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Post by mbaneacp on Jun 18, 2010 22:18:33 GMT -5
Was in Deadwood and got a chance to handle an 1860 conversion Colt with good provenance to James Butler Hickok...gotta say that when they handed me the gun I really wished my friends Jeff Q. and JT were there with me to share in the experience...BTW, the trigger pull was sweet...
Michael B
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Post by taffin on Jun 18, 2010 22:47:42 GMT -5
NEAT MICHAEL! LIKE WHEN I VISITED REX APPLEGATE AND GOT TO HANDLE THE FIRST TWO ORIGINAL .357 MAGNUMS USED BY COL. WESSON AND OF COURSE PLACING ALL OF ELMER KEITH'S GUNS IN THE E.K. MUSEUM. I PUT THE #5 RIGHT SMACK IN THE CENTER OF VISION.
WHEN DOES THE NEW SEASON OF YOUR TV SHOWS BEGIN. I'M HAVING WITHDRAWAL PAINS!
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salvo
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Post by salvo on Jun 19, 2010 0:26:33 GMT -5
That's quite an experience! Those old guns with history seem to whisper to you. I had the privilege to handle and shoot one of Bugsy Siegel's old Colts last year.
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cubrock
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Post by cubrock on Jun 19, 2010 7:35:52 GMT -5
Last year at the S&W barbecue in Tulsa, Jim Supica brought along Teddy Roosevelt's engraved FN Model 1900 and let people handle it with white gloves. I wasn't going to let that opportunity pass me by. I'm still convinced it was an FN 1899, the predecessor to the FN 1900, but I wasn't going to argue to point with the head of the NRA firearms museum.
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Post by Boge Quinn on Jun 19, 2010 10:40:19 GMT -5
I got to shoot one of Jeff Quinn's guns once.
;D
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ewayte
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Post by ewayte on Jun 19, 2010 10:49:08 GMT -5
I have a S&W 21 Thunder Ranch that was tested/evaulated by Mas Ayoob and Jim Cirillo. The trigger on it is like butter. I bought it from the local S&W sales rep.
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Post by bigblue on Jun 20, 2010 6:23:14 GMT -5
I got to shoot one of Jeff Quinn's guns once. ;D LOL!! Just once? Don
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Post by rep1954 on Jun 20, 2010 8:00:35 GMT -5
I got to shoot one of Jeff Quinn's guns once. ;D Jeff Quinn, Jeff Quinn, gee that sounds like a name I should remember, wasnt he an Olympic gold medal figure skater or some thing like that?
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aciera
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Post by aciera on Jun 20, 2010 8:31:00 GMT -5
I got to shoot one of Jeff Quinn's guns once. ;D Jeff Quinn, Jeff Quinn, gee that sounds like a name I should remember, wasnt he an Olympic gold medal figure skater or some thing like that? Or in two man luge .......................
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Post by avidreader on Jun 20, 2010 10:00:00 GMT -5
;D Boge, were they hard to hit with, I mean they are all left handed guns aren't they?
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Post by Frank V on Jun 20, 2010 15:28:37 GMT -5
I'll bet handling & shooting a famous persons gun does bring great thrills. The closest I've come is shooting my Dad's guns & one tuned up by Bob Munden. Frank
PS: I forgot, Bob showed me Becky's fast draw gun built by him. I did get to handle it & it is SMOOTH! FV
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Post by kennisondan on Jun 22, 2010 17:35:25 GMT -5
I would be interested to know if anyone tried out a famous shot's famous guns and found them to be just ordinary specimens of the day.. not extraordinarily accurate, no trigger better than any other of the ilk ever shot.. just ordinary tools in the hands of extraordinary men.... My gues is not likely to happen cause the shooter would either search for a good example of do a little tuning or smoothness would result from the sheer amount of shooting the gun got.. but .. the question is still out there... dk
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hoss
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Post by hoss on Jun 22, 2010 21:45:03 GMT -5
I remember leaving Graceland dissappointed: so many articles about Elvis' guns and all that was on display were 2 classy S&W engraved registered 357 magnums and one colt 1911 with the butt ugliest grips I have ever seen. They were jade, an inch and a half thick, and had a TCB lightning bolt logo inlaid in gold. Other than that the gun was box stock (a 38 super, I think.) I do recall a very pretty 1872 open top in Deadwood when I was there working the Bella Union for the Fast Draw weekend: Nickeled and well kept. I coveted it sinfully.
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Post by brettov on Jun 23, 2010 11:43:34 GMT -5
That sounds like a great experiance . I haven't been able to visit Deadwood yet .
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aciera
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Post by aciera on Jun 23, 2010 12:21:43 GMT -5
Ther was(may still be)gun shop in Vivtorville,Ca.
It was started when the wife said that"Don't you buy one more gun, unless you open a Gun Store! I can't hang a picture on the wall! they are all covered with guns!"
Could that man pick a wife or what.
Anyway. When you looked at guns, sometimes there was no price. When aske:
"Well I haven't shot that one yet."
They had a Model 70 in 22 Hornet tha t Hemmingway had given Gary Cooper. Had a picture of them with a Bobcat in the snow.
Should have bought it.
Side note, I swear they had a Winchester Double Rifle..............
Late 80s early 90s.
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