« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: .45 Cal. Schofield Ammo Boxes  (Read 6376 times)

Offline WaddWatsonEllis

  • Watt and Wadd Watson Ellis
  • Top Active Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 3781
  • Howdy, Pardner! Sacramento, Ca here ....
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
.45 Cal. Schofield Ammo Boxes
« on: July 28, 2009, 11:38:10 PM »
I keep seeing wooden reproduction Army Green .45 Schofield ammo boxes, but can't seem to find who is making them.

I would like to use one as the base of a gun cart if I could find one.

Is there a commercial source, or a member who is willing to sell a single box?

Thanks for the help....
Logged
My moniker is my great grandfather's name. He served with the 2nd Florida Mounted Regiment in the Civil War. Afterward, he came home, packed his wife into a wagon, and was one of the first NorteAmericanos on the Frio River southwest of San Antonio ..... Kinda where present day Dilley is ...

"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." John Wayne
NCOWS #3403

Offline Dr. Bob

  • Dr. Bob
  • Top Active Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 3673
  • Physician and Sporting Gent aka Bob Dorian
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: .45 Cal. Schofield Ammo Boxes
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2009, 11:49:39 PM »
WWE,

Sgt. John Chapman, who is here in CAS City, makes those boxes.  Send him a PM and he can help you out!
Logged
Regards, Doc
Dr. Bob Butcher,
NCOWS 2420, Senator
HR 4
GAF 405,
NRA Life,
KGC 8.
Warthog
Motto: Clean mind  -  Clean body,   Take your pick

Offline WaddWatsonEllis

  • Watt and Wadd Watson Ellis
  • Top Active Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 3781
  • Howdy, Pardner! Sacramento, Ca here ....
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: .45 Cal. Schofield Ammo Boxes
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2009, 12:29:41 AM »
Hi Dr Bob,

I sent him an email that I found on another post.

It is all that Harry Potter's fault. I was watching the train scene in one of the movies and an old Victorian hand truck caught my eye.

Such is the hold that SASS has on me that instead of watching the movie, I began to think of a gun cart disguised as a shootist's steamer trunk and ammo box waiting to be loaded ...

So far I have some antique all metal wheels and a pair of five foot plow handles.

It would help terribly if someone had an old hand truck like the one below with all rotten wood, that I could take the metal parts from. Otherwise I have to pay a welder BIG TIME wages to make copies for me ...
Logged
My moniker is my great grandfather's name. He served with the 2nd Florida Mounted Regiment in the Civil War. Afterward, he came home, packed his wife into a wagon, and was one of the first NorteAmericanos on the Frio River southwest of San Antonio ..... Kinda where present day Dilley is ...

"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." John Wayne
NCOWS #3403

Advertising

  • Guest
Re: .45 Cal. Schofield Ammo Boxes
« Reply #3 on: Today at 06:52:02 PM »
Logged

Offline WaddWatsonEllis

  • Watt and Wadd Watson Ellis
  • Top Active Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 3781
  • Howdy, Pardner! Sacramento, Ca here ....
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: .45 Cal. Schofield Ammo Boxes
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2009, 01:31:08 AM »
Got a return/Daemon that his web address is no longer available .....

So wioll have to try to find out how to access his profile.

If anyone runs into him, please let him know I am interested and to email or PM me......
Logged
My moniker is my great grandfather's name. He served with the 2nd Florida Mounted Regiment in the Civil War. Afterward, he came home, packed his wife into a wagon, and was one of the first NorteAmericanos on the Frio River southwest of San Antonio ..... Kinda where present day Dilley is ...

"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." John Wayne
NCOWS #3403

Offline Dr. Bob

  • Dr. Bob
  • Top Active Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 3673
  • Physician and Sporting Gent aka Bob Dorian
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: .45 Cal. Schofield Ammo Boxes
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2009, 01:58:47 AM »
Logged
Regards, Doc
Dr. Bob Butcher,
NCOWS 2420, Senator
HR 4
GAF 405,
NRA Life,
KGC 8.
Warthog
Motto: Clean mind  -  Clean body,   Take your pick

Offline WaddWatsonEllis

  • Watt and Wadd Watson Ellis
  • Top Active Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 3781
  • Howdy, Pardner! Sacramento, Ca here ....
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: .45 Cal. Schofield Ammo Boxes
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2009, 02:17:34 AM »
Dr. Bob,

Thanks, I sent him a PM and an email .....
Logged
My moniker is my great grandfather's name. He served with the 2nd Florida Mounted Regiment in the Civil War. Afterward, he came home, packed his wife into a wagon, and was one of the first NorteAmericanos on the Frio River southwest of San Antonio ..... Kinda where present day Dilley is ...

"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." John Wayne
NCOWS #3403

Offline Will Ketchum

  • Chief of Detectives
  • Deputy Marshal
  • Top Active Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 2794
  • Pete Ersland
  • SASS #: 4222
  • NCOWS #: 133
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: .45 Cal. Schofield Ammo Boxes
« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2009, 03:45:19 PM »
I have seen a couple of gun carts made from the railroan hand truck.  They are really hard to push around on gravel or uneven ground.  I made one using the plow handles, it has about 12" wheels with what appears to be a gun crate.  It works well but is cumbersome to load in a vehicle.

Will Ketchum
Logged
Will Ketchum's Rules of W&CAS: 1 Be Safe. 2 Have Fun. 3  Look Good Doin It!
F&AM, NRA Endowment Life, SASS Life 4222, NCOWS Life 133.  USMC for ever.
Madison, WI

Offline Dalton Masterson

  • Freeda Bee Mee's driver and ammo loader
  • Deputy Marshal
  • Top Active Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 2692
  • Wheeeeee!
    • Dalton Masterson's site
  • SASS #: 51139
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 4
Re: .45 Cal. Schofield Ammo Boxes
« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2009, 11:50:57 AM »
Wadd, he moved back East a few months back. I have him on Facebook. I will try to get an updated email for you if he is still making them.
DM
Logged
SASS #51139L
Former Territorial Governor of the Platte Valley Gunslingers (Ret)
GAF (Bvt.) Major in command of Battalion of Western Nebraska
SUDDS 194--Double Duelist and proud of it!
RATS #65
SCORRS
Gunfighting Soot Lord from Nebrasky
44 spoke, and it sent lead and smoke, and 17 inches of flame.
https://www.facebook.com/Plum-Creek-Leatherworks-194791150591003/
www.runniron.com

Offline WaddWatsonEllis

  • Watt and Wadd Watson Ellis
  • Top Active Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 3781
  • Howdy, Pardner! Sacramento, Ca here ....
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: .45 Cal. Schofield Ammo Boxes
« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2009, 12:23:41 PM »
Dalton et al,

Thanks for all your support; I have gotten in touch with him, and ad soon as he has his shop in place he is going to email me.

In the meantime, a friend has given me an old three wheel jogger's stroller, and I am workin on making a guncart out of it ..... and am waiting on a Baikal upland 26: barrelled SXS to come back from a gunsmith so I can finish the dimensions and strart cutting....

The second guncart is going to be a labor of love anyway, may take a year or so to get if all worked out .... so I am okay with the wait for the Schofield ammo box ....
Logged
My moniker is my great grandfather's name. He served with the 2nd Florida Mounted Regiment in the Civil War. Afterward, he came home, packed his wife into a wagon, and was one of the first NorteAmericanos on the Frio River southwest of San Antonio ..... Kinda where present day Dilley is ...

"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." John Wayne
NCOWS #3403

Offline Dalton Masterson

  • Freeda Bee Mee's driver and ammo loader
  • Deputy Marshal
  • Top Active Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 2692
  • Wheeeeee!
    • Dalton Masterson's site
  • SASS #: 51139
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 4
Re: .45 Cal. Schofield Ammo Boxes
« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2009, 02:26:09 PM »
Glad ya got hold of him Wadd.
As far as your cart goes, I have almost the same one, and have the intent of doing almost the same thing. Mine has a brake bar on it tho, so it can stop easy with a load on it.
You should check out your local grain elevator/feed stores. They may have an old one sitting around. Same cart for the most part.
DM
Logged
SASS #51139L
Former Territorial Governor of the Platte Valley Gunslingers (Ret)
GAF (Bvt.) Major in command of Battalion of Western Nebraska
SUDDS 194--Double Duelist and proud of it!
RATS #65
SCORRS
Gunfighting Soot Lord from Nebrasky
44 spoke, and it sent lead and smoke, and 17 inches of flame.
https://www.facebook.com/Plum-Creek-Leatherworks-194791150591003/
www.runniron.com

Offline WaddWatsonEllis

  • Watt and Wadd Watson Ellis
  • Top Active Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 3781
  • Howdy, Pardner! Sacramento, Ca here ....
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: .45 Cal. Schofield Ammo Boxes
« Reply #10 on: July 31, 2009, 06:20:45 PM »
The frame part taken from the stroller is exactly like the one shown below ... I an going to make a box with a 10 7/8 " wide (The minimum width of the stroller) that sits on the rear axle and angles up to sit on top of the plastic .... There will be a second 'box' that angles up from inside the first box and will lean accross a bar installed just forward of the brake lever on top of the frame... The second box outside width will be the inside of the bottom box ... and at 9 " wide internal width, should hold an SXS in the middle and a lever action on either dies of the SXS ... I am hoping that the 'horizontal' box will have just enough room for a small insulated lunch box, and the box forward of the 'gun' box will fit all my shells and stuff, becoming a 'possibles' box.

The cart will look anarchistic as all getout, but will do me until I make the other one.....
Logged
My moniker is my great grandfather's name. He served with the 2nd Florida Mounted Regiment in the Civil War. Afterward, he came home, packed his wife into a wagon, and was one of the first NorteAmericanos on the Frio River southwest of San Antonio ..... Kinda where present day Dilley is ...

"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." John Wayne
NCOWS #3403

Offline Virginia Gentleman

  • Top Active Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 1266
  • Here's a McRib for Allah
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 24
Re: .45 Cal. Schofield Ammo Boxes
« Reply #11 on: August 03, 2009, 09:15:45 AM »
I am in the process of making my own retro-modern label and box for my .45 Colt ammo meant for my Uberti made Schofields.
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »
 

SMF spam blocked by CleanTalk

© 1995 - 2023 CAScity.com