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Some Eye Candy : Cimarron 1860 "McCulloch Colt" Anyone Else?
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I have a Western Arms 1851 but it is not a square back.
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A human being is a strange animal? Some one some where will like them?
Found the seller/maker. Am in contact with him.
"They are reliable!"
"They function properly straight from the factory."
"17 rounds!!!!!"
"Pretty is, as pretty does!"
"Wuddayuh mean, 'No soap and water bath after shootin'???"
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Super nice! I'm a big fan of Cimmaron; one can see their story on their web site. They work with the factories to specify quality. Nice photos! Thanks!
Thanks, I've got a Pietta. If I happen across a squareback I might bite. I spent a couple hours this morning going over my cap & ball revolvers, wiping them down with Barricade and I think I have enough to last me, even if I live to be 150 years old.
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Col. Cooper once related a news article after a German policewoman was involved in a shooting with an armed robber. In the article her police chief noted that she had fired all 17 rounds from the Austrian wunderpistole and that previously, “she’d have had to reload twice in order to accomplish this feat.” Col. Cooper noted that even experts sometimes forget that the point of shooting is hitting."They are reliable!"
"They function properly straight from the factory."
"17 rounds!!!!!"
"Pretty is, as pretty does!"
"Wuddayuh mean, 'No soap and water bath after shootin'???"
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Yeah, having never been in a fight where hot lead was whizzing by my ears I can't help but wonder if my shooting skills of a life time of target shooting might desert me in my time of need !
I have a good friend that has three purple hearts and still carries shrapnel from Vietnam in him, tell me that it's just "different" (my words not his) when the air is full of traces "really" close by and your on your belly and chin trying to get even lower in the dirt.
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yes. Different at first, then you begin to remember the fundamentals. Some guys don’t seem to, we wasted a metric ton of ammunition over there.
The best and worst thing about tracers is that they indicate in both directions.
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Getting done what is obvious, is the question, when your scared out of your mind and is the BIG unknown here ! One never really knows for sure how they will respond until the proverbial schnitt hits the fan where they live ! Some folks can think and move under great stress and others freeze up. Training helps mitigate this but is no guarantee.
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It’s obvious from the outside but no one knows until they know. Even then, guys are heroes one day and crapping and crying the next.
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I would guess that carpet bombing, artillery or mortar fire the most frightening and nerve wrecking experiences that can be endured and survived by troops in the field and is accumulative to every one. Apparently being shot at is not as terrifying as one usually has some factor of control still available.
The cap and balls are a ton of fun.
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Indeed! And useful, and beautiful, and interesting…
How many of us can relate to this situation. “Oops! Forgot about that one!”
I didn’t have one, but seeing your pictures, I acquired one with fluted and aged. Shot it yesterday. Becoming one of my very favorite pistols!
The May/June issue of True West arrived today, and I was pleased to find a terrific article by Phil Spangenberger dedicated to the McCullough Colts:
The article is well-written, providing a good historical background, and it is nicely illustrated. Mr. Spangenberger also acknowledges the Cimarron reproduction of this revolver in a sidebar. I think it's great to see the mainstream media giving coverage of muzzleloading and cap & ball arms, especially when it concerns some of the historically significant but lesser known guns, like this one. I found there is a lot I did not know about them.
The cover of this issue looks like this:
Obviously, they have a feature article on Bass Reeves, the lawman, but there are also articles about Apache scouts and Edward S. Curtis, the famous photographer, who evidently knew George Custer. I haven't read those yet, so can't comment.
Best regards,
Notchy Bob
The article is well-written, providing a good historical background, and it is nicely illustrated. Mr. Spangenberger also acknowledges the Cimarron reproduction of this revolver in a sidebar. I think it's great to see the mainstream media giving coverage of muzzleloading and cap & ball arms, especially when it concerns some of the historically significant but lesser known guns, like this one. I found there is a lot I did not know about them.
The cover of this issue looks like this:
Obviously, they have a feature article on Bass Reeves, the lawman, but there are also articles about Apache scouts and Edward S. Curtis, the famous photographer, who evidently knew George Custer. I haven't read those yet, so can't comment.
Best regards,
Notchy Bob
You can get some idea from how you have reacted to when your life was on the line and did you panic, freeze or keep your cool and get it done?
One of the better ones was a Street Cop in KC that won his gun fight though he was awful on the range. Then the uber range guy gets into a gun fight and looses.
Has nothing to do with what a person quality is, physically drives you and that is genetics. You can train to a degree but in the end, its do you pucker up or let go. Or as I told the pilot as the helicopter was going out of control, you needed a horizon and I was the only one who could wipe the fogged up windscreen, it was my butt on the line, the rest of you guys are just lucky I am selfish!
Keeping it on BP, Civil War had 20% of the shooters that did 80% of the killing. They just had that inherent ability to stay cool under fire.
I knew one guy who was pretty old but quiet, almost meek and mild and a former school teacher. I had to revise my thinking when his daughter gave me the Band of Brothers book and pay attention to the names. Yep, he jumped in Normandy and fought on through to the end.
