Cool finds cleaning out my closet
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- 2ndovc
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Cool finds cleaning out my closet
While going through some stuff in my closet this week I found my uncle's Buck knife and a Colt revolver
that I thought I'd sold years ago.
My lovely wife most likely stuffed my old "show Bag" and Uncle B's buck knife in the "pretty storage box" on my shelf.
jb
that I thought I'd sold years ago.
My lovely wife most likely stuffed my old "show Bag" and Uncle B's buck knife in the "pretty storage box" on my shelf.
jb
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jasonB " Another Dirty Yankee"
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Re: Cool finds cleaning out my closet
I bought a Police Positive just a couple weeks ago. Mine has been used but still very usable. Cool Find.
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Re: Cool finds cleaning out my closet
Nice find. Looks like a New Service.---6
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Re: Cool finds cleaning out my closet
Jack,Sixgun wrote:Nice find. Looks like a New Service.---6
Put your readers on!
It's a Police Positive in .38 S&W.
Should have included that little bit of info I guess.
jb
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Re: Cool finds cleaning out my closet
Jason,
It just looks big, especially the trigger guard.
It's still a nice one though. Those hard rubber grips are hard to find in decent shape. The factory stopped using those grips in the early twenties and if the serial no. is under 270K , they are original to the gun.-----6
It just looks big, especially the trigger guard.
It's still a nice one though. Those hard rubber grips are hard to find in decent shape. The factory stopped using those grips in the early twenties and if the serial no. is under 270K , they are original to the gun.-----6
Re: Cool finds cleaning out my closet
That's cool. I guess it is a sign not to sell that stuff.
Re: Cool finds cleaning out my closet
No need to clarify, Anybody can tell it's a POLICE POSITIVE.2ndovc wrote:Jack,Sixgun wrote:Nice find. Looks like a New Service.---6
Put your readers on!
It's a Police Positive in .38 S&W.
Should have included that little bit of info I guess.
jb
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Re: Cool finds cleaning out my closet
New Service
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Re: Cool finds cleaning out my closet
Lost a monocular I used when my kid was in NCAA rowing. Assumed it had been stolen at a regatta after searching everywhere for it.
5 years later, cleaning out garage, I found a musette bag I had kept in an former car. Looked at it & said, "that's where I put that Audubon monocular". Sure as the dickens, there it was. Had gottten lost in the shuffle of buying, selling & emptying out cars.
5 years later, cleaning out garage, I found a musette bag I had kept in an former car. Looked at it & said, "that's where I put that Audubon monocular". Sure as the dickens, there it was. Had gottten lost in the shuffle of buying, selling & emptying out cars.
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Re: Cool finds cleaning out my closet
Cool - congratulations!
Why can't I find things like this in my closet?!?
Why can't I find things like this in my closet?!?
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That's because there's no room left. The stacks of hundred dollar bills takes up all of the space.Ysabel Kid wrote:Cool - congratulations!
Why can't I find things like this in my closet?!?
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Ha - that's good!Sixgun wrote:That's because there's no room left. The stacks of hundred dollar bills takes up all of the space.Ysabel Kid wrote:Cool - congratulations!
Why can't I find things like this in my closet?!?
More like all of my wife's shoes and clothes take up all the space!
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Re: Cool finds cleaning out my closet
Good find...and a whole lot cheaper than going to your LGS!!!
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Re: Cool finds cleaning out my closet
Here's a cool thought ---- pick up or reload 50-100 rounds of .38 and give that little gun a workout ! -- IT has been laying dormant too long --- Nice piece
----- Doug
Re: Cool finds cleaning out my closet
because the "better half" usually throws it away or gives it to a neighbor...not bitter, just saying... :OYsabel Kid wrote:Cool - congratulations!
Why can't I find things like this in my closet?!?
Re: Cool finds cleaning out my closet
My luck usually runs the other way.
I have a big box of new GI 1911 magazines that I've been looking for, goin' on five years now.
Jack
I have a big box of new GI 1911 magazines that I've been looking for, goin' on five years now.
Jack
Re: Cool finds cleaning out my closet
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Nice surprise - You're lucky she threw them in a closet.
My late brother-in-law (many years ago) went looking for a .22 rifle his wife (my Sister ) had "put away".
It turned out that she had put it under the front porch & forgot about it - for 4 years !
Yep - it was a rusty bucket, when he finally retrieved it...
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Nice surprise - You're lucky she threw them in a closet.
My late brother-in-law (many years ago) went looking for a .22 rifle his wife (my Sister ) had "put away".
It turned out that she had put it under the front porch & forgot about it - for 4 years !
Yep - it was a rusty bucket, when he finally retrieved it...
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Re: Cool finds cleaning out my closet
I found 6 bricks of .22lr in the closet a couple of days ago that I had forgotten I had. Range time today with one of them.
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Re: Cool finds cleaning out my closet
Man!
What a beauteous Police Positive! I had to take mine out of the safe and look it over. Mine is a 1920's era .32 Long with a set of stag, flat bottomed grips and a very unusual barrel: 2 and 3/8ths inches long, marked with the Colt Police Positive markings, and with "B .32" caliber stamp right next to it. Upon checking, I found that the "B" marking is a Colt replacement barrel installed on a revolver that was originally shipped from Colt to Old Mexico and returned from there for service. Only South of the Border revolvers got the B barrels! And it shoots excellently. I use mild mannered cast bullet reloads and it is spot on the target at 7 yards. Thanks for the reminder
GregT
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What a beauteous Police Positive! I had to take mine out of the safe and look it over. Mine is a 1920's era .32 Long with a set of stag, flat bottomed grips and a very unusual barrel: 2 and 3/8ths inches long, marked with the Colt Police Positive markings, and with "B .32" caliber stamp right next to it. Upon checking, I found that the "B" marking is a Colt replacement barrel installed on a revolver that was originally shipped from Colt to Old Mexico and returned from there for service. Only South of the Border revolvers got the B barrels! And it shoots excellently. I use mild mannered cast bullet reloads and it is spot on the target at 7 yards. Thanks for the reminder
GregT
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Re: Cool finds cleaning out my closet
Yeah, during all the panic I was afraid to go shoot my .22s since ammo was ridiculous....looked in the safe...closet...pantry...pickup and other various stashes and found 12 full bricks (or equivalent boxes) and several partials I'm still too stingy to shootpiller wrote:I found 6 bricks of .22lr in the closet a couple of days ago that I had forgotten I had. Range time today with one of them.
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Re: Cool finds cleaning out my closet
Too right... COOL find! Only stuff I find doesn't fit anymore!
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Re: Cool finds cleaning out my closet
Griff wrote:Too right... COOL find! Only stuff I find doesn't fit anymore!
That happens here too!
All the clean up/ out was for a yard sale a long time coming. Made out like bandits!
And had another good find. I was given a shoulder holster by a friend a few years ago but
didn't have anything at the time that would fit in it so I tossed it on one of
the tables this morning. As the day went on I kept looking at the thing and eventually
a light went off in my thick head. The Colt New Frontier I got from Vance this summer fits perfectly!
Still wearing it! Feels a little "Dirty Harry"!
jb
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Re: Cool finds cleaning out my closet
A whole lot of years ago I had a beautiful little 4 inch Police Positive 32-20, a great shooter. Then I saw something I thought I needed to trade for, oh well. You have a nice looking pistol.
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