Just couldn't stand it no longer...(My Ol' 3rd Model HE)

Haggis is right on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My bride of 46 years is a little thinner, grayer and meaner, but I would not trade her, even for a registered magnum, 4" shooter which is what I dream about every night when I go to bed. Keep what is GOOD and get rid of the accumulated crap.

Boy's we aren't getting younger. We need to be thankful for what we have, especially at this wonderful Christmas Season, (my episcopal priest would remind me that we are still in advent). Let us all reach out to our less fortunate brethren this year.

With abundant thanks!,
 
That is one great looking gun! Engraved, new stocks and leather, stuck in your waistband; it'll still look great.
As far as accuracy goes, when I do stump art, you can tell it's my work by the powder burns around the holes!

semper fi should live by a midwestern city. People shoot from their car windows all the time around here. Just sayin'.... TACC1
 
Now I know who bought the ivory I was dreqaming about....for my registered model....
 
Now that is one fine shoot'n iron.Gota love the ivory art on that'n.

Very nice Dave

Thanks RB
 
Dave:

I would not let nobody go to chislin' on that ol' .44. She has the best true character just the way she is.

Now, if you want to put 'er in a new set of breeches, then go to it. However, I personally, would not even do that my ownself.

Mike

"Son, if you want to live to be as old as me, don't fool around with electricity or married women." - Ol' Man Clayton Boggess at age 83 (1976)
 
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I just gotta say, I love your posts, Dave ...... always well written, always with some great pics, and always with some GREAT guns!!!

Keep up the great work just bein' yourself, amigo!!
 
I am a huge fan of Skeeter[actually met him once] and Elmer but I'm astounded, in light of your pics, that no one mentioned Ed McGivern. I'm fortunate to have a copy of his book and there is a wealth of knowledge there.Great looking piece.I like the carved ivorys,I'm not sure about the engraving idea. I wouldn't,but it is yours to do with as you wish.I had a 3rd HE years ago in Colorado but it had been buffed to death and poorly re-finned so I let it go. Nick
 
Keith44spl, Great looking gun! So where can I get a set of ivories like yours! Thanks! Chris
 
CJS57 said:
Keith44spl, Great looking gun! So where can I get a set of ivories like yours! Thanks! Chris
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Wells Son,

All I can say is just hang around with a bunch of crusty ol
farts on sum gun forum sumwheres and wait for one of 'em
to drop their guard and open up their treasure chests for a peek. :D;):eek:


Su Amigo,
Dave
 
Each to his own, but I judge that revolver by its group size (and placement, with fixed sights). That's a fine revolver. If it were mine, I'd have a Tyler on it, and nothing else. If you do get to scratching on it, which I wouldn't do, you could consider having VM prettify the grips. Keith Brown makes beautiful grips, but in my view they are for folks who lost the original grips.


Now go do what you want. It's your gun, not mine, and it's a beauty, regardless.
 
I dont much comment, but i gotta say one of the reasons i find myself on this forum alot is acause of people like Dave, thanks fer all the pretty pix n words sir, and Happy Holidays to all:)
 
I can tell you for certain sure that ol 44 and Dave is about the most righteous match up I have seen in years.

Those two old timers are make a perfect pair.
 
durco said:
"Son, if you want to live to be as old as me, don't fool around with electricity or married women." - Ol' Man Clayton Boggess at age 83 (1976)
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I always heard not to ride paint horses or mess with red headed women.
I had a friend who rode a paint horse and married a red headed woman. The horse broke his back and the woman broke him.
 
keith44spl said:
Wells Son,

All I can say is just hang around with a bunch of crusty ol
farts on sum gun forum sumwheres and wait for one of 'em
to drop their guard and open up their treasure chests for a peek.
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I shore wish you old coots would get all excited over oriental ivory with dragons and other scary stuff carved in them. Guess those range steers are all docile enough for that 44 to handle.

Anybody know why someone else would spend a month or more pay to ruin some nice Ivory just to carve some imaginary critter on the sides. Mine don't even have glowing red eyes. I wonder if that'd be an improvement to the dragons. I helps the cows look real.
 
TACC1 said:
As far as accuracy goes, when I do stump art, you can tell it's my work by the powder burns around the holes!
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Its not often we need to remind others of a serious breach of manners. But I just read this again, and if there's one thing an old coot should never do is reveal secrets on an open internet forum. Next thing you know, we'll have everyone postin' pictures of their stumps or, God forbid, a fence post showin' a pattern complete with powder burns.

See, us experienced types just explain it away with the use of compressed full loads of slow burning powders. In my 4" guns, I can pretty well burn a stump from 20 yards out, no foolin'. Makes it look just like I was standin' arms length out!

OH, Y'all realize this thread is a full year old! 12-2-2010
 
rburg said:
I shore wish you old coots would get all excited over oriental ivory with dragons and other scary stuff carved in them. Guess those range steers are all docile enough for that 44 to handle.

Anybody know why someone else would spend a month or more pay to ruin some nice Ivory just to carve some imaginary critter on the sides. Mine don't even have glowing red eyes. I wonder if that'd be an improvement to the dragons. I helps the cows look real.
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Why Dick,
I ain't never seen a real dragon, that I recall anyhows...;):D

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Su Anigo,
Dave
 
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