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Post by AxeHandle on Apr 16, 2020 18:52:19 GMT -5
1917 S&W 45 ACP
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Post by taffin on Apr 16, 2020 19:13:20 GMT -5
OLDER MAN--OLD GUN
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Post by taffin on Apr 16, 2020 19:17:16 GMT -5
60+ YEARS AGO
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Post by zeus on Apr 16, 2020 19:24:22 GMT -5
Great Aoudad pic.
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Post by AxeHandle on Apr 17, 2020 21:15:48 GMT -5
Ran it by the boys on the S&W forum. They say it looks like an early production civilian 1917. I'm thinking I'm taking it home.
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Post by junebug on Apr 18, 2020 21:41:23 GMT -5
Age just means experience ,man and gun
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Post by Cholla on Apr 19, 2020 1:49:39 GMT -5
Ran it by the boys on the S&W forum. They say it looks like an early production civilian 1917. I'm thinking I'm taking it home. If you're and old man like me, and you're going to shoot that 1917, make sure it doesn't have that tiny U shaped rear sight groove. I learned the hard way. Cholla
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Post by bula on Apr 19, 2020 7:21:17 GMT -5
A bout a decade ago I watched an older one armed Vet run a 1917 at an IDPA comp. He had it all worked out, as efficient as was possible I believe. His home and loved ones well protected.
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Post by taffin on Apr 19, 2020 10:40:26 GMT -5
When I was a very young kid in the late 1940s we had an old car from the late 1930s. We went for a ride on a Sunday afternoon and had a flat tire. No spare. A vet pulled up behind us with two HOOKS where his hands used to be. He stripped the tire off the rim using those HOOKS, and patch the tube. I'll never forget seeing how he did that. God bless all veterans.
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Post by azshaun on Apr 20, 2020 12:13:02 GMT -5
60+ YEARS AGO An Auto Loader? I always thought you knew only Single Actions back then. ... Will wonders ever cease...
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Post by taffin on Apr 20, 2020 13:13:00 GMT -5
They all work the same: sight aligment and trigger squeeze. With all those early years of shooting sixguns, semi-automatics were not totally ignored. In the 1950s and early 1960s one rarely ever saw semi-automatics in gun shop display cases. Those found were mostly military surplus .45 ACP 1911 Government Models. Every one of us had two guns thanks to the NRA. Both the 1903 Springfield bolt action .30-06 and the .45 ACP Government Model were made available for anywhere from $7.50 to $15.00 delivered right to our doorstep via Railway Express. The elevator operator of the company which several of us worked for after high school delivered ammunition every payday to us for one dollar a box. That one dollar would buy 20 rounds of .30-06 or 50 rounds of .45 ACP, all of it military surplus. So, we shot a lot of .45 ACP rounds in those days. The economy of purchase and shooting caused us to definitely acknowledge the Government Model. When I moved my family 2,500 miles west to Idaho that Government Model was under the driver’s side front seat of our 1965 Ford Station Wagon. When I traveled north and across the Lewis and Clark Highway to the University of Montana for three summers of graduate school, that same .45 ACP rode in my belt in the small of my back. In both cases it was loaded with military surplus ammunition.
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Post by bogusbill on Apr 21, 2020 16:01:36 GMT -5
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Post by lah on Apr 25, 2020 19:27:01 GMT -5
Great story Mr. Taffin.
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Post by tj3006 on May 4, 2020 5:29:03 GMT -5
It is amazing how well some people adapt to severe handicaps. A couple years back i was getting gas and a guy with hooks for hands and i think only 1 real leg got out of his car and hooked up a propane tank and filled it. Makes me want to punch myself square in the nose when i wine about anything ! A gunsmith friend of mine has a S&W 1917, it is in super good condition. If it was a 3rd less money i would buy it ! I think it is a comercial one cause the bluing is to good for military, ...tj3006
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Post by timothy on May 17, 2020 1:06:36 GMT -5
Taffin what kind of 1911 shooting was done back in the 50-60s? Bullseye, improvised combat drills, hunting? Just curious
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