I called home, called my brother and hit the road. It was about 50 miles to the Tacoma hospital from my office in a different county. Less than an hour after that, my excitement was bludgeoned by a phone call from an emergency room physician explaining how mom had suffered a massive heart attack and was being stabilized as best as possible, which soon became obvious was wishful thinking. He hooked up with the FFL in Oregon who was assisting the Beaver State gent to stay out of trouble on his side of the Columbia River. It had gathered dust in a gun safe for several years, and when he told me how much he wanted - a ridiculously low figure, considering I’d seen the same model fetching more than twice as much at Seattle-area gun shows - I said “Deal.”Īn hour later, I had arranged for an FFL pal to take care of the legalities on my end. The fellow was selling off a gun collection and this 4” Diamondback was among the firearms in the estate. I got tipped off by a buddy that a fellow in Oregon had posted one for sale and I immediately reached out via e-mail and a telephone call. I waited decades.Īs bad luck would have it, my opportunity came in the summer of 2010. Some people wait months, maybe a few years, to satisfy an urge. So, the ownership of a Colt snake gun that seemed to be a beefed-up Detective Special - with a Python-like full-underlug barrel featuring the eye-catching vent rail on top - went to the back burner. I already owned a deadly-accurate 6” Model 19 Smith & Wesson, which handled. Yeah, I had to have one, but back in the days when those films were produced, my budget just couldn’t justify the expense, especially for a wheelgun that could only fire standard-pressure. John Wayne packed one in “McQ” and again in “Brannigan,” and in both films he put down the villains decisively. Steve McQueen carried one in “Bullitt” and used it to shoot a bad guy dead in the final scenes of that classic film.
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