gary reeder
my Dad had a couple of single actions that at the time I
Wednesday, February 12, 2020, 19:44

thought they were Colts as to me any single action was a Colt but my gut feeling these days is they were not Colts. They were later "misplaced" on one of our moves. One was a 45 Long Colt and the other was for a shorter cartridge, the 45 Short Colt maybe? Dad was in the Army and for a while we were stationed at the White Sands military base. I remember Dad and a buddy going out at night hunting and bringing back a trunk full of deer. I can still smell that brassy smell of the blood when he opened the trunk. I remember ladies from the base coming to the house getting deer steaks and taking a big bag of them home.

I am getting like WB now with a long paragraph to give a 10 word answer. My first one was a P.O.S RG with a 4 inch barrel in 22 LR. I remember dad bought it at the PX for $4.50 and gave it to me when we got home. I was maybe 12 or so and it was the best handgun made to me.

I graduated from High school at 17 and got into radio. This was 1963 so I could buy a handgun at 18. I was working at WDXR radio in the top floor of the Irvin Cobb Hotel in Paducah Kentucky so I went to a pawn shop in downtown Paducah and bought a High Standard Double Nine, 22 LR, 9 shot and 9" barrel. It was about half a weeks pay at $29.95.

Like John's pics below, lotsa memories there.