Can you identify this gun?

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shootniron

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This is one that will probably require one the old timer's to identify. It was a precursor to the modern day compact handguns.

Can you identify this beauty?

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Jim Watson

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Do you need to know or are you quizzing us?

Any road, it is a Devel customized S&W M39.
Top of the line, looks like every mod they did.
 
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cocojo

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It's a S&W model 39. The Devel ASP was a custom design pistol made from a S&W 39-2 pistol. The 70's is when the company converted them. They were great guns at a time when your choice of small pistols where .25's , .32's and 380's only. Expensive to convert but if you wanted a small gun in a formidable caliber you either convert a full size pistol or you bought a snubby revolver. They died off when S&W started to make their own small pistols as in the 6906.
 
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shootniron

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It's a S&W model 39. The Devel ASP was a custom design pistol made from a S&W 39-2 pistol. The 70's is when the company converted them. They were great guns at a time when your choice of small pistols where .25's , .32's and 380's only. Expensive to convert but if you wanted a small gun in a formidable caliber you either convert a full size pistol or you bought a snubby revolver. They died off when S&W started to make their own small pistols as in the 6906.
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Yes, Paris Theodore, custom holster maker was responsible for this line of guns. He also designed the Chip McCormick 1911 mags, he never worked the bugs of the mag, but Chip bought him out, resolved the issue with the mags and has since sold a gazillion of them.
 
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Jim Watson

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The Devel ASP was a custom design pistol made from a S&W 39-2 pistol.
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No.
Two different brands. The ASP was apparently a one model line with few if any options.

Devel would customize a M39 or M59 to your taste (and wallet) from mild to wild. The illustrated gun is the full house version.
They also did pioneering work with 1911 based raceguns in the Gammon line.
 
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Aguila Blanca

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shootniron said:
Yes, Paris Theodore, custom holster maker was responsible for this line of guns. He also designed the Chip McCormick 1911 mags, he never worked the bugs of the mag, but Chip bought him out, resolved the issue with the mags and has since sold a gazillion of them.
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Chip McCrmick has certainly sold a bazillion of his Shooting Star and Power Mag magazines, but the problems with the Devel follower remain to this day -- they tip forward when the last round feeds, and this often damages the feed ramp on alloy-framed pistols. Check-Mate Industries patented a modification to the Devel-style follower that does fix this problem.
 
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