Beater Police Positive update.

So, we dropped off the PPS with the bent crane off to our favorite 'smith around noon last Wednesday. He's functionally deaf so I wrote up a list of things I knew to be wrong and also letting him know it wasn't to turn into a money pit. The phone rings at about 3pm the same day telling me it was done. Turns out the majority of the binding was from some internal bits not being located properly. He diasssembled, cleaned and correctly reassembled. The crane is still off a bit and the use and abuse earlier in its' life is still there but it is much better today. Total cost: $40.

I'll have to see what's in the ammo locker for this caliber and take it for a test drive.

Nice surprise, now let us know how it shoots.

Looking forward to hearing a range report on it.

These are wonderful revolvers. A pity that not everyone takes care of them.

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Sincerely,

Hobie

This is the second PP to come stay with us. They are indeed nifty revolvers. Shhh, but they also seem to be available for much less than the rest of the "pony guns".

Edited to add: Regarding 'taking care' of these, my 'smith commented that someone had been shooting heavy loads out of this one. Perhaps they did not heed the warnings of 'rifle only' .32-20 cartridges?

I picked up a rusty, nasty PPS in 32 WCF a couple years ago that supposedly came out of a local rural PD. Had to put it through the sauce of the electro bath to get the rust off, thankfully the chambers and bore were not bad. The little bit of shooting I've done with it so far have shown the 5" bbl is capable of still doing very good work. Would be very interesting to try a few of them together.

This one I have was the most pitiful thing I have seen on a gunshow table in many a year. Once Ben got through with it it is a slick little shooter. It stays handy to pick up as I walk out the door, loaded with six of the old Federal Nyclad non+P hollow points and with a speed strip of cast SWCs to go along. I don't think it has ever spent a day in the safe.