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Scott Bubar
Colonial Militia
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 Posted - March 22 2003 : 10:21:57 AM
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I'm looking at the "This Day in History" thing at the top of the page.
It reads:
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March 22, 1820 NAVAL HERO KILLED IN DUEL:
Click here for the full story.
(Referring to Decatur.)
Next to this is an image of these:
The older I get, the more I try to let these things go, but sometimes they just bug me.
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Wilderness Woman
Watcher of the Wood
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Posted - March 22 2003 : 11:19:55 AM
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LOL! I noticed that too. I know practically zippo about firearms of any type, but I do know just enough to know that those pistols came along much later than 1820.
So what are they, Scott? They look like "the gun that won the west." Colt six-shooters or something? Somewhere around 1880 perhaps?? |
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Scott Bubar
Colonial Militia
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Posted - March 22 2003 : 2:59:12 PM
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They show up dark on my monitor, but I ^think^ they're Ruger Bisley's. The Ruger is a modern single-action cowboy revolver, however it's roughly modelled after the Bisley Colt, which came out (I think) in 1894.
The Colt Bisley was a variant of the Peacemaker, introduced in 1873--The Gun That Won the West. It had a different hammer and grip frame. It was named, IIRC after the major British shooting event.
Here's an original Bisley Colt, albeit refinished, from Butterfield's:
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CT•Ranger
Colonial Militia
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Posted - March 23 2003 : 2:11:50 PM
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I agree Scott, my first guess was that they were Bisley's.
It seems very few people actually care to be accurate when it comes to firearms. I can't even count how many times I've seen mislabeled firearms in historical museums. Things like an English trade gun labeled as French, a 1860s plains rifle labeled as a shotgun, an American made musket with a curly maple stock and Short Land pattern parts labeled as a 2nd Model Brown Bess, etc.
It's pretty frustrating, whenever I go to a museum I always expect to find at least one firearm mislabeled. |
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