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Post by firedude on Apr 13, 2019 11:10:06 GMT -5
I will be 57 next month. Retired from fire dept three years ago. My first single action was a Ruger SBH 44 three screw when I was 16. Have owned to many to count. Have also owned and shot just about every other handgun you can imagine. Always fall back on revolvers as my confort food. Don’t even get me started on leverguns....
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2019 11:31:08 GMT -5
I will be 57 next month. Retired from fire dept three years ago. My first single action was a Ruger SBH 44 three screw when I was 16. Have owned to many to count. Have also owned and shot just about every other handgun you can imagine. Always fall back on revolvers as my confort food. Don’t even get me started on leverguns.... Ahhh, leverguns. Many of us likely love them as much as a good sixgun. I sure do.
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Post by bradshaw on Apr 13, 2019 11:40:51 GMT -5
By some standards, I am a late, very late arrival at the sixgun. Bought a Ruger Blackhawk .357 Mag at 18, my first revolver. For which I immediately began swaging bullets, made my own leather. Self-teaching fast draw, hours of dry fire, followed by live ammo fast draw. No blank popping. Dry fire in mirror and at objects for alignment and timing. Live ammo on targets. It all begins at the target----the ACCURACY IMPERATIVE. Moving quickly into a Super Blackhawk and Model 29, again fast draw grounded in dry fire & live ammo. All this sixgunning preceded by MARKSMANSHIP with .22 rifles and a wand called the National Match M1 Garand.
Some say it’s easy to go from handgun to rifle, not the other way round. People who believe that may get stuck on the idea. When accuracy is the imperative, performance with any instrument grows. You just have to learn the instrument to play it.
The age one takes up a revolver matters less than to START. I’ve aged 56 years since taking up the sixgun. Neither lessons nor instrument are obsolete. David Bradshaw
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Post by whitworth on Apr 13, 2019 12:00:04 GMT -5
I love leverguns, but am loathe to use rifles of any sort because I feel like I’m cheating on my revolvers...
I’m in my 50s and my primary focuses are terminal ballistics and big-game hunting with revolvers.
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Post by oregon45 on Apr 13, 2019 12:09:48 GMT -5
I’m 37. Bought my first sixgun at age 21 after reading Taffin, Keith and Bowen.
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shorty500
.327 Meteor
too many dirty harry movies created me!
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Post by shorty500 on Apr 13, 2019 12:19:05 GMT -5
I hit the Big 50 this May. Blame my initial magnum craze on Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry, that was worsened by Elmer Keith, JT and Ross Seyfried to name a few. Toolmaker and gunsmith by trade am currently focused on managing the machine shop for a well known performance auto parts group in Memphis, Tn. When not working or entertaining the one teenage stepson, 4 grandchildren or one of the 9 great-nephews you can find me out back with revolvers primarily, a few autos and Contender thrown in. My rifles see little use outside of rare long range hunts. While I don’t find time for registered trap anymore a cheap wheelybyrd trap provides plenty of fun for us all with my .410 collection. With stepson joining the high #chool archery team my interest there has been renewed and finally bought the recurve I always wanted
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Post by magnum314 on Apr 13, 2019 13:19:25 GMT -5
53 this year...and counting! I have loved single actions since I was a kid, watching reruns of Rawhide Sunday morning before church. (My parents said that if I was bathed and dressed and ready for church, then I could watch Rawhide before we left!) I was always up and ready for church by 6am back then! Bought my first one (via my Dad and mowing money when I was 12 and took off from there. By the time I was 22 I was up to 26 single actions (or was it 27?) of various makes, mostly Ruger...but also Colt, J.P. Sauer, and Hawes, just to name a few. But then I fell so head over heels for a young lady and wanted to buy her a ring with cash ONLY (no debt), that I sold off many of those early sixguns. I have NEVER regretted that one bit! Over the next almost 30 years or so of marriage, kids, life, college bills for 3 kids, 2 homes at one time (don't ask!) and a cops salary...a few more went down the road. Some were hard to say goodbye to, but again...getting kids through college and taking care of my family...I have never looked back and would do it again if I had to! Sorry for the looooong story, all to say, I have been in and out of single actions for many years, and certainly spent plenty of my younger years living in my "tactical world" with my job and such (literally owned every "wonder 9" known to mankind, including a very nice selection of HK's including P7m8's and P7M13's, USP's P2000's, you name it, and also quite a handful of 1911's which I still have a love for...but have really settled myself back now and hopefully long into my next 30+? years where it all started for me...with good ole' single action sixguns!
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Post by cowpuncher on Apr 13, 2019 13:40:37 GMT -5
Just turned 47 a couple months back, been in love with six-guns and lever guns as long as I can remember. My first "real" six-gun was a Daisy Spitting Image bb revolver. I lived the tactical life, though I don't care for the word tactical or some people's understanding of it. To me it was a skill set learned and practiced to keep you alive in unfortunate situations and dark places. Know I try and live a simple life and enjoy the the little things, like six-guns. Oh and Whiskey...Good Whiskey!
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Post by nolongcolt on Apr 13, 2019 13:51:06 GMT -5
65 here! Where is the 60+ option?
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lws
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Post by lws on Apr 13, 2019 14:30:25 GMT -5
Or the 70+ option. I will be 79 in a couple of months. Ben shooting single action 44s for 60 yrs.
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mhael
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Post by mhael on Apr 13, 2019 15:03:51 GMT -5
Ok, so I don’t know joe to do it without loosing the polling data so if you entered your info please revote I have added a 60+ category.
Yah I still have the SBRs, suppressors etc but I have two custom lever guns, a john Gallagher Ruger 44 mag SA and have 1-2 more Rugers i’m Trying to figure out where to send to get get them worked on. Most of my industry friends are on the “tactical” side so most of them don’t appreciate my obsession with custom SA that has been. Growing for a opulent years since I stumbled on this place. I had my idea as to what the demographics were but wanted to do the poll to see if proved or disproved my theory. Thanks for all you is/has participated!
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Post by squawberryman on Apr 13, 2019 15:35:35 GMT -5
My Ted Williams doesn't have wood like that. At 53, I've done tactical training and work (former jobs), 5 years of serious 3 gun competition, hunted since my early 20s. My Dad gave me my first 22 rifle at age 4 (still have it) and I've been shooting ever since. Today's "tactical" marketing and plastic guns are not my thing. "Tactical" content on forums and YouTube by mommy's little biscuit eater (from her basement) does little for me and I am sick of it. That is why I hang out here. I'm certainly not against innovation and technology, but traditional guns of the American sportsman are what I really appreciate. Nowadays I hunt, fish, hike camp and paddle, sometimes all in one trip, lol. I only own one SA sixgun (Ruger Flattop 44 SPL) but have Smith revolvers, 1911s and various long guns. Here's what my kit is likely to look like this time of year...
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cmh
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Post by cmh on Apr 13, 2019 18:52:45 GMT -5
I’m 49 years old. My favorite handguns are revolvers and I EDC a 1911. Favorite rifles have levers......
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Post by magnum314 on Apr 13, 2019 19:43:57 GMT -5
Or the 70+ option. I will be 79 in a couple of months. Ben shooting single action 44s for 60 yrs. Just love this! I want to be you when I grow up!
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Post by buckelliott on Apr 13, 2019 20:03:13 GMT -5
At age 12, I inherited my grear-grandpa's Colt Frontier Six Shooter, and started work as a rider for a fairly large grazing association in northern Utah. With some direction from my great uncle, I tore the gum down, thoroughly cleaned ir, and replaced the trigger/bolt spring. (I'd been tutored some in its use, the summer before, until the spring snapped.) That was my introduction to the real world of Single Actions, some 65 years ago this summer, and other than an occasional sideways glance, Ive never looked back.
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