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Me too Jim. 'cept I was 14 I think. My first handgun was a Remington 44 that I paid $37.50 for. All the blue was polished off but the action was tight and it needed a new set of nipples. I found a set of new old stock ones. Really like your pics. My Dad never did things like that.
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My first was one of these Hubley Model 1860 capguns. My first real one was a brass-framed Colt Navy imported by Hawes, if anyone remembers that outfit.
Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 7:34 am
My first was one of these Hubley Model 1860 capguns. My first real one was a brass-framed Colt Navy imported by Hawes, if anyone remembers that outfit.
Jim, we had a rocking horse very like that one you are riding!
I had a brass-frame 1851 Navy. Don't remember if it was Hawes or not, but it was back in the '60's. I was loading it with duplex loads of black and smokeless, trying to get more power out of it. One day on the range as I shot some of those loads, the barrel and cylinder pin departed downrange. Pulled the cylinder pin right out of the frame. I tried drilling and pining it in place but it never worked right after that.
TraderVic wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 12:54 pm
Looking back on the Ruger Old Army cap & ball revolvers, how were they to shoot and use ?
Very stout, very accurate. Essentially a "Modernized Dragoon Revolver". I used my first one even to the point of ignoring the engraving on the cylinder and it gave good service. My favorite load was a LEE conical over a snort of powder. Now I've another at long last and it's a good shooter as well, albeit with too soft of a mainspring, something I really need to correct one of these days. I wouldn't think twice about working up a load and using it for deer or hogs, if the regs allow such (I can't recall off the top of my head).
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"My very first pistol was a cap and ball Colt
Shoots like lightnin' but it loads a mite slow
It loads a mite slow, and soon I found out
Gets you into trouble but it can't get you out"
--Steve Earle
My first real handgun was an F.I.E. 58 Remington brass frame with probably a .030 cylinder gap. Paid $24.99 for it from Southern Ohio Gun Co. Inc. I could hit really good with that thing despite the wide cylinder gap. Had to mold balls from a brass mold. I shot 30 grains of 3f till I battered the frame so bad the cylinder ratchet was imprinted heavily on the recoil shield. But I could bounce pop cans around out to 30 yards. Looking back I probably barked most of them with dirt. My first foray into gunsmithing was to file the front of the frame and screw the barrel in a hole turn. I definitely festered that project up.
Strange , first handgun I ever owned was a cap n ball revolver as well . But I was a good bit older than the little guy in the puctures . I was 16 I think bought a nice new Ruger Old Army for $125 dealer threw in two cans of Pyrodex this was a few months after the plant they made Pyrodex in ignited the first time . Shot that gun a bunch and eventually traded it to another dealer for about twice what I paid about fifteen years later .
Parkers , Mannlicher Schoenauer’s , 6.5mm's and my family in the Philippines !
Nice old photos! The first sixgun I was allowed to tote around my grandad's farm was an Italian 1858 pattern in .36. Shot a ton of porcupines, skunks, squirrels, coons and a few coyotes with it.
It came with a right handed flap holster, we cut the flap off and added a hammer thong. I carried it on my left side butt forward, he told it was the way the cavalrymen did it (strong side butt forward) so 10 year old me thought that was about as cool as it gets.
Mine was a short barreled 44 that was used successfully to shoot raccoons out of trees after the hounds treed them. But it was traded off a few decades ago.
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