re: Picked this up for free tonight. 1959-1961S&W Model 10 .38 Special w/ 4" Barrel

I'm jealous. This is what I got from my grandpa:

An old model RG31. Value is about $10 in mint condition. Some experts say they make great weights for loose paper and/or trot lines. I'll never get rid of it though.


He unloaded the cylinder at some AA at his gas station way back in the day. There may or may not have been a bullet hole in the columns at the front of the northwestern campus.

Eta: also got his savage model 24 (made in 1952 I believe). It's got a cracked stock and a broken selector. Pawpaw was rough on his guns.

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Things are starting to get real in this regard.

My grandfather was diagnosed with dementia about 6 years ago. Going by normal progression he is doing great, but its becoming more and more obvious lately. Last time I was over at his house, he asked me 4 times in a 2 hour span how my wife and Artillery(my soon to be born son) were doing. I just realized the other day that he is going to be 80 next year! My grandfather's cash worth is well north of 8 figures, and I would give up every dagnabbed penny to have him around for the rest of my, and Artillery's, life.

I say all that because obviously I just got the gun, but found out that this is now mine earlier today.







I had borrowed his old Daisy 880 to try and kill a coon and a few chipmunks. It was in the case, so I was told just to take both. Now the Daisy and the rifle case are mine.

Had another gun conversation recently too. He has a custom built, double barrel, 12 gauge shotgun that was made in 1943. It will go to my dad first, but he cant shoot it. So it will be mine as well. It has a sad story. Was built for his cousin who was drafted during WW2. The cousin's family had it commissioned and built to surprise him when he got home, and he never made it back. That cousin was an only child, so they gave it to my pop when he got old enough.

I'm not sure I can even shoot it with my bad shoulder. I've never seen anything kick as hard as that thing does. My grandfather, who literally never hunts, somehow fires both barrels at once like a man. My cousin who hunts regularly, and has a 12 gauge, tried it.....and the crazy thing made him do a 540 degree spin it kicked him so hard.


It just really sucks getting these things, and figuring all of this out, knowing it is because we are making plans for when he is no longer here.

I love my grandfather, they don't make em like him anymore. Born the son of a sharecropper, going out a King amongst men.