I bought it to shoot and enjoy for a while.... you are at the top of the "for sale" offer list :)

Too bad Colt never figured that out. Here's the cylinder from the 1860 Army:

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My Ruger Old Army, which was loosely patterned after the Remington, has those safety notches. You couldn't really provide these on a cartridge gun, but it sure is nice on a percussion gun. Just drop that big long nose on the hammer into one of those notches, and it's perfectly safe to carry with six loaded chambers:

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Picked up this Smith and Wesson 32 at my parents house this weekend. Belong to my grandfather, on my moms side, who worked at a textile mill in Alabama. He started off at age 11 sweeping floors and retired at 65, in the early 70’s, as the manager of the mill.

The mill was in a small town, in the middle of nowhere, and he kept this pistol in his pocket at all times. He never fired it, but I heard he had to pull it out a few times.

I would imagine it’s over 75 years old and I have five bullets in it that are at least 60 years old.

How would I clean it up to just enough to see the markings on the barrel?

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You might start with just rubbing a little oil on the barrel; sometimes that's enough to make the markings visible through the "patina".

I'd be very careful about doing anything to that revolver.

- Don't remove any of that patina!

I wouldn't touch that beautiful gun with anything. Don't lose the patina or Tabs come 'round and slap ya.

Yep looks like you are right bout that..thx for settin me straight..on that one.

Took a few more pix. Where would the serial number be?

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Not a spoon, but in the same category.

During summer breaks while attending Clemson, my dad made this at the Charleston Naval shipyard, in the mid to late 40s.

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Quite possibly under the grip on the frame.

Ah the joys of primitiveness. While mechanically cool... sometimes you get a fizzle instead of a pop.

Was loading really low wimpy loads (only had a little powder left, wanted to maximize shots fired) and while the cap went pop the powder didn't. Waited a bit with it held in a safe manner, removed nipple, dumped powder and carried on.

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I generally like Colion's videos but somebody please explain this... Just looking at this annoys me. Why put your thumb there?

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Great rifle! :)

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I have a 17S and it is a good shooter.

suspect long range shooting
and he wants a softer trigger squeeze
so changes his hand from the normal fast shooting pistol grip

I've seen guys do similar things at long range shoots, I've seen some even use their flip the bird finger isntead of trigger finger for same reason. Supposedly more sensitive and less likely to jerk a match trigger
i dunno, shooters do weird supersticious stuff all the time

Well... It looks weird. Get a proper grip on the thing FFS!

You know how the gang bangers tilt their pistols to the side? That's what this reminds me of. Looks Cool :rolleyes:

Rant over ;)

The grip has zero relevance to the shot being taken
The only thing that matters, is that you shoulder it properly
and you find a way to repeat your hold on the bipod, which you can only do with load.

My main grip with his position would be that he cannot load up his bipod on a wooden table.
and risks that it greeps or jumps forward if he does.

You cannot do a posistive repeat hold if you simply rest the rifle on the bipod.. so your shot repeatability is less guaranteed.
Sand bag in front of the bipod and load up.. or use a table with some kind of ledge to it, or with planks sideways and bipod in between the joins somehow.


I used to shoot out 300 winmag 1000-1400 yds.
You don't need the grip. grip is really the least of the concerns for long range.
It cannot add anything useful to the big mix of variables.

come think of it, his thumb in that location, is how you would shoot if your rifle doesn't have a real pistol grip but a regular rifle stock. So that just maybe what he normally shoots at longer range.

I respectfully disagree - the grip has everything to do with the shot being taken. Everything.

The grip hand, the one with the trigger finger attached, is the "steering" hand in all forms of long gun shooting, shotgunning and riflery inclusive. A firm, consistent grip is absolutely vital to shot to shot consistency. At least if one is actually holding the arm in question...

The only shooting discipline where this is not true is benchrest competition. In this game, we are shooting very heavy rifles in very light calibers from very solid rests. Actually holding onto the thing induces variations that will be seen on the target. In this game, we allow the rifle to free recoil, and do not grip the stock. We pinch the trigger with the trigger finger while the thumb is placed on the back of the trigger guard. It it literally a "pinch".

That's the exception. In every other shooting disciple involving long guns, your single most vital connection to that arm is on its grip. It had better be firm, it had better be consistent. And yes, indeed, Mr. Noir's grip in that photo is entirely wrong. He should know better.

fclass shooters do it al the time

no pistol grip, his thumb is high and he uses his other finger


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it's on a bipod, has it shouldered.
there's not much steering required cause the target isn't moving.
obviously in this case he's using that bipod handle to do actual steering, but i've seen it done without those as well.

scope dope and wind reading at those distances.. (typically 1000 yds)