Forest Ranger?
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Don't about the pistol but one tuff looking ranger. Different breed back in the day...
If it isn't, it's something very like it.
I'd like to know about the double bit cruiser
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Sure looks like a Broomhandle, with the wood holster/ stock. My father had two of them when I was a kid. I don't recall them having lanyard rings...
SGT ROCK 11B
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I saw that to on Facebook.
I have seen pictures of cowboys in the early 1900s that were packing Luger pistols.
In a John Wayne western movie his character's son had a Negligent Discharge with a autoloader.
I have seen pictures of cowboys in the early 1900s that were packing Luger pistols.
In a John Wayne western movie his character's son had a Negligent Discharge with a autoloader.
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Certainly could be pre-WW1, but a long string telephone line makes me think post WW1.
My guess, is a veteran who had a bringback or the ranger had a friend who had a bringback. 7.63mm and a stick is decent medicine against any threat, two or four legged, short of Grizzly. 10 rounds of Mauser is potentially decent bear spray for the time too.
My guess, is a veteran who had a bringback or the ranger had a friend who had a bringback. 7.63mm and a stick is decent medicine against any threat, two or four legged, short of Grizzly. 10 rounds of Mauser is potentially decent bear spray for the time too.
Glenn R. McMannly
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Agreed.
Mauser is a hot little honey of a cartridge.
It can put those pills in Grizz in a hurry. I'd still a triple lock loaded with hard casts though.
Mauser is a hot little honey of a cartridge.
It can put those pills in Grizz in a hurry. I'd still a triple lock loaded with hard casts though.
Mikerjf , that's not funny. I'm typing this on an IPhone 7.
He looks like the kind of fella who, if you got in a fist fight with it'd be much like grabbing a bear from behind, you'd never be able to let go or for certain he'd rip you apart.
Lean and likely not mean but surely able to hold his own in any situation.
Lean and likely not mean but surely able to hold his own in any situation.
stanmerrell
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There's a guy in my family tree (Bill Calcord) on my wife's side that shot a bad guy in Payson AZ with a 9mm, I think sometime in the 20's. I think the broomhandles and Mausers and Lugers were well liked by many in the US.
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Early version of Han Solo's blaster?
Tom Horn escaped custody in 1903 while awaiting execution for the murder of Willie Nickell (that's a whole 'nother issue). He stole a Luger pistol in the Sheriff's office on the way out the door. He didn't get far before he was spotted by passersby who gave chase. He was captured by pedestrians in downtown Cheyenne after he was unable to figure out how to fire the Luger. Apparently, the safety baffled him. Ol' Tom might have gotten clean away if the Sheriff hadn't been a gunny type who liked those new-fangled autos. Here's a picture of him being walked back to the jail by citizens. Note all the bicycles. They were a cosmopolitan lot in old Cheyenne!
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Mine (WW1-time commercial) did. It was easy to rig a sling between the lanyard ring and the neck of the holster/shoulder stock so that the gun could be drawn from slung carry and VERY quickly attached to the stock and aimed as an SBR. However, the stock and the pistol lived in two different states until the eighties, when they made C&R.
