Originally Posted by
Four Fingers of Death
Browning 10/71
As a Teenager, I worked as a clerk at the Australian Gas Light Company (we sold gas and gas stoves and heaters, the lights were long gone, except in the head office showroom for display). I worked in Cashiers and Paymasters Department. Occasionally I went on the pay round around the branches in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia. I was given a Browning similar to yours (I don't remember the sights sticking up so much, but it was some 54 years ago. No holsters, just stick it in your pocket if you were an old guy or jam it in your waistband if you were a young un' like me and wore fashionable slim cut pants.
There were four of us, all in suits, very discrete, haha.
Two of the pistols were Brownings and two were Bayards.
Never got to use them. Apparently the old Paymaster was on an escort some ten years previously when he was just a senior clerk and a guy tried to stick them up using a sawn off shotgun. All four opened up and emptied their mags into the guy, two of the gas company guys had a fair bit of birdshot lodged in their legs, but survived, unlike the crook. They threw the shotgun in the boot of the car, left the body on the street and continued with the pay run, dropping the two wounded guys off at the hospital a couple of hours later. No paperwork, cops picked up the shotgun next day from head office.
HaHa.