Okay Nyles. My handgun collection
 

Because you requested it here you go. These is all the handguns I currently own. Sorry about the rubber grips on some of them, but I just didn't feel like replacing all the grips with the wooden ones. Sorry.

Starting from the bottom going clockwise:

1)Browning Buckmark Camper w/5.5" barrel (22LR)
2)GLOCK 26 (9mm)
3)GLOCK 19 (9mm)
4)Colt Model 1908 Hammerless, 1st Issue (.308 ACP) - Mfd. 1908
5)Colt Detective Special, Post 1972 (38 Spl)
6)Colt Lawman Mk III Snubbie (.357 Magnum)
7)Colt Trooper w/4" barrel (38 Spl) - Mfd. 1960
8)Colt Officer Match Target w/6" barrel (38 Spl) - Mfd. 1940
9)S&W K-38 4 screw w/6" barrel (38 Spl)- Mfd. 1956
10)Smith & Wesson M&P Model of 1905, 3rd Change w/ 6" barrel (38 Spl)-Mfd. 1913
11)Smith & Wesson M&P Post WW II 5 Screw Transitional w/ 5" barrel (38 Spl) -Mfd. 1947
12)Smith & Wesson M&P Model of 1899 w/4" barrel (38 Spl) - Mfd. 1902
13)S&W Heavy Duty (Pre-Model 20) w/5" barrel (38/44 High Velocity)- Mfd. 1937
14)S&W Model 49 Bodyguard (38 Spl)
15)S&W Model 28 Highway Patrolman w/4" barrel (.357 Magnum). I had it refinished back in 2004. Parkarized with a Teflon coating.
16)Webley Mk VI w/6" barrel
17)Manuhrin MR-73 revolver w/4" barrel (.357 magnum)

Pretty sweet man. That's a lot of wheelguns!

I envy your MR-73 and S&W Model 28

manurhins are cool, seems your a wheelgun guy. othin wrong with that:)

Thanks. The MR-73 was just a flukey find. The previous owner owned a local Honda dealership and was a huge gun collector. As in hundreds of pieces.

But in 2008 he was diagnosed with Cancer. By the time they caught it he was in end stage and only had a few months. He gave away all of his guns to his friends and family members. Whatever was left over (perhaps fifty some pieces all togther) were sold off. The MR-73 was one of those sold off. I traded a S&W 686 and a nice trap model Winchester Model 12 shotgun for it. I figured I would probably never see one an MR-73 for sale again. Certainly not here in Idaho.

They're all very good shooters. The Glocks and the Model 49 Bodyguard are my duty pieces. I usually carry either the Model 49 or the Glock 26 when off duty. Now that it's getting colder and I'm wearing sweaters and sweatshirts I like to carry the G19 on my belt.

I envy your Colt Trooper and Colt Lawman.

The Trooper was the duty gun of Earl Lee Swagger.

although it hadn't been invented at that point lol.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who caught that. lol

Based on my investitgation into the Arkansas Highway Patrol, Earl Lee should have been packing a S&W M&P with a 4 inch barrel.

I assumed that the Arkansas HP would have been carrying either the M&P or Official Police in the early fifties. But Earl Lee Swagger with a puny .38 Special revolver? :eek: No way.

While Earl Lee does seem to be the type to use something other than a .38, and often does, even if still a varient of the 38 round. (.357 Magnum, .38-44, Super .38), the .38 Spl was the go to police issue service round of it's day.l

And hell, even old Mr. Ed and mean old Charlie carried .38 Specials when they went up the river to rid the world of Thebes.

Oh sure, but those guys were real - well okay they were "based" on real characters. Earl Lee Swagger and his son Bobby Lee are on a level above us mere mortals. The Swagger men have to use something that is worthy of their superman status. I mean Earl carried both a S&W N frame (actually it would have been an S frame in the fifties) .357 magnum and a Colt .357 Trooper.

Which is why I just had to own both a S&W Model 28 and a Colt Trooper. ;)

Actually I like Stephen Hunter's novels.

As I've gotten older I've become a bigger fan of the 38 Spl and 9mm Parabellum. Thanks to the advances in bullet designs over the past twenty-five years the rounds are pretty effective. I shoot well with both the 9mm Glocks and 38 revolvers and the ammo isn't as expensive as .357 and 45 ACP.

Also ,as a collector of revolvers, I discovered that often the older 38 Spl revolvers are lower priced than the .357 magnums and the 38 Spl models are usually in better shape than the magnums. Plus many folks don't want a "wimpy" 38 - even if it is a classic. So the selection is better.

The .357 and 45 are great loads. I'm not starting a caliber debate here.

I like how everybody loads with 38-44 in his novels, even loading detective specials with them historical accuracy might be a little off but books were cool.

Very nice collection Checkman - I still love that 1899 M&P and the Heavy Duty.

Thanks Nyles. You have a nice collection as well.

"Revolvers..."
"Yes, revolvers"

Sweet collection, Dudarino.

Welcome to the Revolver Kingdom. :D

And I thought my 3 Rifles and a Shotgun were too much guns.

I had that many guns when I was 12 :p

Revolvers? Oh, come on, Gramps, move into the 21st century!


No, I'm just kidding. :p Nice collection. ;)

Has nobody noticed the two Glocks and the Browning Buckmark Camper in the lower left hand corner of the photo? I'm hip. :rolleyes:

Yeah, I seen them. I'm just pulling your chain. ;) As I said, very nice collection. :)

If you look up "hip" in the dictionary, it's spelled C-H-E-C-K-M-A-N. :cool:

Yep that's me. The very definition of Hip. :D

Classy > Hip

quoted for win

I strap on a Glock 21 every morning. It's reliable, it's in my price range, I have two spare mags for it, it chews all matter of hollow points, I can hit Minute of Fat Guy with it, nothing in the world against Glock, except thier fanboys, but don't think that I wouldn't trade it in for a S&W 19 or Heavy Duty in a heartbeat.

I was in high school when Glock started importing the G17 into the United States. I remember the controversy about the "plastic" gun defeating metal detectors in airports and I witnessed Glock takeover the police market in the 90's.

I'm a product of my time and I like my Glocks. They work and they are reliable. They're my duty pistols. But I honestly consider them tools. My revolvers are different.

You can never have enough gun. :cool: