What about handgun hunting?

[gonzo]

Amongst our little group of shooters, one guy had a TC with barrels in 44rem mag, 30-30win and 223rem, with rifle and pistol stocks. That was fun to shoot.
Though when he first brought it, it turned out the scopes were rifle ones with close eye relief, ane we went out with the pistol stock. We all got a bruised forhead, except the owner who got cut, and the impact broke the crosshairs.

He also had a S&W mod 29, with a 10-odd inch barrel, and long releif scope mounted on top. We used to shoot that at 300yds and got an east 12" group.

Happy days.

 

[kenbro]

I used to lie in the grass near a large Warren and pick rabbits off with a Ruger Mark1 with ‘scope sight and moderator.
Ken.

 

[Sonicdmb73]

I can remember one of the students from agricultural college. Who used to work summers on my friends farm. Had a 22lr revolver, he carried in a holster on his hip and was shooting rabbits with it.
I have no idea if it was legally, I was no more than nine or ten years old at the time.
It did start me wanting my own pistols. I was disappointed finding the police would not allow me to use them for vermin control.

 

[Harry mac]

I had a Dan Wesson years ago , I bought it new with an extra 10 inch barrel ( it came with a 4 inch ) , case and barrel wrench for @ $300 CDN , man I'm old . It was a really accurate revolver .
I still have my 1911A1 , I feel the same way . I've owned and sold a lot of handguns over the years , except my Colt . I bought it in 1979 , still works great lol .
The only one I really regret selling was an older Ruger Blackhawk Convertible 45 Colt / 45 ACP model . Built like a tank, reliable and accurate . With modern 45 Colt loads , fully capable of taking anything in my neck of the woods . I'm still looking for another , great pistol .

AB

PS I just realized this post may be like rubbing salt in a wound , my apologies .

It really hurt to let my Dan Wesson Pistol Pack got to the smelter (if that's where it went?)
It came in a brief case with 2.5", 4",6" and 8 3/8" barrels and full lug shrouds; 2 sets of grips, a barrel wrench, feeler guage and a Dan Wesson belt bucle that weighed about half a stone.

 

[alberta boy]

It really hurt to let my Dan Wesson Pistol Pack got to the smelter (if that's where it went?)
It came in a brief case with 2.5", 4",6" and 8 3/8" barrels and full lug shrouds; 2 sets of grips, a barrel wrench, feeler guage and a Dan Wesson belt bucle that weighed about half a stone.

You mentioned this when we met up for drinks last fall . That would hurt . The Dan Wesson Pistol Pack was a good concept , but they weren't cheap as I remember . They're still around , but are hard to find and command a high cost .

AB

 

[Orion]

Losing my 6” Colt Python and S&W Model 17 was a wrench too. Managed to hang on to a Sig P228 for humane dispatch, even with the full compliment of 13 rounds of 9mm in the unrestricted mag!

 

[alberta boy]

Losing my 6” Colt Python and S&W Model 17 was a wrench too. Managed to hang on to a Sig P228 for humane dispatch, even with the full compliment of 13 rounds of 9mm in the unrestricted mag!

Ouch . Forgive my ignorance , but are you allowed to shoot the Sig at a range to maintain proficiency ?
AB

 

[Orion]

Don’t have it now as I chopped it in when I stopped working full-time in the business and was offered a more than fair price for it.

Losing the Python is the thing that really grates with me. I know the lock-work came out the ark on them and they were hand finished, but the bluing was deep and lustrous and there was just ‘something’ about it. I see that Colt are gradually reintroducing some of their same era ‘snake guns’ but with modern internals - Cobra, King Cobra - so maybe a new Python will see the light of day for those without such restrictive firearm laws?

 

[Bavarianbrit]

The ban was the big catalyst for me leaving the UK. It really hurt me as I was planning 2 years later to go into pistolsmithing as a way to live and work at home rather than going round the world contracting.
The tory/labour snots sorted it for me.
BB

 

[potshotpat]

Don’t have it now as I chopped it in when I stopped working full-time in the business and was offered a more than fair price for it.

Losing the Python is the thing that really grates with me. I know the lock-work came out the ark on them and they were hand finished, but the bluing was deep and lustrous and there was just ‘something’ about it. I see that Colt are gradually reintroducing some of their same era ‘snake guns’ but with modern internals - Cobra, King Cobra - so maybe a new Python will see the light of day for those without such restrictive firearm laws?

Well Monty Python passed the laws to get rid, and what good has that done.

 

[Orion]

Well Monty Python passed the laws to get rid, and what good has that done.

In the scheme of things, sweet FA, exactly the same as our stupid knife laws have been a major deterrent in preventing ‘knife crime’ - I hate that term and any other that gifts an inanimate object with physical powers, it’s people that commit crime so address the root cause of the problem, rather than make the majority suffer. (Yet again! )

 

[alberta boy]

Don’t have it now as I chopped it in when I stopped working full-time in the business and was offered a more than fair price for it.

Losing the Python is the thing that really grates with me. I know the lock-work came out the ark on them and they were hand finished, but the bluing was deep and lustrous and there was just ‘something’ about it. I see that Colt are gradually reintroducing some of their same era ‘snake guns’ but with modern internals - Cobra, King Cobra - so maybe a new Python will see the light of day for those without such restrictive firearm laws?

The newer Colt designs were/are nice pistols , I had a late 50's model Trooper in 38 Special for a number of years , a really nice pistol . I only got rid of it because I was young and broke and had a Model 13 S&W that shot just as well . The Pythons were an antiquated design , but were the slickest revolver out there . I doubt we'll ever see a mass production revolver like them again .
Off on a tangent , sorry , but I'm old enough to remember when the majority of pistols available , new and used , were revolvers and automatics were not that popular among law enforcement .
The way things are going in Canada , we probably will be looking at a handgun ban sooner than later . The current Liberal government seems to think that taking handguns off of legal owners will stop crackheads in Toronto from shooting each other ............ even though most of the illegal firearms seized are smuggled across the border from the states , but why let facts get in the way of legislation . Rant over .

 

[Bavarianbrit]

Cheaper & more efficient than locking up the crackheads though.
PC? yeah I know.
BB

 

[scrumbag]

I've always thought it' an interesting concept but it is still easier to deliver a humane clean kill with a rifle than a pistol....

I used to live in Switzerland and I miss my:

Sig P226 9mm

Colt Woodsman - One of the last ever built

S&W17 6" barrel, target hammer spur and trigger

S&W25-5 in 45 Colt

Will see if I can dig out photos from photo bucket...

 

[Orion]

Colt Woodsman - One of the last ever built

That takes me back!

First smallbore pistol club I joined back in the last century had a few of those, along with S&W Model 41s and Ruger Standards as club pistols for us to cut our .22 semi-auto teeth on. Although not long before we got the bug and splashed out on offerings from Hammerli, Walther, Unique and even Britarms - lovely gun that could put 5 shots through a single ragged hole at 25m (and yes it did have a tendency to go full auto! ).

 

[Kalahari]

I've always thought it' an interesting concept but it is still easier to deliver a humane clean kill with a rifle than a pistol....

I used to live in Switzerland and I miss my:

Sig P226 9mm

Colt Woodsman - One of the last ever built

S&W17 6" barrel, target hammer spur and trigger

S&W25-5 in 45 Colt

Will see if I can dig out photos from photo bucket...

Not a pistol person but that Woodsman was lovely. Wasn't very good with it but it was great fun.

David.

 

[Bavarianbrit]

Here is one that I built up myself earlier.
A Gold Cup slide with an Essex frame.
How I miss it.
BB

 

[scrumbag]

Not a pistol person but that Woodsman was lovely. Wasn't very good with it but it was great fun.

David.

It was a fun little pistol!

 

[scrumbag]

That takes me back!

First smallbore pistol club I joined back in the last century had a few of those, along with S&W Model 41s and Ruger Standards as club pistols for us to cut our .22 semi-auto teeth on. Although not long before we got the bug and splashed out on offerings from Hammerli, Walther, Unique and even Britarms - lovely gun that could put 5 shots through a single ragged hole at 25m (and yes it did have a tendency to go full auto! ).

Was a great thing to shoot!