![]() ![]() 38 S&W cartridge with 158 grain lead semi-wadcutters handloaded to 750 fps. With the side arm I usually carried to the office. Probably weren't too many Bankers Specials being carried in 2016. I retired from banking two years ago and celebrated by carried the Bankers Special the last week on the job. Just the thing for wimpy bankers who don't want the recoil of the Colt Detective Special. 38 Colt New Police (.38 S&W) that lettered to a shop in Los Angeles, California in 1932. This one probably dates to 1887.Ĭolt Bankers Special in. The first one I had factory lettered to 1881 or 1882, can't now recall which. This one was picked up for cheap a couple years ago because I felt sorry for it and to remind me of the first one I had. Employed it to shoot a copperhead on an occasion. Though better handguns were on hand, it was the "arrowhead hunting side arm" for some reason back in early marriage. 38 DA 4th model like this one when I would go arrowhead hunting. I had a better looking example years ago, but used to tote a Smith & Wesson. 38 S&W chambered revolvers "for serious social purposes" over the years. 38 S&W with no small enthusiasm and have been known to infrequently tote. Subsequent examination of the rifle discovered that it was undamaged except for that beautiful stock which was destroyed by the escaping gas from the ruptured case which vented into the magazine well in such a volume as to blow out the stock.ĭidn't see that one coming and really couldn't have with only a visual examination of factory ammunition that appeared clean and bright. I was standing about 18 inches to his left when the rifle let go, yet was unhurt by the stinging material striking me. Ronnie was completely unhurt even though the rupture occurred in front of a right-handed shooter's face. The cartridge case cracked from the flash hole within the primer pocket, around the case head and up the side of the case. Seems that one of the arsenal loaded cartridges was improperly annealed and had a soft case head. While my friend was shooting it, the rifle suddenly "exploded" in a shower of gas, particles, splinters and smoke. We both shot it a bit and were suitably impressed. We took the rifle off with us and later that evening essayed ourselves out in his front yard for some informal test firing. There was a quantity of Frankfort Arsenal '33 M1 ball ammunition with it. It's been here for years with some ammunition and y'all can shoot it this weekend." She simply said: "Ronnie, Why don't you go in there and look in the hall closet and get your uncle's rifle out and you can have it. She always made me her wonderful cinnamon rolls when I came up. We were sitting on her sofa visiting with her. It had belonged to his uncle, his grandmother's career army son who was deceased. Neither of the two tested cartridges would fire.Ī friend up in Oklahoma was given a beautiful, completely unmolested, all factory original, early World War II M1 by his grandmother while I was up for a weekend visit on an occasion when we were both young. 45 ACP cartridges, just picked up at a gun show, intending to save the third one for the cartridge collection. While conducting a more serious series of chronograph tests a few years ago with another caliber, I thought to test two of the three Frankfort Arsenal '26. Hang fires and duds resulted, but then look at the condition. 38 Special ammunition through my favorite ol' Smith & Wesson Model 10 was made a few years back. Not every effort to use really old ammunition is a success and it can be fraught with an unknown measure of risk.Īn attempt was made to chronograph test a dab of particularly yucky pre-World War II. It was clean and sure-fire and gave 1341 fps over the chronograph screens. 38-40 load, a 180 grain jacketed soft point used in a Winchester Model 1873 rifle. Took a whitetail deer with that 1930s vintage factory Winchester Western. Non-corrosive priming was introduced in the U. Didn't mind using it to obtain brass as long as it was not corrosively primed. 405 WCF in order to obtain brass for handloading, even up into relatively recent times. 45 ACP ammunition and quite a lot of World War II. It too was off, giving a velocity of only around 650 fps. 38 Long Colt ammunition dated 4-11 over the chronograph through a Colt Model 1901. Have fired over the chronograph screens a single round out of a bandoleer of Frankfort Arsenal '04 ammunition through the Krag Jorgensen here. Some cases cracked and some primers pierced. About half of it fired and half of it did not fire. Both the style head stamps and the uncharacteristic small primer pockets identified it as likely predating 1900. 38-40 black powder ammunition I obtained in large numbers (300 or so) from a pawn shop. Probably the oldest was some very early and very scroungy-looking. Good on ya' to make the effort to show appreciation for the fellow's gesture. ![]()
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