S&W model 1917 DOB 1918
What's the oldest handgun in your collection?
Re: What's the oldest handgun in your collection?
1931 Astra 900 "broomhandle" pistol, converted from 7.63x25 to 9mm para., but thinking of re-barreling back to 7.63. One of my favorite pastols.
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Re: What's the oldest handgun in your collection?
.32 S&W hand ejector nickle plated somewhere around early to teen 1900's Not sure of age. Serial # 326006. Elegent little revolver.
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Re: What's the oldest handgun in your collection?
Mine is my 1968 P64. However one of my shooting buddies also has a 1944 Nagant revolver. I end up buying ammo for it semi regularly.
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Re: What's the oldest handgun in your collection?
I just picked up a Colt Pocket Positive from around 1917. 6'' barrel .32 S&W long
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Nice, but they musta had very deep pockets back then.
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I have a cap & ball dueling pistol, unknown age. When my dad was a boy in upstate NY the 1950's, his next door neighbor bought some land in Fl. The neighbor went down to clear the land. While sitting on the stump of a tree he had just cut, he saw what looked like a gun, grown into the wye of another tree. He cut it out & brought it back to my dad. My dad took it apart & cleaned it up. It does seem to function. It has a split nipple, the spur is broken off the hammer & the front sight is missing.