Remington Model 8 .35 Cal. Police Special

Grrrrrr

March 06, 2009 17:44

Hello,

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
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  rufe-snow

  March 06, 2009 18:10

  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.

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  savage170

  March 07, 2009 03:21

  That converision was quite popular with many prisons for the gaurdsI use to have one that was issued to the Missouri state Pen

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  Hardrada55

  March 07, 2009 03:41

  Check out this site:
  
  http://thegreatmodel8.remingtonsociety.com/
  
  And this forum:
  
  http://vintagesemiautorifle.proboards105.com/

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