How about a general gun discussion? Show yours and tell its story.
My Dad passed a little over three years ago, he was a huge fisherman, won many crappie tournaments around the southeast, some while paying a double entry fee and fishing alone. We sold his boat a little after he was gone. I was over at my Mom's helping with a few things, and she said, "I think there's some ammo in the back bedroom". I had been consolidating his ammo from several places, so I pull a couple of boxes from under the bed and find I had an extra thousand rounds of .22 LR and another 500 or so rounds ranging from .25 to 41 magnum. Very happy about that. My mom then says, "your Dad's boat gun is back here from when I cleaned out the boat". She brings me a dry box that had not always been dry and there was a Smith & Wesson .357 magnum stainless that had been neglected for a while, plus it had knocked around in the boat apparently for years. I took some scouring and I took some 1,000 grit sandpaper to it and got a lot of the rust and dirt off, it needs some closer attention, but it was a great find. The grip's discolored a bit, thought about replacing them, but I think I want it like he had it.
It's a Model 19-3, suggesting a 1967 to 1976 manufacture date. Here's a pic of it, post initial cleanup, by my 1976 Ruger Service Six .357 which is part of my home system.
My Dad passed a little over three years ago, he was a huge fisherman, won many crappie tournaments around the southeast, some while paying a double entry fee and fishing alone. We sold his boat a little after he was gone. I was over at my Mom's helping with a few things, and she said, "I think there's some ammo in the back bedroom". I had been consolidating his ammo from several places, so I pull a couple of boxes from under the bed and find I had an extra thousand rounds of .22 LR and another 500 or so rounds ranging from .25 to 41 magnum. Very happy about that. My mom then says, "your Dad's boat gun is back here from when I cleaned out the boat". She brings me a dry box that had not always been dry and there was a Smith & Wesson .357 magnum stainless that had been neglected for a while, plus it had knocked around in the boat apparently for years. I took some scouring and I took some 1,000 grit sandpaper to it and got a lot of the rust and dirt off, it needs some closer attention, but it was a great find. The grip's discolored a bit, thought about replacing them, but I think I want it like he had it.
It's a Model 19-3, suggesting a 1967 to 1976 manufacture date. Here's a pic of it, post initial cleanup, by my 1976 Ruger Service Six .357 which is part of my home system.
