ramairthree
06-24-18, 21:08
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In the early 70s as a small kid the first pistol I ever shot was a 22 lr 9 1/2 inch barrel Colt Scout.
I don’t know where it came from.
It was my father’s only pistol.
The serial number dates it to 1959.
I don’t know when he got it.
It was a rural guy’s shoot rates at the dump, hunt raccoons, etc. worn, working gun.
It was his raccoon hunting gun.
Coon hunting where I was from involved sitting in the back of the truck while the old man and a buddy or two of his drank beer and drove along the dirt roads real slow waiting for the red tick, Black and Tan, princess Walker, etc. ran along in front sniffing along the ditches and stuff and catching sent and treeing a raccoon. You could not always see it to shoot it out of the tree, especially on some varieties of evergreens. This would require him climbing until he saw it and shooting it with this pistol.
Skins were worth about 35 dollars then.
When I asked why it had such a long barrel, he told me I would find out someday. The other guys would snicker and nobody would say why in front of me.
Before I was a teenager he died. I would walk out to deer hunt but never went raccoon hunting for years.
When I was about 16 an old buddy of his asked me to go with him. I brought the pistol. First treed one, I had to climb. About eight feet away on a branch it turned and head right for me. It was at eye level. I fired one into his head, and although definitely on its way to dying was still clumsily headed right for my face. and i instinctively pistol whipped the shit out of it and sent it right off the branch down below. I found out.
I have been taking it out to the range every year or two just to shoot. I have a ton of other pistols and it does not really fill a niche. I had replaced the worn plain wood grips and makeshift grip screw and nut with a very nice set years ago.
I went to get it out today and at first I thought the grip was loose. It was worse. On a SA the broken piece is just one piece to replace. On these Scout versions, the whole piece is unified. It is just some alloy. Not the kind of thing I can weld.
Bottom line is, I can’t just get rid of this gun. I have to fix it.
I am not even sure how it broke. Dropped? Fell? Just age?
When I was little I learned to shoot on this pistol and his father’s 1890 in 22 WRF. Basically a slightly shorter precursor to 22 magnum. I thought these guns would last and be around forever. Now the 1890 only works like a single shot. I have to find an expert to work on that I guess too.
I ordered a backstrap from Numirch Arms. Plus some grips and grip screws.
I had already bough an ejector rod from them ten or twenty years ago. The handle had broken off of that.
The part came.
It was listed as original Colt, used.
But it appears new, and with a different finish.
The fit and finsish was less polished and precise than the original. Is mine worn, or is it aftermarket? Sure did not look used.
But it worked.
The reproduction grip screws do not fit the used Colt grips. I will work on that.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/kYgRbK7QutfzynWA9
https://photos.app.goo.gl/YbB25UVouRswcDJq7
In the early 70s as a small kid the first pistol I ever shot was a 22 lr 9 1/2 inch barrel Colt Scout.
I don’t know where it came from.
It was my father’s only pistol.
The serial number dates it to 1959.
I don’t know when he got it.
It was a rural guy’s shoot rates at the dump, hunt raccoons, etc. worn, working gun.
It was his raccoon hunting gun.
Coon hunting where I was from involved sitting in the back of the truck while the old man and a buddy or two of his drank beer and drove along the dirt roads real slow waiting for the red tick, Black and Tan, princess Walker, etc. ran along in front sniffing along the ditches and stuff and catching sent and treeing a raccoon. You could not always see it to shoot it out of the tree, especially on some varieties of evergreens. This would require him climbing until he saw it and shooting it with this pistol.
Skins were worth about 35 dollars then.
When I asked why it had such a long barrel, he told me I would find out someday. The other guys would snicker and nobody would say why in front of me.
Before I was a teenager he died. I would walk out to deer hunt but never went raccoon hunting for years.
When I was about 16 an old buddy of his asked me to go with him. I brought the pistol. First treed one, I had to climb. About eight feet away on a branch it turned and head right for me. It was at eye level. I fired one into his head, and although definitely on its way to dying was still clumsily headed right for my face. and i instinctively pistol whipped the shit out of it and sent it right off the branch down below. I found out.
I have been taking it out to the range every year or two just to shoot. I have a ton of other pistols and it does not really fill a niche. I had replaced the worn plain wood grips and makeshift grip screw and nut with a very nice set years ago.
I went to get it out today and at first I thought the grip was loose. It was worse. On a SA the broken piece is just one piece to replace. On these Scout versions, the whole piece is unified. It is just some alloy. Not the kind of thing I can weld.
Bottom line is, I can’t just get rid of this gun. I have to fix it.
I am not even sure how it broke. Dropped? Fell? Just age?
When I was little I learned to shoot on this pistol and his father’s 1890 in 22 WRF. Basically a slightly shorter precursor to 22 magnum. I thought these guns would last and be around forever. Now the 1890 only works like a single shot. I have to find an expert to work on that I guess too.
I ordered a backstrap from Numirch Arms. Plus some grips and grip screws.
I had already bough an ejector rod from them ten or twenty years ago. The handle had broken off of that.
The part came.
It was listed as original Colt, used.
But it appears new, and with a different finish.
The fit and finsish was less polished and precise than the original. Is mine worn, or is it aftermarket? Sure did not look used.
But it worked.
The reproduction grip screws do not fit the used Colt grips. I will work on that.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/kYgRbK7QutfzynWA9
https://photos.app.goo.gl/YbB25UVouRswcDJq7