Glamour/interresting photos?
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Cooter Brown
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Nice stuff here. My favorite part though is D. Keith's coining of a new term--Fandango Rig. For me that's got it all over BBQ rig!
A great thread for this stuff is the Old Gunleather thread--it's called something like that.
A great thread for this stuff is the Old Gunleather thread--it's called something like that.
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Okay, okay. I give up. These can't compare with some of the others, but I'll throw in a couple anyway.
OP
WOW! Thanks guys!! I'm not often at a loss for words but the sheer beauty in these pics has left me speechless. I love all kinds of guns. Most of them like the guns from the early west or the 1911s inspire memories and thought of the past and the historical significance which they symbolize and represent. I can get a little emotional looking at these pics.
Again, many thanks for sharing your beautiful guns is such a respectful and artistic way. I really really do appreciate it.
Again, many thanks for sharing your beautiful guns is such a respectful and artistic way. I really really do appreciate it.
joeintexas
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Man oh man, I just spent the past ten minutes drooling all over these pics!! Thanks!
70 series
Smith357
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45Wheelgun
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That was made for me by our forum member Wyatt Burp. He does a fine job and will probably make one for you as well.
doublesharp
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How do these prop rod thingies work?
I don't have any glamor shots but how bout this hat I saw at Churchill Downs one Thursday before Derby.
Wait...here's one. A 4th of July spread from a few years back.
I don't have any glamor shots but how bout this hat I saw at Churchill Downs one Thursday before Derby.
Wait...here's one. A 4th of July spread from a few years back.
skennedy
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45Wheelgun
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Sometimes I like to merge collections. Like guns and watches:
Slightly photoshopped
I was just working my way into a good "downer" attitude,
when I got onto this thread. All is well, again.
Thanks for all the great pics of great firearms,(even that
funky "hat").
TACC1
when I got onto this thread. All is well, again.
Thanks for all the great pics of great firearms,(even that
funky "hat").
TACC1
rburg
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Dave Keith...
You've got a photo of a Colt SAA with Marlyn Monroe grips. Can I ask where you bought them? I've only seen one set of those before, and they were owned by my old gun show partner, John Walters. He'd been packin' them for a few years. Everyone wanted to buy them off the gun and he was just as adamant that he wasn't selling them alone. He probably got a hundred offers to buy them cheap, and he wasn't born yesterday. His price for that SAA was $3500 with the grips. If you wanted the grips, well, you could play $3500 for them and do what pleased you with the gun.
Then one day I came back to our tables for a rest and to put down the junk I'd bought. John couldn't restrain himself. He'd sold those grips off the gun! It kind of shocked me because he'd been swearing for a long time he wasn't separating them. But John had some weakness'. He'd apparently found a long gun he couldn't live without. He need the extra money to swing that deal. I'm just wondering if it was you that talked him out of them?
You've got a photo of a Colt SAA with Marlyn Monroe grips. Can I ask where you bought them? I've only seen one set of those before, and they were owned by my old gun show partner, John Walters. He'd been packin' them for a few years. Everyone wanted to buy them off the gun and he was just as adamant that he wasn't selling them alone. He probably got a hundred offers to buy them cheap, and he wasn't born yesterday. His price for that SAA was $3500 with the grips. If you wanted the grips, well, you could play $3500 for them and do what pleased you with the gun.
Then one day I came back to our tables for a rest and to put down the junk I'd bought. John couldn't restrain himself. He'd sold those grips off the gun! It kind of shocked me because he'd been swearing for a long time he wasn't separating them. But John had some weakness'. He'd apparently found a long gun he couldn't live without. He need the extra money to swing that deal. I'm just wondering if it was you that talked him out of them?
keith44spl
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Yup Dick.........I's gotta photos sumwheres.
And yes, I got those from John.
It's one of those good stories....
I was up there in the Bluegrass for a short visit, and saw those on John's table.
He didn't want to sell em without that gawd-awful lookin SAA that was wearin em.
But, he did elude to the fact, for enough money he might separate the outfit.
So, that was Saturday and I returned back to Bowling Green without the ivory.
The next day after Church, I told the wife, "Let's take a lit'l drive, there's a pair of stocks I want to look at again.
Get to show middle of the afternoon, everyone's packin up.
I spot John at his table, bull my way through the crowd and corner ol John there.
I start peelin C notes off till he said stop...And the rest is history.
John was such a great feller about it all.
Money won't buy those ivories now.
I carried that pair for a spell till my son got out of collage and
he's sportin them fancy gal stocks on that engraved Colt now.
I'll be lookin for that picture.
Found them!
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And yes, I got those from John.
It's one of those good stories....
I was up there in the Bluegrass for a short visit, and saw those on John's table.
He didn't want to sell em without that gawd-awful lookin SAA that was wearin em.
But, he did elude to the fact, for enough money he might separate the outfit.
So, that was Saturday and I returned back to Bowling Green without the ivory.
The next day after Church, I told the wife, "Let's take a lit'l drive, there's a pair of stocks I want to look at again.
Get to show middle of the afternoon, everyone's packin up.
I spot John at his table, bull my way through the crowd and corner ol John there.
I start peelin C notes off till he said stop...And the rest is history.
John was such a great feller about it all.
Money won't buy those ivories now.
I carried that pair for a spell till my son got out of collage and
he's sportin them fancy gal stocks on that engraved Colt now.
I'll be lookin for that picture.
Found them!
.
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357-RevolverGuy
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rburg
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I never figured I see them again. I was shocked he sold them alone.
My current partner knew John and was really surprised that John could find the stuff he had. He also watched over the years as John managed to sell his guns for more than anyone believed possible. Don't feel too sorry for him having to haul a nekkid gun back home. John had more extra sets of Ivory grips than you can imagine. While he was telling me he sold them he was digging out a set of plain ivories to stick on the gun.
John and I became friends back in the mid -1990s. He had a ratty old M57 that had escaped the factory all scratched up. It had the nicest set of Ivory on it I'd ever seen (before and since!) The problem was he wanted way too much for it, and he wouldn't budge. Guess that's how he got so much for the ones he did sell. So I made it a practice to stop and talk to him at every show (5 per year back then). And after a couple of years, I was feeling healthy because it was obvious the gun was overpriced.
So it was a warm weather show in Louisville. I was sweatin' a bit because they didn't have the AC working very well. And I was a totin' a bunch of stuff I'd scored durin' my hike around the room. But John saw me comin' up the aisle. Our arguments and battles over his gun had kind of become a thing everyone else with tables had waited for. Happened every show.
So when he saw me makin' my way along he started yelling. Just the usual about me tryin' to cheat him out of a fine revolver and what not. Never one to be outdone, I pointed out that no one else alive wanted it, cause if they had, it'd been sold a couple of years back. And so he went on about tire kickers damaging the finish on his fine firearms, just by lookin'. And he finished the tirade by askin when I was tinkin' about getting serious. So I saw my opening. I told him I'd get serious as soon as he got serious about the price on that dog he'd been carrying for so long.
Seein' his honor bein' challenged, he said "well what would you call serious". So I told him $2000 would be serious and as he was swallowin' hard, I reached in my vest and pulled out a nice neat bundle of $100s, just the way the bank handed them over to me. Called his bluff, so to speak. Worse for John, everyone else in the island of tables was laughing. So red in the face, he reached down and picked up the money. Then he told me to get around back of the table and talk for a spell. We talked almost daily ever since, right up to his premature passing. I sure wish I still had him to visit with.
Right up to the end, he loved Ivory. He'd bought a 38/44 and handed it off to Jeff Flannery to do some magic on it. At about the same time I'd picked up a 44 3rd model. Nice gun, but the original blue was half gone. John had to have it. He was thinkin' a matched set, same engraving. Just one 44 and the other a 38. His problem was finding a good set of ivories to fit an N frame. He knew someone who had a set, but pride made it awful hard to ask me. They were Don Collins work, the first set of S&W grips made from bark ivory. His wife lit into him for wasting the prime piece of tusk on a S&W. She said no one would buy them and he'd be stuck. Don was a good guy (probably still is, but we don't see him these days). He took his beating from his wife like a good husband and didn't say anything.
Then after we got our tables set up I walked over to Don's to buy my grips. We'd discussed them several times. He neglected to tell his wife, no reason to disturb her rant about his sanity. So I walked up took one look and handed him the money. He handed the grips over and I went back to my tables. When his wife saw they were gone she was a little taken back. She'd predicted he'd have them forever. So when she asked who bought them, he just meekly said "the first guy who saw them."
She was kind of quiet after that.So John wanted my bark ivory grips. And I told him I'd sell them for what I paid. He wanted Ivory, I gave him ivory. 'Cept they were all wrapped up good for protection in the overwrap that Ivory Soap came in.
Guess I should call his widow today and tell her who got the dance hall girl grips. She'd probably like that..
'Nuther John story. I was sitting at my desk, pretending to work on June day in 2003. My phone rang and it was John. He had to tell someone, so he picked me. On that day in 1953 he started working in his career field! He was 13 back then and got himself a summer job working in the local funeral home. Sweeping floors. And he was scared to death of dead people. All his friends were scared of him and for him. They figured a ghost or something would have gotten him. 50 years later he owned a funeral home and was the county coroner. He said all that time kind of taught him there was nothing to be afraid of.
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