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I suspected that's what that was. I'd never seen what their mags looked like.

You are correct, sir! My bad.

My father has one. If you don’t hit what you’re aiming at with that thing, it’s YOUR fault!

They sure do look like a 39, but that’s where it ends.

I almost traded my S&W 1006 for a 52-1 a couple years ago. Probably should have as I load and shoot far more 38s than any other caliber. Pretty neat guns from a bygone time.

Alchemy Prime

It's not a 52.

It's either a 52-1 or a 52-2.
The 52's did not have the dimple or cut for the barrel weight.

Tony

I’d consider a 52-1 or 52-2 a model 52. The other number simply denotes an engineering change.

I like my Rock River .45 Basic Carry with upgraded target sights. Pictured here with a demo qual target I shot for a class of court officers.

That’s pretty cool! You don’t see them very often. Well, I guess you do.

I think the Savage 1907's meet your definition. If not they meet mine.

Those are cool. Savage entered one into competition with the 1911 for US Military adoption, and I think it did well. It was that model on steroids, so it could handle .45 ACP.

Nice!

Another recent scarce find. Shares the same magazines with my M41. Not a bad $200 shooter.

I've likely got different ideas than most, but the panachiest auto pistols all shoot bullets of 40 gr or under.

You want panache and bigger bullets you're looking at a 1911 of some flavor or other.

The Woodsman marked a watershed in human history...

1911s in .38 Super have panache by the bucketloads. I think they have more panache than the .45s, really. I love my .45s, but the Supers are just everything they oughta be.

Family Rubber Band Squirrel Shooter. All the three boys of that generation had a 22lr at the ready, just in case.





PS: I still feel the High Power defines panache but I don't own one......yet.

Those are very 1950s cool. Made the way things used to be made in the US. Always wanted one, and found a very nice looking one like that about ten years ago, and bought it. Jammomatic. Back and forth to the gunsmith at the shop I bought it from, to no avail. The store eventually (after about a year of back and forth to their gunsmith) gave me a full refund on it. Bad luck, I guess. They have great reputations.

I collect old Colt SAA's and often sit at my desk holding one from 1890 and wish it could tell me it's history.
There is one handgun I have that I'm glad it can't tell me anything.
1942 BYF.
I'm sure this one has some sort of "Panache

That one's in great shape for a war time weapon.