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Have gun, will travel (C&P News Article)
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I thought this was a neat story. I had a little bit to do with it. I was Ramsey's transfer dealer. nunn
By TRACY CHESNEY
Herald-Banner Staff
GREENVILLE - It's been around for 92 years, and Wednesday, it finally came full circle. A forgotten American legacy found its way back home.
Steve Ramsey of Greenville is a gun collector and several weeks ago he purchased a Savage Pocket Pistol, Model 1907. The gun had an unusual marking, however. The magazine was etched with a man's initials and an address, "A. M. Scoggins, Carrier Route 1, Pecan Gap, Texas."
"I had never seen a gun where a name was clearly written on it," Ramsey said. "You don't ever mark up a gun. It's unusual to have name engraved on a magazine. You just don't see that."
Once Ramsey found the initials, he wanted to find the original owner. With the help of Sylvia Rodriguez from the W. Walworth Harrison Library, he was able to find Scoggins' son, Harry Scoggins, 76, of Detroit, Texas and return the gun to him.
"I thought that someone out there had to be kin to this A. M. Scoggins," he said. "Sylvia did all the leg work, and she deserves all the credit."
Ramsey met with Scoggins and his wife, Nora, for the first time Wednesday afternoon, and Scoggins bought the pistol from Ramsey at cost.
"I was shocked to get a call that someone found something that belonged to by dad," Scoggins said. "Dad owned a lot of guns. He had two pistols like this. He also etched everything he owned with his initials A. M. S."
The .32 caliber pistol was made in 1914, and the Savage Pocket Pistol is considered the highest capacity magazine of its time.
"Savage made wonderful shotguns and rifles, but they didn't make pistols," Ramsey said. "They wanted to compete for the Army contract in 1925, so they designed this pistol. They competed against Lugar and Colt, and Colt won the contract. This was also the first automatic pistol shot by Buffalo Bill."
Scoggins father, Arthur Monroe Scoggins, was a mail carrier for Pecan Gap from 1920-1955. He made the 22-mile route every day on horseback between Cooper and Paris.
"He might have carried this gun with him for protection," Scoggins said.
Scoggins was excited to have a piece of his father's history returned back to him.
"Not many people would go to so much trouble as Steve did," Scoggins said.
"I'm glad that the coincidences allowed all of this to happen," Ramsey said. "And it's thanks to etching, the Internet and Sylvia.
`After all, who knows where all this gun has been or what it has seen. It's a piece of Americana."
By TRACY CHESNEY
Herald-Banner Staff
GREENVILLE - It's been around for 92 years, and Wednesday, it finally came full circle. A forgotten American legacy found its way back home.
Steve Ramsey of Greenville is a gun collector and several weeks ago he purchased a Savage Pocket Pistol, Model 1907. The gun had an unusual marking, however. The magazine was etched with a man's initials and an address, "A. M. Scoggins, Carrier Route 1, Pecan Gap, Texas."
"I had never seen a gun where a name was clearly written on it," Ramsey said. "You don't ever mark up a gun. It's unusual to have name engraved on a magazine. You just don't see that."
Once Ramsey found the initials, he wanted to find the original owner. With the help of Sylvia Rodriguez from the W. Walworth Harrison Library, he was able to find Scoggins' son, Harry Scoggins, 76, of Detroit, Texas and return the gun to him.
"I thought that someone out there had to be kin to this A. M. Scoggins," he said. "Sylvia did all the leg work, and she deserves all the credit."
Ramsey met with Scoggins and his wife, Nora, for the first time Wednesday afternoon, and Scoggins bought the pistol from Ramsey at cost.
"I was shocked to get a call that someone found something that belonged to by dad," Scoggins said. "Dad owned a lot of guns. He had two pistols like this. He also etched everything he owned with his initials A. M. S."
The .32 caliber pistol was made in 1914, and the Savage Pocket Pistol is considered the highest capacity magazine of its time.
"Savage made wonderful shotguns and rifles, but they didn't make pistols," Ramsey said. "They wanted to compete for the Army contract in 1925, so they designed this pistol. They competed against Lugar and Colt, and Colt won the contract. This was also the first automatic pistol shot by Buffalo Bill."
Scoggins father, Arthur Monroe Scoggins, was a mail carrier for Pecan Gap from 1920-1955. He made the 22-mile route every day on horseback between Cooper and Paris.
"He might have carried this gun with him for protection," Scoggins said.
Scoggins was excited to have a piece of his father's history returned back to him.
"Not many people would go to so much trouble as Steve did," Scoggins said.
"I'm glad that the coincidences allowed all of this to happen," Ramsey said. "And it's thanks to etching, the Internet and Sylvia.
`After all, who knows where all this gun has been or what it has seen. It's a piece of Americana."
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