It's wonderful to see you honoring a past murdered sheriff in this way. I'm sure Sherrif Blum is smiling down on you sir. Proud American we got your 6.
As a Sheriff's Deputy I really like the tribute to a fallen officer. Sheriff Blum gave his full measure for his county. What a fitting way to show honor for his sacrifice. Well done Sir!
Our officer safety training has become so much better verses the 1920s. However, our justice system is in dire need of an overhaul. Thank you for the video sheriff.
Great story glad the family wanted you to have the gun awesome seeing you shoot the gun we need more law enforcement people like you thanks for your service
Howdy from Galveston, Texas. That was a very interesting video. Thanks for posting it. My great grand father was a detective for the local police department, when technology overtook him. By that, I mean that he couldn't keep up with and learn to use the modern technology of the times, so he had to retire from the police department. You see, they had gone from horse riding and horse drawn buggies, to gasoline powered cars and he just couldn't learn to drive. He then took a job as a jailer with the Sheriff's department, where he eventually was murdered in a jail break ca. 1932. My great grandfather's service revolver was given to his son-in-law, my grandfather. He, in turn, stored it in a drawer, wrapped in an oily rag. I started my career in law enforcement in 1978, and retired in 2018. I ended up with my great grandfather's revolver, a S&W "hand ejector" in .38 spl. and periodically carried it on duty for several departments during that time. Not on a daily basis, but at least one day with every department I worked with. Though I had never met my great grandfather, nor even his daughter, my grandmother, this was a tangible link to them. I have since passed this to another much younger relative who I am sure will never even fire it, more's the pity. Maybe someday he will pass it down to the Sheriff's Dept. for the same treatment as yours. Thanks again for a great video.
This was a really cool video. Thanks for this! My Dad worked for the State of Missouri Department of Corrections back in the 70’s there in Jefferson City. Hearing about the former Captain really made me think of my Dad. Thanks for that as well.
Good story Sheriff Matt, I pray God keeps you safe! My granddaughter is a police officer in Madisonville Ky. and I pray for her and all who serve to keep us safe
My sister lives in Columbia Mo. I would love to come up and meet you and maybe you could give me some expertise training suggestions!😊 Or I’ll could take you to lunch and talk. That would be like going back in time and seeing my old friend Bill. Great video and remembering your old Sheriff was very kind. Be safe my friend!!! Bud Cary
Thank you for bringing a human touch to law enforcement. It's refreshing to meet someone in law enforcement that is so personable. You have my vote keep up the good work.
This is an amazing tribute. I'm not a cop but I am a vet and this touches my soul. Sometimes footnotes of history that "nobody has herd" are more interesting than a well documented battle. You're content keeps me interested and this surprised me. Than you sheriff.
Good on the family for turning down the historical society's "offer". Good on you for accepting the offer, giving this historical gun a home and the respect that it deserves, and for sharing this all with us!
Sheriff - great story for your local and the sheriff's office. I'm no ammo expert but I believe the ammo shown was U.S. Cartridge Company in .38 S&W and was produced with that headstamp until at least 1917. Kudo's to the family for not wanting to "decommission" the revolver (shame on the historical museum), and you for accepting it into you agency. And especially and huge "Thank you" for the sacrifice of Sheriff Blum. (BTW, when shooting, your head position looks like mine these days. Eyes are getting tired.)
That is fascinating! A great story/history of Audrain County. Prayers for you and your officers daily. Thanks for sharing, and thanks to the family for donating that piece of history.
Colt Police Positive was a very popular model at one time. .38 S&W cartridge often gets confused with the .38 Special. The two are quite different. Even when the .38 Special had become quite popular the older, less powerful , and milder recoiling .38 S&W still had its fans. At one time there was a "Super Police" load that featured a 200 grain round nose lead bullet. It was heavy and slow as molasses in winter at maybe 650 FPS at best. That same load became the British military load for their break action Webley and Enfield revolvers for a time between WWI and WWII. Yes, a fun to shoot and locally historic gun. I would love to run a few cylinders full through it on the pepper popper targets at 15-25 yards. Those old guns can be surpringly accurate with good ammo they like. As noted, skinny sights need good eyes for best results. Those guns usually do surprisingly well at double action point shooting at realistic gun fight ranges though. They will amaze you quite often. Good interesting history video. Dig up and showcase some more guns with history from your county. It's a great way to present both.
Sheriff if I had known in advance I would have sent you a box of 38 S&W I’ve had a long time just setting around. I enjoy your videos. Thanks form your neighbor in Arkansas.
My grandfather had a pistol just like that. He was a cattle inspector in northern Arizona and used to put animals down that were injured or to sick. Nice old gun Great tribute
I've always liked the idea of being comforted by the presence of a sidearm that once provided the same to a lawman before me. I did a few years behind the badge back in the 80s and 90s, and frequently carry the .38 snub I bought the day I was sworn in. My dad also did a bit of time as a rural Colorado deputy, and I have both his sidearm and snub .38 (ironically, the same model as mine, though preceding it by 21 years, made the same year in which I was born.) Thanks for sharing. I also find honor in learning about "the old-timers" (to quote Tommy Lee Jones as Sheriff Ed Tom Bell in "No Country For Old Men.")
Thank you, Sheriff Oller, for sharing this little piece of your history with all of us. I've been a trucker for more than 30 years now. I haven't yet traveled thru Mexico, MO, but on trips from GA/NC/VA to OR/WA, I've often deviated from I-70 St Louis to I-29 St Jo, by taking US-61 to Hannibal and US-36 to I-29 St Jo. You've given me a reason to route thru Mexico, MO via US-54! Folks, never hesitate to take a US-highway alternate to the normal Interstate route. America's hidden GEM roads are the US highways. You'll get to see bedrock REAL America with the most gorgeous scenery and nicest people. The journey is often much more fulfilling than the destination!
Hello Sheriff Oller, I just found your channel and thoroughly enjoy gun talk and police stories. I also looked at your website. You seem like a great guy.
Thanks a Sheriff for the history lesson of your hometown!! I’m always interested in learning about past events that was taken place that time almost forgotten, thank for your input on the topic I appreciate it!! Stay safe, stay blessed have a great day!!!!
There is so much interesting history at the local and county level here in Missouri...and most people today have no idea how rich and interesting that history is.
Hi Sheriff Oller. The weather is the same here in South Central Indiana. God bless you sir. ❤ That is a very very neat handgun and fitting. Very cool .. My friends father received a Winchester 97 shotgun from WW1 that the sheriff had and gave to his father. It had been sawed off for police use and is an original WW1 shotgun that was given to the sheriff department. He also received two WW1 Remington rifles. They are in perfect shape. Good stuff. ❤
Good stuff sheriff. Like & subscribed of course. Thanks for sharing some of y’all’s living history & hope the dog is doing good too. Stay safe out there.A drunk dummy shot the Sheriff in the town where me & my daughter reside (Carthage. NC Sheriff Rick Rhyne) December,2011. A month before my daughter was born. He was a nice guy. I was so busy with so much baby’s on the way stuff around that time, I wasn’t paying attention to the expiration date on my CCL ,& it slipped by me by a few days short of a month. I’d met him a couple times through the years,in passing. I called the department ,maybe a week before that happened,& somehow wound up talking to the sheriff on the phone about what could be done. He told me to come by the office and we’ll figure it out .Didn’t get by there in time. Would have been nice to have seen & talked to him again. Thanks again for sharing.your community is lucky to have you.
Thank you for the story! I didn’t know they gutted the old jail though. When I was a kid I heard old timers telling stories from when they were guests back in the day. 🤭 I’m so glad I found this channel! My family is from Hatton over in Callaway.
I have my grandfather's S&W, patent date April 1889, in 38 S&W it is in excellent condition. My father had it restored some time in the 1960's he had the nickel plating redone by S&W I believe. I can remember my grandfather carrying it in his coat pocket which was appropriate for the time in the early 1950's. The only time I remember him shooting it was to shoot a rattle snake in the yard at his home on the farm. Would love to shoot it but finding ammunition is just about impossible and the cost is prohibitive if you want to shoot it frequently.
Good Historic Review! Congratulations on your successful channel! I think that I subscribed to you when you had about 48 Subscribers! I think I was number 49 to be exact! I plan on starting my own channel after I retire in about two years! God Bless... Bill
That hanging gallows or execution chamber description matches one I saw somewhere in a former jail turned museum. Where I dont remember. Oklahoma or maybe Kansas most likely.
Interesting story ! Glad the chain of events led you to getting the old service firearm and it still being in pretty good condition for its age ! Have a Blessed Day Sheriff 🇺🇸
It would have been a shame to have that old Colt de-activated (ruined). I used to own a Colt Police Positive in .38 special. A fine old revolver, wish I still had it, but I traded it for something I wanted more at a gun show long ago. I have a couple of old Enfield revolvers and a Webley from WWII that use .38 S&W. I cut down .38 special brass and trim with a Lee trimmer to make cases for hand loading. .38 S&W is a little larger in diameter, but it fireforms and works ok with the light loads I use. It would be nice to have the serving Sheriff take the old girl out to the range once a year and fire a cylinder full to honor Sheriff Blum. Could make it a tradition. Just a thought. Very nice video, you are a good story teller.
Very true. My buddy Bill Gough of Cass County Mo. served 17 years straight and finally gave it up due to cancer. He was a great guy and a dear friend of the family for 60 years. Back in the 70’s, you might remember, a crazy SOB shot up the square in Harrisonville, killed two of our friends and shot Bill twice. He lived and faced the shooter except the guy killed himself trying to get in the old hospital next door to the Sheriff’s office. Simpson was the shooter’s last name I think.
As A very young boy I seen A gun that looked just like your on my step grand pa's night stand, Oh how I wanted to pick it up and look it over, but I knew better,I am now 79 so I was raised to look and not touch.
But Kwai Chang Caine would face down armed men all of the time and he never got shot... I guess Sheriff Blum didn't know Kung Fu... So the moral of the story is don't go to a gun fight without a gun.
History and practical application with experience. Those who don't learn History are bound to repeat it. Insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. Always have the right tools for the job. Be aware of your surroundings and be very observant.
You assume he went without his gun. The sheriff said most of the time he didn’t carry a gun. He didn’t say the sheriff went to see about the guy with a gun without his!
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It's wonderful to see you honoring a past murdered sheriff in this way. I'm sure Sherrif Blum is smiling down on you sir. Proud American we got your 6.
As a Sheriff's Deputy I really like the tribute to a fallen officer. Sheriff Blum gave his full measure for his county. What a fitting way to show honor for his sacrifice. Well done Sir!
The least I can do for a fallen brother that went the distance.
Agreed. Great last name as well.
Our officer safety training has become so much better verses the 1920s. However, our justice system is in dire need of an overhaul. Thank you for the video sheriff.
Very much enjoyed and appreciated this one. Thank you Sheriff. 👮♂️.
Great story glad the family wanted you to have the gun awesome seeing you shoot the gun we need more law enforcement people like you thanks for your service
Howdy from Galveston, Texas. That was a very interesting video. Thanks for posting it. My great grand father was a detective for the local police department, when technology overtook him. By that, I mean that he couldn't keep up with and learn to use the modern technology of the times, so he had to retire from the police department. You see, they had gone from horse riding and horse drawn buggies, to gasoline powered cars and he just couldn't learn to drive. He then took a job as a jailer with the Sheriff's department, where he eventually was murdered in a jail break ca. 1932. My great grandfather's service revolver was given to his son-in-law, my grandfather. He, in turn, stored it in a drawer, wrapped in an oily rag. I started my career in law enforcement in 1978, and retired in 2018. I ended up with my great grandfather's revolver, a S&W "hand ejector" in .38 spl. and periodically carried it on duty for several departments during that time. Not on a daily basis, but at least one day with every department I worked with. Though I had never met my great grandfather, nor even his daughter, my grandmother, this was a tangible link to them. I have since passed this to another much younger relative who I am sure will never even fire it, more's the pity. Maybe someday he will pass it down to the Sheriff's Dept. for the same treatment as yours. Thanks again for a great video.
This was a really cool video. Thanks for this! My Dad worked for the State of Missouri Department of Corrections back in the 70’s there in Jefferson City. Hearing about the former Captain really made me think of my Dad. Thanks for that as well.
Good story Sheriff Matt, I pray God keeps you safe! My granddaughter is a police officer in Madisonville Ky. and I pray for her and all who serve to keep us safe
My sister lives in Columbia Mo. I would love to come up and meet you and maybe you could give me some expertise training suggestions!😊 Or I’ll could take you to lunch and talk. That would be like going back in time and seeing my old friend Bill. Great video and remembering your old Sheriff was very kind. Be safe my friend!!! Bud Cary
God bless your granddaughter and all those who serve with her. I live over in muhlenberg county and work at the jail there
Thank you for bringing a human touch to law enforcement. It's refreshing to meet someone in law enforcement that is so personable. You have my vote keep up the good work.
This is an amazing tribute. I'm not a cop but I am a vet and this touches my soul. Sometimes footnotes of history that "nobody has herd" are more interesting than a well documented battle. You're content keeps me interested and this surprised me. Than you sheriff.
Interesting history and it’s a great way to honor Sheriff Blum .👍🇺🇸
I'm so glad I found your channel. Thank you.
...agreed. I stumbled on this last week and ran through a few since then.
What an honorable way to memorialize Sheriff Blum and a fantastic revolver too! Fascinating story.
Rest in Peace Sheriff Chalmus Lee Blum. Your watch is over, we have your watch.
Good on the family for turning down the historical society's "offer". Good on you for accepting the offer, giving this historical gun a home and the respect that it deserves, and for sharing this all with us!
Very cool Sheriff Oller! I’ve enjoyed watching your moments on Social Media paying tribute to your Predecessor!
Sheriff - great story for your local and the sheriff's office. I'm no ammo expert but I believe the ammo shown was U.S. Cartridge Company in .38 S&W and was produced with that headstamp until at least 1917. Kudo's to the family for not wanting to "decommission" the revolver (shame on the historical museum), and you for accepting it into you agency. And especially and huge "Thank you" for the sacrifice of Sheriff Blum. (BTW, when shooting, your head position looks like mine these days. Eyes are getting tired.)
Bifocals......
@@SheriffMattOllerthey are a hoot aren’t they.
.38 sw will barely go into plywood. Very under powered round. Had in ww2 British tanker pistol.
Greetings from Jackson County, MO. That was an awesome tribute. Stay safe, Sherriff!
That is fascinating! A great story/history of Audrain County. Prayers for you and your officers daily. Thanks for sharing, and thanks to the family for donating that piece of history.
Thanks for sharing your stories and keep them coming please.
Colt Police Positive was a very popular model at one time. .38 S&W cartridge often gets confused with the .38 Special. The two are quite different. Even when the .38 Special had become quite popular the older, less powerful , and milder recoiling .38 S&W still had its fans. At one time there was a "Super Police" load that featured a 200 grain round nose lead bullet. It was heavy and slow as molasses in winter at maybe 650 FPS at best. That same load became the British military load for their break action Webley and Enfield revolvers for a time between WWI and WWII. Yes, a fun to shoot and locally historic gun. I would love to run a few cylinders full through it on the pepper popper targets at 15-25 yards. Those old guns can be surpringly accurate with good ammo they like. As noted, skinny sights need good eyes for best results. Those guns usually do surprisingly well at double action point shooting at realistic gun fight ranges though. They will amaze you quite often. Good interesting history video. Dig up and showcase some more guns with history from your county. It's a great way to present both.
Those original cartridges look heavier than 146 gr. I believe there was a 200 gr. load. Going even slower. But it would probably tumble on impact.
Sheriff if I had known in advance I would have sent you a box of 38 S&W I’ve had a long time just setting around. I enjoy your videos. Thanks form your neighbor in Arkansas.
My grandfather had a pistol just like that. He was a cattle inspector in northern Arizona and used to put animals down that were injured or to sick. Nice old gun Great tribute
I've always liked the idea of being comforted by the presence of a sidearm that once provided the same to a lawman before me. I did a few years behind the badge back in the 80s and 90s, and frequently carry the .38 snub I bought the day I was sworn in.
My dad also did a bit of time as a rural Colorado deputy, and I have both his sidearm and snub .38 (ironically, the same model as mine, though preceding it by 21 years, made the same year in which I was born.)
Thanks for sharing. I also find honor in learning about "the old-timers" (to quote Tommy Lee Jones as Sheriff Ed Tom Bell in "No Country For Old Men.")
Sir..thank you for the piece of history! God bless be safe.👍👍
Interesting Story….👍. Thanks for
You have a good channel. Thank you. Subscribed.
Great story Sheriff. Think how many tales can be told with an old S&W.
Keep em coming.
Love the history lesson Sheriff. Great video. Thank you for taking the time to put it out there
I would have thought that a sheriff would have carried a .38 special at least. Thanks for the intesting story.
Thanks Matt, great piece of history very well presented!
If guns could talk what stories they’d tell! Especially guns like this!!
Thanks for your interesting content 👍
Thank you, Sheriff Oller, for sharing this little piece of your history with all of us. I've been a trucker for more than 30 years now. I haven't yet traveled thru Mexico, MO, but on trips from GA/NC/VA to OR/WA, I've often deviated from I-70 St Louis to I-29 St Jo, by taking US-61 to Hannibal and US-36 to I-29 St Jo. You've given me a reason to route thru Mexico, MO via US-54!
Folks, never hesitate to take a US-highway alternate to the normal Interstate route. America's hidden GEM roads are the US highways. You'll get to see bedrock REAL America with the most gorgeous scenery and nicest people. The journey is often much more fulfilling than the destination!
Hello Sheriff Oller, I just found your channel and thoroughly enjoy gun talk and police stories. I also looked at your website. You seem like a great guy.
Thanks for sharing
Very cool story, good for you to keep his memory alive
Very nice story. I have purchased online from Grafs & Sons too.
That is so cool and a must to keep our history alive.
Thanks a Sheriff for the history lesson of your hometown!! I’m always interested in learning about past events that was taken place that time almost forgotten, thank for your input on the topic I appreciate it!! Stay safe, stay blessed have a great day!!!!
This is by FAR the most interesting and informative video on you tube. Thank you Sheriff for sharing this with us.
There is so much interesting history at the local and county level here in Missouri...and most people today have no idea how rich and interesting that history is.
Enjoyed this video Sheriff very interesting 👍
What an amazing story and firearm. Thank you for sharing!!
Great story, as well as honoring a man who died in the line of duty. Cool to see the old colt
Great video Sheriff. Really appreciate you bringing it to everyone.
Hi Sheriff Oller.
The weather is the same here in South Central Indiana. God bless you sir. ❤
That is a very very neat handgun and fitting. Very cool ..
My friends father received a Winchester 97 shotgun from WW1 that the sheriff had and gave to his father. It had been sawed off for police use and is an original WW1 shotgun that was given to the sheriff department.
He also received two WW1 Remington rifles. They are in perfect shape.
Good stuff. ❤
Great story, thank you for sharing!
A fine presentation.
Just great history sheriff. Amazing how the family came forward with so much info and weapon!
So cool to see a gun that age still in action. Thank you for sharing.
I have the same revolver and have shot mine. Nice old Colt. Thanks for sharing the history.
Great video, God bless him and you .
Good stuff sheriff. Like & subscribed of course. Thanks for sharing some of y’all’s living history & hope the dog is doing good too. Stay safe out there.A drunk dummy shot the Sheriff in the town where me & my daughter reside (Carthage. NC Sheriff Rick Rhyne) December,2011. A month before my daughter was born. He was a nice guy. I was so busy with so much baby’s on the way stuff around that time, I wasn’t paying attention to the expiration date on my CCL ,& it slipped by me by a few days short of a month. I’d met him a couple times through the years,in passing. I called the department ,maybe a week before that happened,& somehow wound up talking to the sheriff on the phone about what could be done. He told me to come by the office and we’ll figure it out .Didn’t get by there in time. Would have been nice to have seen & talked to him again. Thanks again for sharing.your community is lucky to have you.
All this talk of Sheriff elections makes me want to watch Longmire again
Fascinating piece of Policing history. A wonderful tribute to a Peace Officer and gratifying his firearm has survived
so glad to see history being kept alive !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very cool, thanks for the history lesson.
Thank you for the story! I didn’t know they gutted the old jail though. When I was a kid I heard old timers telling stories from when they were guests back in the day. 🤭 I’m so glad I found this channel! My family is from Hatton over in Callaway.
Too cool! Thanks for sharing!
I have my grandfather's S&W, patent date April 1889, in 38 S&W it is in excellent condition. My father had it restored some time in the 1960's he had the nickel plating redone by S&W I believe. I can remember my grandfather carrying it in his coat pocket which was appropriate for the time in the early 1950's. The only time I remember him shooting it was to shoot a rattle snake in the yard at his home on the farm. Would love to shoot it but finding ammunition is just about impossible and the cost is prohibitive if you want to shoot it frequently.
I have the same gun. My dad carried it as an officer in the 60s.
Very well done Sheriff Matt!
Thanks Sheriff for keep that history alive. I spent 30 years as a deputy, enough said.
Good Historic Review! Congratulations on your successful channel! I think that I subscribed to you when you had about 48 Subscribers! I think I was number 49 to be exact! I plan on starting my own channel after I retire in about two years!
God Bless...
Bill
That hanging gallows or execution chamber description matches one I saw somewhere in a former jail turned museum. Where I dont remember. Oklahoma or maybe Kansas most likely.
Great video Matt!!!
Interesting story ! Glad the chain of events led you to getting the old service firearm and it still being in pretty good condition for its age !
Have a Blessed Day Sheriff 🇺🇸
It would have been a shame to have that old Colt de-activated (ruined). I used to own a Colt Police Positive in .38 special. A fine old revolver, wish I still had it, but I traded it for something I wanted more at a gun show long ago. I have a couple of old Enfield revolvers and a Webley from WWII that use .38 S&W. I cut down .38 special brass and trim with a Lee trimmer to make cases for hand loading. .38 S&W is a little larger in diameter, but it fireforms and works ok with the light loads I use. It would be nice to have the serving Sheriff take the old girl out to the range once a year and fire a cylinder full to honor Sheriff Blum. Could make it a tradition. Just a thought. Very nice video, you are a good story teller.
That’s a neat story
Respect sir
So cool!
Interesting History.
Very cool, former law enforcement 13yrs.
Very true. My buddy Bill Gough of Cass County Mo. served 17 years straight and finally gave it up due to cancer. He was a great guy and a dear friend of the family for 60 years. Back in the 70’s, you might remember, a crazy SOB shot up the square in Harrisonville, killed two of our friends and shot Bill twice. He lived and faced the shooter except the guy killed himself trying to get in the old hospital next door to the Sheriff’s office. Simpson was the shooter’s last name I think.
The old hospital was where I was born in 1958. I Think so much of you Sheriffs and deputies.
Very cool!
Amazing
As A very young boy I seen A gun that looked just like your on my step grand pa's night stand, Oh how I wanted to pick it up and look it over, but I knew better,I am now 79 so I was raised to look and not touch.
Great story , oh you get my vote too , lol !
Fab!!!!
I wish we had a sheriff like you! Love the videos also! Keep at it.
But Kwai Chang Caine would face down armed men all of the time and he never got shot... I guess Sheriff Blum didn't know Kung Fu... So the moral of the story is don't go to a gun fight without a gun.
History and practical application with experience. Those who don't learn History are bound to repeat it. Insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. Always have the right tools for the job. Be aware of your surroundings and be very observant.
Thank you for a piece of history
You assume he went without his gun. The sheriff said most of the time he didn’t carry a gun.
He didn’t say the sheriff went to see about the guy with a gun without his!
@@glennwhisler8678 no. I just said be prepared and have the right tool for the job. What I said is just general information for anyone.
@@SuperiorSeven-th9gx …. And YOU assumed that I was talking to YOU?…. Do you know why there was NO ONES name attached to my comment?…. When you touch on the reply button of the first comment, in the post, their name doesn’t auto list like you did to mine!
Thank You for sharing this with us.