Six Year Old Marshall Holds Off A Lynch Mob

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Wyatt Burp

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As the young marshall stands at the ready in front of his jail, he hears the rumbling, then sees the torches of the lynch mob comin' down the street. He's never lost a prisoner yet, and it ain't gonna happen today. He knows they "can get him in a rush, but they just need a few brave men to die first*".
*(Kevin Costner in Wyatt Earp.)

I made this rig for this young lawman. His Pa didn't much like the cheap stuff in the Sears Roebuck, uh, I mean Toys R Us, so asked me to just make somethin' a kid would like. Since it can be argued that I've never really grown up, that was pretty easy. I posted this rig before but finally got to see the young man wearing it so here it is again. The drop loops are stitched on so they can be moved forward as he grows. Also. The holsters are snapped to the backskirt so he could quickly switch them for a butts to the front Hickok rig.

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Man I woulda given an arm and a leg for a rig like that when I was a kid.
Mine was so flimsy if finally just fell apart.
Course being stuffed in a badger hole every night so that Stalin couldn't get it may have had something to do with it.
 
keith44spl said:
Matt,

I once worn my two gun rig to school...The ol Schoolmarm made me hang 'em in the coat-room till recess, dang it!


But, I reckon we're still raisin 'em Cowboy in these here parts....




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Su Amigo,
Dave
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That's great! You had to have made those matching holsters (except for color). Are those your grand kids?
 
Keith,

That story about wearing them to school, brought to mind a story in today's paper. A student was expelled from school for an extended period of time for having a single .22LR round in his pocket. The kid had been squirrel hunting with his father the afternoon before and the round was inadvertently left in his jeans pocket.

I remember when we went rabbit/deer/squirrel hunting before school started back in the 1950's. We then drove our vehicles to school, leaving our firearms in them on visible racks and lots of ammo in the car or truck. We never bothered to take our hunting knives off our belts and no one ever complained and there was never an incident.

How has our society come so far afield in 50+ years?

medxam
 
medxam said:
Keith,

That story about wearing them to school, brought to mind a story in today's paper. A student was expelled from school for an extended period of time for having a single .22LR round in his pocket. The kid had been squirrel hunting with his father the afternoon before and the round was inadvertently left in his jeans pocket.

I remember when we went rabbit/deer/squirrel hunting before school started back in the 1950's. We then drove our vehicles to school, leaving our firearms in them on visible racks and lots of ammo in the car or truck. We never bothered to take our hunting knives off our belts and no one ever complained and there was never an incident.

How has our society come so far afield in 50+ years?

medxam
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My dad had to make these wood grips for this gun because I dropped it at school when I wore it as part of a Haloween costume in the 3rd grade. This was 1966. the teacher didn't mind the gun and my dad was mad because I dropped it, not because I took it without asking first.
Gun shown with my mummy rat for your viewing pleasure. That rat hangs on the wall by my workbench.
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Wyatt Burp said:
Around 1988 when my son was five or six I made him a copy of an Ojala Hollywood rig. I wasn't going to stick him with some plastic piece of..uh, garbage. I've posted this one before, too.
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You're both lefties? I'd have given a lot for a left-handed rig like that! The only left-handed rig I ever got as a kid was a Rin Tin Tin and Rusty cavalry holster and belt. There was a picture of the dog and the kid on the holster flap, which I quickly painted over with black model airplane dope. (I still have the holster after more than half a century, though the belt and cartridge pouch are long gone.)
 
medxam said:
Keith,

That story about wearing them to school, brought to mind a story in today's paper. A student was expelled from school for an extended period of time for having a single .22LR round in his pocket. The kid had been squirrel hunting with his father the afternoon before and the round was inadvertently left in his jeans pocket.

I remember when we went rabbit/deer/squirrel hunting before school started back in the 1950's. We then drove our vehicles to school, leaving our firearms in them on visible racks and lots of ammo in the car or truck. We never bothered to take our hunting knives off our belts and no one ever complained and there was never an incident.

How has our society come so far afield in 50+ years?

medxam
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A close friend of mine graduated from the Bronx High School of Science, class of 1970. (He ended up becoming, literally, a rocket scientist.) He was on the school rifle team, and used to ride New York City subways to school while carrying his cased .22 target rifle and range bag...

We really do live in a different world nowadays... :(
 
medxam said:
Keith,

That story about wearing them to school, brought to mind a story in today's paper. A student was expelled from school for an extended period of time for having a single .22LR round in his pocket. The kid had been squirrel hunting with his father the afternoon before and the round was inadvertently left in his jeans pocket.

I remember when we went rabbit/deer/squirrel hunting before school started back in the 1950's. We then drove our vehicles to school, leaving our firearms in them on visible racks and lots of ammo in the car or truck. We never bothered to take our hunting knives off our belts and no one ever complained and there was never an incident.

How has our society come so far afield in 50+ years?

medxam
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Back in the mid 70's i used to take my new rifles/shotguns to school to show a favorite teacher of mine who was a hunter and Winchester collector. Nobody thought anything about it or said a thing. A lot of us kids from the country had guns in our trucks in plain sight on a gun rack. Times have changed for sure and not for the better.

Chuck
 
I came from a small town in South Texas and attended college at what is now UTPA. We had "Bronco" Days and there was always a street dance. A good friend wore his rig with a 22 revolver. I was talking to another friend when he casually pulled his piece, aimed at my shoulder and pulled the trigger. BANG! I looked down to see a smoking contact wound in my new shirt. It hurt, but not enough to cause me much anguish as thankfully he was loaded with blanks. The girl I was with took me home and doctored my "wound" and my friend who is still my friend replaced the shirt. Nowadays there would have been a SWAT incident and my friend would have been charged. In our days it was innocent fun.
 
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