Creative Gun Ownership for Dummies

[230RN]

I think Bill Jordan called them "Alibi Guns."

Excellent read, owlhoot. Entertaining and educational.

I nominate it for best thread of 2008!

 

[GrizzlyGraves]

How about a "picking out the proper gun for the day" gun?

 

[Tom Fury]

Rotflm

Holster off...
Great thread; more please!
1st date gun?
Bar Mitzvah gun?
Guns with names and why? (When I carried a Glock 30 I always thought of her as Madeline from the La Femme Nikita series; vaguely European, slightly mad, and totally deadly)...

Days when "I have nothing to wear..." gun...

Cheers, TF

 

[jaytex1969]

My beach gun...

 

[42]

the welrod.

and for the days I have nothing to wear nothing works but the colt detective snubby.

and whilst picking an outfit its the shottie in the corner. 1st date gu n the biggest .44 magnum revolver I can find. "Is thagt a gun in your pocket...Yes"
Barmitzah something thats had its rail removed

 

[rattusrattus]

Don't forget Anniversary Guns, which should be a matched pair.


The particular year by year weapons should reflect the status of the relationship.


First/ Paper, Air: Smith and Wesson 642 Airweight


Eleventh/ Blued Steel: Smith and Wesson Model 19 Combat Magnum


Fiftieth /Gold: Custom Gold Cup National Match


Sixtieth / Diamond Colt Diamondback Revolver

Also, many families have a mother's gun made up on the birth of the first child.

You add to it with each subsequent birth, and it is passed on mother to daughter.

Generally these are long slide .45s with lots of room for names and dates.

 

[subierex]

For your "pimp gun", be sure to install a set of these sights to ensure accurate fire. I'm sure they make them for shiny guns too....

 

[mbt2001]

What a beauty! If it were in .38 super it would be perfect!

 

[B yond]

Alright, now who's gonna clean the coffee off my screen!?!

 

[42]

ah you need my sponge firing cleaning gun

 

[kentucky_Dave]

Quality entertainment!

 

[rritter]

The howdah gun was a honking big flintlock pistol that you carried in your howdah (on the back of the elephant) while tiger hunting in India in the 1700s/1800s. If the tiger managed to make it up onto the back of the elephant with you, it was your last line of defense before becoming Purina tiger chow.

 

[Cmdr. Gravez0r]

I want a sticky.

Can we elaborate some more on the difference between a BBQ gun and a Pimp gun?

 

[sm]

*standing ovation*

owlhoot,

Excellent thread and great pictures!


Staff, this thread has to be added to THR Library!!


Steve

 

[Tom Fury]

Dif BBQ vs pimp

Patton articulated it; Ivory vs pearl...oooh; sorry hoot...
The pimp wouldn't be invited to the BBQ...

...without the rail...ya kill me...
I once owned a Para named B'rith though...

Cheers, TF

 

[Ian]

Am I weird for thinking that a large-caliber, long-barreled (say, 10" and .54 cal) wheellock pistol would be a nifty BBQ gun? Extra points if you fabricate it yourself...

 

[owlhoot]

Maia007, you are correct. The funeral gun is a Sauer & Sohn 1913.

jrfoxx, Yes, the opera gun is indeed similar to your Astra 600. It is the last iteration of the Astra 300. I purchased it at the factory in 1954.

To all of you who said you enjoyed the thread, my thanks for your kind words.

But I was hoping that some of you would give us a category (ie, bathroom gun) define its charateristics, and provide a photo example. There are a zillion possible categories, and I was hoping we could come up with a comprehensive list with definitions and examples. Come on, let's have a little fun.

 

[42]

Well the post op gun.

So your recovering from arthapedic surgury and are unsteady so cane in draw hand no problem a cane gun.

Plus get a nice cane covering this one shot device and bbq is covered and a different griop for opera.

 

[230RN]

42:

Any chance of photoshopping a serial number and caliber on that cane?

"Cal .30-30" would be nice.

And is the extension to bring it within NFA regs?

Does Hogue make a grip for it?

 

[Catherine]

Owlhoot,

OUTSTANDING! Thank you.

Catherine

 

[Catherine]

Birthday guns!

Yummy elk steak or deer or beef or chicken or even seafood, salad, pasta or a potato, coffee/tea, cold water, a pie or cake or ? lit with candles!

After dinner... hot tea and YOUR new birthday gun!

Birthday gun = S/A Revolver... I have to make up my mind on which one. Decisions, decisions, grin.

Catherine

 

[Bob F.]

Uncle Hoot: Most excellent post! Nice guns/pics, too! Thanks!

Browningguy: That 1910 is awesome. Would do fine for funeral and BBQ as well as opera.

Got 4 catagories covered: Bathroom is Glock 19, moisture ain't a problem.

Drop gun, I've always heard as "throw down". Got it covered. Traded off a better piece to keep this one. Never mind what....

Beretta .25 for the cummerbund, not a Browning, but it's mine.

BBQ gun: I'm working on it, a SP-101, action slicked, exterior polished, Gemini sights and custom grips with a nice leather holster!

Thanks, all.
Bob

 

[Brian Dale]

I see why you've only made 188 posts in three years, owlhoot: you take the time to craft a piece with panache, insight and marvelous photographs.

Brilliantly done, Sir!