Larry Potterfield shows off a Model 81

[81police]

Pretty cool, "and that's the way it is"

http://www.youtube.com/user/MidwayUSA#p ... GNFJ62EFJs

[imfuncity]

Thanks for posting the vid. I do like the way they do business and I’ve always enjoy the fact that his history with Model 8/81 and the ammo goes back to the very beginning of MidwayUSA.

Some excerpts from the MidwayUSA/Potterfield Story at: http://www.midwayusa.com/General.mvc/Index/AboutUs
(June 18, 1977 opened for business.)
Jerry (his younger brother) and I (Larry) had put our gun collections into inventory as part of our equity, so we started with 50 or 60 used guns.

One of the used guns that Jerry put into our inventory for sale was a Remington Model 8 semi-automatic rifle in 25 Remington. As it turned out, this gun helped shape our future. At that time, Hodgdon Powder Company also had a distribution business for most brands of guns and supplies.

In the fall of 1977, we got a flyer from Hodgdon that listed some Remington ammunition in caliber 30 Remington. This was surplus police ammunition with a 170 grain full metal jacket bullet, in white boxes, for use in Remington Model 8 rifles in 30 Remington. The offered price of $2.00 per box of 20.

Always trying to find an angle, I remembered that 8mm Nambu could be made from this brass and we still had the Remington Model 8 in 25 Remington on the rack, asking about $250 for it, with no ammo and no takers. I convinced Jerry that we should buy some of this 30 Remington ammo and make some "good" 8mm Nambu ammunition and some 25 Remington ammunition that we could sell in a Shotgun News ad. We ordered in a couple of thousand rounds of this ammo, 8mm Nambu forming and loading dies and 25 Remington loading dies. The 25 Remington ammo was a no-brainer. We pulled the bullets, dumped the powder and worked up a load using the same powder that would cycle the Remington Model 8 using Hornady 117 grain round nose bullets.

The 8mm Nambu was a real project....