Commie BBQ gun
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I think that’s some SAA copy/clone.
bigwheelzip
Absent Comrade
He was friends with Chuck Connors, and was gifted SAAs that he used as an actor.
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Yes, Chuck gave him real Colt SAAs.
Stevens
Member
Yeah, plenty of booze, a couple of bottles of Stolichnaya maybe some Johnnie Walker and more. I wonder if Chuck Conners supplied the holster and belt too?
Steve W
Steve W
I just read on Wikipedia;
Connors was introduced to Leonid Brezhnev, the leader of the Soviet Union, at a party given by Nixon at the Western White House in San Clemente, California, in June 1973. Connors presented Brezhnev with a pair of Colt Single Action Army "Six-Shooters" (revolvers) which Brezhnev liked greatly. Upon boarding his airplane back to Moscow, Brezhnev noticed Connors in the crowd and went back to him to shake hands, and jokingly jumped up into Connors' towering hug. Few American TV programs were allowed on Soviet television at that time; The Rifleman was an exception, because it happened to be Brezhnev's favorite show. Connors and Brezhnev got along so well, that Connors accepted an invitation to visit the Soviet leader in Moscow in December 1973. After Brezhnev's death in 1982, Connors expressed an interest in returning to the Soviet Union for the General Secretary's funeral, but the U.S. government would not allow Connors to be part of the official delegation.
This is interesting too about Mr. Conners:
He is one of only 13 athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played both Major League Baseball (Chicago Cubs, 1951) and in the National Basketball Association (Boston Celtics 1947–48).
bigwheelzip
Absent Comrade
No he didn't give him holsters with the Colts, and the Party Secretary was heard to be disappointed by the omission.
He had a holster and belt produced for the guns, upon his return to the USSR.
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Jack Flash
SWCA Member
Looks like he needed about a 60" belt! 
Jack Flash
SWCA Member
Per Wikipedia, Nikita Khrushchev died in 1971. So if Connors presented Brezhnev with that revolver in '73, that would have to be Nikita's ghost.
THE PILGRIM
Member
I have to admit -
My spark gap brain - zapped an idea.
Is he wearing one of Phil’s Holsters?
My spark gap brain - zapped an idea.
Is he wearing one of Phil’s Holsters?
bigwheelzip
Absent Comrade
He always looked ruggedly athletic, but after that first meeting in Nixon's backyard they became friends.
When Chuck went to see him off at the end of his visit, Brezhnev famously threw himself up into Chuck's arm and gave him a big bear hug.
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Interesting photo. I vaguely remember the Chuck Connors connection. Thanks for the pic. 
Oracle
US Veteran
My U.S. Coast Guard ship did a port call to Vladivostok in May of 1991. The bottles of dark brown liquid on the table are vodka in which they have poured small bottles of something they called brandy to give it "flavor". The vodka does not have screw caps or stoppers, it has a peel off aluminum top.
I'm not up on Russian timelines. My bad.
Must have been a pandemic going on since they are picnicking in the backyard 
He was friends with Chuck Connors, and was gifted SAAs that he used as an actor.
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I saw Chuck Connors buying a table saw at Sears in Bakersfield, Ca once. Something you don't see everyday.
