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I would love to swap a kidney for a German made Sig 229 X5, definitely a bucket list gun.

Also a long shot, I’m looking to reunite with my old S&W 29-2, 6 1/2” barrel, serial number N403663. I had to send it back to S&W shortly after I bought it when the cylinder began to drag on the frame. Took six months, but it was a “wow” gun when it got back. Serial number on cylinder and barrel, best action I ever saw on a revolver, and was superbly accurate. I shot it a bit loose with my hardcast linotype bullets and 2400. Anyhow, it’s a for sure bucket list gun and have regretted selling for decades. I’d pay a premium to get it back.

Sig P210 for some reason

A 4 1/2" Colt New Service in 44 Special, 45 Colt or ACP.

My Grail Gun was a Ruger Old Army converted to .50 cal by David Clements. I spoke to David several times about building one but didn’t have the money every time he was starting to build them. When I finally had the money he quit building them due to supply problems. I finally found a used unfired one. I bought it and sent it to Bobby Tyler to have it engraved and I had Chig’s Grips make some Desert Ironwood grips for it. It is perfect.

I been thinking about WWII P38. I am fine with something more common like ones made by Walther or Spandau Machinegun Factory.

Hey, what up Ole' Sodbuster?

My other bucket list gun was a Linebaugh built gun. Caliber wasn’t important as I had been enamored with his guns since I read Ross Seyfried’s first article on his guns. I finally got a chance to buy one of his Bisley Vaquero .500 Linebaughs and jumped on it. After shooting it I found it was beating up my middle finger so I had Ronnie Wells install his brass Bradshaw Bisley grips to it and he made some beautiful Walnut grips for it. It is also perfect now. The best part is after I bought it I spent a few hours talking to John Linebaugh about loads for it. He was kind enough to send me a bunch of hand written loading data.

Wilson Combat Supergrade Commander

Colt Shooting Master in 45 Co!t.

There seem to be very few Wilson Combat Commanders available. This is the only one I have found. What are its pros and cons? I am not familiar with the grips on this sample.

https://wilsoncombat.com/handgun6517.html

That is beautiful!

I am currently working on having my dad's old 44 restored, I hope to be able to gift it to his long time hunting buddy at Christmas. It won't be as pretty as that but I hope it will at least be classy.