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Title: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: DeaconKC on June 15, 2019, 11:04:15 AM
I had been looking for 2 specific guns for a while, an Old Vaquero, they had a larger frame and grip and I have big paws. Also, a Mauser HSc, which I think are some of the sleekest Art Deco guns ever made, aside from being great guns. I worked out a trade with a fellow in California so when he shipped to me, went into my LGS where it would come to and lo and behold, there was a nice, clean HSc in .380! Well, while we worked out the trade another got thrown in to even things out, an Iver Johnson in .32 that was looking at me with puppydog eyes. Range time next week.
(https://i.imgur.com/hFzAdHE.jpg)
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: Coal Creek Griff on June 15, 2019, 12:08:42 PM
looking at me with puppydog eyes.

I know that look! It sounds like you had a nice day!

CC Griff
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: DeaconKC on June 15, 2019, 12:44:09 PM
The little IJ has been carried a LOT. The bluing shows quite a bit of wear but the chambers and bore are virtually pristine. Still tight as a bank vault.
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: Abilene on June 15, 2019, 03:22:45 PM
Neato.  When those gunstore guys see you pull up out front they probably say "quick!  Get out the weird ones!"   :)
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: DeaconKC on June 15, 2019, 04:23:58 PM
Neato.  When those gun store guys see you pull up out front they probably say "quick!  Get out the weird ones!"   :)

Once I was in there while the owner was trading for a serious little mud puppy. once done, he didn't even look straight at me, just grinned and handed it to me. I'm hopeless...
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: Major 2 on June 16, 2019, 07:08:10 AM
I too, know the ailment, I was effected yesterday
A as new in box Beretta 950BS vest pocket auto,  I know for a fact, they say "  "quick!  Get out the weird ones! "  as soon as I walked in they all chuckled  :D

This was a consigned piece ( two of the mags were still factory packaged ) and mag in the gun showed no real wear , hang tag still on the TG .
The consigned price was quite fair, but the haggled price even better.

Motivated seller, meets hopeless romantic with 10 crisp $ 20's  ;)
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: DeaconKC on June 16, 2019, 08:58:58 AM
Congrats on the baby Beretta, they are gorgeous little guns!
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: Major 2 on June 17, 2019, 07:23:06 AM
It is a little gem,  digests Hornady custom 25ACP XTP sweet as can be...
But does not like Remington FMJ Ball ammo.
  I interject here neither does my Galesi which will also feed the Hornady's reliably .

I was given the box of Remington's so I'll probally plink with them or pay them forward  :-\
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: DeaconKC on June 17, 2019, 10:23:09 AM
That's strange that it will feed the JHPs and not the FMJ stuff.
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: Major 2 on June 17, 2019, 03:45:56 PM
Even stranger , the Remington box reads for 25ACP for Pistols & revolvers ?  revolvers  ???
The 50 Grain FMJ Bullet is noticeably a rounder nose than the JHP's.
 Neither gun will feed the FMJ satisfactorily

I stopped by Academy Sports and bought a box of 50g Fiocchi FMJ on sale, it has a somewhat less rounded nose...more like the 35 grain JHP's I'll run some and see if thats the ticket.
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: Major 2 on June 17, 2019, 06:04:47 PM
This is the Armi Galesi
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: DeaconKC on June 17, 2019, 10:45:11 PM
 :) Man, what a neat little pistol, It's, it's just plain cute! I couldn't have resisted it either!
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: Major 2 on June 18, 2019, 09:09:38 AM
They were kind of an enigma.

 Galesi Giuseppe Nicola founded the manufacture in 1914 . well-known for their small semi-automatics 22 - 32 Cal. ,  Made a few models for the Italian Military.

The Gun control act of 1968 stopped Armi Galesi from importation of assembled guns to the USA their largest market.
Just as Beretta was forced to send construction of their 950B ( 950BS) to the New Jersey corporate location.
Galesi had the micro guns assembled in Miami Fla. to about 1981...his son still runs RIGARMI

All steel construction and good quality, Inexpensive but not cheap quality.   
I dressed mine in Black Walnut grips I hand made from the broken stock of 1859 Sharps ( heck ! old wood that had still a useful life and well seasoned too )
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: Pitspitr on June 19, 2019, 06:49:12 AM
...sleekest Art Deco guns ever made...
???
Naw.
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h176/TomcatPC/New%20Stuff/18221854_1533538000031474_7778589338906010631_n_zpsz4jzevnq.jpg) (http://s64.photobucket.com/user/TomcatPC/media/New%20Stuff/18221854_1533538000031474_7778589338906010631_n_zpsz4jzevnq.jpg.html)

 ;D
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: DeaconKC on June 19, 2019, 10:55:45 AM
My dear Pitspitr, you have a valid argument, but I shall have to disagree. I think we are getting into Ginger vs, Mary Ann territory!  Or perhaps, for the era, Joan Blondell vs. Myrna Loy! Willow branches at 10 paces Sir!  ;D
BTW, have you tried the Triple K magazines for the Savage and if so, how did they work? I would like to have a second mag for mine.
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: Pitspitr on June 19, 2019, 11:37:49 AM
My dear Pitspitr, you have a valid argument, but I shall have to disagree. I think we are getting into Ginger vs, Mary Ann territory!  Or perhaps, for the era, Joan Blondell vs. Myrna Loy! Willow branches at 10 paces Sir!  ;D
Mary Ann. I like Brunettes. Myrna Loy. My wife has her nose. ;D


BTW, have you tried the Triple K magazines for the Savage and if so, how did they work? I would like to have a second mag for mine.
I haven't yet, but I intend to.
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: Tornado on June 20, 2019, 04:18:01 PM
I have a couple of Triple K mags for my 1917 Savage and they have been 100% so far.  The only thing I don't like about them is they made the follower taller and so they hold 2 rounds less than factory ones.
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: DeaconKC on June 20, 2019, 10:04:56 PM
Tornado, that is a fine looking gun! And thanks especially for the input on the mags. Mine is in .32, so we will see [once they are back in stock] how they work!
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: Major 2 on June 21, 2019, 09:57:59 AM
I have couple of  Iver Johnson's in .32  one in nickle  & the other blue and hammerless finish is 98%
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: DeaconKC on June 21, 2019, 10:23:29 AM
Major, those are dolls!
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: Major 2 on June 20, 2020, 06:50:38 AM
Reresection   ;D

To add to the fire  "  ...sleekest Art Deco guns ever made "  ( BTW Maryanne  ;) )

I offer the Steyr 08/34 ....

* as a update : the  25ACP  50g Fiocchi FMJ  feed flawlessly in both the Beretta & Galesi.
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: Scattered Thumbs on June 25, 2020, 11:20:41 AM
Been busy too. ;D

Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: Major 2 on July 02, 2020, 06:59:40 PM
I have one of the Mod. 35's too , marked 1944-4UT

After occupation through the Germans and Mussolini 1943, Beretta began immediately to deliver weapons for the new armies. Also a lot of Beretta 1935 for the German Wehrmacht. The theory says, that almost all models with the "4/UT" proof mark were delivered to the Germans. I have the capture paper, it was surrendered at the Ruhr Pocket. 
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: DeaconKC on July 10, 2020, 08:27:08 PM
Well, the Triple K mag for the Savage showed up. Marked 1917 but fit perfectly in my 1907 and feeds perfectly. Very pleased overall.
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: Major 2 on July 11, 2020, 07:07:11 AM
I have one on order for my  Steyr 08/34  ...they said 90 -120 days  :(   

I have the original so I'm  OK.

There is an original  on eBay that has not sold in two re-listings opening bid  $90  :o

It would ship from Hungary  ::)   I'll pass ...


Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: Baltimore Ed on July 12, 2020, 12:31:40 PM
Simon Templer aka, Bond James Bond, was brandishing one around on The Saint yesterday evening.  I’ve always thought the Beretta ‘34 was good looking but never bought one. Nice pistol.
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: DeaconKC on July 18, 2020, 09:21:42 PM
Robert S. Tuck in "Fly for your life" that he retrieved a Beretta 1934 from the dead pilot of a Dornier bomber he shot down during the Battle of Britain. Always though they were a stylish little gun.
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: Bat 2919 on July 18, 2020, 11:05:27 PM
The only M1934/35 I've ever owned was made of plastic, I was 12 or 13 at the time.  Always loved the way it looked but when I had a chance to buy my first real one, saw it in a used rack at a gun shop in the late 70's I passed.  It caught my eye immediately as it was my favorite toy gun.  I was so disappointed to learn it it's in was chambered in 7.65 I passed on it for $125.  If I could find one at a decent price now I would probably still buy it for nostalgia sake but every one is so proud of them these days.
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: Major 2 on July 19, 2020, 07:44:01 AM
The Model 35  is 7.65  (32ACP) ,  the Mod. 34 is 9MM Kurtz (380)

The 32ACP Mod. 35 is sweet and flat little shooter ...the .380  Mod. 34 not so much

Mine is the Mod 35  and it will shoot on target , My Friend has a Italian capture Mod. 34 that is quite snappy and not very accurate ( both were shot @ 7 yards )

At that distance all 8 round of 32 ACP were on paper ,  with the .380 just 3 rounds  ( 7 yd. Comparison test was rapid fire )

Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: DeaconKC on July 19, 2020, 05:20:35 PM
The difference between the .32 and .380 is common in so many inter-war guns, PPK, HSc and others.
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: Major 2 on July 19, 2020, 06:27:08 PM
The European 7.65 Police is loaded some hotter than the more domestic 32 ACP we have available to us.
.32 ACP and 7.65 mm Browning cartridges are dimensionally identical, some early European ammunition was loaded to slightly higher pressures.

 I don't have ballistic numbers , but I'd guess they are posted somewhere on the WWW.

Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: Books OToole on July 30, 2020, 03:08:00 PM
Not really new; but I pulled this one out of the safe the other day and I was trying to figure out a venue for shooting it.  Zoot Shooters might be the place.

It's a S&W Regulation Police (I frame) in .38 S&W.

Books
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: DeaconKC on July 30, 2020, 10:05:37 PM
Oh yeah! That will fit right in!
Title: Re: Busy week,3 new guns
Post by: Pitspitr on July 31, 2020, 07:47:50 AM
Not really new; but I pulled this one out of the safe the other day and I was trying to figure out a venue for shooting it.  Zoot Shooters might be the place.

Yep, J Dawg only uses S&W revolvers (or replicas thereof) when he shoots Zoot The only 2 that aren't K frames are his Uberti Schofield and a Canadian military 455 hand ejector that was converted to use 45 LC

Looks like your I frame would fit in real nicely