Found this video on Patton's handguns, found it interesting when they did a close up on the model 27 it had a gold bead front post sight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SSsvP-eNuE

And a grip insert behind the trigger guard, wished the museum had offered more detail on the options GSP had installed. Curious to hear why he preferred those mods.

Fort Knox and the Patton Museum are on my bucket list of places to visit, need to make that happen sooner rather than later.

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SEVERAL OPTIONS WERE OFFERED IN FRONT SIGHTS. THE BEAD WAS THE EASIEST FOR MOST SIXGUNNERS TO SEE. THE VIDEO DID NOT MENTION THIS WAS A RGISTERED MAGNUM PURCHSED IN HAWAII IN 1935. HE BOUGHT HIS COLT SAA IN TEXAS.

While the Bullion Depository is situated on Fort Knox property, and can easily been seen while driving down Hwy 31W (Dixie Highway), stopping on the side of the road to take pictures is "frowned upon".

Also, while I do not know if there really is any gold left in the vault, the Guard Staff sure do act like it.
Oh too, they don't give tours, or product samples either

I haven't been to the museum since it's makeover after the Armor School left.

In the early seventies I had a friend with an FFL. He ordered me a turn in police gun that had been used by the Georgia State Police and had GSP stamped on the frame between the trigger and cylinder. I had a four inch 44 special built from it. When I showed it to another friend, he asked what the GSP stood for and I told him it was the gun Patton really carried when in combat. This guy fell for it, hook, line, and sinker. I had to explain to him that Patton carried a registered 357 magnum (pre-model 27) with ivory grips. It was a fun "pun" though.

Badly done with a electric engraver. Finally got tired of seeing it and polished it out since it is stainless.