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Offline bigbore45colt

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Grover's Improved #5
« on: May 20, 2006, 09:00:44 AM »
Just thought I'd post a few pics of my latest acquisition, a TLA Grover's Improved #5 in 45 Caliber with color case hardening, s/n K18X....








Neat little suckers!!

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Offline Lloyd Smale

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Grover's Improved #5
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2006, 12:57:54 AM »
thats just flat beautiful!!!
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Offline MSHAW

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tla grover's improved # 5
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2006, 12:55:09 AM »
I just bought one yesterday.  love it so far

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Re: Grover's Improved #5
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2006, 08:17:50 AM »
Could anyone re-post the pictures?  Looks like they've been taken down.
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Re: Grover's Improved #5
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2006, 05:22:53 PM »
Here's mine. 

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Re: Grover's Improved #5
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2006, 05:23:55 PM »
More of it.

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Re: Grover's Improved #5
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2006, 05:26:17 PM »
Still more.

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Re: Grover's Improved #5
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2006, 05:29:14 PM »
Last pic, I promise.

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Re: Grover's Improved #5
« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2006, 05:10:13 AM »
KAP, Beautiful gun!  How much was it when you bought it from TLA, and how's she shoot?  ;)
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Re: Grover's Improved #5
« Reply #9 on: November 02, 2006, 11:12:21 AM »
KAP, Beautiful gun!  How much was it when you bought it from TLA, and how's she shoot?  ;)

As a young man, Bill Grover used to live here in Kentucky about 15 miles from me.  I didn't meet him until sometime in the late 80's/early 90's when he came in from Texas to peddlie his guns at a local show in Lexington.  I thought then that his guns were fantastic, but at a cost of 6-8 hundred bucks I figured I should stick with the Rugers.  Today, I wish I had bought them all.

I got mine a few years back from a guy out west, when I saw it for sell in the ShotGun News.  Mine is 44mag caliber.  I paid $1050.  It shoots just fine, but hasn't actually seen much use.  I want a 45 really bad.  I offered a guy what he was asking for one on the SASS site a  while back, and he said fine.  A day or so later, he tells me that my emailed offer had arrived a few minutes later than had the offer from another man....so I lost out.

The guy that beat me out is, I think, the fellow that uses the handle mtn cowboy on this site in this forum...he even posted a few pics of the gun that nearly was mine.  It came with a extra cylinder in 45WinMag.  It hurts still to look at the pics.


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Re: Grover's Improved #5
« Reply #10 on: November 02, 2006, 02:02:00 PM »
I believe mtncowboy has since sold it.

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Re: Grover's Improved #5
« Reply #11 on: January 01, 2007, 01:34:08 AM »
Hi guys,

Is there any valid reason that the pics have been removed in their entirety from this thread?  Being a new fan of FLAs I cannot go to one of my safes and remove one or two samples of Ben Grover's work in order to study them, that is after I would place a bib properly in place, I would't want rust to become an issue due to "dripping lust" on my watch.

JHT

P.S. If JT feels any affinity towards me due to my set of initials being J.H.T., notiice the semblence, he should feel welcome to  drop me a line and say, Hello. 
"Things will get done little by small."  ---  Joseph J. Venturo Sr.  ---  Joseph was my father-in-law, while he was not a formally educated man he certainly and without doubt was a very smart man, and a man who loved his children.