Perhaps the most prolific and successful pocket pistol of the age was the top-break revolver. Despite that, carrying a small handgun in a concealed manner was a normal, but unspoken occurrence. As we leave the 20th century firmly in the dust, I want to look back to see what people were carrying at the dawn of the century we just left behind.Īt the turn of the 20th century, openly carrying a pistol was practically impossible unless of course you were a member of law enforcement and there were no permitting systems in place. The topic is quite popular today given that, since the 1990s, the passage of concealed carry legislation and the production of small pistols to suit this need has simply exploded. My affinity for pocket pistols, both new and old, lead me to this gun. What is innovative yet archaic and popular yet infamous? In the world of handguns, perhaps no firearm better illustrates this little riddle quite like the Iver Johnson Safety Automatic revolver. 32 SW rounds and 32 black powder bullets. While I was able to shoot every day, I obviously ran behind on the “daily” blog posting part of the process, but … I do have pictures and notes on the other days, and I’m looking forward to getting them caught up.Iver Johnson Automatic Safety revolver with smokeless. You’re invited to join in the Gun-a-Day story.Īgain, I’m very grateful for the constitutional privilege and responsibility of being an American citizen who chooses to own and operate firearms, and I consider it a blessing of God to have been able to enjoy a year of safety in the process of firing hundreds and hundreds of rounds of all kinds of ammunition through dozens of different guns. Maybe you have a favorite gun– and a favorite story to go with it– that you’d like to take out to the range or the woods and write up a little description of the experience for others to enjoy. Are you interested in sharing your target practice or other shooting sports stories and images online here at ? If so, please send me the info, and I’ll consider every submission for posts on a daily basis. I’ve always been interested in what others are doing, and I’ve always been glad for comment contributions, but I’ve never formally promoted the idea of “crowd-sourcing” the blog’s content. As I transition into a less-strict schedule, I want to open up the site– officially– to reader contributions. I had a great time in my year of gunnery, and now I’m interested to see how I can continue a firearms-friendly lifestyle without any “can’t miss a day” pressure. The other cleaning rack set-up is a kit my brother, YoJimbo got for me this year.
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Is it any wonder why I’ve kept myself out of the pictures? The DeadShot FieldPod is almost as good a cleaning rack as it is fantastic as a portable shooting stand. Today’s picture includes all three of yesterday’s rifles, and not-so-little-but-increasingly-old me. The best part of cleaning it was remembering where I’d “safely stored” the buffer inserts I bought years ago and finally installing one under the rear assembly pin. The Buck Mark Sporter rifle cleaned up more quickly, and the Olympic Arms K8 is a fascination.
The Hogue stock had to come off, and I may still need to take time for a more comprehensive dis-assembly and cleaning process. That Eley-primed ammo is super gritty and gunky. Rifle time: the Magnum Research MLR-1722 took Crud King honors (not unexpected). Yeah, it’ll be good to do some re-organizing and storage streamlining in the the coming year.
Those spare parts turned up while I was looking for AR upper/lower buffers that turned out to be in that rifle’s cleaning kit compartment the whole time. Hey, I even took this as an opportunity to finally replace the Hi-Viz fiber optic front sight rod on the Browning Buck Mark Micro Nickel that popped out months ago. I learned a lot about break-top assembly in the process– time very well spent. 22LR, and the new-to-me-as-of-yesterday Raven. 32 S&W, the Harrington & Richardson Sidekick– model 930–. 38 S&W (circa 1905), the Iver Johnson break-top Victor 67-S. I laid out– in order of age?– the Iver Johnson break-top. Instead, there was time for some intensive cleaning and maintenance work.īefore the long guns, there were four pistols in need of attention. It’s very interesting to have met the goal and to not have any sense that I need to go any further with the initial concept of the “one gun a day for a year” plan. Several times, I caught myself evaluating empty boxes and other objects as potential targets and kept realizing that it wasn’t necessary to figure out any shooting scenarios anymore. For the first time in a year and a day, I did not pull the trigger of a gun or take aim on a target.
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