357 Mag

[beemer]

Wife and I stopped in town for a burger today. The place is across from an old grain mill, long abandoned and run down. I remembered what my Father told me that happened there in 1935 or 36. A Smith & Wesson factory representative was passing through on a Saturday when everyone was in town. He put out the word that he was giving a demonstration of the then new 357 Magnum at the mill. He bought a 50 pound block of ice and shot it dead center at about 15 feet. That soft sloppy ice block exploded and all the kids were running around looking for a chips of ice. All the men wanted to look at the pistol and it was passed around. He said people talked about it for weeks. Imagine doing that on a side street two blocks from the court house today.

Sort of funny how we remember things, haven't thought about that for years.

[Wheelguns 1961]

Cool story!

[contender1]

Where in NC was that?

[beemer]

Where in NC was that?

Alexander Co.
Taylorsville, NC

[contender1]

VERY cool!

[firefly1957]

Thank you for sharing .

[lightman]

Cool story! Its too bad that those times are gone!

[GregLaROCHE]

In a way it’s great when old memories come back from the past. I’m lucky. I tend to only remember the good stuff.