Shadow106

GORGEOUS!!

HOLY_________! Yep. Need one in .177 fpor sure, with an Alphonso holster!

Your right Rampy. But THEY can order it for you and Devan will give them a dealer price. If you order it, its $1399. If they order it, they'll get a price, but your should stay at $1399. At least thats what happened with mine. He will also offer a credit card price, or a money order price. He's a good guy to work with.

Yep. Thats MSRP. Call Devan at Custom Shoo Inc. in Hamilton Montana. He's a terrific customer service manager. Tell him I referred you. He has the newer serial number Python's and if you can work with a LGS to receive, you will be pleased I think. They are the outfit that does the "Gunfather" show on TV. Took me some horse trading, some selling, and some patience to get to mine as I've said. But it was worth it.

What the H was I talking about. Sig 229's didn't exist back then. It was a 1911 of course. S'cuse me! (What a dumb ass I can be,)

I bought a new Delta in November. My second with the first one being purchased in 1987 and sold two years later to purchase my own Sig P229 for duty carry. Missed it, so for the lat two years, I watched my LGS facilities for a new one. Took two years to finally out run some other guys to the shop and pick it up. As I do with almost every handgun I've ever bought, I took it home, detail stripped it, and after exanining the finish work inside the pistol, I finished cleaning it, reassembled it, and immediately put it up for trade on my local firearms website. Never fired it, and like it or not, my Tisas, Turkish built 10mm was finished better inside and out, and cost me half the price of the Delta, NIB. The good news is that a few days later, I received a call from a local rancher, who took the Delta and a very used S&W model 19 in trade, and I ended up with a 6" blue, Colt Python that is not only 90% or better, it was built in 1964. Am I pleased? Oh yeah. This is my 8th Python. The first one was purhased for $189 the week after the Watts Riots in 1965. The last one was in 1981 and cost so much I never thought I'd see another one in this lifetime. I had a Sig MllA1 which have been going for about $1000 NIB locally. Mine was tweaked by a Sig armorer and had a few extras which were enough to get me $1200 when I sold it to a friend. I'd been looking at the new Pythons for two years, and had read the horror stories about the 2020 and 2021 models. But the 3" was the one I was watching. I finally threw a couple hundred more into the kitty and ordered a 3", figuring that Colt might have paid attention and addressed the problems I'd been reading about for two years. It was a gamble and the memory of the new Delta didn't give me any real confidence. I received the new 3" on January 7th. It had come off the line on December 20, 2022 and was so fresh I couldn't believe it. Detail stripped it, examined it closely for all the issues I'd been listening to for so long, and found....., absolutely nothing wrong with the gun. The finish was superb and after 300+ rounds of a bunch of different .38's and .357's, not a single failure. Sights were right on and it is accurate as I can shoot it. The action is NOT as good as my '64 model, and that's because the new gun is not the old gun. The action is very "Python" but its heavier, which is not a problem for me. The serial number is PY30____ so if you are thinking about picking one up for yourself, keep that range in mind. I put a set of grips on it that fit me better, and the Wilson red fiber optic front sight to accomodate my old fart vision. Otherwise, its stock as it comes. I am 80 years old. I have been a very active shooter of handguns for 59 of those years. That I have two legacy weapons to pass on to my Border Patrol son just impresses the hell outta me. I'd like to say its all the result of my vast experience and knowledge, but the truth is probably best presented as......, dumb luck and good timing. J.

Yes it is. My wife put it there for me. She's the Wiz with the old folks..

Something I haven't mentioned here is that what started our search last summer, was the fact that we could pull up a lot of his WWII Army Air Force history, but virtually nothing on his AIR Force record. One site said he'd been in an accident and died, but it was a two liner in a page full of accidents. His Obit in our town in Nebraska was not the same as the one in Iowa where his parents lived. They found out he was dead when they opened the newspaper and it was a front page item, complete with photo. My grandmother damned near died.

Thx Rampy. Ill forward that to my daughter so she can run with it.

Good idea Rampy. It was already the Air Force at that time, but I'm pretty sure I remember MPs at the gates. we lived on base on Bangor Maine, at DowAFB

Wow! I've never heard about the FICON Project before. Amazing and during the right time period, although Dad's group did go to England in late July of 1952.

I know a state legislator who live a few doors away from me. I discussed this with him and he said he'd look into iy for me through some Air Force contacts. Haven't heard back from him in six months. Sme thing with a state Senator. Very interested on first contact. Not a word since. I even contacted MUFON when it was suggested to me, because there was a lot of UFO press at that time, around Washington DC which was only a little over 19 minutes away at cruise speed. I figured if I was gonna get a BS report from the government, might as well see if MUFON would make something up, or have knowledge of the incident for some reason. Very interested that day, and nothing since. The deeper I dig, the more it smells. We've asked the same questions about the body report. No mention of radiation, but they may have not been carrying the weapons if it was truly a training flight over American territory.

I know a state legislator who live a few doors away from me. I discussed this with him and he said he'd look into iy for me through some Air Force contacts. Haven't heard back from him in six months. Sme thing with a state Senator. Very interested on first contact. Not a word since. I even contacted MUFON when it was suggested to me, because there was a lot of UFO press at that time, around Washington DC which was only a little over 19 minutes away at cruise speed. I figured if I was gonna get a BS report from the government, might as well see if MUFON would make something up, or have knowledge of the incident for some reason. Very interested that day, and nothing since. The deeper I dig, the more it smells.

My father, Robert Wayne Crosley, learned to fly in a biplane when he was sixteen years old. He was a professional musician until he entered the Army Air Force where he became a B-17 pilot based in England during WWII. After the war, he was a civilian for a few years, then enlisted in an Air Force reserve unit that was activated during the Korean conflict within a year. He was qualified in the P-51 Mustang fighter, then transitioned to the F-84G Thunderjet, and was transferred to Langley AFB in Virginia in late 1951. After the transfer, his group was sent to New Mexico where they were trained and became the first fighter-bomber squadron with capability to deliver a nuclear device. The squadron was scheduled to transfer to a base in England as a rapid response unit for that region of the world. In April of 1952, my mother and I were notified that his plane had gone down in the swamp area south and west of Langley AFB, and that the Air Force was searching for him. Two weeks later, we were informed that he was dead, and that we were receiving an empty casket at our home of record in Fremont, Nebraska. The escort that came with the casket said that he'd been told that Dad's F-84 had blown up in midair and that there was nothing to recover. When Mom asked for his personal belongings from the BOQ where he was staying while we packed the house in Nebraska, she was told that his quarters had been burglarized and that nothing was there to be recovered. When she asked for the family car, my Dad's Hudson Hornet, she was told that it was stolen and found totaled some place off base. So we buried the casket and became dependents of a deceased veteran. About six months ago, my eldest daughter filed a Freedom Of Information request for any reports pertaining to my father's accident in 1952. The report she received stated that it had occurred during a return flight from a training mission location that was unspecified, and that the squadron had landed at Coral Gables, in Florida due to heavy weather. When some of the pilots decided to proceed on to Langley in spite of conditions, it was reported that my father did not feel confident flying IFR in those conditions and had requested permission to remain in Florida until it cleared up. When other pilots took off, he supposedly asked another pilot if he could fly as his wingman, in order to return to Langely with the squadron. They took off and at some point, the other pilot lost his radar compass navigation and asked my father to take the lead, which he did. The last reported radio transmission was from my father to the other pilot, saying, “Hey Boy! You're turning! You're turning!” Two days later, an arm was found in the swamp area and identified by the FBI with finger prints belonging to my father. Two days after that, the engine of the plane that had allegedly blown up, was found about four miles away. ???? My questions now are: If the body part and the engine were found within four days, why did it take nearly two weeks to inform us that all of that had been located and my father was dead? Why would a combat experienced pilot, qualified to deliver nuclear devices, believe that he wasn't competent enough to fly IFR which he'd been doing for over a decade in multiple aircraft? Why would the Air Force so equip such a pilot with the nuclear training and weapon? Why, after he was gone off the air, was the other pilot/plane not mentioned in the report? Where did they go to? No personal effects? No family car? Nothing but an empty coffin? Personally, I think the report is BS, and I'm going to have to pass on myself in order to know what is or is not the truth, because I don't believe we were told what actually happened. I'd be interested to hear from anyone who may have had similar experiences with military deaths in the famiy. I cannot believe we were unique in all of this.

Where In Iowa? The other half of my family is from Ames.