awp101
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Post by awp101 on Feb 14, 2019 19:51:57 GMT -5
If there was ever a case of "It was like this when I got here!" this may be it...
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nicholst55
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Post by nicholst55 on Feb 15, 2019 6:44:33 GMT -5
Buscador, is what I’d heard them called, Man hunters. Trapr BUSCADERO?? I was doing some holster research yesterday, and came across this term, 'Buscador,' seeker or hunter. You could encounter a buscador of gold, water, or men, etc. The term Buscadero (as in gunbelt or rig) was supposedly derived from Buscador. I don't recall just where I read this, but it's out there. |
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Post by azshaun on Feb 15, 2019 10:04:53 GMT -5
Here is the link to the actual article: larvatus.livejournal.com/259761.htmlI believe it was in Guns Magazine January 1956 edition. I have that issue saved to my phone. Also has articles on Teddy Roosevelt’s guns, could cowboys really shoot and the myths that they could... converting Leverguns into 357 Mag and the return of the 2 gun man.... |
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eskimo36
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Post by eskimo36 on Feb 15, 2019 17:05:40 GMT -5
Those saddle horns in the original picture are enormous. To rope and then dally off on that would be like dallying off on a fence post.
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Post by ncrobb on Feb 15, 2019 17:38:36 GMT -5
Those saddle horns in the original picture are enormous. To rope and then dally off on that would be like dallying off on a fence post. I’d bet they are Mexican saddles. A lot of them, especially old ones, have thick saddle horns like that. |
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Post by win1894s on Feb 17, 2019 12:42:14 GMT -5
I believe that. Is a pic of Arizona rangers.
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Post by Ken O'Neill on Feb 18, 2019 8:20:25 GMT -5
As an aside, Elmer Keith also wrote that a drink or two of whiskey could steady a man's nerves. That was never my observation.
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Post by sixshot on Feb 18, 2019 15:55:23 GMT -5
That guy laying in the dirt either didn't get those 2 drinks in or he had way to much to drink!
Dick
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Post by cubrock on Feb 20, 2019 14:59:27 GMT -5
Not my first reading of his statement, Askins  ***** Greg and Dick.... I have to take this with a shaker of salt. Ole Askins may have been setting up the competition, to encourage blurred vision or over-confidence. Don’t know as I witnessed anything but sobriety in the few Bullseye matches which I watched in my youth. On another front----handgun silhouette----there could be some drinking after a day’s shooting. Those “mill hunkies” from west Pennsylvania, one of whom “borrowed” a Budweiser truck for an IHMSA championship, managed to get this shooter pretty lit one night. Next morning I’m crawling around on my hands and knees. Drank about a reservoir of water. IHMSA Region One director Ron Ricci says, “That’s alright, David....” Another day of ferocious steel banging was about to begin. I ground it out and pulled it off, yet it is not possible to attribute the marksmanship to partying the night before. (Let alone on the same day.) Another match comes to mind, again a championship. The match was sponsored by Jack Daniels, with a night of hard charging at an airport bar. A man hell bent for Top Revolver challenged me to drink. He was generous with the Jack Daniels he poured himself. I would not let him pour mine, which for some reason was feeble on the booze and tall on the water. He had managed to park his RV right behind the firing line.... which, to his great pain, lit up in a cacophony of thunder first thing the next morning. Needless to say, his heraldic expectation of victory did not survive the tournament. Writing his blueprint for tipsy tournament, I reckon Charles Askins grew bleary-eyed from his own laughter, not booze. David Bradshaw Elmer Keith writes of taking a nip to calm one's nerves prior to a shooting match in HELL, I WAS THERE. The USMC shooting team took everyone to town at Camp Perry one year during Prohibition and he saw them drinking prior to matches. They hid their booze in Lake Erie. |
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Post by cubrock on Feb 20, 2019 15:32:40 GMT -5
As an aside, Elmer Keith also wrote that a drink or two of whiskey could steady a man's nerves. That was never my observation. A good, well trusted friend and I put this to the test one camping trip so far out in the boonies we would only hurt ourselves if something went wrong. He and I have very similar body masses. Both of us had read Keith and were interested to see if what he wrote panned out. One drink helped both of us shoot more accurately. Second drink did nothing. Third drink started hurting our accuracy and the guns were put away. All of this was over an hour or so. We were drinking an ounce or so of scotch each time. |
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Post by sixshot on Feb 20, 2019 21:02:16 GMT -5
All good stuff fellas! All I can say is, if I had 3 drinks of whiskey at Camp Perry they would find this old Mormon boy FLOATING in Lake Erie!
Dick
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Post by bigbrowndog on Feb 20, 2019 21:16:27 GMT -5
Back in my competitive archery days, the old guys called it “group tightener”
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Post by bagdadjoe on Mar 3, 2019 15:13:26 GMT -5
"Dint I tellya not to touch my coffee..."?
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