Remington Model 8 .35 Cal. Police Special
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Have you ever seen one of these? Remington Model 8 in .35 Remington "Police Special"? It is a take down model with a 4 digit serial number. Custom built for a police department in Washington state in 1930 with a 20-round mag by the Peace Officer's Equipment Company of St. Joseph, Missouri.
In 1934, Texas Ranger Frank Hamer picked up a Model 8 in .35 Remington at Petmeckey's Sporting Good Store in Austin and then had it fitted out with a 20-round magazine by the Peace Officer's Equipment Company of St. Joseph, Missouri. He took the rifle along with him to deal with Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker after being hired to put a stop to them.
I have the one mentioned above.
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Have you ever seen one of these? Remington Model 8 in .35 Remington "Police Special"? It is a take down model with a 4 digit serial number. Custom built for a police department in Washington state in 1930 with a 20-round mag by the Peace Officer's Equipment Company of St. Joseph, Missouri.
In 1934, Texas Ranger Frank Hamer picked up a Model 8 in .35 Remington at Petmeckey's Sporting Good Store in Austin and then had it fitted out with a 20-round magazine by the Peace Officer's Equipment Company of St. Joseph, Missouri. He took the rifle along with him to deal with Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker after being hired to put a stop to them.
I have the one mentioned above.
Regards
Grrrrrr
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According to this article Hamer's Model 8, was serial number 10045.
http://www.sightm1911.com/lib/history/hamer_guns.htm
If you have a Model 8 with the same serial number, hopefully you can trace it's chain of ownership back to Hamer. With all the accomplished gun fakers who are after the chumps with big bucks, it wouldn't surprise me that a Model 8 could be reworked so that the serial number was the same as Hamer's.0 -
That converision was quite popular with many prisons for the gaurdsI use to have one that was issued to the Missouri state Pen 0 -
Check out this site:
http://thegreatmodel8.remingtonsociety.com/
And this forum:
http://vintagesemiautorifle.proboards105.com/0
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