[popeye]

Not bad, not great. Gun show 10/18. Colt SAA copy by Beretta. IMOP: Plus side; Blue finished part of gun looked pretty good. Overall appearance was good. Priced right $380 for gun with steel (I hope), not black nickle plated brass grip frame.

Negative: Several guns to look at; "Case hardening" looked painted. Nickle examples were rough, with tool marks. Black plastic grips were pooly molded. Transfer bar was a bizzare lookin.

Result: My gun buying fever was up....I KNOW YOU KNOW what I mean! I bought a .357 Sherriffs stainless Ruger for same price.

Now my question: Since I am folicularly challenged, were there bald coyboys, or did you ( as on T.V. ) have to have hair to own a cowboy gun?

[citizen]

Popeye-

I have seen that same model at MY FFL's; nice, priced right, but the stainless is too shiny for me.

We have about the same post count, my folicularly challenged head now goes around shaved, and have a similar choice in pistols. But THAT'S IT!!!!
And NO; you may NOT have a "cowboy gun" when bald unless your name is "Curly"...... which mine is!!!! So send me hog leg 'afore ye get in trouble 'n I PROMISE to take it out for shootin' once in a while!;)

[popeye]

citizen: I almost cut my ear off with straight razor shavin my head. Then I used to shave my head when I trimmed the dogs, with the clippers. Now I have cultivated 27, (nope, a recount just confirmed #27 is gone ((goodbye old pal)) blew away) 26 mitifine hairs into a nice pony tail. Are you tryin to trickafy me with your offer to ree leeve me o my pistol?

You can call me Curly, or you can call me surly, or you can call me burly, or you can call me shirley. Just don't call me Chuck.

[George Hill]

:scrutiny:
You Cowboy shooters are a silly lot.
:scrutiny:

[Skunkabilly]

I want one for costume parties if nothing else. Reeehaww!

[valnar]

You Cowboy shooters are a silly lot.

I wonder if they come out of the woodwork around Halloween?

-Robert

[popeye]

I spent most of last night removing Ruger "read the book" warning from my new pistol's barrel. Don't look too bad, certainly much better than before.

Anybody got some wood or black plastic take off grips for a Vaquero they are willing to part with? If so, pease contact me.

[Keith]

Bald guys in the old west were relegated to the job of drunken piano player or (if you had a big beer gut), bartender. The piano player didn't have a gun. The bartender had a sawed off shotgun behind the bar, but he always got shot before he could pull it out.

Occasionally a bald salesman would pass through on the stage carrying a big leather bag full of ladies whalebone corsets, but these were just tenderfoots and hardly counted. If they had a gun, it was only a silly little Deringer that made everyone laugh.

Also, every town had a bald guy with a gimpy leg whose job was to hop down the street yelling; "Marshal, Marshal - the stage is a comin'!" He might have a gun, but it was a rusty old cap and ball horse pistol with a broken trigger - and it was usually pawned to the bartender.

Hope that helps...

Keith

[George Hill]

Come on now... Bald guys can also be the town Barber/Doctor. As long as they were glasses with round lenses.
They can even own big scarey Sharps rifles... but when the shooting starts they duck back into the shop to do who knows what.
:neener:

[popeye]

Check out the book: "Baldness & Badness, The True Story". Under chapter 6, "Bad Baldy's... 1875 - 1905". Read of my great, great, uncle "Bad, Bad, Bald Clive, the Fastest Meanest Gun Alive". When he weren't shootin up town, he was womanizin an eating live parakeets for lunch. Us Baldy's is mean,..... you furheads.......lookout.

[citizen]

IIRC, the sheriff in the "Unforgiven" was bald. (Gene Hackman)

And don't forget Ward Bond. (Capt of Texas Rangers in "The Searchers")
He was also a frequent wagon train leader.

Best of all, Victor McLaughlin in MANY John Wayne Westerns.

So THERE!!!!!:neener: :cuss:

(Though none of them carried a Beretta...or was COMPLETELY bald....'cept 'ol "mose" in them J/W Westerns.....)

[popeye]

Walter Brennan as Ike Clanton in "My Darlin' Clementine" or as Judge Roy Bean in "The Westerner". We baldies is........meeeeeeen.

[Keith]

Ah, you guys are referring to the general category of "Eccentric Old Geezer", which I had forgotten about. And 'tis true - each town was issued one eccentric old bald geezer to fill any role that wasn't taken by a drunken Irishman or foppish British cattle baron.
Sometimes they'd be an evil old fart rancher like Ike Clanton, or maybe a hangin' judge like Roy Bean. The important thing was that they were mean, chewed tobacco and had a decent squint. They generally had three or four none-too-bright followers that you had to shoot before you could get a whack at the geezer hisself.

Keith

[Brian Dale]

Hmph!~ (piano player, bartender, salesman, & EOG with henchmen)

Did nobody ever see "The Magnificent Seven"???

:cuss:

Kids nowadays ...

:neener:

Thanks, Curly, for mentioning Ward Bond and Victor McLaughlin.

[Josey]

I AM a foppish British cattle baron!! I shoot RVs in 44-40. I have had some bad luck with the Stampedes. They overrotate and are out of time. They look better than they function. The charging or running beefalo is pitiful on the grips.