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Spencer Shooting Society / Re: Ref. 'Still Fighting My .45 Spencer'/ The Fight is over !!!
« Last post by Macon Due on Yesterday at 05:00:48 PM »Oooops, I forgot my 2nd picture.
Macon
Macon
I only have two ‘66 muskets and plan on letting them patina. I do however tumble and polish my brass as it makes them easier to find. Please don’t use sandpaper on your rifle.
It not "the initial LOOK" I'm afeared of, its "ICED Pissed" atmosphere that follows
It might have been out of fashion after 1914 for a clean cut cowboy but when you look at true 19th century photos of working cowboys, wearing pants inside the boots was the norm and it actually still is today if you go to a farm or ranch where people are actually working.i think that's far too wide a generalization. Most working cowboys I've known, maybe only a few hundred or so, in my 70+ years are of the "never run when you can walk, never walk when you can ride" mindset. Stable work is for the youngsters, stable hands or tho7e that're still developing their saddle & rope skills. Wearing pants inside or outside the boot is more a statement on style than practicality. It's also driven by regional influences on style and personal taste.
It only makes sense just as we wear our pants inside our rubber muck boots or even our leather work boots today when working in the mud or around livestock. Mud and manure wash off of boots easier than out of pants and cowboys of that time were wearing those same pants for weeks or months at a time. Plus thorns and sticker bushes don't snag leather boots like they do pants.
Hmmm, my born in 1914 Montana Cowboy/Farmer father claimed only Roy Rogers and Texans stuffed their pants in their boots. On the outside keep stuff from getting into the boots. If mucking the muddy shitty stable pull pants up and stick on the notched top so they don't fall down and get dirtyMighta also been your Dad's way of sayin' "drug store cowboy". But hey! id I've get 10-11 rows of multi row stitchin' on my boot vamps, why not show it off?