Mostly Blue Steel And Lead
by Bob Walsh
The
reason I mention this is a just picked up a "new" toy this week, a
S&W Heavy Duty 38/44. Not that I have a real need for such a
weapon, but my old man carried one back in the day in the Military
Police so I have been half-assed keeping an eye out for a decent one
locally.
This one is
completely ordinary, a 4 inch blue specimen in very good mechanical
condition with a so-so appearance, but nothing that won't clean up. I
detail stripped it, cleaned and lubed it and made one minor mechanical
adjustment so it is not a happy revolver. Assuming it shoots well (and I
have no reason to think it won't) I will then have to decide on minor
touch-up on the finish or a reblue. At the moment I am leaning towards
originality but......
You
can't have too many guns until you run out of room in the safe. You
can't have too much ammo until you don't have a place to sleep because
it's stacked on your bed for lack of anyplace else to put it. In which
case you should have a bigger house anyway.
Unfortunately
with the direction California is going, unless the new and non-moronic
Supreme Court says otherwise it seems that the state is determined to
see that as few as people as possible are effectively armed.
(Actually
the 9th Circuit is now reasonably in the center of the real world with
several Trump appointments and they have made a couple of pro-2A rulings
lately which are maybe up for an en banc review. By the end of the
year CA gun owners may have some actual good news about their
constitutional rights being respected by the state.)
1 comment:
Heavy duty weapon. A powerful round that ushered in the .357. These pistols were made to last.
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