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

:cheers::cheers::cheers:

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.

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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.

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

Where's the Colt .45 First Generation SAA ?

Vintage decoys are considered folk art and display nicely.

Nice birds. Mostly central flyway/Illinois birds?

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.

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





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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.

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