speedingpickle
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Well it's a mystery to me anyway, but I'm sure most of you will know instantly what this is.
My favorite (and last) uncle passed away a little over a month ago. This is the guy who gave me my first motorcycle, my first shot of whiskey, and my first go behind the trigger-all before the tender age of 10. Bikes booze and guns! Heckuva role model! Mom, his sister, didn't approve, but all three have stuck with me my entire life. He only had one child, a son who has no interest in firearms. So, they all came to me. He'd been paring down for years but it still amounted to over 30 guns all of which needed serious cleaning and none of which were particularly babied. This filled several holes in my collection and I am beyond thrilled to get the gun in question.
It came with the original box and manual, and the receipt-he purchased it Dec 1967 while stationed in Guam during his stint with the Air Force.
$48! Hard to wrap my head around that!
It also came with a spare cylinder, hammer, trigger, cylinder latch and spring, pawl, and base pin. I did a little poking around and from what I can tell this is a Single Six Conversion, enabling the use of .22 mag ammunition.
Here's where the mystery comes in. Except for the cylinder the spare parts were in a plastic bag with this warning:
That strike me as odd for a couple reasons. First, isn't it reasonable to assume these were sold new, with the gun, and therefore couldn't possibly be "abused" or "unsafe"? And second, why leave them for "collector's purposes" only? The parts have obviously been installed/used but there's nothing wrong with them. I don't shoot a lot of .22 mag but it'd be nice to have the option. And why would the hammer and other small parts need to be changed? They look like stock parts to me, the only difference being with the base pin. The installed unit has a thingy (technical term) sticking out of it, the spare doesn't.
Other than some surface damage to the .22lr cylinder the gun is in good shape and I'm looking forward to warmer weather so I can go find out for myself if everything I've heard about these is true or not.
I'd appreciate any info you might have regarding the spare parts and warning.
Thanks guys and hope your new year is better than the last!
My favorite (and last) uncle passed away a little over a month ago. This is the guy who gave me my first motorcycle, my first shot of whiskey, and my first go behind the trigger-all before the tender age of 10. Bikes booze and guns! Heckuva role model! Mom, his sister, didn't approve, but all three have stuck with me my entire life. He only had one child, a son who has no interest in firearms. So, they all came to me. He'd been paring down for years but it still amounted to over 30 guns all of which needed serious cleaning and none of which were particularly babied. This filled several holes in my collection and I am beyond thrilled to get the gun in question.
It came with the original box and manual, and the receipt-he purchased it Dec 1967 while stationed in Guam during his stint with the Air Force.
$48! Hard to wrap my head around that!
It also came with a spare cylinder, hammer, trigger, cylinder latch and spring, pawl, and base pin. I did a little poking around and from what I can tell this is a Single Six Conversion, enabling the use of .22 mag ammunition.
Here's where the mystery comes in. Except for the cylinder the spare parts were in a plastic bag with this warning:
That strike me as odd for a couple reasons. First, isn't it reasonable to assume these were sold new, with the gun, and therefore couldn't possibly be "abused" or "unsafe"? And second, why leave them for "collector's purposes" only? The parts have obviously been installed/used but there's nothing wrong with them. I don't shoot a lot of .22 mag but it'd be nice to have the option. And why would the hammer and other small parts need to be changed? They look like stock parts to me, the only difference being with the base pin. The installed unit has a thingy (technical term) sticking out of it, the spare doesn't.
Other than some surface damage to the .22lr cylinder the gun is in good shape and I'm looking forward to warmer weather so I can go find out for myself if everything I've heard about these is true or not.
I'd appreciate any info you might have regarding the spare parts and warning.
Thanks guys and hope your new year is better than the last!