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Recently I found out some gun wheeler-dealer friends of mine got in some guns they were selling. Lo an behold, they got some S&Ws. I quicky zeroed in on this scarce 32-20 M&P target. For those of you who don't know, the 32-20 is also known as the 32 Winchester or the 32 WCF (Winchester center...

I met a guy at my gun club the other day, shooting pistol. We got to talking and S&Ws get brought up. He states he was selling a model 15 to a guy, but the guy didn't show up and didn't call him. He pulls out this beautiful 15-4, with target hammer and he said it had a trigger job. It felt...

Ever since getting my first Colt Woodsman (a 3rd gen match target) I became more and more appreciative of their design and history. Even though I'm a High Standard guy, when it comes to 22 autos, the old Woodsmans certainly hold their own. As many of you know, the original pre war Woodsman...

Recently I began contemplating something - what would the gun owning community overall agree on is deserving of the title "America's sidearm"? I ask this because recently I got a couple more 1911s, Colt make, and I really appreciate everything about them. My appreciation for the 1911 was a...

http://news.yahoo.com/colt-shuts-plant-workers-talk-113403810.html In a lot of ways, I applaud this move, but like anything else Colt has ever done, I hope they have planned for all of the real and potential consequences of this move. I also just read that they began building a new plant in...

Recently I bought a 1943 Colt 1911A1. I ended up changing out some parts, and now when the trigger is pulled with dry firing, the hammer does not always fall all the way down. It often gets caught in the half cock notch. When I got the gun, I noticed that it had a 1911 short beavertail grip...

In January I caught wind of this iconic semi auto pistol and later in Jan I bought it. Its a broomhandle aka Mauser C96, and this one is a "red 9" referring to the cal being 9mm luger. The background I read in one of my books about the red 9 was that in WWI Imperial Germany had a shortage of...

Many of you have posted about this gun when talking about cool pocket autos, vintage colt autos or even 32 acp autos. This model has come up a lot. Of course it would, a John Browning design, made by Colt, and sold well over 500k. Many of you have posted about them because many were made and...

Fellow friendly gun owners We are vastly out numbered on the online government petition website. Many of the anti-gun petitions have already gotten the 25k signatures required for a whitehouse response. So far, only the pro-gun petition that asks obama not to punish law abiding gun owners has...

Star light, star bright - my new Star is out of sight Star light, star bright, The first star I see tonight; I wish I may, I wish I might, Have the wish I wish tonight A few weeks ago, an acquaintance of mine informed me that his dealer friend (I know the dealer too) had a WaA German marked...

About 2 weeks at a local gunshow a guy walked past me with either a P38 hardshell holster or a luger holster, and either way, I'm interested! I stop him and talk to him, and he tells me he has a AC41 P38 rig for sale. "AC" was the code for Walther during WWII and "41" is the year 1941. The...

Here are a few autos I got recently. The first is a 1911 commercial model from 1920. The seller though it was a WWI gun with a slide with "US PROPERTY" removed. With the "C" prefix, its a commercial gun, not a government contract piece. It has the original diamond style grips and is a real 1911...

I managed to acquire these revolvers recently. This was an interesting group. My brother, who is newer to guns bought the Ruger and I bought the S&W and the Colt. The first gun is a S&W MKII hand ejector. SN 7059. These were sold in large numbers to the British government, whereby some were...

I went on a FFL / gun expedition Saturday. Headed north in my state in search of treasure and came up with very little. The first shop I stopped at had this nice 617 no dash. Its pre lock, with target hammer, target trigger and S&W combat grips. When the day turned up nothing, I went back for...

I managed to get this gem of a Colt 1908 vest pocket online a week or so ago. I was really impressed with the amount of case hardening and its overall condition and originality as well. The grips are original and it has a two tone marked magazine. I know it doesn't have a tactical rail, nor...

Recently I talked to a friend of mine, Buford, who wanted a K-22 or model 17 for a while. When he finally found one, he got unlucky - Buford was upset that his S&W 17-3 had some function problems. I mentioned to him that IMO the 4 and 5 screw K-22s / early 17s were of a higher quality. I more or...

So the other day, I met a Vietnam "sniper" - and right then, I was suspicious because IMO many people with that kind of combat experience don't talk about it, esp unsolicited, for a variety of reasons. I work at the VA and so I get to talk to veterans. The guy went on to say he carried "either...

While at the last weekend's local gunshow, I came across this Ruger Blackhawk 357 magnum. The same dealer had a WWII P38 I wanted so I got the pair for the package deal. Its from 1968 per SN. Its unconverted with the original black eagle grips. It is an old model, but also not a flat top. It has...

Just this week I managed to get another luger for my collection. This one is a BYF (Mauser) 42 aka 1942 P08 luger. This one has the black plastic grips and black bottom FXO P08 E/37 mag which some people refer to as the "black widow" variant due to these black bakelite parts (supposedly Ralph...

When I think about my collection, I sometimes think of this movie clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2WQGxRNpBc I think of Tuco saying "revolvers" after he tosses the junk ones. No matter how much I like certain semi autos, I find myself looking at and buying revolvers. I can't help myself...