Thread: Personal Firearms

Jimmy was a part of the original A team silly goose!

Originally Posted by shooter74743

Jimmy was a part of the original A team silly goose!

I can see him with a Mohawk and huge gold chains now ..lol

Yay..Smith & Wesson!! I carried a S&W in one form or another for decades. I still have a warm spot in my heart for the Marque and keep a few around today. Only one I would really like to have (and do not) is a Model 19 with a 4" barrel..someday perhaps.



Here's the current S&W inventory.

When I started working and we could only carry revolvers in those days we were issued model 10s. The first personally owner pistol I bought was a model 19. I had it for many years. I foolishly traded it towards a Ruger Security Six when the Stainless Models first came out. It was a piece of garbage. I wish I still had that model 19.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

When I started working and we could only carry revolvers in those days we were issued model 10s. The first personally owner pistol I bought was a model 19. I had it for many years. I foolishly traded it towards a Ruger Security Six when the Stainless Models first came out. It was a piece of garbage. I wish I still had that model 19.

They made more than one Nelson, you have my permission to go to Gunbroker and get yourself a vintage pinned and recessed S&W model 19. BTW, I sold mine too, + many others. A couple of years ago I got a near mint Colt Python to replace the one I sold in the '70s.

Originally Posted by PFunkDaddy

Love the Ruger.
Have only heard good things about them - seems to be a lot of gun for the $.
2nd on my list behind the Vbob.

Get the ruger 1st. I loved my sr1911, until I bought the v-bob. Then I promptly sold the ruger and picked up two more valors and the Baer. DW spoiled me.

Swim suit carries added for Shooter.

Makes sense. Problem is I'm in California and both are off roster. With the new legislation just signed by the governor the option to SSE will expire/lapse at the end of the year. Add to that the 1 handgun every 30 day limit and the 10 day wait after the gun is DROS' d...Plus factoring in estimated 5 days shipping to get these off roster guns from out of state sellers (who are CA friendly)...and it all gets hairy.
It may come down to having to choose between the two in which case the choice is easy. I have no expectations that the Ruger will come close to the Wesson. But I like 1911s. It looks like a good value and feedback has been good about it. All of that and I can only get it until the end of the year (unless Ruger works to get it on the roster in the future). Wesson still makes the older CBOB specifically for California only because it is on roster (along with PM7).
They have said that they don't plan to work to get the newer/'upgraded' VBOB on the roster.

So....that's basically why I want both...

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

When I started working and we could only carry revolvers in those days we were issued model 10s. The first personally owner pistol I bought was a model 19. I had it for many years. I foolishly traded it towards a Ruger Security Six when the Stainless Models first came out. It was a piece of garbage. I wish I still had that model 19.

I liked the Mod 19's too. Had several. My favorite of the bunch was an older 4" 5 screw. Went shooting one afternoon with a buddy of mine. He had a Python, I had my trusty old five screw. He had some reloads that he'd built and his Python was LOVING that hot stuff. I poked 6 into my Mod 19 and that was pretty much the end of it. The loads didn't wreck it, but it got looser than a goose.

I sold it along with two other Model 19's and bought a 4" Python with the money. I tricked out the Python for target shooting. It was smooth as silk. Kind of humorous as I think back, because I bought the Python so it could handle hot loads. When I got done tricking it out, all it could shoot was 38 target loads due to the fact that I'd bobbed the hammer, and lightened the main spring, and cut down the frame and those huge grips and made a set of "bird's head grips like the old Colt Lightning's and Thunderers had.

If you plugged a 357 into it, the primer flowed back into the firing pin hole in the frame and locked it up. It was DA only after I'd finished playing with it and it had a 3LB trigger pull with no over travel. It was fun. Got tired of it, buddy wanted it, he got it for his wife to carry. At the time she was working at the IRS in enforcement. I put all the right stuff back in it to make it trust worthy with .357 stuff. She loved it.

19's are awesome pistols, but they're still basically a Model 10.

Still have a Model 27 NIB at Dad's in his safe. Bought it along with two High Powers in '68. One of the High Powers has been all over the world with me and looks like HELL nowadays. THe other is NIB like the 27.

Had an old S&W 38/44 Heavy Duty I wish I'd kept. THAT was a HELL of a pistol.

Just bought a S&W model 27-2 today!



Barely a turn ring, forcing cone is crisp and clean, bluing is still intact on the breechface Shoots very nicely, too!

Done deal...on the way to my FFL