Sarge
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Post by Sarge on May 11, 2022 12:28:16 GMT -5
The writers occasionally hit pretty close to the mark-
Will Munny: It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.
The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, I guess they had it coming.
Will Munny: We all got it coming, kid.
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Post by sixshot on May 11, 2022 13:11:11 GMT -5
Butch Cassiday & the Sundance Kid........ Think you should have used a little more dynamite there Butch!!
Dick
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Post by taffin on May 11, 2022 16:09:07 GMT -5
"More like one tow-sund"..Bob Valdez
"When you hunt Apache?" "Before I know better"
"What you use dat for?" "Rabbits"
"I never said I couldn't use one"
"Touch that gun and I'll kill you"
"Cowboyin's somethin' for those who can't do anything else."
"My hypocrisy knows no bounds."
"I'll be your huckleberry"
"I know. Lets have a spelling bee."
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Post by taffin on May 11, 2022 16:11:45 GMT -5
"I thought you were dead" "Not hardly"
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Post by drycreek on May 11, 2022 16:20:10 GMT -5
I think in real life most gun fights in the old west were settled with a shot in the back. Dick As was John Wesley Hardin in El Paso by John Selman in 1894. A dangerous man no doubt, but not a “shootist” in the typical Hollywood mold, as several of his victims never knew what hit them until it was too late. John Taffin has it right, there just wasn’t much of the “face off” gunfighting in the Old West. To look at tv and the movies, everyone was wearing a Colt. In reality, lots of folks were not armed and those that were owned a variety of handguns. Some of the newer western movies are hip to this and it’s refreshing but not complete. It probably never will be. One thing is for sure, if Bob Munden had been there, he would have been King of the Hill !
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Post by bushog on May 11, 2022 16:25:32 GMT -5
Fermin in the bathtub with bubbles….. I need mental floss to get rid of that one…..
If anybody has an extra Bowen lanyard to get rid of let me know. Like other things, I should have bought a couple when I could have.
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Post by sixshot on May 11, 2022 16:37:05 GMT -5
Yup, but Jerry Miculek or Thell Reed might have to walk out into the street at high noon to challenge him........
Dick
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Post by drycreek on May 11, 2022 17:10:15 GMT -5
Yup, but Jerry Miculek or Thell Reed might have to walk out into the street at high noon to challenge him........ Dick Either would have been a worthy apponent !
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Post by leadhound on May 11, 2022 17:20:49 GMT -5
....A source of lanyard rings ? I grabbed a half dozen or so colt 1917 reproduction lanyard loops to experiment with. They are the flat oval style I thought would work better with a leather strap. Drill a hole the size and depth of the post and then cross drill a hole for the retaining pin. I also had a notion to use the quick detach flush mount sling mounts. If I could figure out how to get installed into a frame, also not sure what it's holding capabilities are. This one is just an idea so far.
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Post by x101airborne on May 11, 2022 18:01:34 GMT -5
There are military style belt attached coiled lanyards available. They have a velcro loop around the belt and a simple yet secure clip to go to the weapon. Works on Beretta M9's and Glocks for sure. They do coil pretty tight to keep from snagging on stuff. Great products that wont wrap around your neck in a fall.
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Post by bula on May 12, 2022 7:45:24 GMT -5
Think I've a Mil type cord in the basement somewhere.. Here, the candidates are the 4 5/8" BSBH 480, and the snubby M69. The what if, get off me guns. It's the hardware, the ring portion I'll be looking for next. Brownells ? Other sources ?
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Post by x101airborne on May 12, 2022 8:47:25 GMT -5
"Nonsense. By all means, move."
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Post by oddshooter on May 12, 2022 12:38:15 GMT -5
There's a video of Jerry Miculek on youtube.com shooting 12 shots into the target under 2 seconds with a reload in the middle.
Pretty much unbelievable for me even when I see it with my own eyes.
Prescut
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Post by taffin on May 12, 2022 14:15:10 GMT -5
Just about the time Jerry was getting started, I think it was around 1992, I went down to Louisiana and got together with him, Bill Jordan, Jimmy Clark, and Hal Swiggett at Jimmy Clark's place. At the time Jerry was shooting an 8-3/8" Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum. He shot it and then I got to shoot it and I came in a very long distance second place. Over the years he has gotten faster and better and I have gotten.... Well you know.
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jeffh
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Post by jeffh on May 12, 2022 15:28:01 GMT -5
On the lanyard thing, dropping a gun while afoot - you bend down and pick it up. QUICKLY. Dropping gun on horseback means a trip back in the wrong direction - UNARMED. I've an aversion to wearing things on my belt. I bang it on everything I walk past, it gets buried under outer "layers" in worse weather, gets in the way of a pack or when trying to sit. That said, it's been more an affliction regarding knives than guns for me, so I have carried my knife on a "string," usually cross-bodied, unless it really lightweight. What I have learned about THAT, which I would bear in mind when using a lanyard on a gun is that 1) it ain't always where you want it when you go to grab it, especially if you're moving - and I'd be moving - trying harder not to get shot than to shoot back, I suppose; 2) it becomes a two-handed affair to unlimber from its sheath; 3) it'll flop around a bit, but with a knife, the low mass doesn't make such a big difference and I'm not counting on such a knife to protect myself anyway. Oh, and lanyards get hung up on things - "dummy cords" as we called them in the Army, when we tied soldiers' weapons to their person because they kept losing them. I'd definitely use a lanyard for retention purposes, climbing, in a boat, fordings, in deep snow, riding (which I haven't done in fifty years) etc., but I'd definitely be using a holster so it's exactly where I expected it to be when I expected to have to grab it. NOT that I am by any means an expert on the matter, which I assure all that I am NOT. That Wild Bill Hickock fella always seemed more a cool-headed duelist to me than a "gunfighter," and I believe he used psychological warfare to great effect on his adversaries, whether he intended to or not. Seems he coolly and deliberately made his shot, which freaked out his opponents, who fired wildly, trying to maybe hit him before he definitely hit them. Again, not an expert in psychology or gun-fighting. But a 36 puny caliber pistol?? WHAT was that man thinking? With all due respect, Mr. Garza, I laughed hard about the part of not having a neck. I do sincerely apologize for that, but it HAS helped me to not think about the bubble-bath scene, so I hope you will forgive me. Is it not the best of our friends who treat us the worst, and the best of our friends whom we treat the worst? I took that vivid description to mean that you, indeed, sir, have one hell of a good friend there. Sir.
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