Guns as art

[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by todd allen

My wife calls it "playing cowboy". Dinner, a glass of wine, and an old western from the 50s/60s makes a fine evening.

to keep with the theme - shouldn't that be a glass of rot gut whiskey?

[Researcher]

the gun that won the West,

I must disagree. The "gun that won the west" wasn't some $17 Winchester, it was a $3 Civil War Springfield converted to a shotgun that the average sod buster could afford to own.

Civil War Springfield altered to shotgun.jpg

Civil War Springfield altered to shotgun 02.jpg

Winchester only "won the west" in the movies and on TV. This was the conclusion at a Remington Society seminar years ago where Schuyler, Hartley & Graham shipping records being discussed showed thousands of these converted Springfields being shipped west for every Winchester, Remington or Colt.

[todd allen]

You may have noticed the 1861 Springfield hanging on the wall, just under the Remington Rolling Block. It's a Colt, btw.

[Kevin McCormack]

Where's the Colt .45 First Generation SAA ?

[Craig Larter]

Vintage decoys are considered folk art and display nicely.

[Big D]

Nice birds. Mostly central flyway/Illinois birds?

[Craig Larter]

Bert Graves Peoria Ill. The blacks on the right are part of my Black Duck collection, Dan English, HM Shourds, Elmer Crowell, Rhodes Treux. Have other Delaware River decoys all areas I hunted as a youngster moving around the country for work.

[Dean Romig]

Does anybody have any H.H.B. or Harvey H. Brown marked decoys?





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[todd allen]

Originally Posted by Kevin McCormack

Where's the Colt .45 First Generation SAA ?

It's a Second Generation, I think 1890s, .45 Colt, 5" bbl.
Funny thing about the SAA, it has one of the nicest trigger pulls I have seen.

[charlie cleveland]

real niceliving quarters you have there.....i like old guns displayed out in the open were you can see them and enjoy them....that big 50 is good medicene on anything.....charlie