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Quoted: My prized possession, a colt 1903 pocket hammerless manufactured in 1917. I may carry it one day just for shits. I’m afraid that my sweat will get to the bluing. Page 2 ownage https://imgur.com/gallery/LzUoVrh You are more jacked up than a Navy recruit in Marine Corps bootcamp. You can't own a page w/ an edit, and you've had two years to learn how to post pics:  Yes, I'm taking some of my anger about folks who can't count out on you. Nice choice. https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/Picture-posting-tutorial-and-PICTURE-test-thread/168-638569/ |
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Quoted: Plenty of Euro pocket pistols in 1920. Single actions in .25 & .32 ACP. You're only familiar w/ the ones that survived and are famous today, but there were lots. Walther got their start before the 1st WW. One of the cool things about the 1914 Mauser is that inserting the magazine automatically released the slide ..... To lock the slide open, you had to insert an empty magazine and pull the slide back. Interesting feature. |
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Quoted: One of the cool things about the 1914 Mauser is that inserting the magazine automatically released the slide ..... To lock the slide open, you had to insert an empty magazine and pull the slide back. Interesting feature. Quoted: Quoted: Plenty of Euro pocket pistols in 1920. Single actions in .25 & .32 ACP. You're only familiar w/ the ones that survived and are famous today, but there were lots. Walther got their start before the 1st WW. One of the cool things about the 1914 Mauser is that inserting the magazine automatically released the slide ..... To lock the slide open, you had to insert an empty magazine and pull the slide back. Interesting feature. Some guns will do that today if you slam the mag in hard enuf. 
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Quoted: Plenty of Euro pocket pistols in 1920. Single actions in .25 & .32 ACP. You're only familiar w/ the ones that survived and are famous today, but there were lots. Walther got their start before the 1st WW. Quoted: Quoted: 1911, same as I carried in 1980. Maybe 2. I'm big enough that I can CC one pretty easily. There weren't many true pocket pistols back then, so maybe a Baby Browning or a set of knucks. Maybe an Iver Johnson .38, they were pretty small. Truck gun would be a '17 Enfield. There'd be a trench broom leaning up against the headboard of the bed. Plenty of Euro pocket pistols in 1920. Single actions in .25 & .32 ACP. You're only familiar w/ the ones that survived and are famous today, but there were lots. Walther got their start before the 1st WW. A ton of small American and Euro revolvers as well, most of the companies are no longer around or no longer make firearms. Muff pistols like the little single shot Colts and Stevens were sold as well. A lot of single actions were still in use and, at least from what I've read, most folks didn't seem to carry reloads/spare ammo so that really wouldn't be an issue. Looking at pictures of lawmen, especially in the west, Single Action Army revolvers stayed popular after the turn of the century even after double actions were in common usage. Even though they were still uncommon, there were far more specialty type items such as cane and umbrella guns made too (no unconstitutional NFA yet); a surprising number of them were pneumatic too. |
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Quoted: My Great Grandfather still had his trench raiding web gear. complete with 2 1911's, his raiding knife and a club. he also had necklaces and wristbands made out of expended brass and what appear to be strips of strips of human flesh in the place of hair scalping. one of the pieces that I saw looked to have a mark of a tattoo or powder burn. he kept all that in a homemade lockbox, with his WWI maps, Army Newspapers with his name for being wounded and his french porn pics. his daily carry was a 1903 in .380 I think. they said he almost always had it on him. he also was known to carry a Colt Single action 44-40 and a Colt double action .38. the single action he carried with the loading gate open, inside the waistband. he was very fond of shotguns. he had 2-3 winchester 97's - 2 long hunting barrels and 1 riot gun, along with a couple of double barrels. 1 long barreled 10 and a short barreled 10. my mother said he usually had a double gun in his hand when he did walkabouts and had it in the truck when he went into town. I'm going to pick any one of these, cause it he thought they were good enough for him- they are good enough for me. WWI vets were not to be messed with. atleast in Eastern Ok. they were known to be very quick with violence and also known to be very, very clickish. you piss of one, the rest fill in. PTSD was a monster to these men. they could go from family men at the kitchen table to savage in milliseconds. Thanks for sharing that, it paints a helluva picture that makes you simultaneously impressed, reverent, and sad that anyone had to experience what he did. I'll can do era appropriate right now! I carry a 1903 pocket hammerless fairly frequently now, so that would be my normal out and about gun I'm sure. I actually have kind of a lot of guns from this period in my rotation - police positive special, 1908 vest pocket, Iver Johnson top break .32 short... Winchester 1911 Widowmaker which I would quickly trade for something better if I had to rely on it, that thing is awful but has some sentimental value. Winchester 94 .30-30 (mine's from the 50's but I'll cheat a little here) - Realistically if I just got back from the war a year ago, I'm like 20, broke, and not a collector yet. So it'd be a 1903 hammmerless for carry, and probably a hardware store shotgun for hunting and home defense, maybe a .22 rifle if I can afford it after those. |
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Quoted: It's 1920, you're back from France, you have a job, haven't made up yer mind between your high school sweetheart that waited for you and the French gal you're still writing to - what heat are you packing? What's your BUG? What's your truck gun? What's on your dresser for burglars? You've got no red dots, no LASERs, no WML, no NV, no thermal, and any armor is steel plate. Significantly, penicillin hasn't been discovered yet, meaning miscreants really don't want to get shot w/ even a .22 Short. Your rules don't apply to me. Behold, the first WML, patented in 1911/12 on a revolver sold in 1915...  |
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Quoted: Your rules don't apply to me. Behold, the first WML, patented in 1911/12 on a revolver sold in 1915... https://www.americanrifleman.org/media/r2bhvrl1/colt-tan-br.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=987&height=551&rnd=132617612449070000&quality=60 Quoted: Quoted: It's 1920, you're back from France, you have a job, haven't made up yer mind between your high school sweetheart that waited for you and the French gal you're still writing to - what heat are you packing? What's your BUG? What's your truck gun? What's on your dresser for burglars? You've got no red dots, no LASERs, no WML, no NV, no thermal, and any armor is steel plate. Significantly, penicillin hasn't been discovered yet, meaning miscreants really don't want to get shot w/ even a .22 Short. Your rules don't apply to me. Behold, the first WML, patented in 1911/12 on a revolver sold in 1915... https://www.americanrifleman.org/media/r2bhvrl1/colt-tan-br.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=987&height=551&rnd=132617612449070000&quality=60 You own the night. |
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Quoted: what heat are you packing? What's your BUG? What's your truck gun? What's on your dresser for burglars? 1911 FN Model 1910 .380 or Colt Model 1908, same caliber. This would become primary if I was to go outside half-dressed without a suit jacket. Artillery Luger, standard magazine in it, stuck in the holster attached to one of the board shoulder stocks and a couple of snail drums stowed close by. Should all fit under the seat. Probably had to trade a few bottles of cognac for that back in France. 1911 goes on the nightstand when it's bedtime. |
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Quoted: 1920 - we'll catch you in the 1930 thread.  Thompson 1921: The Original Chicago Typewriter |
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I don't know what I would carry, but I sure as heck would own a Thompson. |
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Quoted: Quoted: On the .32 ACP end, no love for the Mauser 1914? https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/180398/Mauser_1914_jpg-2915587.JPG I like mine. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/54009/20220708_205956-2915596.jpg Obviously a man of taste. Attached File Attached File |
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Neither existed in 1920. |
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The 1911 I snuck back from my time overseas and which I scraped the property mark of so I won't get in trouble! These things won't be worth much in the future anyway...Attached File |
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Quoted: I'm bigger and taller than the average 1920s male, the BAR weighs less than an m249, I don't think the lack of bipod is a big deal. Quoted: Quoted: In 1920, the Lewis was the better gun. No bipod on the BAR. Take a look at Project Lightening. I'm bigger and taller than the average 1920s male, the BAR weighs less than an m249, I don't think the lack of bipod is a big deal. You are now. Would you be larger and taller than the average 1920 male had you been born in 1900, and suffered all the childhood diseases we now have vaccinations and antibiotics for? |
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Having shot one of those, there's 2 problems. 1st, it's pretty big for a .380. 2nd, they spit brass so hard for the anemic cartridge, you're almost better off turning the pistol 90* and clocking your target with the empty cases. |
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Quoted: For the 87th time, this is 1920. Not 1921. When we get to the 1930 thread, you guys can go nuts w/ Thompsons. In 1920, there are no Thompsons available to civilians. You wanna do a Thompson thread, go nuts. This is NOT a Thompson thread. Quoted: Quoted: Same thing my grandfather and great grandfather carried. A .38 and a Thompson ( ok mid to late '20's). Great grandpa owned an armored car business. For the 87th time, this is 1920. Not 1921. When we get to the 1930 thread, you guys can go nuts w/ Thompsons. In 1920, there are no Thompsons available to civilians. You wanna do a Thompson thread, go nuts. This is NOT a Thompson thread. 
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Quoted: Plenty of Euro pocket pistols in 1920. Single actions in .25 & .32 ACP. You're only familiar w/ the ones that survived and are famous today, but there were lots. Walther got their start before the 1st WW. Quoted: Quoted: 1911, same as I carried in 1980. Maybe 2. I'm big enough that I can CC one pretty easily. There weren't many true pocket pistols back then, so maybe a Baby Browning or a set of knucks. Maybe an Iver Johnson .38, they were pretty small. Truck gun would be a '17 Enfield. There'd be a trench broom leaning up against the headboard of the bed. Plenty of Euro pocket pistols in 1920. Single actions in .25 & .32 ACP. You're only familiar w/ the ones that survived and are famous today, but there were lots. Walther got their start before the 1st WW. |
