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The Gift - Creeker - 09-05-2018
Posted this a few places but thinking it would go good here.
RE: The Gift - Don McDowell - 09-05-2018
Just an awesome gift. Speaks volume of the recipient me thinks
RE: The Gift - J.B. - 09-06-2018
Just love an N frame in 44 or 45...
J.B.
RE: The Gift - Creeker - 09-07-2018
Thank you Don.
RE: The Gift - Hanz - 09-09-2018
Very touching.
A sad way to get any gun but a fantastic way to remember and honor a friend.
RE: The Gift - Creeker - 09-09-2018
Hanz, Byrd Miller enlisted in the US Navy when 16 & at age 17 he landed on the beach of Okinawa which became the bloodiest battle of the Pacific in WWII. You are correct, I will never forget who owned this sixgun or his son Wayne who gifted it to me.
RE: The Gift - Creeker - 09-09-2018
Getting acquainted with the Smith.
RE: The Gift - Creeker - 09-10-2018
50 yard bird.
RE: The Gift - Tom Herman - 12-23-2019
Thanks for sharing Byrd Miller's story, and the videos of his .44 Mag!!!
It stirred a chord in me as well... I wound up with a very good friend's Browning A5 similarly... I'll always treasure it, and his memory.
I had to compare your revolver to my 629: It looks like you must have something like a 6" barrel on yours (mine's 4", better for concealed work... It's actually my every day carry piece, downloaded with fairly stiff .44 SPL's.).
Couldn't help but notice, I don't know if it was just a fluke of the videoing of it, but the gun looks almost like a .38 SPL in your hands (2:30 into the 3:10 clip).
-Tom
RE: The Gift - Creeker - 04-14-2020
(12-23-2019, 02:04 PM)Tom Herman Wrote: Couldn't help but notice, I don't know if it was just a fluke of the videoing of it, but the gun looks almost like a .38 SPL in your hands (2:30 into the 3:10 clip).
-Tom
Over here fooling around & just noticed this. It is the same sixgun throughout the video. If you notice the sixgun has the red ramp sight. It also has an enclosed ejector rod which I can't recall S&W producing such in 38 Special. But I could be wrong.