Second VariationDetective Special revolvers were manufactured from 1947 to 1972. Available calibers were .32 New Police, .38 New Police or .38 Special. Two or three inch barrels were available. Second variation grips were made of plastic from 1947 to 1954 and wood grips were used thereafter....
“The standard-action Smith & Wesson double-action revolver in the .38 Special Military & Police Model is the best gun …. If you cannot learn double-action hitting within a month, then abandon pistol shooting and concentrate on learning to throw rocks through a barn door. Pistol shooting ma...
The Police Positive Special in .38 Special led to the Detective Special, one of the most popular and iconic handguns of all time. But another Colt Police Positive version is, in my opinion, among the most useful and beautiful of all Colt revolvers, and that honor belongs to the Police ...
teel Mountain Gun and Model 25-5. Grips are by BluMagnum. Smith Swings Out WhenS&Wintroduced their first large-framed, swing-out cylindered sixgun in late 1907, it was chambered in the new .44 Special. During the eight years this First Model Hand Ejector, or Triple-Lock was manufactured,...
Over the 44 years of manufacture, a number of Model 1903 and 1908 Colts were purchased for military and police use, some of which were given special markings. Around 1905 the Woonsocket Police of Rhode Island purchased an unknown quantity of .32 pocket models in the vicinity of serial number...