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" What started it all ? "
The Pathfinder:
Growing up watching the early westerns on TV and reruns of the old western movies with my grandfather. :)Then being taught to shoot using my great uncle's original 1851 Navy, my great grandfather's original 1860 Army, my uncle's original 1895 Springfield, another uncle's Kentucky rifle and my father's Enfield Jungle Carbine. :D I know, but my father hated having to clean up after the black powder, for which I forgave him many years ago. My first rifle was a 32-30 1892 Winchester, then an EMF 1851 and then an Iver Johnson Cattleman in 45 Colt. Then my first Real Colt SAA. Now well over a hundred (most of which I still have) guns later, I guess I'm hooked. ;D And waiting patiently (well, mostly) for Cimarron's new American to come out. ;)
Professor Marvel:
--- Quote from: Major 2 on April 12, 2018, 01:57:39 AM --- Under the Tree a Hubley 45 ( Yes thats what Hubley called it )
That was 62 years ago ... I fell for the streamlined Colt 1860 Army ....
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Oh my good Major
Did you save those white plastic grips all those years for the prop Centaur you described in the Centaur thread?
Prof Marvel
Cowtown:
Where did this begin?
Early on, Bonanza and the Big Valley followed by all of Louis L'Amour's books.
Then in college my roommate and I found two CnB guns at a gunshop and he already knew something about these so we bought them. A .36 and a .44 something or others. Paid less than $80 each, shot them a few times, had fun and then got into paintball. How quickly that SQUIRREL hit us then. :o
Fast forward to the Selleck movies and it stuck this time.
Now I have CnB guns and open tops I use in SASS. Love 'em.
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Major 2:
--- Quote from: Professor Marvel on September 28, 2019, 04:33:52 PM ---Oh my good Major
Did you save those white plastic grips all those years for the prop Centaur you described in the Centaur thread?
Prof Marvel
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Ah ! a resurrected thread :)
I just saw your question Professor...No Sir... The Centaur in question was not mine, but was on the Prop Trailer and I did recognize the plastic grip from the Hubley.
That gun disappeared, we assumed stolen, but it turned up years later on the trailer.
It went missing again, to my knowledge it is still missing ::)
Though the trailer is still parked in Riverton Ill. but hasn't moved in several years.
Tascosa Joe:
I suppose my interest started with TV and radio Westerns. My grandfather and I used to listen to Gunsmoke on the radio before we had a TV. He also had a Colt SA 38-40 that he carried on his truck in the 1930's. He or my Dad held it and I pulled the trigger when I was 3 or 4 (49 or 50} and I have been addicted to them ever since. I still have it and a NRA Centennial .45 SA that I received as a college graduation gift in 72. I have several others and have traded lots of guns over the years, but those 2 are still with me. My first open top was a 4 screw 1860 Army I traded for in the mid 60's it had all the finish buffed off, but it was a neat old gun with an untold history.
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