Can we talk Vintage Pistols?

[pmclaine]

Well since you guys mentioned old stuff and suppressed , here is my high condition JMB FN1899 ( one of about 2 dozen known) and my suppressed 1945 Walther P38. It is fairly quiet. I was fortunate enough to find an unissued p38 barrel on eBay and had it threaded so as to not ruin the matching barrel.

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. likes your style.

Hmmmm thinking JMB may have had some words with Sig regarding the P210.

That guys design shit shows up everywhere in the gun design world.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Found a box of very, very old wadcutters I had on a shelf... so did a function test. Perfect. No target test yet. It will come after I load up 2.8 grains and a wadcutter... x2000.

But I have no doubt that this will shoot holes in holes... Remarkably beautiful pistol.

Cheers,

Sirhr

 

[pmclaine]

Found a box of very, very old wadcutters I had on a shelf... so did a function test. Perfect. No target test yet. It will come after I load up 2.8 grains and a wadcutter... x2000.

But I have no doubt that this will shoot holes in holes... Remarkably beautiful pistol.

Cheers,

Sirhr

The "feel" of firing the 52-2 is like no other pistol for me....

A "cough", a springy feel in the hand of the slide working, a perfect hole in the paper.

Not a whole series of violent actions related to hell being unleashed at the end of your arm.

 

[pmclaine]

@sirhrmechanic

This is some conversation I had regarding reloading for my 52-2 when I first got it....

http://smith-wessonforum.com/reloading/241539-shot-my-first-batch-52-2-reloads.html

PM me your address and I will send you a photo copy of the Gil Hebard article that he wrote for Gun Digest back in the 60s on the 52 and his test reloading for it. Unfortunately he didnt have 231 to try back than but it has been accepted as a good powder for the 52.