All About Pocket Knives

Stanwade wrote: ↑Mon Dec 28, 2020 5:41 pm Here's.....

Stanwade wrote: ↑Mon Dec 28, 2020 5:41 pm Here's my Smith & Wesson 627, performance center. .357 mag. , 8 shot...very accurate right out of the box...

knife7knut wrote: ↑Mon Dec 28, 2020 11:59 pm Thought I would post a few of my accumulation of firearms over the years.Although I have had a CCP(concealed carry permit)since 1972 I don't find the need to carry one daily anymore. The story of the first one pictured I think is worth relating:
There was a time when my wife and I would hop into my 1955 vintage station wagon and make our annual pilgrimage to Massachusetts to visit old friends and attend several old car shows. On the way(or on the return voyage)we would always stop in Falconer NY(near Jamestown)to see my aunt who lived by herself.
Aunt Christine was what many would refer to as a,"piece of work".Sometime I will relate how we first met(a VERY long story).Anyway her husband had passed away in 1960 and she lived on a 40 acre piece of property and did most of the upkeep on it by herself even though she was well along in years and suffered from macular degeneration.
One of her favorite things to do was mow grass with either her Ford 8N tractor or her John Deere Hydro with the 60 inch deck.As she mowed about 5 acres of grass every week, she alternated back and forth. She was mowing one day(at the age of 88)when she lost her balance and fell of the tractor and broke her hip. She lay on the ground for about 4 hours before her neighbors(who checked on her every day) found her.
After that episode every one figured her mowing days were over. They obviously didn't know her very well. Six weeks later she was back at it and kept on until she was 91. It was then that my sister convinced her to move to Florida near her and sell the house.
So we are stopped there on our way home and she tells us about her moving and tries to give us all manner of stuff. I tell her that we have enough of our own already but if she wants to give us anything make it pictures of the family. Just be sure to write on the back who they are! I had a bunch of unmarked ones when my mother passed away and nobody knew who they were!
So she goes into her bedroom and comes out with this pistol still in the holster and says that I should take it as she cannot easily get rid of it in NY state. She apologizes for not unloading it first but her arthritis prevents her from pulling out the cylinder pin(that is the way it is unloaded).
The pistol is a Harrington & Richardson model 922 and was bought by her husband for her in 1935! It has never been fired either! And that is the way it will stay for my lifetime.
Sad to say my aunt passed away just two months short of her 100th birthday. I used to speak with her every week by phone and the last time I talked with her she was pretty depressed.She had re-fractured her hip and was confined to bed. She bemoaned the fact that none of the people she grew up with was still alive and there wasn't anything more for her to live for. A week later she was gone. All I have left now are some really great memories of her and the 922.

Pictures are:
#1 H&R model 922
#2 Baby Hammerless Model 1910
#3 Colt .25 Auto
#4 Small Belgian(I think)pistol cal. unknown.Smaller than .22
#5 Marlin model 1894 in .44mag with a Daisy in .17cal.
#6 Left hand Remington 110 12 ga with 26 & 30 inch barrels.My old trap gun.
#7Ruger Blackhawk in .45 Long Colt.
#8 My pride & joy: a Detonics Mk.1 in .45 ACP.One of the first 200 made.Carried this forever.

jerryd6818 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 28, 2020 1:28 pm Christmas music from Glock.

Colonel26 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 29, 2020 12:47 am
What a hoot your aunt must have been! She sounds like an amazing lady. Those guns are fantastic too.I'm partial to 1100's, I have a light 20 that was my dad's with 2 barrels. But the one that really gets to me is the 44mag Marlin!

knife7knut wrote: ↑Tue Dec 29, 2020 3:29 am

Colonel26 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 29, 2020 12:47 am
What a hoot your aunt must have been! She sounds like an amazing lady. Those guns are fantastic too.I'm partial to 1100's, I have a light 20 that was my dad's with 2 barrels. But the one that really gets to me is the 44mag Marlin!

In the long version I tell how I met her for the first time when I was 43 years old! We got together at a restaurant my other aunt had rented for the occasion and my half sister(whom I had met about an hour before)says that Christine doesn't like gatherings like this. Just then she walks in the door and my sister says,"She does NOT look happy!"
I stood up to greet her and she walked over to me and stood about 2 feet away ;looked me up and down and the first words out of her mouth were:" Ain't no doubt whose kid YOU are!" I gave her a big hug and replied," I LOVE YOU TOO!" and she was at a loss for words.THAT was the beginning of a great relationship.
The Marlin came to me from a good friend who ran a pawn shop in New Hampshire many years ago.He knew I was looking for a lever action rifle and he called and said he had just gotten two of them in.One was a .30-30(that he was keeping)and the other was in .44 magnum and it was never fired and he wanted $150 for it. He also sold me the Ruger.
I had at the time a S&W model 29 with a 10 5/8ths inch barrel(very rare gun)chambered for .44 mag so I bought it. I wound up selling the Smith to my brother-in-law(kicking myself for doing that;he traded it off for something)but kept the Marlin. Still have yet to use it but have plenty of ammo.
I was into big bore handguns then and wound up buying a Phelps SA chambered for .45/70 rounds. Fired three rounds out of it and sold it;WAY too much for me! Have a couple other interesting firearms but don't want to post them here.

Byrd wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 1:44 pm The ultimate CCW pistol. A CVA kit gun from the late 60's or early 70's. This was given to me by a friend who said he and his Dad put it together and shot it once.

It's a .45 so I'm gonna try it out with a .440 patched round ball and 10 grains of 3F powder. Should be a fun fireball. I'm expecting nothing in the accuracy department...

Byrd wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 1:44 pm The ultimate CCW pistol. A CVA kit gun from the late 60's or early 70's. This was given to me by a friend who said he and his Dad put it together and shot it once.

It's a .45 so I'm gonna try it out with a .440 patched round ball and 10 grains of 3F powder. Should be a fun fireball. I'm expecting nothing in the accuracy department...