.455_Hunter
Member
My first handgun was an arsenal reconditioned, pre-war Enfield DAO .38. My Dad bought it for me in 1990 for $125 when I was 14. I never had any concerns about quality, and it's still on HD duty today...
Great idea! Mine is shorts only and I haven’t ever seen shot shorts but it’s still a good ideaI still have my 1970's RG .22 snub nose. In fact in the summertime here in Mississippi I pack that thing in my right rear pocket loaded w/5 rounds No12 snake shot. I "cleaned" the barrel til there wasn't much left of the rifling. Took off the fat plastic grips and wrapped the gun grip with very little black tape to give it a slim profile. That short barrel does not distort or spin the shot pattern and I get a perfect pie plate size cloud landing on those pesky water moc's that show up here weekly crossing from the creek on one side of the house to the pond on the other side. Back in the 70's I was fishing off a jetty near Balboa in Calif. and had the RG in my pocket. Stayed to late and the waves took me off it. Lost my pants in the rescue by some surfers. Long story short 2 days later I had the Feds on my front porch. They had a big time drug dealer dead on the beach. Shot with a .22, plus my pants and the RG with 5 empty shells in it. ( Had a little Jack Daniels and was shooting crabs off the rocks, Oh well ) Anyway, that little piece of junk and me had quite the adventure. Final... Fed Agent said your not who we'er looking for. Gave me a slip of paper to reclaim my property at the Huntington Beach Office. Went down a week later to get my "Roscoe" and it was in a ziploc bag full of sand and saltwater. One big ball of rust. Well that was a waste of time I thought. Came home and dropped it in a solvent tank I had in my shop. Forgot about it. A month later fished it out and Wa La..Looked like new. 50 years and still being of use to me.
......
If you remember them and are not yet in your dotage which was the better pistol, the one GCA ‘68 stopped or the one GCA ‘68 started?
-kBob
In 1986 I was working on the YF31T experimental fighter project, the F16 refit project and the VTOL-Super Eagle project, getting ready to finish a degree in engineering and looking for a job closer to Vero Beach so I could go surfing all year round. The Canaveral seashore/Playalinda beach closed when there was a vehicle on the way from the VAB to/on one of the pads waiting for launch and back in '85/'86 that was almost constant.In 1986, I was 12yrs old
Years ago when I was trying to get every handgun caliber I wound up getting interested in Raven .25's, first real US made Saturday Night Special semi auto, first one's to give the GCA the middle finger, seemed like they were known to be better than all the other Ring of Fire brands and I got one. Cost about $150 after shipping and transfer, pretty reliable except the last round or two in the mag tends to stovepipe. Good news is that Phoenix Arms still makes and sells mags for the Raven pistols.I remember those RG 22's selling at the local G.E.M. store for about 30 bucks. Them and the Raven 25 semi-autos. I didn't have any handguns back then and wanted one or the other so bad. I could at least imagine the circumstances that would let me scratch together the money to pay for one of them. A Smith and Wesson or a Colt? Forget it. They might was well have been a million dollars. I had about as much chance of coming up with that, as I did whatever the actual price on the tag was.
I never did get an RG or a Raven. My first handgun came some years later, a Smith and Wesson Model 19. I don't have any idea how many I've owned over the years, but it's in the 100's I'm sure. Those RG's and Raven's had kept the dream alive. I've been tempted to buy one over the years, just for grins and giggles. Never have though. One of the few guns I've never owned actually.
My old Ducati had a fairly beefy seat lock as well. There was just enough room in the little storage tray beneath it for a couple of wrenches, screwdriver, and a Beretta Tomcat. Only problem was it wasnt exactly sealed against the elements very well, so the gun and tools had to go in HD Zip-Loc bags.In 1986 I was working on the YF31T experimental fighter project, the F16 refit project and the VTOL-Super Eagle project, getting ready to finish a degree in engineering and looking for a job closer to Vero Beach so I could go surfing all year round. The Canaveral seashore/Playalinda beach closed when there was a vehicle on the way from the VAB to/on one of the pads waiting for launch and back in '85/'86 that was almost constant.
I bought my first "pot-metal" gun in '89 - a Lorcin .380 - to keep under the seat of my Suzuki Katana. Figured it worked well enough if I broke down in the middle of nowhere and needed something for small animals or two-legged predators - and I wouldn't miss it if it "disappeared." The seat lock on those older Suzi's was actually pretty impressive so I wasn't terrible worried. We never had registration here in Florida and I got it through a private sale anyway so it wouldn't come back to me if found at a crime scene. At least, that was how I figured it then. Before that I rode a '69 Triumph 650 Tiger and before that a '77 Honda 350 Twin. You could pop the seat lock of the Triumph with a bobby-pin and the Honda didn't have a seat lock.
Wow!I still have my 1970's RG .22 snub nose. In fact in the summertime here in Mississippi I pack that thing in my right rear pocket loaded w/5 rounds No12 snake shot. I "cleaned" the barrel til there wasn't much left of the rifling. Took off the fat plastic grips and wrapped the gun grip with very little black tape to give it a slim profile. That short barrel does not distort or spin the shot pattern and I get a perfect pie plate size cloud landing on those pesky water moc's that show up here weekly crossing from the creek on one side of the house to the pond on the other side. Back in the 70's I was fishing off a jetty near Balboa in Calif. and had the RG in my pocket. Stayed to late and the waves took me off it. Lost my pants in the rescue by some surfers. Long story short 2 days later I had the Feds on my front porch. They had a big time drug dealer dead on the beach. Shot with a .22, plus my pants and the RG with 5 empty shells in it. ( Had a little Jack Daniels and was shooting crabs off the rocks, Oh well ) Anyway, that little piece of junk and me had quite the adventure. Final... Fed Agent said your not who we'er looking for. Gave me a slip of paper to reclaim my property at the Huntington Beach Office. Went down a week later to get my "Roscoe" and it was in a ziploc bag full of sand and saltwater. One big ball of rust. Well that was a waste of time I thought. Came home and dropped it in a solvent tank I had in my shop. Forgot about it. A month later fished it out and Wa La..Looked like new. 50 years and still being of use to me.
I'm reading thru this thread and over the years I've grown into a big H&R fan and I know they were still making revolvers in the 80s that weren't pot metal. Did no one bother to look at H&R's or did gun stores not stock them? I assume they must have cost more than Rohm and Clerke...