This was taken at a gun range in Denver, Colorado around 1948-1949. He is 18-19 years old wearing his Levi’s Canadian tuxedo, and holding something I’ve never been able to make out. The last photo is a bonus from his college years in the early 1950s.
He was later killed by a drunk driver in a head-on car collision in 1965. This came 4 months before his son, my father, was born.
by yittiees
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It looks like anything from a pez dispenser to a switchblade or a shotgun shell.
It looks like a mangled 3″ shotgun shell, like maybe they tried to force a gun chambered for 2 3/4″ closed with it in the breech.