Gratuitous 38/44 Picture Thread!

[Colt46]

Never a big fan of small bore N-frames

If ever I could afford it I'd take one and have Bowen turn it into a .45 Colt that is featured in his website. So damned beautiful it makes you want to cry.
Nice collection btw.

 

[tbtrout]

Thanks, now I want one.

 

[Iggy]

Peter claims he has to travel all over the world in his work.. I think he just roams around snagging all those beautiful S&W's.

 

[Peter M. Eick]

Yeah I can claim I travel. I just got back from Libya and potentially I am off to Qatar late next week to give a talk and attend a conference. After that 2 weeks off then another 6 to 8 weeks in Libya again. After that it looks like Australia then Indonesia again.

Iggy knows I bounce all over the world. I work in places like this:

View of the north Libyan desert. My driver said these are tracks from Rommel and Montgomery on the retreat back to Tripoli.

So I can buy things like this:

50 shot, 15 yards offhand. 1934 shooter that is a tight as a tick and fun to shoot.

 

[Iggy]

Peter,

Yeh, I reckon those Rommel tracks and some of that Russian snow earns you the right to a nice shooter once in a while!!

Another couple of years like this one and the ranch is gonna look just like Libya.

 

[ElToro]

i had 3 HD's within the last year. Didn't have it in me to bore one out ala Bowen so i sold the 5 inch nickel to a guy in TX. My 4 inch was made the first month of prodcution in 46 after the war, slick as a gut i wish i had that one back, but the guy really wanted it and a made 3x my money on it. Gave the nicest 5 inch HD in perfect blue to my dad for his birthday. So at least i can still shoot it.
My 6 inch outdoorsman is a tack driver and is not for sale.
I really want a 4 inch fixed sighted .357.. but i cant find a 520 anywhere..

 

[RCouch]

Had a 4" bbl one when I was Elmendorf in Anchorage in the early 50's. Got it new at the Northern Commercial Co. It was a great shooter and I traded it to a fireman in Anchorage for a 38/40 SA Colt with a 6" Christy bbl. Wish I had it back. Don't think I've ever traded a gun that I wasn't sorry about later.

 

[Bullet Bob]

"Don't think I've ever traded a gun that I wasn't sorry about later."

Testify, brother, testify.