Birth year gun.

This is a pair of C Colts, Commercial Colts.......... The one on the right/top is 1959........ Yeah, thats my Birth Year...........

Zebrawood grips made by my Friend Wes at Accurate Innovations.... I think the other gun is 1966.............if I remember correctly.

Last year Billy and I watched a 1959 National Match for a long time on GunBroker. Nearly every day I almost "hit they Buy" button........... It was not cheap, but it looked pristine. Damn. Maybe I should've?
But, I had just bought a NM not a few weeks before!

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I don’t, that I’m aware of. I do, however, have a 12 gauge BPS that was bought for me for Christmas when I was about 10 or 12.

My father called around, all over the state, till he found three from three different dealers that had sequential serial numbers and gave them to me and my two brothers.

Our full names are engraved on the receivers and our initials are on the barrels. Many a dove, quail and clay has fallen because of that gun over the years.

I don’t need a birth year gun.
 
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What gun did they make in '68?

I had a '68 Ford Fairlane, but it was a POS and everyone kept saying, "Nice Torino!" A dude that had been bugging me for months to sell it to him just happened to show up at my door, coincidentally on the morning of one of my worst hangovers (so bad that my mommy brought me a care package of V8 juice and saltines), and just about slapped me in the face with a stack of hundos.

"Take the maw fawki! Here's the title! Get out of my house!"

Good times.
 
Jeppo said:
I have one from around the month I was conceived. :)
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I finally got around to asking Roy Jinks for the date of my K38. While I believed it’s a Combat Masterpiece, turns out it’s actually a Masterpiece, Pre-14. It shipped from Smith and Wesson a couple months before I was born. :cool:
 
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Jeppo said:
I finally got around to asking Roy Jinks for the date of my K38. While I believed it’s a Combat Masterpiece, turns out it’s actually a Masterpiece, Pre-14. It shipped from Smith and Wesson a couple months before I was born. :cool:
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BatteryOaksBilly said:
Suckah!
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I read it wrong...it IS a Combat Masterpiece (Pre-15). :p
 
Etruett said:
That would be testing even my talents. The Reason I asked is the Model 49 was not introduced until 1959. If we can pull off the unicorn, the world would take notice
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When I worked for the crazy eye-talian, we used to say, “The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer”. ;)
 
Jeppo said:
When I worked for the crazy eye-talian, we used to say, “The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer”. ;)
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I can forge a S&W letter as good as the next guy. Actually have a forged one to go by. A soon as I find the gun, I'll start working on the proof that it might be a prototype that sat on the shelf for 10 years before releasing to the public.
 
georgel said:
Don't have a birth year gun, but it caused me to do some research and I ran across Guns magazine from the year I was born. It's interesting to see what was going on.

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I'd actually rather have this than a byg. A byg means absolutely nothing to anyone but you. I think I'd get more enjoyment out of the magazine than a gun I only bought because it was my birth year.
 
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