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Larry in VA
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I have a friend who comes from a long line of police officers. His whole family and extended family seem to be all police officers. He is not, but now his son has become an police officer in a neighboring county.
My quandary is this; my friend has an old pistol that was his Dads deep cover piece and it is in pretty bad shape. Definitely unsafe to fire! Won’t index cylinder properly is the main fault along with other faults. It appears to have been a pretty cheap pistol when purchased and the story behind it; (per my friend) it was fairly abused in its use. Beside used to subdue perps it was used to knock on doors, break things (glass, heads & whatever).
Personally I don’t think the gun is worth fixing but my friend really wants to give it to his son in usable (if not new) condition for sentimental reasons.
Any help finding a decent pistol smith who really knows his way around obscure type revolvers will be much appreciated.
Oh yeah! Gun has no markings as to who made it or model number/name. It is/was nickel plated.
TIA guys.
Larry
My quandary is this; my friend has an old pistol that was his Dads deep cover piece and it is in pretty bad shape. Definitely unsafe to fire! Won’t index cylinder properly is the main fault along with other faults. It appears to have been a pretty cheap pistol when purchased and the story behind it; (per my friend) it was fairly abused in its use. Beside used to subdue perps it was used to knock on doors, break things (glass, heads & whatever).
Personally I don’t think the gun is worth fixing but my friend really wants to give it to his son in usable (if not new) condition for sentimental reasons.
Any help finding a decent pistol smith who really knows his way around obscure type revolvers will be much appreciated.
Oh yeah! Gun has no markings as to who made it or model number/name. It is/was nickel plated.
TIA guys.
Larry
the S&W Rep when he told him this, the Rep said he'd NEVER heard of such a thing, and didn't think it was possible.( my friend goes to the range ALmost every weekend, and his range bag weighs, like 54 Lbs.!!) The BIGGEST problem w/less well-known guns like that is parts procurement, and if you can't easily get the parts, most smiths won't make the part, not because they can't, because the owner doesn't want to pay for the work. If it doesn't have any names on it, someone isn't proud of their product; even those old "store-brand" shotguns "Long-Tom Special", etc., the store that sold them didn't even have THEIR name on them(guilt by association?). I'd forget it.