NOLA_Ken
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- Jan 4, 2011
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I haven't really found much to talk about in a while, but this one is a winner. I went and hit a recent house demo site with pretty low expectations but I've got the day off so I figured I'd give it a shot. I went just after sunrise to try and beat the heat and spent a couple hours at it finding the usual junk and some modern coins and I almost didn't dig this thinking it was just going to be a chunk of an old sink or pipe, but for whatever reason I did and I'm really glad I did. I can't even explain how surprised I was to see the outline of a pistol instead of a chunk of drain pipe. So here it is fresh from a light scrub down. It's a Colt '51 Navy with an octagonal barrel! It looks like it took a pretty hard hit from something, but definitely not recently, and I looked all around it for the rest of the grip frame, but no luck.
Now I just need to figure out if it's a repro, a copy or an original. I don't much care either way and it'll look great on the wall some day....
Now I just need to figure out if it's a repro, a copy or an original. I don't much care either way and it'll look great on the wall some day....
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