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Offline Driftwood Johnson

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New Pocket Pistol
« on: October 14, 2014, 06:29:42 PM »
Howdy

Time to fess up. Brought home this lovely little .32 Single Action (Model One-and-a-Half-Centerfire) about a month ago. Roy Jinks says it shipped in June of 1881. It actually looks better than these photos show, the lighting was pretty harsh. Grips are pencil numbered to the gun.







The cartridges are modern. No, I don't plan to shoot it, just nice to have.

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Re: New Pocket Pistol
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2014, 06:50:16 AM »
Nice DJ.  :) wM1
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Re: New Pocket Pistol
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2015, 09:31:01 AM »
Nice, I love those little Smith Breaktops..
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Re: New Pocket Pistol
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Re: New Pocket Pistol
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2015, 11:35:37 AM »
I have an earlier version with the square butt and breaks at the bottom and tilts up.  Mine has a blue-black finish.  Found some really light BP re-loads and it shoots right fine for a pocket pistol.
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Re: New Pocket Pistol
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2015, 01:20:48 PM »
Very sweet! I have both the 1st (no grip logo) model and the 2nd (S&W grip logo) model. I found the 1st Model in an Idaho pawn shop, it bears the same serial number as its year of manufacture; 1878. Fella can't have enough S&W Top Breaks!
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Re: New Pocket Pistol
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2015, 09:09:58 AM »
Hi Forty Rod,
How did you deal with the rimfire issue with the ammo and what charge of Bp did they contain?
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Re: New Pocket Pistol
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2015, 11:15:48 AM »
Quote from: Colt Fanning on January 13, 2015, 09:09:58 AM
Hi Forty Rod,
How did you deal with the rimfire issue with the ammo and what charge of Bp did they contain?
Regards
Colt

You know what JB, that never crossed my mind.  I bought them at a gun show in Ontario, CA and they were marked as 3.5 grain FFFg reloads.  I never even questioned it.  I still have half a dozen loads left but don't have the box they came in.

I didn't even think to save the brass.

Now I wish I'd have kept it but at the time I just wanted to say I'd fired the little gun and had no intention of making a regular thing out of it.

Now I'll miss a lot of sleep trying to remember if there was a name on the box and what it might have been
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Re: New Pocket Pistol
« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2015, 12:16:00 PM »
Hi Forty Rod
Were they rim fire or center fire?
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Re: New Pocket Pistol
« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2015, 03:16:05 PM »
They're rimfire. 

The gun's never been converted and the discrepancy just slipped right by me.  Guess I'm getting old and my thinker thingy and rememberer don't work well any more.

I checked and have four loaded rounds left.  Cases are very red brass, maybe a copper alloy
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Re: New Pocket Pistol
« Reply #9 on: October 07, 2015, 08:23:10 PM »
Mine is centerfire, build date of 1884. Haven't loaded for it lately but I seem to remember 3.2gFFF.
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