If long lost guns count, I dug out my Vz 70 from the bottom of the safe (didn't even remember it being put there) after our recent move back to Texas.Does finding a long lost gun count
So wayyyy back in Cali when I turned 18 or 16 what ever age you could buy a pistol I purchased a Phoenix arms Raven 25 acp. Was a astronomical 49.99 new. So fast forward my home in Etawanda Ca
Was broken into and it was stolen along with my glock 19 also purchased a few weeks after the raven. about a year and a half latter I was contacted by San Bernadino Sheriff department that A gun was recovered from a bucket of water and I could come pick it up. So do all the paperwork to get it still did not know what gun was recovered or its condition they could not tell me till I took possession lol. So it was the Raven and it was rusted pitted and all jacked up. I took it all apart and it ended up getting tossed in a box as I was moving again.
6 or so weeks latter I get another call the glock was recovered in the waist band of a student at the local high school and after it was ran through ballistics and other tests if it had not been used in a crime I could come and get it. If it had been used in a crime I would have to wait for the case to get finished before I could recover it. It was in almost perfect shape other than some blue wore off the side where it had been in a waist band quite a bit.
Back to the Raven. It was long lost in a box in the move and then another move 7 ish years ago when I came out here. Well I was cleaning the garage and look what popped up my first gun I purchased
So I lubed it up and put it all back together. Other than the pitting in the blue its seems to function. Now I need to find some 25acp. All I remember about shooting it was at 10 yards you could litteraly see the bullet come out of the gun and spiral down range. Out of the 6 rounds you were lucky if 2 were on paper
not bad for a 30 year old gun
Being a cal. 7.65, I never really had a lot of interest in carrying a .32 caliber pistol.
However, after reading that .32 caliber was the minimum caliber allowed to qualify for CHL purposes, I got her out and cleaned her up so my wife, whose arthritic hands and wrists requires something light wieght and with a fairly soft recoil spring, can go take her license test.
Crush, kill, mangle, maim, destroy.
