So... any of our members here have an interest in firearms?

Waltesefalcon · Dec 2, 2024

Harbormaster
Both from 1970!

I don't see any holster wear on the cylinder or frame of that Python. It looks to be a real beauty, we have gotta have more photos.

Harbormaster · Dec 2, 2024

Yeah my Dad said he put maybe 10 rounds through it. It’s been sitting in a safe ever since. I’ll send more pics when I get home later. Thank you for the compliment!

Waltesefalcon · Dec 2, 2024

Harbormaster
Yeah my Dad said he put maybe 10 rounds through it. It’s been sitting in a safe ever since. I’ll send more pics when I get home later. Thank you for the compliment!

I own two, and neither is any where near as nice as yours. The 4" is a 77 model, and was carried for over twenty years as an Oklahoma highway patrolman's side arm. I bought it from him a few years back, it had rubber Pachmayrs on it when I bought it, he had lost the original stocks and box somewhere along the way, he suspected they were in the box and the box was probably thrown away when he moved. The 6" is from 76 and was a gunbroker find, back when you could still get halfway decent deals on them. It's only lightly worn, but it definitely shows its wear.

Harbormaster · Dec 2, 2024

Great looking guns! These old pythons are a bit of history. These guns were the cat’s meow back in the day and are still among the best today!

The Father · Dec 2, 2024

UncleBuck
Rambo could fire a full belt from an M-60 and Sgt. Saunders(Combat!) could empty a Thompson, both from the hip and take out a sniper that missed without batting an eye.
Now those were heroes!

Barnaby Jones aka Jed Clampett took out a sniper from a roof with snub 38 from the hip. Those hillbillies

Harbormaster · Dec 3, 2024

Waltesefalcon
I don't see any holster wear on the cylinder or frame of that Python. It looks to be a real beauty, we have gotta have more photos.

Here are a few more pics…. as requested. I really do love my dad’s old python!

Waltesefalcon · Dec 3, 2024

Gorgeous! Thank you sharing that one. Your dad had excellent taste.

Waltesefalcon · Dec 7, 2024

I just picked up a 2nd issue, Colt Officer's Model. This one is well used, but not abused. Timing is spot on, lock up is tight, and the rifling sharp. I look forward to getting this one out and shooting it. It also fills a hole in my pre-war collection, and now I have a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd issue Officer's Model.

Harbormaster · Dec 7, 2024

Very cool! Thanks for sharing.

Waltesefalcon · Dec 7, 2024

Harbormaster
Very cool! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you.

Wryfox · Dec 23, 2024

Say, just found this top piece recently and thought I would take a pic of the whole family residing here at the Wryfox household.

All are Remington 1858 New Models made during the US Civil War from 1861-1865.

Top one is the new one, which is martially marked for Army use. It is also tuned up for re-enactment use with a superb trigger and tight cylinder. Feels like new(better than new) but is 160yrs old.

Middle one is a real survivor, having 'been through it'. Rattles a bit but functions just fine. Civilian model.

Bottom one is a superb original condition example, also martially marked. Very nice mechanically.

What stories these could tell I wonder......

Pastorbottle · Dec 23, 2024

Wryfox
What stories these could tell I wonder......

In my experience, firearms have a relatively limited vocabulary that largely consists of various clicks, clanks and loud bangs with the odd sonic boom or silenced phtttt as applicable!
Having said that they can speak volumes with those few words! 🤣

lindo · Dec 23, 2024

Wryfox
Say, just found this top piece recently and thought I would take a pic of the whole family residing here at the Wryfox household.

All are Remington 1858 New Models made during the US Civil War from 1861-1865.

Top one is the new one, which is martially marked for Army use. It is also tuned up for re-enactment use with a superb trigger and tight cylinder. Feels like new(better than new) but is 160yrs old.

Middle one is a real survivor, having 'been through it'. Rattles a bit but functions just fine. Civilian model.

Bottom one is a superb original condition example, also martially marked. Very nice mechanically.

What stories these could tell I wonder......

Nice. I have owned a couple of these over the years and really liked them. Although also a historical Colt collector ( I still have a nice cased London Navy) I have to admit that as a long time modern pistol shooter the Remington .44 was the one one I would have bought back in Civil War times. The closed frame and the ease of removing/changing the cylinder would have been important factors for me.

Waltesefalcon · Dec 24, 2024

Nice collection Wry. My only Civil War gun is this old M1860 Colt. This one shipped to Co. L 3rd KY Volunteer Cavalry in March of 1863. Every thing functions on it and it shoots pretty well. The frame serial number doesn't match the rest, but I am told that this is not uncommon with these, and both serial numbers it bears were received by the 3rd KY Volunteer Cav.

Wryfox · Dec 25, 2024

My lovely wife bought me gun racks for Christmas.

One section I devoted to just the pretty ladies.....

Harbormaster · Dec 25, 2024

Wow… beautiful! Here’s a few of mine. The old humpbacks!!

noelekal · Dec 25, 2024

Love yummy fancy wood!

Pastorbottle · Dec 25, 2024

Wryfox
My lovely wife bought me gun racks for Christmas.

One section I devoted to just the pretty ladies.....

There's some mighty fancy shootin irons!

Larry S · Dec 27, 2024

The kid bought himself a present x mass eve after we got done shooting.. I will join him tomorrow for some target practice after he finishes the paperwork. .357/.38 Rossi R92 16”.

Harbormaster · Dec 27, 2024

Larry S
The kid bought himself a present x mass eve after we got done shooting.. I will join him tomorrow for some target practice after he finishes the paperwork. .357/.38 Rossi R92 16”.

Good for him. I love seeing young people getting into the sport. And I absolutely love lever guns! Shoot’em straight young man!! 😎 and a well deserved X Mass gift indeed! Good luck with it!