My Grandfather drops a bomb on me!

Gatorade · #1 08-01-2014, 10:33 PM

My grandfather has a very extensive gun collection that will be split evenly in half and I am one of those halves. I have seen and handled most of his rifles and pistols. I have shot more than I can count as well. I am very familiar with his collection from Luger bring backs to SKS been there done that. Peacemakers to Grendels and all manner in between. He also has note cards that he gave me copies of on all his firearms. Yet he continues to surprise me. I have known for a while about his Mitchell PPS .22. It is a .22 replica of a PPSH Russian Submachine gun. Looked cool enough to a 14 year old who loved his grandfathers guns. So while talking to him earlier about Tokarev ammo and the different guns he has that shoot that ammo I said he had 3 different guns that took the 7.62x25. A couple Tokarevs, a few CZ52s, and a Broomhandle Mauser. A total of 7 pistols. He then says don't forget about the PPSH-41. My car starts drifting as I am going through the Rolodex in my mind and I keep coming up empty. I start to think that senility may be on setting as he is only a month or two away from 90. I said no that is a PPSH .22, a replica. He says no I have two of those (first I had heard that he had more than 1) but this was a full PPSH-41. He was quick to point out it had been converted to semi auto instead of select fire, but a real PPSH-41 Russian burp gun. The full auto versions are $17-$20K and I didn't know they could be converted to semi. Either way it was just another example of him surprising me with firearms that I had no clue he had. I really wanted to talk more about it but he had to run to the grocery store so I will have to wait another day for the details.