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LDB415 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 12:26 am I remember those revolver days. I believe it was a replica of their badge on the revolver butt.

Could be some were badge replicas. I just checked with one of my buds and his was sterling silver with gold relief lettering and numbers and edge filigree. Had his name and badge number on it. He reminded me his partner carried a Browning High Power which was really unusual back then. I thought he carried a 1911 (not the guy with the magazine issues). We reminisced about a story he told me when he and his partner Joe encountered a guy on wants and warrants that they had many run ins with. Big guy, very strong and while wrestling with him Joe pulled his Browning out and hit him up the side of his head and the pistol discharged creasing his scalp. He grabbed Joe's wrist and said, "Don't do that again"! Back up called and they finally got him in the back of a car. Had to use two sets of cuffs and in the jail house he broke one set.

carlson1 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 6:14 pm

puma guy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 6:06 pm

carlson1 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 5:12 pm Back in the 1980’s there was a study among hardened criminals. If I remember something to the effect that if they seen a policeman standing guard and he had changed out his grips on his service revolver from the stock grips they moved on down the road. The thought was if the police had changed out their stock grips it meant they were most likely shooters and the criminals wanted nothing to do with them. I guess that is a deference in its in way.

Back then all my police buddies carried S&W Model 19's with target grips and most had silver butt caps on them. I only knew one guy that carried a 1911. He would rotate magazines every three months or so because he said the springs get fatigued if you leave them loaded for too long. To each his own. LOL

We had model 28’s with pachmayra.

Great choice and much more durable for long term .357 loads. I had a Model 27 and a Model 19 back then. I reloaded back then and I always thought it strange the 19's would accept a longer overall length .357 round than the N frames. .

carlson1 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 5:12 pm Back in the 1980’s there was a study among hardened criminals. If I remember something to the effect that if they seen a policeman standing guard and he had changed out his grips on his service revolver from the stock grips they moved on down the road. The thought was if the police had changed out their stock grips it meant they were most likely shooters and the criminals wanted nothing to do with them. I guess that is a deference in its in way.

Back then all my police buddies carried S&W Model 19's with target grips and most had silver butt caps on them. I only knew one guy that carried a 1911. He would rotate magazines every three months or so because he said the springs get fatigued if you leave them loaded for too long. To each his own. LOL

You don't specify what type of posting. That being said I am not a lawyer nor a legal scholar, but I would say it's legal to do so, since there's no language I know of addressing magazines. If the posting prohibits carry under all PC's I would think to do so would just draw unwanted attention.