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Post by bigbore5 on Sept 11, 2023 11:55:24 GMT -5
I was just relating what Grover said. I have no trouble loading a Colt or Ruger without changing my right handed grip. I just tilt the gun on it's side.
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Post by James on Sept 11, 2023 13:04:59 GMT -5
You got yourself a beautiful, short lived classic. Photos of my #5 in 45 Colt.
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Post by edk on Sept 11, 2023 14:35:29 GMT -5
We lefties live in a world where ergonomics represent a challenge. We adapt and later in life almost don't realize that we are automatically doing so. Look down at your keyboard. Where is the numeric pad located? Which side of your drill press is the feed lever on? Good luck operating a can opener with your left hand. If you're making a living as a carpenter which side of the saw is the handle on? Yes, a lifetime in a profession using a tool backwards!
Early on growing up a baseball was caught with a borrowed glove, quickly stripped off the left hand so it could be used to throw. Back then many of us lefties had not yet developed the semi-ambidextrous abilities most of us develop as adults and yes, eventually most of us got a proper glove. Learned to shoot with borrowed right-hand 22s and shotguns. Most of us (me anyways) don't shoot a handgun a whole lot when young but upon maturing developed respect for but not love for the 1911. This applies to most pistols (it is getting better). DA revolvers are generally backwards but SA revolvers are JUST RIGHT! So far from being a rant against the right-handed world, this post is intended to celebrate the single action revolver. Perhaps per bobwright's post lefties on horseback are not so enthusiastic but I'm sure many of us lefties walking around on our hind legs are pleased.
Now back to this thread. TLA revolvers are cool. Perhaps not a huge commercial success but I like to think of them on the scale of an Abilene or Seville - perhaps a Virginian Dragoon. It is inspiring to see an inventor strike out and produce something new/different. The more different kinds of revolvers in existence the better. The OP certainly has come across a nice specimen and may he shoot it in good health. Although I have to wonder how many lefties have gone out of their way to acquire one?
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Post by mark1mark on Sept 11, 2023 14:54:51 GMT -5
You got yourself a beautiful, short lived classic. Photos of my #5 in 45 Colt. I would have preferred a Blue one! I doubt I will ever see one in the wilds again How did you get him to put your name on the gun?
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Post by kings6 on Sept 11, 2023 17:30:27 GMT -5
You could custom order your gun with your name engraved like his. I’ve owned two or three with original owners names engraved like that.
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Post by mark1mark on Sept 11, 2023 18:09:26 GMT -5
You could custom order your gun with your name engraved like his. I’ve owned two or three with original owners names engraved like that. what was the base price of a #5 in the 90’s?
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Post by kings6 on Sept 11, 2023 18:29:50 GMT -5
James or Steve Webb would be the best bet for that number. I will check to see if I have an early price list at home.
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Post by James on Sept 11, 2023 19:03:11 GMT -5
You got yourself a beautiful, short lived classic. Photos of my #5 in 45 Colt I would have preferred a Blue one! I doubt I will ever see one in the wilds again How did you get him to put your name on the gun? No one was more surprised then me when the gun was delivered and I saw the engraved backstrap... Bill Grover had that done. I never asked.
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Post by KRal on Sept 12, 2023 10:14:15 GMT -5
Doc Barranti had some scrap hide laying around and was able to piece this together for my TLA#5… …it’ll make do for BBQ’s in MS. By the way, Great looking TLA #5 you scored!
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Post by 45MAN on Sept 12, 2023 10:33:29 GMT -5
KIM: SUPER NEAT BBQ RIG!
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Post by CraigC on Sept 12, 2023 10:43:25 GMT -5
I was just relating what Grover said. I have no trouble loading a Colt or Ruger without changing my right handed grip. I just tilt the gun on it's side. The gun was never designed or intended to be reloaded that way. Why would you use your most dexterous hand only for holding the gun? Sam Colt may or may not have been left handed, we don't really know. What we do know is that he was a master of marketing himself and his product. He would not have marketed his product for 11% of the population at a time when being left handed was frowned upon. My old man grew up in the `50's and in school, they tried to convert him. It's why he's ambidextrous today. No, Colt intended for the percussion guns to be moved to the left hand, so they could be capped with the more dexterous right hand. Same applied to the cartridge guns 10yrs after his death. The Army rejected the 1871-1872 Open Top cartridge model. They specifically asked for a solid frame and an internally lubricated .45 caliber cartridge. Don't you think they would've wanted the loading gate moved if it was better for their predominantly right handed cavalrymen? All other guns of the period capped and loaded the same way. Now I throw a wrench in all that as I am right handed but load with my left hand and not with a shooting grip. No, I think Grover was a similarly minded marketing genius and found something to set his guns apart from all the rest. I mean, we're still talking about it long after him and his guns are gone.
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Post by mark1mark on Sept 12, 2023 12:00:21 GMT -5
WOOWEEE that us HOTT! what’s a rig like that run! We have “BBQ” at the deer lease in North Carolina and the boys are going cry from envy
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Post by mark1mark on Sept 12, 2023 12:10:10 GMT -5
I was just relating what Grover said. I have no trouble loading a Colt or Ruger without changing my right handed grip. I just tilt the gun on it's side. The gun was never designed or intended to be reloaded that way. Why would you use your most dexterous hand only for holding the gun? Sam Colt may or may not have been left handed, we don't really know. What we do know is that he was a master of marketing himself and his product. He would not have marketed his product for 11% of the population at a time when being left handed was frowned upon. My old man grew up in the `50's and in school, they tried to convert him. It's why he's ambidextrous today. No, Colt intended for the percussion guns to be moved to the left hand, so they could be capped with the more dexterous right hand. Same applied to the cartridge guns 10yrs after his death. The Army rejected the 1871-1872 Open Top cartridge model. They specifically asked for a solid frame and an internally lubricated .45 caliber cartridge. Don't you think they would've wanted the loading gate moved if it was better for their predominantly right handed cavalrymen? All other guns of the period capped and loaded the same way. Now I throw a wrench in all that as I am right handed but load with my left hand and not with a shooting grip. No, I think Grover was a similarly minded marketing genius and found something to set his guns apart from all the rest. I mean, we're still talking about it long after him and his guns are gone. Rest in Peace Bill Grover! Hope you and the Keith gang are looking down at us and having a big laugh at why you put the gate on the other side!
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Post by bigbore5 on Sept 12, 2023 21:22:05 GMT -5
I'm ambidextrous. So no matter what hand is gripping the gun, a strong hand is loading it!
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Post by drycreek on Sept 12, 2023 21:36:20 GMT -5
You could custom order your gun with your name engraved like his. I’ve owned two or three with original owners names engraved like that. what was the base price of a #5 in the 90’s? I priced one at $1200 sometime in the late eighties or early nineties. I had read an article in some magazine and I figured that was as close as I would ever get to a Keith #5. I talked to Mr. Grover over the phone but never pulled the trigger I settled for a Super Blackhawk instead.
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