10 January 2021

It Always Trips Me Up

.357 Magnum dates from 1934.

I know this.

I've known this for years.

But every time I see an article on George S Patton's S&W Registered Model I'm all like, "they didn't have .357 Magnum in WW2!"  George bought his in the first year of production.

Note the grip adapter!

But they did.

I think it's because S&W essentially still makes the same gun (or at least one that looks a lot like it at a glance).



4 comments:

  1. If memory serves, there should be an interlocked GSP engraved on the other side of those grips.
    Sure I saw that on either the .357 or his .45 there in '83, but I thought it was on both.

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    1. GSP is on both.

      I'm sure as soon as you hit publish you did a search to see if you remembered correctly.

      I did too. ;)

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  2. Yup:
    https://practicallyshooting.com/community/topic/448-trivia-pattons-registered-magnum/

    So what museum idiot decided to display it with the engraved side down?

    Some people's kids, I swear...

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    1. In '87 they were in a clear case and you could see both sides of the S&W and the Colt. No idea where that picture above was taken.

      Of course, when I last saw that museum, there were tanks all over the place. Those tanks are now in Georgia.

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