The New Service always holds a special place for me as it was my first "real" gun of my own. I bought one of those $24.95 mail order guns in .45 Colt, actually a reworked .455 Eley.
It was my first custom gun, converted to .44 Special and fitted with S&W rear sight and a huge Micro front.
Here 'tis:
Was among my first lessons in handgunning.
Bob Wright