S-a-t-u-r...d-a-y night (specials)!

Just dropped into my backyard one night

Nothing wrong with a good .44 and a fine .32 for a back up.



L.W.

Bryco 48 in .380acp

No clue. There are no markings on the gun other than the grips. My dad took it off someone back in the 50's when he was an MP. It looks to be a .32 Short.

It was loaded when he took it, and it does work, though Im not shooting it.

S-A-T-U-R...D-A-Y NIGHT (SPECIALS)

I own a H&R Mod. 622 .22Cal. paid $40 about 30yrs ago.
I keep it in my garage with bird shoot in it.
Please don't tell anybody I own this FINE gun.

I own an H&R American Double Action .32 IIRC. lacking grips, hammer, and a usable barrel so all it does is guard the kitchen drawer by invoking a strong fear of tetanus on anyone that sees it. It does qualify as a cheap gun though.

Cheapest used pistol I bought were three Walther PP German police trade ins for $180 each at the Berlin Rod and Gun Club when I was in the service.

Cheapest new gun I've bought was a CZ75-b, also at the rod and gun club, for $270.

All four were lost in shipping back stateside, along with a nice limited run SW Model 29 with a black finish, unfluted cylinder, and 5" barrel.

This baby does nightstand duty each night. It used to be frozen solid but a few quick smashes on the sidewalk out front freed up the cylinder and also accidentally removed those pesky grips. Now it looks even more tactical. Gotta love whiskey fueled gunsmithing.


Now my hands are all dirty from holding it

Actually I meant in case any nails in the nightstand back out and have to be smashed back in. Sorry for the confusion

Spanish copy of a S&W in 32. I was told that it is cheap metal and not safe to shoot. It has a creepy past so I'm reluctant to trash it. It just sits in the back of the safe.



My true Saturday Night Special is a 38 Rossi snub. It was given to me by a relative because "It's a cheap pice of $%#^& that only shoots evert 2 or 3 trigger pulls!?!" Stamped right on the barrel: Rossi 38 Special SAO. Works fine as long as you pull the hammer back. Maybe I'll post pics later since I've never thought enough of it to photograph it...but it just sits in the safe, too. I don't have much use for a defensive revolver that is crippled by not being double action, seems like a silly design.

I'll need to snap some photos when I'm at home, but mine is an old FIE E15 .22LR single action revolver my dad gave me a few years back. He bought it back in the early 80's for like $40. He considered it unsafe because my uncle had shot himself in the leg with an identical one - it doesn't have a firing pin block and the hammer had snagged on something one day. It pulled back on the hammer - not enough to half-cock but enough that when it snapped back down the gun fired. Luckily it was sitting in a holster so it just kinda grazed down the side.

Either way - I don't carry the gun and it works fine if you keep the little manual safety flipped on. The gun doesn't shoot to POA (it shoots high), but if you adjust your aim to match the sight offset the gun ain't half bad. I've shot it at the range goofing off quite a bit. It's functional and works. I did have to deburr two of the cylinder holes at first though - the holes had a few burrs that kept those two from being able to chamber a round.

Other than that, the cheapest handgun I've ever BOUGHT is my Nagant revolver. $69 for that one. I paid $30 for a .32acp cylinder though (and $50 to have it fitted) so I've got about $150 in the gun. It's an ugly critter with a heavy trigger but it's built solid as a rock.

RG 66 22lr

This is a german gun my grandmother bought back in the 70's so she had something to do whil my father was in shooting sports. She paid $25 at K-Mart as a blue light special. The chambers don't always line up and will shave pieces of bullets off and hit whom ever is standing next to you in the eye, we don't shoot it much. Although I did see my dad shoot a rock chuck at 75 yds with it jokingly saying, "watch this...(pow)...Holy sh*t, I hit him." (he is a lousy pistol shot)

And I was just thinking I wish I had an excuse to post newer pics of my RG40!



And next to my Colt Government




Can anyone see the cut-out on the right side of the recoil shield? I made that cut so you can see next round to be fired, sort of like a loaded chamber indicator, but for a revolver and it allows you to not only see that the round is there but whether or not its a fired round. Ive never seen such a cut on another revolver, but it seems like a pretty good idea, right?

Now I know what happened to some of those guns that everyone loses in boating accidents . . .

Bought a Bryco 58 in 9MM for $20.00 from a co-worker. Ran 200 or so through it with no problems but never trusted it and it weighed about 4 pounds.
The police here had a Guns for Groceries trade in a couple of weeks ago so I traded it to them for a $100 credit card.

Bought a Bryco 58 in 9MM for $20.00 from a co-worker. Ran 200 or so through it with no problems but never trusted it and it weighed about 4 pounds.
The police here had a Guns for Groceries trade in a couple of weeks ago so I traded it to them for a $100 credit card.

Click to expand...

Ugh. I'm not one to tell anyone what to do, but I swear I'd destroy a gun myself if I thought it unsafe before supporting one of those programs. They're pure and simple anti-gun propaganda tools, demonizing them as something bad that must be removed from society. When they trumpet the number of those "evil" guns they have now removed "off the streets", there's no way I could stomach having made that number go higher.

As long as you use that money to buy an assault rifle, I think it's fine.

Ugh. I'm not one to tell anyone what to do, but I swear I'd destroy a gun myself if I thought it unsafe before supporting one of those programs. They're pure and simple anti-gun propaganda tools, demonizing them as something bad that must be removed from society. When they trumpet the number of those "evil" guns they have now removed "off the streets", there's no way I could stomach having made that number go higher.

Click to expand...

I understand completely

As long as you use that money to buy an assault rifle, I think it's fine.

Click to expand...

Then there's the devil on my shoulder that reminds me I could buy 500 rounds of 9mm for my evil glocks or 500 rounds of 223 for my evil black rifles.

I can't fault anyone for doing either.

Until now, I never realized how much crossover there was between the Saturday Night Special and biological weapon genres.

rsrocket1 said:

Just dropped into my backyard one night

Click to expand...

That's a pretty definite sign from above telling you that it's time to move to a better neighborhood.

My cheapest is an Iver Johnson TP22 .22 automatic that I picked up off a dealer's "junk" table for $75. It was an Erma design, and looks and functions like a Walther PPK. It's a handy pocket gun for hiking or fishing, where it doesn't matter if it bets banged around some, or gets wet.