5-Screws, No Waiting...
I usually wait a while (and I might have one or two loose - lol), but this thing is just too cool not to post it up ASAP.
Glen and I completed a deal today, and this is my prize.
![[image]](http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag146/apersure/P15/CMI_zpsd39ba9c2.jpg)
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Smith & Wesson Combat Masterpiece .38 Special (#K200xxx, ca. 1953)
I hadn't seen anything quite like this for some time and nearly forgot: 'They don't make 'em like they used to.' ![[image]](http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-char124.gif)
This thing is absolute proof. ![[image]](http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-char092.gif)
Thanks, Glen!!! ![[image]](http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-happy088.gif)
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EXCELLENT!
I thought you might like that one!
Enjoy!
Can you say, 'Relapse'?
I'm sure you can.
Good thing 'It's just what the doctor ordered.' 
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Glen gets thanks, too...
For helping keep me interested in this, my life-long hobby.
Believe me, that is saying − and more importantly doing − a lot.
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Forgot to mention...
If all goes according to plan, it should soon be wearing some new shoes...
![[image]](http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag146/apersure/P15/KB01_zps03149be7.jpg)
Black Walnut w/Ebony Inlays by Keith Brown
Don't worry, though; VISA got their 'share'.
Honest...
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Combat Masterpiece
is one of the nicest handguns ever built by Smith and Wesson. Mine is a 1957 vintage.![[image]](images/uploaded/20130126040110510355063e103.jpg)
Nice grips...
The palm swell looks especially right, and the grain is really nice. Very nice gun, of course, too.
I haven't owned but one Combat Masterpiece, and that was a long, long time ago. It's good to
see an 'old friend' again − especially after 33 years.
PS: The Pre-M15 that I had back in 1979-80 was #K106xxx. Believe it or not, I sold it to buy
a stereo (turntable, receiver, speakers).
PPS: The good news is, my priorities haven't changed. Much...
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Charlers, that gun....
...just flat looks business-like.
This IS purty!
by Hobie 
, Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, Saturday, January 26, 2013, 07:13 (4314 days ago) @ FOG
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Sincerely,
Hobie
5-Screws, No Waiting...
by Murphy , Saturday, January 26, 2013, 11:48 (4314 days ago) @ FOG
That thing has a drool factor of 100% and then some.
I picked one up a couple of years back. Like me, it'll never win a beauty contest, but it sure has ridden many miles with me.
Murphy