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todd allen 03-28-2019 10:23 PM

Guns as art
 
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The Old Reliable, the gun that won the West, and the other Old Reliable.
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CraigThompson 03-28-2019 10:39 PM

At the risk of being nosey , what’s your Sharps ? Original , C Sharps or Shiloh ?

Dean Romig 03-28-2019 10:43 PM

It is so nice to see these classic American pieces of history displayed in an artistic and tactful manner.
I believe any American gun that somebody thinks is worthy of sharing pictures with others who appreciate these old beauties, should present them in an artistic manner and not on a tailgate or laid out across the powerplant of a Maserati or Porsche.





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todd allen 03-28-2019 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by CraigThompson (Post 270274)
At the risk of being nosey , what’s your Sharps ? Original , C Sharps or Shiloh ?

The Sharps is an original 50/70 Carbine. Works great. I killed a buffalo with it.

Alfred Greeson 03-28-2019 10:56 PM

Wow, if that old guy could talk! Like an old friend said, "We love the old guns because they harbor old men's souls!"

todd allen 03-28-2019 10:56 PM

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A couple more views from my living room.
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The Winchester is a circa 1900 Saddle Ring Carbine, and it's a shooter.

todd allen 03-28-2019 11:06 PM

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While a 12 gauge Lifter rests at the fireplace.
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Eric Eis 03-29-2019 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by todd allen (Post 270279)
A couple more views from my living room.
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The Winchester is a circa 1900 Saddle Ring Carbine, and it's a shooter.

Todd, your single right..............:rolleyes:

todd allen 03-29-2019 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Eric Eis (Post 270293)
Todd, your single right..............:rolleyes:

No, me and my bride are going on 45 years. Lucky in love, married to the most perfect woman I have ever met.
As a side note; The old lifter is leaning against the fireplace, right where she placed it. Next stop, up on a wall. Just a well worn old 12 gauge, but old lifters make great wall art.
BTW, last night was one of those 3rd glass nights, where I usually try to just read - not post - but it looks like I didn't cause any major damage ; - )

todd allen 03-29-2019 09:17 AM

P.S. to the above. This is the room where we watch television. What's not shown, is the coffee table in front of the couch, with a couple of vintage pistolas from the late 1800s.
My wife calls it "playing cowboy". Dinner, a glass of wine, and an old western from the 50s/60s makes a fine evening.

Rick Losey 03-29-2019 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by todd allen (Post 270297)
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? :rolleyes:

:cheers::cheers::cheers:

Dave Noreen 03-29-2019 09:26 AM

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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.

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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.

todd allen 03-29-2019 09:41 AM

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

Kevin McCormack 03-29-2019 03:35 PM

Where's the Colt .45 First Generation SAA ?

Craig Larter 03-29-2019 04:25 PM

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Vintage decoys are considered folk art and display nicely.

John Dallas 03-29-2019 04:26 PM

Nice birds. Mostly central flyway/Illinois birds?

Craig Larter 03-29-2019 04:34 PM

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 03-29-2019 04:36 PM

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





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todd allen 03-29-2019 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevin McCormack (Post 270332)
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 03-29-2019 07:35 PM

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

edgarspencer 03-30-2019 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by todd allen (Post 270339)
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.

Come on Todd, You know this stuff. First Generation went up to the cessation of production at the begining of WW2. 2nd Gen began, IIRC, 1957.

Bruce Day 03-30-2019 09:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Dean Romig (Post 270275)
It is so nice to see these classic American pieces of history displayed in an artistic and tactful manner.
I believe any American gun that somebody thinks is worthy of sharing pictures with others who appreciate these old beauties, should present them in an artistic manner and not on a tailgate or laid out across the powerplant of a Maserati or Porsche.





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No tailgate. No Porsche or Maserati.

Jeff Kuss 03-30-2019 09:20 AM

Cow Pie art?

Bruce Day 03-30-2019 09:40 AM

I prefer to think of it as Great Plains Naturalism. All the great artiste’ s were masters of naturalism.

Randy Davis 03-30-2019 09:49 AM

Art
 
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Dean Romig 03-30-2019 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Jeff Kuss (Post 270368)
Cow Pie art?

Cow pie or is it buffalo chips?





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Gary Laudermilch 03-30-2019 10:36 AM

I believe it is bull.

Maybe I should clarify. Not the photo or the gun. Both are beautiful. I was referring to the photo background which is bull or most likely steer. Sorry if you took it the wrong way.

Reggie Bishop 03-30-2019 01:07 PM

Nice 20 Bruce!

todd allen 03-30-2019 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by edgarspencer (Post 270362)
Come on Todd, You know this stuff. First Generation went up to the cessation of production at the begining of WW2. 2nd Gen began, IIRC, 1957.

Yes, you're right. It's a 1st gen, but smokeless frame, which started in 1896, IIRC.
I'm certainly no expert, and am constantly learning, and sometimes relearning stuff I knew and forgot.
I may have known this, but don't remember ; )

todd allen 03-31-2019 05:24 PM

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Here's the Colt SAA, (1898) and the little S&W M 1 1/2 (3rd issue 1890)
Oh, and I had to throw in a couple of old Parkers, because this is the General Parker Discussions Forum ; )
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Rich Anderson 04-01-2019 08:07 AM

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I usually use the game taken as a theme for my pictures. They are from the top (hopefully) H&H 20, DHE 16, Gunner's gun and the first grouse taken with it and a DHE 20. I also refer to the home page photo:)

todd allen 04-01-2019 10:38 AM

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I don't have one, but I've always thought one of these would look good on one of the walls in my cave;
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todd allen 04-18-2019 08:57 PM

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Tonight's guns. All 3 made within 15 years of each other.
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The Parker is an 0 Frame 16 gauge Fishtail Lever gun.

MattHaney 04-18-2019 09:23 PM

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Posed Grade 3.

todd allen 04-18-2019 09:44 PM

Oh, that's a very nice hammer gun!

Rob Marshall 04-19-2019 08:12 AM

My gun art.
https://i.imgur.com/PU5Cp9p.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ZLvXW1U.jpg

todd allen 04-19-2019 09:31 AM

Nice! What caliber is the drilling?

Rob Marshall 04-19-2019 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by todd allen (Post 272005)
Nice! What caliber is the drilling?

thanks
It is a H. Scherping 16x16x 9.3x72r


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