Let's see some Zootshooter firearms!

[Race Bannon]

AK, I love that model 1900 Luger! the holster is great also, is it marked? It looks high quality like S.D. Meyers and it a perfect fit. I have a 1920 commercial in 30 Luger. However, it came with a WWII German Black holster and WWII magazines, nothing from the period of the 1920s. Does Fiochi ammo work in yours? It does not in mine but other brands do.

[Story]

Just to be totally retro : a 10 bore hammer F. Williams double bar/messenger/stage gun, very similar if not identical to a Bonehill. It has bucketloads of character and weighs in at a hefty 9 lbs, even with 20 1/2" barrels (that are real nicely trimmed down, even has a brass bead sight).

Remember, don't bring a knife to a gunfight..

[jlottmc]

I'm looking for something like that in 12ga. I have always had a thing for a rabbit eared coach gun. I've found some imports, but nothing I care to move on yet. I will shoot it plenty though, so I don't necessarily want an old gun with lots of history. Also can you still find, and where would you find those full brass shells?

[Story]

12 gauge all-brass shells.
Magtech Shotshell Hulls 12 Gauge 2-1/2" Brass - MidwayUSA

[The Boilermaker]

I'm looking for something like that in 12ga. I have always had a thing for a rabbit eared coach gun. I've found some imports, but nothing I care to move on yet. I will shoot it plenty though, so I don't necessarily want an old gun with lots of history. Also can you still find, and where would you find those full brass shells?

The 12 Gauge coach gun from TTN is a reproduction of the Colt double. It's what I use in Cowboy Action Shooting. The best of the imports by far.

[Race Bannon]

Here are some guns in the now legal 32 ACP. I think the Sauer 38 H is barely zoot legal but the CZ 70 and post war PPK-L are post 1939 and not legal. The PPK is a pre war example from 1937 and the PP is post war but the same design as the pre 1939 PPs. Of course the 1903 is good to go.

[Race Bannon]

Here's one with Robert Stack

[The Boilermaker]

Some Guns from the Copicut Zooters Match June 2010:

[jlottmc]

Thanks gents, I appreciate the words of wisdom there.

[Story]

Anyone with a .38 S&W top-break that needs cartridges? I've got about 100 rounds of Remington Peters nickel-cased (post 1961) that I have no need for - about 80% are lead RN, the rest copper-jacketed HP. It's not brand-new, but it's not collectible stuff either.

[Alvin Karpis]

I've got a couple recent acquisitions:

1918 era 1911 - all original with no rust or pitting but obviously seen alot of use over the last 92 years - $725 total:



1917 Eddystone Model of 1917 - a 30-06 caliber competitor to the 1903 Springfield (actually was used more in WWI than the 1903 by a 2 to 1 margin) and more ergonomic for me to shoot - all matching except for 4 small parts. Should be Zootshooter legal - $350 out the door.



Thanks for looking.

AK

[Bawanna]

Couple of real beauties. I have my dad's 1917 Enfield (Eddystone) He sporterized it but only the stock. Left all the metal, sights etc intact. I put it back in it's original configuration a few years ago. The wood is not nearly as nice as yours. I might have to do a boyds to make it prettier but like it alot as is. I also have my grandfathers 1917 (winchester). He sporterized his also, shortened the barrel, removed the sights, put a scope on it so it's a mere shadow of it's original self but still much loved and cherished.
Love that 1911, what a beauty.

[jlottmc]

I just had the opportunity to educate, and fondle one of those transitional 1911's. The story behind that goes like this: My uncle (more of a father than my own), has an elderly widow neighbor. She asked him to check out her husband's service pistol. Tim (my uncle) agrees, she pulls out a shoe box, and in it is a well used and worn holster, and an improvised pistol belt (holster wasn't ever issue either). In the holster is a 1911. Being more of a flintlock shooter, my uncle knows just enough about a 1911 to recognize it as such, and to be able to shoot it. He checks the chamber, and not seeing the round that was in it, lowers the hammer, which slipped from his thumb, and a weak load fire, the round left a mark but no dimple on the concrete near them. (That was Tim's AD, we all have one and usually no more than a couple, anything else means retraining, or training. Fortunately, no one was injured, and like most AD's was just beyond embarrassing.) My uncle couldn't remember how they come apart, and asks me to show him. So I demonstrated the correct way to disassemble the M1911, cleaned it and oiled it, and gave it back. That was a beautiful 1911, even had a bunch of a bright blue finish left after I oiled it. I don't think it was anywhere near original, but it sure was pretty. I also got to re-learn about the transitional period 1911's out of that. I'd forgotten that the Army had done that. I really hope that my uncle has a shot to get that pistol (as his neighbor has some family, but no one who would appreciate that), as the history alone is awesome, and should be preserved.

[Alvin Karpis]

A great 1911 story and I'm glad no one got hurt!! It's amazing to me how many of these old guns are lying around in shoeboxes, or in the dresser, or under the bed, loaded for years if not decades. My uncle had a Walther like that and I had to unload it after his death. It was a WWII bring-back that was probably loaded and put in the night stand in 1946 to remain there until I unloaded it in 1982.

AK

[jlottmc]

It is amazing to me as well about that. I fancy myself as a student of martial history, and to find one of these that has obviously seen the world and been some one's best buddy always makes my heart flutter. I would hang on to that Walther, just for the family history alone. I wish more of the folks who carried them would put the stories onto paper. Makes life much more interesting, and can influence the value as well. Not that these gems should be sold, but none the less it helps future generations appreciate them and the history more.