I always wanted one of the S&W "Shorty Forties" by Lew Horton Distributors. I remember back in the early 90's (maybe '92 or so) the ads for them in Shotgun News. They were $700+ even then so a bit pricey for me at the time. IIRC they were built on a 9mm 6906 frame and had Bar-Sto match barrels.
11C2P '83-'87
Airborne Infantry
F**k China!
Here are a pair of US Customs Smith & Wesson model 686s CS-1 models from the late 1980s. One has a 3" barrel and the other has a 4" barrel--both with round butts:
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A Remington Model Four in .30-06 - Bought it in 1985 along with the Redfield Illuminator Widefield scope that is still on it. Had work done on it the same year by replacing the plastic buttstock with a nice rubber adjustabeable one. Still looks pretty good.
1968 Hi Power, 1978 SW Model 41 (wearing a Optima Red dot from when I shot Bullseye in my 20’s), and a 1980s Dan Wesson 357.
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PS: Anyone want to tell me why pics post so small here now days?
"A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a Danish." - Ty Webb
Thanks! I think they only made the Model Four from 81-87. The 7400 (the cheaper non monte carlo stock version) they kept making. My scope magnification is 3x9 and it has the Accutrac BDC stadia reticle. The sad thing is I don't know where the BDC dials are and you can't get replacements from Redfield anymore.
I do, too: Plus my father's a Marine and everything I've read suggested that the Marines preferred the M1905s to the M1s. So my initial thought was to get one of the M1905 bayonets, but they're all pretty spendy.
My second thought, then, was to instead kit it out with the state-of-the-art accessories that would have been available in September of 1943 (when my rifle left Springfield Armory for the first time). So a cotton M1 web sling (in OD#3), M1 bayonet, Type-2 lockbar (helped by Garandammo.com getting repro SA lockbar rear sights), &c. Since there aren't any differences between the M1 bayonet of 1943 and the M1 bayonet of 1953, I figured that I might as well get the Kongsberg-made bayonet.
" Nil desperandum - Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it. "
- Samuel Adams -
Retro? Well, consider the following:
Old fashioned, non-tactical sling
GI Magazine with dry-film gray finish. So 1980's
Hopelessly obsolete 20 inch barrel. Hello - 1968 called. They want their barrel back.
M7 bayonet. 'Nuff said
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