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[jimmyj]

1950's Highway Patrol Broderick Crawford used a Colt Cobra. The uniform CHP Officers used Colt Official Police 6". The only radio signal they used was "10-4".

 

[The Last Standing Knight]

Never saw Colt's in uniformed hands on Highway Patrol

Matthews had a Model 10 2" and his troopers had Model 10 6". Most bad guys seemed to carry the 4" Model 10. All the episodes I've seen that was it. Only Colt I remember seeing was in the hands of a bad guy and it was a 1911. In one episode, Matthews and his partner are pinned down behind a boulder by a guy with a rifle and way out of range. Matthews borrowed his guys six inch Model 10 and "tried" to make like a rifle with it...with no success.

 

[Gray Rider]

There was one that was so far-fetched that I still remember it. It was the 70's TV series "Cannon" where the hero was a private detective who weighed on the high side of 300 lbs. In one episode the bad guy was some kind of gun enthusiast who had won competitions as evidence by his numerous trophies. As I remember it in the climatic shoot-out Cannon, one cheeseburger away from a massive coronary, was chasing bad guy around some sand dunes and the bad guy was armed and shooting at Cannon with an AR-15. How he could miss a target the size of a trophy black bear was unbelievable enough but the best part was when Cannon, who in real life would have been huffing like the little engine that could and sweating like a mason doing a math problem, dropped him with a single shot from his .38 snubbie.
I was just a kid with no experience with handguns at the time but even I called BS on that one.

 

[The Last Standing Knight]

One better on the same show!

Cannon ran after a guy driving away on a stolen school bus...he managed to catch up to the speeding bus and enter through the rear emergency exit door whereupon he and the bad guy engaged in a shootout.

Gave new meaning to the term "jumped the shark"

 

[jimmyj]

1950 Highway Patrol

Matthews had a Model 10 2" and his troopers had Model 10 6". Most bad guys seemed to carry the 4" Model 10. All the episodes I've seen that was it. Only Colt I remember seeing was in the hands of a bad guy and it was a 1911. In one episode, Matthews and his partner are pinned down behind a boulder by a guy with a rifle and way out of range. Matthews borrowed his guys six inch Model 10 and "tried" to make like a rifle with it...with no success.

I just viewed a episode on "YouTube"and "The last Standing Knight" is correct.
Broderick Crawford did use a S&W Model 10 2" carried strong side and the uniform officers used S&W Model 10 6".
I have no idea how I thought that Brodrick Crawford used a Colt Cobra carried "Cross Draw" and the uniform officers used Colt Official Police with "Clam Shell" holsters.
My Bad,
Jimmy

 

[The Last Standing Knight]

Watching some of the old Highway Patrol episodes recently made me start thinking VERY seriously about getting a 4 or 6 inch tapered barrel Model 10...starting to lean toward 4 inch for CCW!

 

[Rule 303]

I watched a film while I was at the Treasury Academy of a NOPD Officer drop to his knee, place his off arm across his chest, draw his S&W Model 15 with his other hand and take aim at the top of the Holiday Inn, approximated 250 yards away and fire six round (down range). I was impressed.
This was in 1973 and I was easily impressed in those days.
Folks back in the old days were a lot better shots then than now. I know this to be true cause I watch Gene Autry on the Cowboy Channel.

Rule 303