In my lifetime of a firearms owner and collector, many different guns have passed through my hands. Ever since I was a teenager, I’ve bought, sold, and traded these tools of wood, steel, and (occasionally) polymer. Over the years, I’ve had the good, the bad, and the ugly. Some of them have stories behind them. This is one of them.
It Started in a talk with Dan
Dan, my coatings guy at Custom Coatings, was doing a Duracoat (link) job on my LCP and when I dropped by to see him, had an old Smith wheel gun he was working on. Always a sucker for old K-frames, I asked to look at it. It was a beat-up Model 15 .38-Special. Its previous owner had been a Hurricane Katrina victim and the revolver had sat submerged in salt-water from the epic storm’s surge for days before being rescued……and that was seven years ago.
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About laststandonzombieisland
Let me introduce myself. I am a bit of a conflict junkie. I am fascinated by war and warfare, assassination, personal protection and weaponry ranging from spud guns and flame throwers to thermonuclear bombs and soviet-trained Ebola monkeys. In short, if it’s violent or a tool to create violence it is kind of my thing.
I have written a few hundred articles on the dry encyclopedia side for such websites as History Times, Firearms Talk.com, GUNS.com, Suite 101 (where I am the contracted Feature Writer for Military History) and Combat Forums; as well as for print publications like England Expects, and Strike First Strike Fast. Several magazines such as Sea Classics, Military Historian and Collector, Mississippi Sportsman and Warship International have carried my pieces. Additionally I am on staff as a naval consultant and writer for Eye Spy Intelligence Magazine.
Currently I am working on several book projects, including a section in the upcoming Mississippi Encyclopedia (to be published by Ole Miss this summer), an alternative history novel about the US-German War of 1916, and a biography of Bennett Doty. My first novel, about the coming zombie apocalypse was released this Spring by Necro Publications and can be found at Amazon.com.
In my day job I am a contractor for the US federal government in what could best be described as the ‘Force Protection’ field. In this I am a certified Firearms, and less-than-lethal combat instructor.
