal in florida back then and bring home meat !!
After the rainy season and an area we called the south blocks start to dry up we would take a large heavy duty dip net and work it along the ditch lines , crawdads , catfish , occasional sun fish and large frog and try to avoid getting to close to them deadly kind of snakes . Have a heck of a boil and fry that night . a school of Mullet show up in a brackish road side ditch while chicken necking crabs and fire a few rounds of 308 amongst them and have smoked mullet and once in a while mullet roe too .
Oh yea , the good ole days of my miss spent younger years .
You not a retired roofer from sw fl ??
After the rainy season and an area we called the south blocks start to dry up we would take a large heavy duty dip net and work it along the ditch lines , crawdads , catfish , occasional sun fish and large frog and try to avoid getting to close to them deadly kind of snakes . Have a heck of a boil and fry that night . a school of Mullet show up in a brackish road side ditch while chicken necking crabs and fire a few rounds of 308 amongst them and have smoked mullet and once in a while mullet roe too .
Oh yea , the good ole days of my miss spent younger years .
You not a retired roofer from sw fl ??
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