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Back in the '60s and '70s, my dad was a deputy sheriff and a member of the SWAT team. In 1974, he was shot in the face with a 12 gauge shotgun (luckily from fairly long range) during a raid. My dad returned fire with his service revolver and took down his assailant. When it was all said and done, the guy survived (currently serving a life sentence), and my dad lost an eye and went on to law school after recovery. But he kept his service revolver with him over the next 40 years. Today, he gave it to me as a Christmas gift. His only condition was that I keep it in the family and hand it down to my son one day if I have one.
It's a Smith & Wesson .357 Model 28 Highway Patrolman
Pretty cool to have something with such a story behind it and be a part of passing something down through the generations.
Back in the '60s and '70s, my dad was a deputy sheriff and a member of the SWAT team. In 1974, he was shot in the face with a 12 gauge shotgun (luckily from fairly long range) during a raid. My dad returned fire with his service revolver and took down his assailant. When it was all said and done, the guy survived (currently serving a life sentence), and my dad lost an eye and went on to law school after recovery. But he kept his service revolver with him over the next 40 years. Today, he gave it to me as a Christmas gift. His only condition was that I keep it in the family and hand it down to my son one day if I have one. It's a Smith & Wesson .357 Model 28 Highway Patrolman Pretty cool to have something with such a story behind it and be a part of passing something down through the generations.
I've got the same pistol. It was my Dad's also and it's the one I first learned to shoot a hand gun with. It doesn't have quite the story as yours, but that's really cool.
Back in the '60s and '70s, my dad was a deputy sheriff and a member of the SWAT team. In 1974, he was shot in the face with a 12 gauge shotgun (luckily from fairly long range) during a raid. My dad returned fire with his service revolver and took down his assailant. When it was all said and done, the guy survived (currently serving a life sentence), and my dad lost an eye and went on to law school after recovery. But he kept his service revolver with him over the next 40 years. Today, he gave it to me as a Christmas gift. His only condition was that I keep it in the family and hand it down to my son one day if I have one.
It's a Smith & Wesson .357 Model 28 Highway Patrolman
Pretty cool to have something with such a story behind it and be a part of passing something down through the generations.
Watched my niece's basketball team from the west side of the state obliterate the east side number 1 team from this side of the state last night.....wasn't even close 72-41....my niece left the game in the third quarter with 31 points
Rolled over the 40,000-mile mark with my old '97 Cavalier on the ride over to San Antonio from Houston this evening. I'm quite certain I have put more miles on it over the 6-months I have owned the car (it had around 31,500-miles on it when I bought it) than my Aunt did over the previous decade.....
12-27-2014, 03:17 PM
Plus it's a fine weapon, I must say.
