Garufa

This UT Alum and dedicated Vol fan has heard plenty of this “rebuilding” and “inexperience” talk over the last 20 years. I do know that constantly rotating coaches is not the solution, nor is rotating players and not being fully prepared for EVERY game, regardless of the opponent or spread. The Boys got their asses handed to them plain and simple. The donors are no help either. They all remember 1998 like everyone else. That was a fluke of a season when all the stars and planets aligned.

If there’ll are locked up how can there be a “good guy with a gun” to stop the melee?

Where there any Vandy fans at that game? The stadium looked awfully red.

Frog Lube is the one that’s basically vegetable oil isn’t it? That’s why your guns are gumming up @swiley383

It’s been going on for nearly 100 years now. Remember Prohibition and how that turned out?

If anyone wants a blued Beretta 92 look for a 92S. Not sure if any are still available from the importers and usual dealers but the market was flooded with them a couple of years ago.

That’s my guess as well and why not? I’ve yet to see a 9mm deliver 180 grains of devastation.

What kind of shooting range?

I never cared all that much for Colt revolvers but that Royal Blue they had on Pythons and other snake guns was perfection, but then again so was the blueing on every Smith & Wesson until they started cutting costs resulting in black guns they called blue. Proper blueing is becoming a lost art unless you pay dearly for it and there are only a couple of people in the country that can do it old school.

One thing is for sure, there is no predicting where panics will take us. Remember the Great .22 LR Famine a few years ago? Totally unpredicted and complete hysteria based on ignorant nonsense.

Prices escalate and inventory dries up as a result of panic buying. In the past 10 years this has been the case and is 100% the result of Internet gun owner paranoia, IHMO.

A U.S. Supreme Court decision in June 2018 ruled that states can collect sales taxes from online retailers — even if the retailer does not have a physical presence in the state. Online retailers are slowly getting their systems up to date to charge tax folks in Tennessee. Expect more in the future.

Live PD always delivers. Got the wife hooked on it a few weeks ago, lol.

Perhaps it is a Webley & Scott No. 1, Mk. 1 flare gun converted to shoot tear gas.

And when a dealer goes out of business all their records must be submitted to the ATF. Feast on that for a while.

That covers all the bases, lol. It might be a S&W .38/44 Heavy Duty. I believe those were popular duty guns back in that era.

I don’t know but somebody’s going to be out $50, $75 or maybe $100. FFL fees are going to skyrocket if UBC is passed.

If the House and Senate pass it he will sign.

If you are going to engage in 2A discussions you might want to get your facts straight. Both of those statements are incorrect. The NFA of 1934 restricted ownership of fully automatic weapons to those who choose to pay the tax. The Gun Control Act of 1968 regulated the interstate transfer of all firearms. They was no more sending of guns to your doorstep from dealers after that.

I just did some more digging through the book. Your Model 32-1 was most likely made in 1968/1969. The listing is on a different page from the rest of the J-frames, thus the confusion. It also says R prefixes for this model started in 1969 and as diamond grips were eliminated in '68, this one is on the cusp so to speak. .38 Regulation Police and Models 32,33 1949-1969 54475-122678

Yeah, The Book leads me to believe all J-frames of that era had a J or R prefix. It specifically lists the R prefix for Model 32’s and as we see it is a 32-1 with matching grips so that rules out a 1957 model as you already know would be correct for that number with no prefix. J or R, would still make it a ‘73 gun IMO, according to what The Book says, but it is not always right. Rob, you might want to go over to the S&W forum (the blue one that sucks on mobile) and let those guys figure this out.

I doubt it. Probably R. Editing post now.

That puts it in the 1973-77 range. Serial number range for those years are R100000–R190000. That model was discontinued in ‘74. I’d say it was made in ‘73

Through out the first few digits of the serial # on the butt and I’ll look it up in The Standard Catalog. You might as well get some ammo while it’s available. I think it’s kinda seasonal. https://aimsurplus.com/ammunition/38-s-w/

I don’t know but they hold cosmoline very well.