Grail gun

by Catoosa, Saturday, September 17, 2016, 20:59 (2927 days ago)

I got it. After all these years.

A 1971 Colt LW Commander .38 Super. I love Commanders, and I've wanted a .38 Super to go with my 9mm ever since I've had it. Found one at a local auction today, and it was nice - bone stock, hadn't been messed with, been carried some but not shot a lot. I bid on it, and me and another guy (who runs a little gun shop here in town) wound up banging heads for it. I had set $700 as the highest I could go, and I got it for $675. Last one I saw for sale was $1,150, so that was still a pretty good deal.

It was a gamble, because the older .38 Supers have chambers cut to headspace on the cartridge rim and some of them don't shoot very well. This one does. I put 3 magazines of Aguila hardball through it between showers after I got home, and had no trouble making metal confetti out of Pepsi cans. I need to work with it some more, but I think It's gonna be fine.