Your “COOLEST” gun?

I'm partial to my SS Umberti 1858 with ivory grips and a .45 Colt conversion cylinder.
 

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In post 165 of this thread, I said my all time dream gun was a HK MP5.

I had to settle for the semi auto HK SP5 April of last year. Liked it so much I bought it's little brother 2 months later.

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325PD Shorty 45

I dig on my shorty 325PD. Funny light with nice smooth wood grips and still super fun to shoot the 45's. Cool cool cool!

Fred
 

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Compared to what some of you guys posted, I don't have any REALLY cool guns.

But this one is pretty cool to me - and it has garnered me lots of "likes" when I posted it in the past. It is one of the few I have seriously considered ordering a letter for.

It is a 10-6 38 special frame that was over-stamped 13-1 at the factory - for S&W to build an early K-frame 357 magnum.

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1) the unedited crane stamps
2) the highlighted 10-6 original stamping
3) the highlighted 13-1 factory over-stamping

This revolver has a D770xxx serial number - which indicates it was built sometime in early 1975. According to the SCSW 3rd edition, 1975 serial numbers started at D7500001 and ended with D870000 - and that serial number series was used for the models 10, 12, 13, 14, & 45 produced that year.

Based on that, I believe this one must have been built shortly after the model was first introduced at the request of the NYSP in 1974. So, as far as I can tell, it must be an early production example of the first K-frame 357 magnum revolvers. If I am wrong I hope someone will correct me.

At this point, I don't know if it was one of the revolvers that shipped to the NYSP, but even if it isn't, it still appears to be one of the first 20,000 K-Frame 357 magnum revolvers that S&W ever produced.

That makes it pretty cool to me.
 

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Here's my latest "coolest" gun. It's probably the cheapest, and least expensive gun I've ever owned. Certainly the lowest powered.

A Galesi (no model name I can find) in 22 Short. Tiny little 6+1 semi, made in Italy in 1965, so before the GCA-68 basically banned their importation. I was told when I bought it that it was a 22 Long only, but I've never seen any 22 Long ammo that I remember, so I tried it with shorts and it works. So now it's a 22 Short only. It is not a "Saturday Night Special." It's an all steel, well made little gun.

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Blue steel, with white plastic grips, European type heel mag release, and a safety. That's about it. Mag holds six rounds and will hurt your fingers loading it if you're not careful. It's not the most reliable gun I've ever owned, but it functions most of the time with Remington Golden Bullet shorts.

What makes it really cool (IMHO) is that it came with a well worn holster. Someone must have carried this little thing. I have a mental image of an old man, leaving his shop at night, going by the bank to make his night drop, with this on his side. I'll bet his family never knew he owned a gun, and found it in his stuff when they cleaned up for the last time. From there it ended up at my LGS where my wife saw it and thought it was "cute."

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The finish is worn, the holster is too, and shows evidence of having been repaired. It was clean, but dry, a few drops of oil was all it took to get it back in the game.

I've shot it a few times. At three feet it will make a group you can cover with a quarter. A real "get off me" gun. It will probably be the last gun I ever get rid of.
 
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Here's my latest "coolest" gun. It's probably the cheapest, and least expensive gun I've ever owned. Certainly the lowest powered.

A Galesi (no model name I can find) in 22 Short. Tiny little 6+1 semi, made in Italy in 1965, so before the GCA-68 basically banned their importation. I was told when I bought it that it was a 22 Long only, but I've never seen any 22 Long ammo that I remember, so I tried it with shorts and it works. So now it's a 22 Short only. It is not a "Saturday Night Special." It's an all steel, well made little gun.

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Blue steel, with white plastic grips, European type heel mag release, and a safety. That's about it. Mag holds six rounds and will hurt your fingers loading it if you're not careful. It's not the most reliable gun I've ever owned, but it functions most of the time with Remington Golden Bullet shorts.

What makes it really cool (IMHO) is that it came with a well worn holster. Someone must have carried this little thing. I have a mental image of an old man, leaving his shop at night, going by the bank to make his night drop, with this on his side. I'll bet his family never knew he owned a gun, and found it in his stuff when they cleaned up for the last time. From there it ended up at my LGS where my wife saw it and thought it was "cute."

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The finish is worn, the holster is too, and shows evidence of having been repaired. It was clean, but dry, a few drops of oil was all it took to get it back in the game.

I've shot it a few times. At three feet it will make a group you can cover with a quarter. A real "get off me" gun. It will probably be the last gun I ever get rid of.


I have several boxes of .22 Longs stashed somewhere.......
 
Walther P5. It has many unique and quirky features. An engineering masterpiece that couldn't be made today.
 

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The obvious choice among my small collection would be the older model Colt Agent. The grips, holster, and the Case lever-lock came from my grandfather-in-law. Unfortunately he had sold off the gun decades before we met. But I went out and found one when he gave my wife all the stuff he had for it. I added the T-Grip.

I feel like Paul Drake when I'm carrying it, which isn't very often.


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My recently acquired S&W Registered Magnum 357, registration #4386, shipped 1939. Meticulously restored by Cylinder & Slide with Keith Brown Roper walnut grips. A grail gun I'd never thought I'd get that now is my coolest and most coveted gun I own.
 

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My coolest guns are rifles. This is a Winchester High Wall in 38-55
 

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