TURTLE GUN

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For my trip today to the indoor range above Harrisburg, I decided to take along this little .380 Sig Sauer P238 with a Crimson Trace for its first trip to a range. This gun's ancestry is pretty apparent.

So I set up a target at 7 yards to get familiar with how the gun would shoot. The first two magazines full shot a bit to the left. But with adjustments made thanks to the directions and tools supplied with the Crimson Trace the windage got centered and the little gun in my big hands started laying the shots in there.

Why do I call it the Turtle Gun? The colors of the finish are factory original. The shade of green just jumped out at me as being the color from the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."

I had a thought that Sig should get a license from Penn State and start making this gun with a blue and white finish and call it the Nittany Lion Special. With PSU having the largest group of dues paying alumni Sig would probably sell them by the rail car load.
 

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I had one of those (not green though) and it was a sweet gun, a joy to shoot, especially with the optional 7 rd magazine with the pinky grip extension, even with hot Buffalo Bore loads. I also really liked that you can rack the slide to clear the gun with the safety on.
I moved up a notch to 9mm when I bought its slightly bigger brother the P938.
 
They are nice little pistols. 5 shots at 7 yards from the one I kept. The other went to my stepson at the "special family discount".;)

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False news, I had the original Turtle Gun. It was an old Marlin 1894 from early 1900s. Somebody had inlayed everything from poker chips to cuff links in stock and forend. Right side off butt had "patch box" made out of a $3 watch, left side had a turtle about the size of a fifty cent piece.
I ruined it, pulled all the junk and tried to balance it with brass diamonds and buffed out 2 JFK half dollars to replace turtle & watch case. It wasn't big enough for 25/20 cartridge or I would have left.
 
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