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Originally Posted by LarryBible
I'm not a revolver person myself, but if I were I would be more interested in something like that than a modern revolver. I want that 12 size watch thats next to it.
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Larry, with revolvers, there's no time-consuming policing of brass.
FWIW, I have a Colt SAA. It's chambered in .38-40. Nickel with stag grips. A long time ago, I looked up the numbers and it seems to have been made in the late 1800s..IIRC, 1894 or '96. It was Dad's. It was the 2nd gun he ever owned, getting it for Christmas when he was a teenager. I think his Mom purchased it at Davis Hardware in Austin. Davis is long gone, along with the idea of giving children pistols at Christmas.
I have some .38-40 brass but sort of lost interest in shooting that pistol about the time I got a muzzleloader since I would have had to score a rock chucker or a hand press to load up any ammo. MLs are so much simpler.
Funny thing about .38-40 is that it really is .38 caliber. Noticeably larger in diameter than .38 Special...which of course, is only .357 in diameter.
Dad's first pistol was a .36 caliber Remington cap & ball revolver. He found it in the Johnson's barn up in Jacksboro one summer (he might have been 810 years old and
they let him keep it to play with. Lord only knows how old that thing is. The nipples were beaten flat from him dry-firing the thing as a kid but by the time I came on the scene, Dad had 'restored' it. New nipples, homemade trigger return spring, etc. I remember him once shooting it at the range and hitting a beer bottle at 87 yards. The bottle sort of crumpled in place, leaving a little pile of glass where it once stood.
He was a good shot.
When I was doing a lot of BP muzzleloading, I'd haul that pistol with me and shoot it. Fun but a PITA to clean up afterwards.