My Dad's WWII pistols

Family heirlooms are priceless, write down their history for future generations to know. This helps to keep the respect for them alive and they stay in the family.
 
I googled 1940 m1911A1 value

I had no idea they were worth anywhere from $3,000 to $10,000! Mine lower end, finish not so great. But what the hey

I have a mint 1973 Gold Cup that I was firing lightly because I thought it had some future value, but this just blows that away.

I'm wrapping this puppy up and keeping it for my kids and theirs!
 
Kwik2010 said:
By the end of it he had me scared to shoot it. He offered me a piece of junk rifle and told me it was way better and ready to go. I took it without a second thought. Being a kid I figured I'd be out from under a terrible rifle that was gonna blow up or something the next time I fired it and have a working rifle in exchange. I didn't realize the sentimental value until shortly after I accepted the proposal and went about my business, let alone the monetary value.

I later asked him about buying it back and he said "already sold it kid" for what I'm sure was a pretty penny. Now that my grandfather has since passed I still think about that rifle and how stupid I was to trade it off. I'd do anything to get it back.
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I did much the same thing with a sailing dighy my mother gave me when I was 12. After a few years of sailing it, I got tired of dealing with a persistent (small) leak around the centerboard trunk, and I sold it to a friend for what was probably a fraction of what it was worth. The next year it broke loose during a storm and got crushed between a dock and a ship, so there was no way I could undo my folly.

Fast forward a great many years, and I now have my grandfathers .22 Winchester carbine. The very rifle I learned how to shoot on. The last time my grandfather and I used it, when I was in my late teens, the extractor didn't work right and it had to be manually cycled for each shot (it's a semi-auto). Even though it was "broken," I hung onto it because it's about the only thing I have from my grandfather. A couple of years ago I found a Youtube video on how to detail strip that model. I screwed up my courage, took it apart, cleaned and lubricated the moving parts deep inside and VERY lightly dressed the extractor hook with a file, then reassembled.

And now it works. Sometimes we learn from our mistakes.
 
Be sure to range vet it. Could be a jammomatic. Don't want a family heirloom that doesn't run right. ;)

Then you'd have sell it off to some smuck on GunJoker who's got more money than sense. Hate to see that happen. :eek:
 
I inherited my grandfather's World War II vintage 1911.

My father brought no weapons home from World War II, Korea or Vietnam so there's nothing to inherit there.
 
thirtysixford wrote:
Stupid Photobucket won't show my photos from the past.
Just another example of Libs taking over out lives.
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Photobucket found an untapped potential income stream (i.e. third party hosting) that they could exploit to either increase their revenue or, if people didn't want to pay for third party hosting, their reduced traffic would reduce Photobucket's cost.

So, I fail to see how Photobucket exploiting a previously untapped revenue stream (or associated cost reduction) which increases the wealth of the shareholders and the utility of their investment - something that is quintessentially capitalism in action - can by any stretch of the imagination be described as "liberal".
 
Nice Ford.

Wish I had my dad's 1938 Chevy Coupe - and also the 1918 Indian motorcycle he used while in college at the University of Missouri in the late 1920s & early '30s.
 
There's no possibility that that error happened anywhere but the factory. As soon as those things were assembled they sent for testing, boxed, crated, sent. Unless there was a problem, I don't believe that they would be tested, cleaned, and reassembled in the exact order of coming off of the line, so it's unlikely that any two sequential numbers would wind up being tested and then cleaned and accidentally mismatched by whoever was cleaning the probably corrosive priming ash out.
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Conventional wisdom used to be that slides and frames became mismatched in the field, in a scenario where multiple guns would be stripped, cleaned en masse, and no care taken to match slides to frame during reassembly.
Over the decades, it became apparent that a lot of WWII-era Colts had slides and frame that were "off" by no more than five digits, as with the OPs gun, and mine, which are three digits apart.
There's a growing belief that the nearly-matching guns were part of parts-interchangeability testing, five guns taken from the line and parts swapped around, then not swapped back to matching.
It would help explain why Colts are nearly matched, and also sort of debunk the "mass cleaning" explanation, which would result in greater disparity in serials, more mis-matched slides and frames, barrels, etc.
 
I was thinking maybe they were issued in numerical sequence to the officers and then maybe after a day at the range, cleaning them around a footlocker or so got them messed up, but what do I know

Not Much Ha Ha



I did see that the Japanese officers were not given side arms. They had to purchase them

interesting
 
Keillor 2010: You might run a WTB ad on Craigs list with the description of your grandfathers rifle. Who knows? You might get lucky!
 
Dad getting a little goofy at 95, but telling me they said it would cost more to bring the LCT's home than to sink them. He says they took them off Maniila Bay and pulled the plugs. Down they went with ammo, small arms etc.
 
Dad was also quite an athlete Was on USC team in 1946 Rose Bowl didint get to play, but he was there on bench.

now I have to spoon feed him and change his diapers, but he's still
MY DAD
 
No words can explain my feelings on today's tragedy in Florida

I was in Las Vegas 10/01 and heard, saw the ambulances etc trying to help folks just like you and me.

I love my firearms, but .....

Why ?????
 
The shooter had become a regular on pro-Muslim "resistance" websites.
I'm sure it didn't help that he, a Hispanic kid, was bombarded by "news" telling him how racist the U.S. is.
It will filter out.
 
Thirysixford the answer is in where our society has went. It is not the tools these evil people use. Some are raised wrong some are just plain evil.
 
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