The CZickness XXX: As in life, the twenties are just a blur...

[mcapo]

They spend that and more on the old ones.

Yep. I keep looking at a RemRand on the SW forum.

 

[churchmouse]

$399. That’s the number.

Cote. You’re killing me.

Coat cote what ever it takes.

I got your $399 brother...….

 

[churchmouse]

They spend that and more on the old ones.

A completely different group/mindset.

 

[Leadeye]

Yep. I keep looking at a RemRand on the SW forum.

Anything 38 super between the wars is serious money.

 

[Leadeye]

A completely different group/mindset.

Mine still get out and shoot. Not as accurate as yours though.

 

[mcapo]

Anything 38 super between the wars is serious money.

Some day I’d like a nice shootable pre-WWII example. Something with some honest patina, nice enough to look at but still willing to let it be shoot.

 

[gmcttr]

CM thanks for selling me all of that ammo today

I heard he came into a little extra .223 recently. Good to hear he could get it sold so quickly.

 

[Leadeye]

Some day I’d like a nice shootable pre-WWII example. Something with some honest patina, nice enough to look at but still willing to let it be shoot.

Inter war or before WW1?

 

[churchmouse]

I heard he came into a little extra .223 recently. Good to hear he could get it sold so quickly.

The folks it was intended for already know about it.
I am matching your donation.

We watch over the little ones.

 

[gmcttr]

The folks it was intended for already know about it.
I am matching your donation.

We watch over the little ones.

Excellent!!!

I hit the post button before I got the smileys in my previous post and was slow on the edit.

 

[mcapo]

Inter war or before WW1?

A 1919 would be cool as that was the year my grandfather immigrate to the US.

 

[Leadeye]

This gun has always been sort of an enigma to me and some other Colt collectors. It's clearly a "black army" gun run in 1918 and the serial number goes to the US government, but it was never marked as US property. People have removed those marks, but this one was never stamped. The nickel plate is very old, and not a refinish, almost like somebody grabbed one off the line and then had it plated and sold elsewhere.

 

[mcapo]

This gun has always been sort of an enigma to me and some other Colt collectors. It's clearly a "black army" gun run in 1918 and the serial number goes to the US government, but it was never marked as US property. People have removed those marks, but this one was never stamped. The nickel plate is very old, and not a refinish, almost like somebody grabbed one off the line and then had it plated and sold elsewhere.

That is spectacular. There is a story to tell in that gun!

 

[Leadeye]

A Colt collector pointed out to me that it has a military inspection stamp, but isn't marked US property. We wondered if maybe Colt provided it to some visiting army officer or something like that. Just grabbed one part way through the process and nickle plated it. The gun still has the low finish metal common on the black army which normally Colt would have polished before plating.

 

[SarahG]

 

[88E30M50]

Some day I’d like a nice shootable pre-WWII example. Something with some honest patina, nice enough to look at but still willing to let it be shoot.

That describes my RemRand perfectly. It’s got patina oozing out of it and I had AllenM fit a new barrel to make it a shooter. No permanent mods have been done but there are some hot rod parts inside to make it fun to shoot.

 

[mcapo]

A Colt collector pointed out to me that it has a military inspection stamp, but isn't marked US property. We wondered if maybe Colt provided it to some visiting army officer or something like that. Just grabbed one part way through the process and nickle plated it. The gun still has the low finish metal common on the black army which normally Colt would have polished before plating.

Test gun? Front office grabbed one?

SW has some unique one off revolvers that would have been a custom order for some retiring officer or just because you were able to talk them into it.

 

[mcapo]

That describes my RemRand perfectly. It’s got patina oozing out of it and I had AllenM fit a new barrel to make it a shooter. No permanent mods have been done but there are some hot rod parts inside to make it fun to shoot.

That is beautiful. Call me jelly....

 

[Leadeye]

Test gun? Front office grabbed one?

SW has some unique one off revolvers that would have been a custom order for some retiring officer or just because you were able to talk them into it.

Good ideas, we'll probably never know. You're right that there's a story in it, a pity they can't speak.

 

[Leadeye]

That describes my RemRand perfectly. It’s got patina oozing out of it and I had AllenM fit a new barrel to make it a shooter. No permanent mods have been done but there are some hot rod parts inside to make it fun to shoot.

Very nice!