FBI Agent with Reg Mag - Update

[merlindrb]

I agree Bob, we seem to have lost some good people. However, as my tag line says "though much is taken, much abides"!

 

[merlindrb]

Back to top by request.

Hope it helps.

 

[1Aspenhill]

Dave,
I really enjoyed reading thru this again and looking at the cool guns he owned. thanks again,
Bill

 

[bettis1]

Dave,

Thanks for bringing this thread back up. It's one of my favorites.

As I was reviewing it, I couldn't help but relate the photos on page 6 to some that I recently posted of a Threepersons I just acquired with a Dallas PD RM. Looks like those old time lawmen were all thinking alike. Pretty good taste in guns and leather, I'd say.

Bob

 

[merlindrb]

Bob

I just love those Threepersons holsters. That one's a beauty. Nice gun and rig!

Since getting into the Campbell stuff I started collecting Myres leather and paper - like I needed another thing to collect!! I picked up a lot of them. Later I acquired Myres own .357 Pre-war Magnum, which is 8 3/4". Can I find an 8 3/4" Myres holster? I cannot!! TANJ!

Regards.

 

[digi-shots]

Dave,

Great thread! Thanks for all the work you put into it and for bringing it back up!

 

[whitecoyote]

Wonderful thread. I enjoyed the History lesson, thanks for sharing!
P.S. Excellent pictures!

 

[Checkman]

This is a great thread. Very informative.

 

[kentuckycop]

Truly delightful thread. The rookie FBI Agent mentioned that was involved in the capture of Doc Barker with Jerry Campbell was in fact Walter Walsh. I also believe that mention of Col. Walsh's registered magnums was made. I recall that he sold one of those guns to a fellow agent that had retired, but still had the remaining gun in his possession several years ago.

 

[semperfi71]

merlindrb,

I know you are a very knowlegable source here. So you may know of El Paso Saddlery [www.epsaddlery.com]. They make the same Tom Threepersons holster as S.D. Myres and the quality is excellent.

Regards.

 

[Rule 303]

merlindrb,
Thanks, this was a great thread.

Rule 303

 

[james56]

Dave thanks for all you do here and doc and all the other oldtimers here!!! learned more then I ever expected too!!!! what a great forum
james

 

[akviper]

Thanks for your time and trouble posting this. That's a great photo and story.

 

[sheriffoconee]

I love this thread, my Dad retired from the Bureau in 1984....I love the pics. I am going to make sure he sees this....

 

[bettis1]

Because there are several references to S. D. Myres and his work in this thread I think it might be appropriate to include this link to his biography over in the Expert Commentary section.

Many of you have already seen it but if you haven't, you will probably enjoy reading it. There are several references to the old time lawmen such as Campbell, Bryce, Jordan, etc.

Bob

http://smith-wessonforum.com/blogs/the-it-guy/75-s-d-myres-saddlemaker-sandra-lynn-myres.html

 

[skullworks]

This has been a terrific read. To date I've only held one RM... Then again, being in Sweden that is to be expected...
Also, now I'm thinking about getting a Threepersons from El Paso Saddlery...

 

[Das Whorse]

AHHH....

Gotta Love It.

 

[scooter123]

A tip on scanning pictures that will save some memory space on your hard drive. That is to set the scanner to Gray, or Grayscale, when scanning black and white photographs. By doing this you are avoiding storing color information that is not present and it will reduce the file size by 70% or a bit more. For Color images I like to scan at 600 dpi and then use a quality image editor to resize the image to 10.5 inches wide (fits a standard 8.5 x 11 paper) with whatever height corresponds to the perspective and a 240 DPI resolution. Then I save that to a JPG format file with the compression set to 8:1. End result is a file that can range between 300 to 800 Kb depending on detail and is small enough to attach to an email without hitting size restrictions. BTW, if you are ever scanning documents set the scanner for "lineart" (black and white), 600 DPI, and save the file as a TIF Lineart file. Because TIF will actually use a 2 bit compression scheme and you'll be shocked at how small a really detailed lineart image will compress down to.

BTW, memory is cheap today so I always keep multiple copies of all my pictures stored on portable Hard Drives. A one terrabyte drive can now be found for as little is 50 dollars on sale and that is enough memory to keep a LOT of full resolution images in their "original" size.

Final tip because hard drives are cheap now. That is don't bother with doing backups of your data. Instead purchase disk cloning software (I like Acronis True Image) and Clone your hard drive. It's actually faster to Clone a drive than doing a backup and what you get is an EXACT plug and play copy of your primary hard drive. In the event you get hit with a Ransomware virus all you have to do is remove the primary drive from your computer and install that Clone and you are back up and running. If it's been a while since you created that clone you will have to wait for your software to update (meaning installing the missing Windows updates) and your anitvirus to update but do a clone once a month and that wait isn't too long at all. I currently keep 2 drives in a cloning rotation and have a IDE/SATA to USB adapter that allows me to clone an internal hard drive using the USB connection. BTW that adapter is a Vantec CB-ISA225-U3 and includes the critical wall wart needed to supply 12V power to an internal desktop hard drive.

 

[S.B.]

Great thread, thanks for sharing.
Steve

 

[Doug M.]

Holy Necropost, Batman.