Jboogie - going back to the hammer and trigger make sure you ren wax those also. Glad no rust under the grips. Great NYPD connection. What state are you in - interesting to know the guns travels.
Your T grip should be coming along in a few months based on my last order (8 months) and what I read on the forum. You won’t get any communication from them or be able to contact them. They will just show up one day.
As to your Security Six - as you noted grips for 150 series hard to find. This is the only company I could find that makes them:
150 Series Archives - Texas Grips
Thanks Baxter. As far as the gun traveling, I purchased it from a shooting range local here in Columbus, Ohio. So it seemingly did travel a bit. It would be interesting to learn how it got there. I suspect as another user said, the officer has probably since passed away and a family member (who clearly doesn't have an interest in shooting) hocked it.
Which would be the same case for THIS specimen I found at a different gun shop near me. I was perusing the ammo inventory at this shop when I saw tucked waaay back in the shadows of their used gun case, a tag that said "BYF 43". Me being a military/milsurp history guy, I immediately perked up and asked to see it. It was this essentially pristine BYF (the code Mauser used to manufacture guns during nazi occupation) P38 with 1943 stamps, no import marks. The only problem with it is that someone had the idea to etch a long number into the slide... I figured it was still worth snagging for the cool factor. They had it listed for $420, but this was during a 20% used gun deal they had to clear out some of their inventory, so I got it for about $360.
I posted it on the P38 forums and someone there pointed out the numbers were a Social Security Number. One thing led to another, and I learned that the SSN belonged to a WWII veteran. He was drafted, spent time in the European Theatre in 1944-1945, and a paystub I got from a records request showing him discharged and living in the same city as the one I live in and where I bought the gun. So, I think this individual acquired the P38 while serving in Europe, brought it back in his pack, and at some point used an electric pencil or something similar to put his SSN on the gun as I learned was apparently common back in the day, sometimes even encouraged by police for the event the gun is ever stolen and recovered... and years later it ended up in this gun store's used gun inventory and treated like an old piece of junk. I'll take better care of it.
Sorry for the unrelated diatribe, it's just interesting to me how some gun's have histories.
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