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Just picked this off GunBroker. Seller says it was a NYPD service revolver that was retired. Steve said it would be a good pistol to practice target shooting with since it likely didn't get much actual use. Now I have to practice, practice, practice. I can hear the whip all the way from great plains………...

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Had to give up an extra Chilean Mauser in 7mm to afford it. Sold it back to my neighbor for the same price I paid him. He sold it for me for a song and I returned it singing. Its nice to know somebody who is close to the gunsmith at Gander Mountain.

Best Regards,

Mark

....I've got about 100 .38 special wadcutters you can have to practice with ....free...if you're interested...

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I shall email you my address for those wadcutters. Looks like I'm die shopping this weekend. Oh, got any brass? Help, help, help.

Best Regards,

Mark

...it would be cheaper (and a lot faster) in person...you are only about 1/2 hour ride away...

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that's a nice looking revolver , congrats on that one

Thanks kindly. My P-1 (post war P-38) tosses 9mm cases all over the place and isn't all that accurate and my No2Mk1 Enfield tankers revolver only fires double action as the thumb piece for the hammer was removed so people inside vehicles wouldn't accidentally shoot themselves by having it catch on their uniform. This is a huge step up for me. I'm sooooo incredibly sick of conceal carry people hogging up the range at nice paces. I want to do some pistol shooting at 25 yards. I see too many people practicing with their AR-15's at that range, YIKES.

Best Regards,

Mark

That little green guy is going to follow me around, isn't he?

I made it a long time ago & this is the first time I've had a legit chance to use it. But okay - Yoda is off to Tatooine now. SW

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Mark
I have some 38 special cases that you can have also. Don't have a 38 or 357 mag now.

Rad

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Something of a 38 special nature is already enroute. Front sight.... Pressssss! SW

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Hopefully the gun will reach here on Monday. Its coming from Staten Island actually. I really hope the NYPD stamped something on it. That would be nice.

Best Regards,

Mark

Hopefully my front sight will support coinage…… The Enfield and P-1 move all over the place, especially if I use one hand. I do have a 101st AB vet able to teach me a proper grip at work.

Hope to wheel and deal my Swiss K-31 for partial credit on a 1911. Wish me luck with my new dealer.

I have one with a 2 inch barrel (might be 2 1/2 I don't know for sure).
That one is pretty accurate and easy to shoot with 38 wadcutters.
Full load 38 specials are a bit tough on the hand due to the skinny grips.
BRGDS, A

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So, flat nosed wadcutters are accurate? I would have never have guessed that.

I did receive some nice stuff in the mail from the Great Plains today. Now to get a set of dies tomorrow, er after I sell my Chilean Mauser to help pay for this new pistol. Time to sell some other rifles to deserving cash paying customers. Ummh, probably rather just trade them.

Best Regards,

Mark

Hollow base wadcutters are da bomb! 148 grain HBWC over 2.7 grains of bullseye = match target accuracy. Shot many thousands of those, I have! SW

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Aerodynamically I cannot fathom that. The wind tunnel tests say, "WHAT?"

Best Regards,

Mark

If you don't like a wad cutter you could get a Kieth based semi wad cutter.

Rad

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Sooooo many choices, so little knowledge…..I shall try some wadcutters for sure. I shall also look into those Keith wadcutters. I can understand the gripping the rifling part on wadcutters, that looks logical at a glance. I'm just used, to round or pointy things flying out of my barrel, flat is a new concept to me. Since I'm into aircraft, flat is the first shape you throw out when you design an aircraft, unless you have a rotary/radial engine, then you just suck it up and enjoy the horsepower.

Thanks for the tip on velocity. No chronograph available though.

Best Regards,

Mark

i think we are talking two different velocities here , you have very fast and you have slower and accurate , its all a trade-off in the end , at 600-800fps or even 900-1200fps its not really about aerodynamics as much as stabilization , particularly at 25-100 yards , and when you are talking about a handgun - maybe 3 yds , just sayin ....

Just got my grubby little squirrel hands on the new pistol and she looks every bit the revolver a cop used daily at work, worn but still very useable. On the inside, Steve was entirely correct when thought it was hardly used, as the bore is mirror bright and the cylinder locks in tight. The trigger pull in single action is fantastic, far better than anything I ever handled, except my buddy's 1917 in 45ACP with an unsafe hair trigger (A whole lot like Elvis in fact. We know which M-44 that is don't we Steve?).

The dealer I did the transfer with even gave me 40 once fired cases he had saved.

I have not shot this diamond in the rough yet, but I'll give a range report when I do. Most likely, it will be at the Freezing Der Heine Off shoot in Gibsonburg, Ohio in Jan weather and work permitting.

Got to sleep now.

Best Regards,

Mark

BTW, Everybody does get used to Elvis's light tough and tend to like it. The first one is rather "exciting" though.

That is the heavy barrelled model.
I have a mdl 10 with the tapered barrel.
Would have preferred the original grips.
It has a beautiful double action pull.