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Post by bushog on Mar 30, 2013 21:16:21 GMT -5
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cubrock
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Post by cubrock on Mar 30, 2013 21:48:41 GMT -5
Alonzo Crull was a gunsmith whose claim to fame was converting Colts (mostly Model 1877s) to .22 rimfire. He has a bit of a cult following, although the gun in that auction is priced about 3 times what his work usually brings. I've been researching him for a bit, just in case I have another book in my after the TLA book.
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Post by maxcactus on Apr 2, 2013 0:20:26 GMT -5
I recognize the name from Hamilton Bowen's book, The Custom Revolver. From Mr. Bowen's writing, Crull was quite the wizard of metalsmithing and custom sixgunnery in the age before CNC machines and CAD/CAM design.
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Post by sackpeterson on Apr 2, 2013 8:24:58 GMT -5
I have followed the Crull guns for a couple years now, my interest having come about as a result of chatter on this board. Probably Stephen and a couple other fellows. I saw four or five Crulls on the market this winter, probably kicked loose from sleepy places on closet shelves with all this churn we've had. Crull's signature work is the Lightning conversion. It ought to be more desirable than an SAA conversion like the one featured in this recent GB ad. I have noted the Lightning's to get a price over $2k at times, but not near or over $3k.     |
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Post by TERRY MURBACH on Apr 2, 2013 12:09:47 GMT -5
MY GRANDDADDY HAD A REMINGTON '58 C&B converted to 32-20 by Alonzo Crull. It was nickle plated and a beautiful gun to behold. When I found it out in the barn when I was about ten, and came walking into the house with it Grandma threw an absolute FIT as it was also fully loaded; LOL !! Wimmen have NO sense of humor atall I tell you. I'd also found a beautiful IJ topbreak nickle 38S&W, also fully loaded, and a 6" M&P 38, also loaded over the years and you'd think she'd have learned by then that no one got hurt and they were all easily unloaded. The 6" M&P was also my Granddaddy's service gun as town Marshall, then Chief-of-Police. Later, it and it's gunbelt was always draped over a chair where you walked into the dining room from the kitchen when he was home or out at the farm.
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Post by bullseye on Apr 3, 2021 12:25:14 GMT -5
Digging up an old bone here! I've recently become very interested in his work...One of his 22 Lightning conversion's is a most definite bucket list gun of mine. If anyone here has an extra copy of the above issue of Gun Digest magazine for sale... Please PM me!
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