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Wow! If only he'd been able to hang on to all of these! Today, I ran across this 1961 photo of my late father's gun collection. I've seen it many times over the years and (prior to his passing) listened to his tale of having to sell so many of the "good" guns he had to pay for the lawyers during the divorce my parents went through in the 1970's. I inherited the 1918 vintage Springfield .45 ACP 1911 pistol, but all the Colt SAAs and Lighting revolvers were "in the wind" long before his passing. Pretty nice collection for its day!  "I'm not fluent in the language of violence, but I know enough to get around in places where it's spoken." | ||
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Oriental Redneck |
Nice collection for any days. Q | |||
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Cool pic! --------------------------- My hovercraft is full of eels. | |||
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Big Colt fan, your Dad. Cool collection. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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Anyone notice that Fitz Special right above the colt woodsman? Very cool!!! Regards, P. | |||
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| 7.62mm Crusader |
Looks like 2 Lightnings, 2 Bisleys and to the far left, 3 1849s. He liked his Colts. | |||
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Not to mention the Lightning Rifle! You sure don't see one of those everyday! Rolan Kraps SASS Regulator Gainesville, Georgia. NRA Range Safety Officer NRA Certified Instructor - Pistol / Personal Protection Inside the Home | |||
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| Freethinker |
I believe you are right! Good eye. ► 6.4/93.6 “ Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one’s own understanding without another’s guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one’s own mind without another’s guidance.” — Immanuel Kant | |||
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Good eye pbramlett, I was about to remark on the Detective Special until you posted that. That's a seriously cool collection right there. | |||
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WOW!!! So much awesome in that pic. Niech Zyje P-220 Steve | |||
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You guys are right on! I never noticed it before and (knowing my Dad) it was probably the real deal!  Here's my pic of the 1911 (depicted in the above photo too), that was left to me. It was built by Springfield Armory in 1918 and had been issued to a neighbor/friend of my father's, who'd served in WWI as a Captain in the Medical Corps.  "I'm not fluent in the language of violence, but I know enough to get around in places where it's spoken." | |||
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Your father had taste. That's a fine collection, there. A shame you didn't get ahold of more of it. ______________________________________________ “There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.” | |||
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