Colt Classic

[RogueTS1]

I stated in an earlier thread that I would get some photos of a Baby Browning compared to the Browning Vest Pocket .................. well this is not it but still some cool photos. Just for you Uncle Lee and your morning breakfast; the Colt 1908 Vest Pocket in 6.35 mm. This one was made in 1913.

[RogueTS1]

Except for the finish wear this one is in superb shape. Tight, no dings or pitting.

[OV-1D]

 Nice piece Rogue , I find the nicer the grip panels are (original) the nicer the gun especially with the old semi-autos generally speaking . I did find a Browning miserable because the slide spring being extra ,extra stiff ( I hope all of them aren't the tough and some bozo (probably some wantabe rapper) chrome plated it making it almost impossible to pull back . A very early post of mine tells how that went , don't like to talk about it twice . Also found the Browning too small for the slide not slice one's hand web open , sometimes small is too small . The Colt is a superior weapon to the others back then . Nowadays any Beretta is by far better than the others of its day with its flip up barrel far ahead of its time with its ease and simplicity  .

[bearcatter]

Nice. Must have been more of a Browning "Desk Drawer"......You wonder about the history of these old guns, who owned them, where they've been, what and who they shot....

[RogueTS1]

If they could only speak.

[miker]

I've become leery of the flip-up barrel guns because, with no extractor, a super-hefty recoil spring, and a slide too small to grip well, if you have a dud round it's going to take a lot of fooling to get back into action.

More and more I likes wheelguns...

miker

[Gog]

Just gorgeous! Thanks for the pics.

[smokeless joe]

Man that nice and looks to be in great shape.

[Canoeal]

Saw a .25 version of that this week at the LGS. it was sitting next to a Beretta ,22 on the shelf. It is very solid and feeling for its size. Nice little gun if you like .25s...

[Uncle_Lee]

Thanks Rogue,
Very nice little 25.
Eye soothing pictures.

[top dog]

Rogue,
I have one,aboiut 80% good on the  blue. Bore perfect.

They are icons from years gone by.

                                                   Top Dog

[RogueTS1]

Top Dog; photos please. I love these little 6.35 pistols.

[pietro]

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A size comparison between the Model 1905 Vest Pocket pistol (bottom) and the significantly smaller Baby Browning (top).







A Baby Browning with a Reduced Size Melior that slightly preceded the Baby.





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[RogueTS1]

Thank you Pietro; now I do not have to pull those out of the vault and photograph them for y'all. I am so lazy! 

[top dog]

Rogue,
I will see about a photo or three.

Computers and I really do not get along and I don't have any of those new fangled camera things.

Don't forget,my first phone was on the wall and you had to crank it to get the operator. (I am OLD!!!)

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[Warthog]

Rogue, you got yourself a nice one, in pretty darn good shape.

I am glad for you, I am not a fan of 25 acp pistols but if you are, GREAT!  I used to have a few and even reloaded for them since they were really old and I felt the modern ammo might damage them.  I loaded Black Powder cartridges for them too, those were a lot of fun.

[bearcatter]

(I am OLD!!!)                                                                                     

Not old, just a nice vintage, like these fine pistols........

[pietro]

Computers and I really do not get along and I don't have any of those new fangled camera things.

Don't forget,my first phone was on the wall and you had to crank it to get the operator. (I am OLD!!!)

                                                                                                    Top Dog

I too am old enough to remember crank wall phones, from when I was a kid.

I also remember when we graduated to a party line telephone service, and eavesdropping on other folk's conversations. 


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[Uncle_Lee]

We were still on a party line in the 80s.
Yep, you could listen in on the old women talking about the garden and chickens.
My ring was one long and one short.

[LHB]

My parents had the oak, hand crank wall phone until the late 60s.  Two shorts was our ring, and you knew every time some one on the line got a call, and could listen if you wanted.   You didn't talk about anything private, because it wasn't private.

It was a blast trying to call home while I was in the Marines.   The operator would ask for the number, I would give it, Golden Illinois, 11R2, and she wouldn't know how to handle it, so I would tell her to get me a Bell operator in Quincy Illinois, and they knew how to handle it from there.

There were a few advantages, there was an emergency ring, four longs, four shorts, another four longs, to pass the word on fires, or a dog pack in some ones livestock, and the neighbors would all show up to help.   Also I got sick one day at school, and trying to call home, mom didn't answer, neighbor came on line, told me they had gone to town, I told her my problem, and she said she would come and get me.   That type of neighborness ended when private line dial came in.

[Honky Tonk Man]

Cool story LHB.  It reminds me of the old "Lassie" show on TV in the mid 50's.  Hand crank phone, neighbors helping neighbors, etc.  We too had a party line.  I grew up in the Detroit area, and everyone had a private line by the mid 50's.  I figured out who shared our line one day when I picked up the phone and heard a neighbors voice.  Mom didn't want me to tell them, because they'd think we were snooping.  Ah the good old days. 

[top dog]

Gosh! Now I feel that I am in company with folks from my era.!!!

Getting back to the Colt 25acp vest pocket guns. I remember some gun savvy cops back in the day,used to carry one as a back up.

I still would be a bit leery of having one in my pocket with a round in the chamber. Even with the safety on and the grip safety,it is not very comforting.

And yes,back in those day,businessmen wore vests and more than likely that little Colt was in the vest pocket.

Oh,and my phone number was three longs and a short.

                                        Top Dog

[RogueTS1]

I did not realize the old crank phones were still being used that recently and I never knew/heard about everybody having the same line and different rings to know whom was being called. I never dreamed of such.

I learned something this morning. Very interesting.

[Bj]

A small group of neighbors would use the same line, it was called a party line.

[Honky Tonk Man]

Remember when it wasn't all numbers?  Our phone number growing up started with PRescott 7 or PR7-XXXX.  In my cousins town, you just dialed the last 4 numbers. 

[bearcatter]

I saw a one page phone "book" in an antique store. Most everyone had a two digit phone number, a few had three. Just name and number, no address. A very small town....

[LHB]

  "Small group of neighbors", there were twelve on our line.

[Canoeal]

Remember when it wasn't all numbers?  Our phone number growing up started with PRescott 7 or PR7-XXXX.  In my cousins town, you just dialed the last 4 numbers.

TU6-6404...Turner...

[Warthog]

I remember when you used words to tell folks your phone number.  It is still something I do if I don't have a paper and pen and some hottie wants me to get her number.

Well, that does't happen now but I do use this method to remember numbers of folks who want me to call them later.  I guess I can just put them into the stupid phone my Dad insisted he wanted me to have because he loves to text.   Makes him angry that he sends me a text and I just call him.  LOL

My old house when we lived in the middle of nowhere was on a Party Line at first.  Old biddies would gossip for as long as they felt no one was listing than hang up and curse people if they wanted to make a call.

[Honky Tonk Man]

Remember when it wasn't all numbers?  Our phone number growing up started with PRescott 7 or PR7-XXXX.  In my cousins town, you just dialed the last 4 numbers.

TU6-6404...Turner...

One town over the numbers started with "TU" as well, but it was short for TUxedo. 

[top dog]

A number of years ago,my friend had a cabin up in Jackman,ME. His phone number was...........6.

I think that it was in the early 60s that phone number prefixes were changed from the letter designation to numbers.


I remember when area codes came in use and you no longer had to go through an operator to make a long distance call.


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