Pics of new-to-me 38/44 HD 5"

[enfieldphile]

Fellows & Ladies,

The 38/44 HD 5" is here! As we suspected, this gun is tight! Carried often (most likely by a past LEO) by shot very little. Mechanically it's about perfect. As you can see it is a 38, not a re-bore to .357.

There is NO corrosion under the grips. The backstrap is the only place with even a hint of roughness.

The numbers under the grips show that the grips ARE Original!

I'll put up some nice cast boolit loads w/ Herco for it.

MY B-day is Saturday. This is my present to me! ;) I'm a happy camper. :)

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[bhn22]

Everything you need, and nothing you don't need.

Nice!

[Bored1]

Nice new gun there!!! I didn't even know what a 38/44 was a few minutes ago, had to break out the google-fu and see what that was all about! Still new to most guns myself even though I've been reading alot the last few years!!!! Looks like it would be alot of fun! If the info I read was right you can also shoot plain 38 special loads out of it too right? The 38/44 just being a faster round (more powder) then a normal 38 special?

[enfieldphile]

Thanks guys! :grin:

Bored1, Exactly, the 38/44 round, or sometimes called the 38 Super Police is what we would call today 38 +P. 5 to 6 grains of Herco w/ a 150 to 155 grain cast SWC Boolit are a nice, mid-range load in there guns. This is the large, N frame gun.


Nice new gun there!!! I didn't even know what a 38/44 was a few minutes ago, had to break out the google-fu and see what that was all about! Still new to most guns myself even though I've been reading alot the last few years!!!! Looks like it would be alot of fun! If the info I read was right you can also shoot plain 38 special loads out of it too right? The 38/44 just being a faster round (more powder) then a normal 38 special?

[ReloaderFred]

It looks exactly like the one I carried as a Reserve Deputy Sheriff, and then for about 6 months as a fulltime Deputy Sheriff, until I bought my first Model 19 in 1971. I wish I knew the serial number of my old gun.......... I sold it to another new cop to get him started. The price I charged him was $65.00, which gave me a handsome profit of $15.00 over what I paid for it a couple years before.

Fred

[Beerd]

Fred,
A $15 profit? How can you sleep at night?
:wink:..

[ReloaderFred]

Beerd,

That was a lot of money in 1971, especially since my pay was $700.00 a month at the time. The new 6" Model 19 that replaced it was $119.00, police price, and that took me several months to pay off, since I had small mouths to feed. I still have the Model 19, though.........

I do miss the pristine M1 Garand, that was all original and never been through an arsenal rebuild, that I sold for $115.00, including a can of GI ammo, in 1969. I paid $89.95 for it in 1963 at Golden State Arms, in Pasadena, CA, and had it on layaway for several months before I could pay it off. I was making the princely sum of $1.68 an hour at the phone company at the time.

It's all relative, and in today's dollars the prices are probably equal.

Fred

[Beerd]

It's all relative, and in today's dollars the prices are probably equal.
I know that, but sometimes I can't help myself when I post.
I too started paying my way when $1 an hour was real money.

And Enfieldphile, that's a nice old revolver you have there.
..

[RED333]

By the serial number I know this pistol.
It is broken, you should send it to me for proper testing, send lots of ammo.
I will fix it and ship it back in a few days, no weeks. you pay shipping.

:bigsmyl2:I am truly sorry, I can not help myself.
Very nice Bday gift to your self.

[revolvergeek]

Very nice score! One of my favorites. I have one very much like it but mine had sadly been completely reblue hammer and trigger and all. You are going to really enjoy that one. Congrats!

[enfieldphile]

RED333,

Right! Every time you see a FedEx truck, even in traffic, chase it down, asking the driver: "Have you got my package?" ;)

LOL, I should talk! I pulled that same thing when a guy scored some Russian Olympic .22 ammo. I posted that it as dangerous, that I had been designated to properly dispose if it; one round @ a time. :)

Thanks guys! If I read it right, the SCOS&W shows this this gun to actually have been part of an order for the Houston PD in 1964. If that's so, then this gun went from Texas, to ID, now back home in Texas!

[RED333]

RED333,
Thanks guys! If I read it right, the SCOS&W shows this this gun to actually have been part of an order for the Houston PD in 1964. If that's so, then this gun went from Texas, to ID, now back home in Texas!

Round and Round, what comes around, goes around.