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Yeah . . . I looked it up and it is indeed a heavy weapon at over ten pounds empty and probably a lot worse with twenty or thirty rounds of also heavy .45 ACP in the magazine. A very good friend of mine who flew Hueys had one in Vietnam and he absolutely loved it. But, then, he didn't have to lug his around the jungle all day.
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Walther P99c AS 9mm Smith & Wesson Walther PPK/S Stainless .380 ACP Interarms Walther PPK/S Stainless .380 ACP Walther P22 Target .22 LR Springfield Armory XD 45 Tactical Stainless .45 ACP http://www.amazon.com/Decisions-ebook/dp/B004183X3I Last edited by UniversalExports : 07-15-2010 at 06:08 PM. |
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07-16-2010, 10:10 PM
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Sexy stuff.
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07-19-2010, 09:20 AM
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My Dad brought this home in 1963, said he always wanted "a nice little .22", it's turned out to be a superb revolver. Can't even speculate how many pounds of lead have been put through it.
The original wood handles wore off, so I replaced them with ivory. 
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07-19-2010, 09:34 AM
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Lovely! Thanks for sharing.
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07-31-2010, 06:33 PM
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This is the second gun I bought, more years ago than I care to remember. It cost $75 at the time. It's a Reid's "My Friend" 7-shot knuckleduster in .22 caliber and is in remarkable shape.
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07-31-2010, 11:11 PM
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Wow!
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08-01-2010, 08:54 AM
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I had to find out more about this one so I did a quick Google.
http://www.littlegun.be/arme%20ameri...riend%20gb.htm http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=180244244 What else you got up your sleave Searcher?
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08-01-2010, 11:57 AM
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Up my sleeve? Well, the sleeve is definitely the right spot for the Reid's "My Friend" knuckleduster, but it won't accommodate the Remington.
 It's a New Model .44 Army, with a patent stamp of 1858, made at the Remington plant in Ilion, New York. (It still amazes me that a state that helped produced America's firearms heritage has become so rabidly anti-gun.) My father bought the gun for $15 in the late 1940s, and it came to me when he passed. My mother told me that she was angry with him at the time because they didn't have an extra $15 to spend on something as frivolous as an old army pistol.
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08-01-2010, 02:12 PM
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yea some things never do change....
I heared the same thing about some of my guns Whilel I see there is a difference in price and they are not yet heirloom, I think my kids down the road will have the same story to tell.....
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