[Berg01]

Check This Out!

Texas Hold 'Em Engraved Model 36 S&W Revolver (http://www.firearms.smith-wesson.com/contentbuilder/layout.php3?contentPath=content/00/01/32/32/75/userdirectory75.content)

[Boats]

ROTFLMAO!!!

Someone in Springfield obviously doesn't play Texas Hold'em.



















(Yah only get two hole cards pardner. The rest are in the flop.) There are too many cards engraved into the side, or not enough, as a hand is created out of five cards in total and I count four. Maybe, it is hard to tell, the engraving represents four aces. Still there would be a fifth card to show, even if it didn't amount to anything in relation to the rest of the hand. Maybe they should have stuck with the garish THUNDER RANCH gold sideplate instead.

[SnubbyMan]

I am at least glad to see that it is blued carbon steel.

[XLMiguel]

I saw one at my local shop. It's a pretty little gun, though kinda 'pimp-o-licious' for my tastes.

[mec]

The other card is up his sleeve.

[saltydog452]

The 'River Card'..Maybe as in 'Ride To The River With'.?

salty.

[Dr.Rob]

It's kind of pretty... a modern gambler's piece?

[BluesBear]

I'm not so much worried about the number of cards since you can tell there is a fifth card hiding just under the far left 8. There are also five cards on the sideplate. And technically a hand in Texas Hold 'em IS made up of five cards.

http://www.thehighroad.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=27743

What bothers me is that the cards they are showing in the photo and on the sideplate are Aces & Eights which is better known as "THE DEAD MAN'S HAND" and is supposedly very bad luck! :eek:

[MICHAEL T]

NAA has a similar set with one of their mini rev. A man should have both if wasting good money.

[MICHAEL T]

NAA has a similar set with one of their mini rev. A man should have both if wasting good money. I belive their making 500 of theirs

[Boats]

I stand corrected then, though I could be excused for missing the fifth card given the smallness of the detail apparent in the website photos.

I still have no desire for one. It undoubtedly has a lock on the flip side and that is not something I wish to gamble my life on while I have viable market alternatives.

[armoredman]

Stole the pic for a wallpaper. ;)

[c_yeager]

What bothers me is that the cards they are showing in the photo and on the sideplate are Aces & Eights which is better known as "THE DEAD MAN'S HAND" and is supposedly very bad luck!

Well, the 5th card is unreadable, so we arent *sure* its the famous hand. Perhaps the idea is that you have the pistol because you never know what lies around the corner (or in this case what lies behind the 8 of spades).

I think its a quaint bit of imagery, if not a little "on the nose".

[BluesBear]

Regarding The Dead Man's Hand (Aces & Eights) it doesn't matter if it's 3 Aces and 2 Eights or 2 Aces and 3 Eights. It's unlucky.
In fact, as I understand it, (now mind you, I'm not much of a card player), it doesn't really matter what the 5th card is.
Just having a pair of Aces with a pair of Eights is enough to be considered unlucky. Many players will even fold without looking to see the last card.

Now I never was much for superstitions, but even I find this ironic.

Of course to a craps player, Snake Eyes is unlucky too.
Colt had a cased pair of 2½" Pythons a while back called Snake Eyes.
They were cased with cards too.

Perhaps if you were Joe Btfsplk you'd want the S&W & the Colts. :uhoh:







http://bookofjoe.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/joebtfsplk_1.jpg

[c_yeager]

Actually, now that i think about it the 5th card is unknown in the original story. The dead man's hand isnt a full house, its a pair of aces and a pair of eights. The reason the fifth card is not shown is because noone knows what it was.

Of course now BBs point is pretty valid. Why would you buy a pistol that clearly represents the famous hand that Wild Bill Hickock had when he was shot in the back of the head?

Really, the incident is a pretty clear example that one cannot always defend themselves. Hickock was a famous gun fighter who was quite capable of defending himself. Of course its hard to defend yourself from a man who shoots you in the back. So what exactly is S&W trying to say? "Buy this pistol and you might die anyways"?

[TexasRifleman]

Anyone know what the going price is?

I see $999 on GunsAmerica, but what are they really selling for?

[manofsteele]

Id sell one for 760 + 15 shipping.

Jason

[Berg01]

The gun itself is a little too fancy for me, but I'd love to get a set of those playing cards and poker chips.

[Eskimo Jim]

C Yeager,
In my opinion, S&W is trying to say "we want to make some dough on this poker craze too!"

It's a nice revolver. Pick one up if you like it and want the cards and chips too. I'm sure that S&W will have no problem selling quite a few of the sets.

-Jim

[Berg01]

As a matter of fact, I just got off the phone with S&W Cust. Support; apparently, at one time they were selling the card sets separately, and they are getting calls regarding availability of just the playing cards and poker chips, so who knows, they might be available again.

[Feanaro]

I'm not superstitious but... why tempt fate? Aces and eights isn't quite the hand I want on a handgun of mine. It's a hand made famous for being held by a (famous) lawman while he got his brains blowed out. That's exactly the image I want the image I want everytime I hold that revolver; my head going all over the poker cards. :scrutiny:

On the practical side, I've never liked gold on a revolver. Engraving is nice, and it holds oil so it has some practical use. But gold is easy to bend in it's purer forms and the more alloyed types are easy to scratch. Gold belongs on rings. Heck, if the price were more reasonable and they removed all the gold I might just be tempted to tempt fate. ;)

[c_yeager]

In my opinion, S&W is trying to say "we want to make some dough on this poker craze too!"

IM pretty sure that Jim nailed it here.

Especially when you consider that Wild Bill was probably playing 5 card draw.

Having 5 cards actually in your hand isnt going to happen with hold'em.

[CAnnoneer]

While engraving is an art form, the pragmatic in me simultaneously views it as a form of mutilation of the gun. Thus I do not like engraved weapons. Putting ivory grips is one thing, but defacing the surface with acid is just wrong. IMO.

It is not dissimilar to tattoos - may be pretty but ultimately skin mutilation.