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If i lived in a different time Im pretty sure I would still like guns. I bet all of you would too. Its the 70's what are you carrying?
Im going with the Smith and Wesson M29 or the HK VP70 (which I wouldn't have heard about back then unless i was smart). (surprised i didn't pick the 1911), but I think back in the day I would have a wheel gun tho over the VP70.
I was carrying a Colt Police Positive, 4 inch barrel in 38 special and it worked because I knew how to shoot it.
I carried a cheap Saturday night special 25 auto while working at an all night gas station in the bad part of town. It worked because one night I took it out and for some unknown I shot a hole through the door with it.
I didn't aim it or anything I just pulled it out and pulled the trigger. Severe lack of sleep makes you do weird things.
It was a solid core door so the bullet did not go through it. The door was painted white so I chewed up a piece of white paper and stuck it in the hole. It was a perfect match.
I quit the next morning and drove straight to the Air Force Recruiters office and signed up.
I was carrying a 1911, and I still do.
in the early 80s i was working graveyard at a crappy gas station in the central valley of california....it was right at a freeway offramp and in the winter the fog kept anyone driving by from seeing anything going on at the pumps (perfect for a stop and rob) .... i was teaching judo at the local junior college and i usually had a pair of nunchuks on me or near by...... one day, at the am shift change a sheriff saw them and damn near arrested me for the illegal weapon .... the owner of the place went to his truck, brought back a 4in dan wesson .357 and gave it to me. the sheriff handed me back the nunchuks by my boss, never took back the pistol..... some people just get it!Quote:
Originally Posted by zeke
Undercover Charter Arms .38 special revolver with a bobbed hammer and custom fingergroove grips carried in my hip pocket, boot or sometimes in a leather pancake OWB belt holster. After it was stolen in a home break-in a few years ago, I replaced it with a SS .44 special Charter Pug.
It is hard to remember exactly. It was a 32 auto and I don't remember the brand. I do remember trading it at a pawn shop on Whidbey Island for a pair of binoculars, which I still have.
Well in pistols it was a Browning High Power or a 1911 , and sometimes a rather modified PPK.
I was carrying a plastic MP-40! lol...I was too young to carry a pistol then, that came the next decade after I got out of the military.:oops:
I wouldhave been carrying a model 19 S & W or a Colt Combat Commander. or a High Standard .22 magnum derringer, or a .25 caliber Beretta 950 or a .380 Beretta double stack (?#82?) or a Centenial in .38.
I would have been carrying around flowers...
Smith & Wesson model 66, 2.5 inch with Hogue custom wood grips!
I was living in Southern California.
Concealed carry without a permit was a "wobbler": If it was your first offense, it's a misdemeanor; and subsequent offenses are felonies.
I do not wish to publicly admit to any sort of illegal activity.
At the time, I owned and was using a couple of full-size M1911s in IPSC/SWPL competition.
I was carrying a Colt stainless steel "King Cobra" 357 and still have it today.
not in the 70s , you werent.....Quote:
Originally Posted by thinktwice
just sayin
A back pack, a bag of "smoke", my carry hammock, and the keys to my Honda 450. It was a good decade. Peace man!
RCG
A 1911a1 and a M-16 until 73 then just a 1911a1
Ruger MK-I Target .22 auto, or .44 Magnum Super Blackhawk (CCW was for well-connected upstanding citizens only, back then; these were carried openly, whenever I was out in the rural areas, hunting or woods-walking).
Wasn't around then, but if I had to dream it would be a S&W model 27 5". A BHP wouldn't be bad either. Maybe a model 39.