A couple of weeks ago I was in Wichita Falls visiting my step father. Other than to check on him, I went up to pick up what I thought was a .38 revolver he wanted me to have. The box I picked up from his neighbor was for the Taurus Falcon .38, but I found a pleasant surprise inside.
This is a .32 Colt Hammerless Pocket Pistol made in 1917 that had belonged to his parents. (He is 86) The gun had been stolen and Barney didn't remember it being recovered. My BIL had to take it to a gun shop just to get the magazine out and the slide to move to make sure it was unloaded.
I was back up this week to help get him moved from the rehab hospital to assisted living. When I got there my sister said they had found the .38 and showed me where it was. Unless it was fired during one of the 2 times it was stolen, the ammo in it was the same that Barney loaded into it about 40 years ago when he bought it. No way I am going to drop a hammer on a round that old.
Looking through things I found a shotgun shell box with 2 full boxes and 1 partial box of .22 LR ammo, probably about the same vintage. A final surprise was finding some loose .38 reloads in the drawer of a nightstand I was cleaning out. There was a combination of copper jacket hollow points and wad cutters. Barney said he never had any ammo like that, which means it had been laying in the back of that drawer since before my Dad died in 1970. I would have liked to have kept a few of them as momentos of my Father but let logic prevail and, on the way out of town, dropped it all off at the Police Property Room for safe disposal.
Time now to get some repairs done to the .32 and pick up cleaning gear and fresh ammo for both guns.
Ya'll come see me, now! (Just make sure to holler BEFORE you open the door!)
This is a .32 Colt Hammerless Pocket Pistol made in 1917 that had belonged to his parents. (He is 86) The gun had been stolen and Barney didn't remember it being recovered. My BIL had to take it to a gun shop just to get the magazine out and the slide to move to make sure it was unloaded.
I was back up this week to help get him moved from the rehab hospital to assisted living. When I got there my sister said they had found the .38 and showed me where it was. Unless it was fired during one of the 2 times it was stolen, the ammo in it was the same that Barney loaded into it about 40 years ago when he bought it. No way I am going to drop a hammer on a round that old.
Looking through things I found a shotgun shell box with 2 full boxes and 1 partial box of .22 LR ammo, probably about the same vintage. A final surprise was finding some loose .38 reloads in the drawer of a nightstand I was cleaning out. There was a combination of copper jacket hollow points and wad cutters. Barney said he never had any ammo like that, which means it had been laying in the back of that drawer since before my Dad died in 1970. I would have liked to have kept a few of them as momentos of my Father but let logic prevail and, on the way out of town, dropped it all off at the Police Property Room for safe disposal.
Time now to get some repairs done to the .32 and pick up cleaning gear and fresh ammo for both guns.
Ya'll come see me, now! (Just make sure to holler BEFORE you open the door!)
The .38 has a light enough trigger action that the wife can shoot it.
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