Recent content by Wyatt Burp

Yeah. I think it’s called a groover. It follows the edge of the holster cutting a perfect groove to stitch in. And it’s adjustble as to distance from the edge.The thread settles in the groove looking very uniform. I also cut a groove inside the holster to lower the level of the stitching so the...

That”s great. I don’t recall seeing these before. I still have the “Franz-Lok” spring clip you fave me and found another one, too.

I just finished this lefty IWB holster for my snub 19-4. I’m going up in the Sierras for a week pretty soon and when going for walks needed a holster I could just slip on and off. The J frame holster is my son’s. I carve these even though you can’t see them.

We would stay at a certain hotel in Bishop on the east side of 395 with a Mexican restaurant a block south with excellent Chile verde. Also on 395 is the town location in High Plains Drifter on the shore of Mono Lake. Here’s a guy at that site…

Good score. When at our flea market one time I asked my wife to point out any holsters she spots. She saw one and I went over not expecting much. But it was a black S.D. Myres in the Patton style but black, basketweave, and for a 6” Colt Python. A very late one. Guy wouldn’t budge on $25 bucks...

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I compared it with my other 24-3 and I see nothing that is keeping the cylinder from locking up. It closes but then stops with a 1/16th” gap in the crane. Nothing is warped, the center pin retracts, and while cylinder forcing cone gap is very close, there’s no dragging there. the extractor seats...

I was shooting my Model. 24-3 the other day and all of a sudden there was no cylinder spring tension and the latch was in the forward position. I pulled the latch back feeling spring tension in that direction but the cylinder won’t close regardless the position of the latch. I’m fine with...

Over 25 years ago I bought an identical gun. It looked just like this one and I forgot if it was Spain or Belgium. It cost $175. I sent it to gunsmith John Gren of Spokane, WA. for some reason I can’t recall and he kept it and I believe sold it. Then he had a nervous breakdown or something and...

Yes. There is an interest in these for the nostalgia of guns used in movies and TV. Especially westerns like Gunsmoke. They have value, maybe not too extravagant, but they’ll always increase in value. I slap a pair on my 1911 Colt SAA occasionally just to look like a 50s western TV gun. One...

I’m not into stainless but in 1999 I bought a 4” stainless Colt Python in a pawn shop for $475. I ignored it for a year and a half then bought it. I’m surprised no one else grabbed it. But later I discovered it was actually electroless nickel which makes sense since it’s a 1980 gun and stainless...

I’ve read references of Culp being a gun guy going to shooting ranges in L.A. In Columbo he had guns on his office wall and used a nickel Colt 1911 to kill a guy by inserting a .22 sleeve in the barrel. Here’s a video of him at home and he mentions “Trackdown”. He points to a gun saying it was...

Sure. He was another pre .44 Magnum experimenter hotloading .44 Specials. In a fast draw book I have is a circa 1960 photo of Lachuk with holster maker Andy Anderson and he’s wearing his brand new left hand fast draw rig. About ten years ago his son had it for sale. It looked brand new, but...

Here’s Robert Culp on “The Rifleman” where he shows off his gun spinning. This was after his “Trackdown” show. In an early 60s western he played Wild Bill Hickok and packed two Colt SAAs with non factory 6 1/2” barrels. I know those had to be his personal guns and he probably wanted that barrel...