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Post by jdd2 on Nov 11, 2012 20:01:16 GMT -5
Tho "pistol" might not be quite the right term...   (and yes, that's me) |
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Post by Kramster on Nov 11, 2012 20:27:21 GMT -5
You're gonna shoot your eye out with that thing..and a couple neighbors too.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2012 21:49:42 GMT -5
Not a Colt but some sort of buntline type. Is it a .22?
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Post by Village Idiot on Nov 11, 2012 21:57:10 GMT -5
It's rather long. Made to reach into those hard-to-reach drain clogs?
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Post by jdd2 on Nov 11, 2012 22:04:24 GMT -5
"Buntline Special" tickles a memory. I don't know the caliber, or even if it's real. I've emailed my older brother about it, but he only goes online once or twice a week. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_Buntline |
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Post by xyrn on Nov 12, 2012 2:21:07 GMT -5
Looks like it could be an H&R (Harrington & Richardson) or something similar. Back in the good ol' days, it could've been a JC Higgins, Sears, Wards, or Westernfield as well. Buntline's are fun, helluvatime finding an ankle holster, though.  |
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Post by Doug on Nov 12, 2012 7:48:41 GMT -5
Not the best pictures. BTW keep your finger out of the trigger unless you are shooting it.  Buntline Special named after the gun that Ned Buntline may have given Earp. Just a guess because of the pictures but I'd say maker was RG from W. Germany ~ 1955-1965 if the finish quality is better it might be made by Erma. Colt's version made in the same time period.  |
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Post by factorychef on Nov 12, 2012 7:56:15 GMT -5
I'm going out today to buy 2000 rounds and 2 new handguns. you can never have to many!
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Post by Doug on Nov 12, 2012 8:05:14 GMT -5
I'm going out today to buy 2000 rounds and 2 new handguns. you can never have to many! If the cartridges don't hurt when you drop one on your foot, you need a bigger gun. - Elmer Keith |
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Post by Fingerplucked on Nov 12, 2012 14:15:26 GMT -5
Looks like somebody's overcompensating for something.
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Post by jdd2 on Nov 12, 2012 16:11:50 GMT -5
Brother's info:
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The pistol was a plastic model I made from a kit. At the time I had many many model airplanes, fighters, bombers, experimental speed-of-sound planes, so was sort of into that model kit thing.
There was a TV show back then, "Wyatt Earp," starring Hugh somebody, in which the starring guy, Hugh, was known for having really become a no-kidding fast-draw artist - he was timed, high-speed pics in Life magazine, etc. At the same time, there was something of a gun fetish (surprise! It"s the fifties!) going on, so this was part of the hype for the TV show (re: Chuck Conners as"The Rifleman" with a special Winchester; and Steve McQueen in "Wanted:Dead or Alive" also with a cut down Winchester). There was a recurring character on the Wyatt Earp show, Ned Buntline, who was a kind of wild man, who had made this long-barrelled pistol. Thus, the TV show licensed a kit like a model airplane and sold it to the kiddies....... I HAD to have one! The barrel of this thing was attached with Ducco Cement, a high VOC killer glue, but even that wouldn't hold the thing together long. The barrel was a problem.
Actually, there really was a Ned Buntline in real life history, and he really did craft long barreled single-action Colt pistols, many with a brass bolt and lug on the pistol grip for attachment to a shoulder stock that he also made. Needles to say, these are valuable beyond words today. His relationship with Wyatt is..... ummm... conjecture.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
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Post by Doug on Nov 12, 2012 18:07:36 GMT -5
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