BobWright
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Since y'all were kind enough to ask, here's a little continuation:
The Colt New Service I had suffered a broken mainspring. I could have repaired the gun myself, but decided to put it in a nearby gunshop. I did, and while it was there the shop was broken into and several guns, including my .44, were stolen. The shop closed and I had a hard time tracking down the owner. But I did finally catch up to him, and he did offer me a new gun, to select from a few he offered. So I opted for this Ruger Blackhawk in .41 Magnum:
(Its the bottom one in the photo.)
This about 1971 or so. The .41 was the first bigbore magnum revolver I ever had, and the recoil was pretty severe with the Remington factory JSP ammunition. I had a hard time controlling the gun in recoil, so I swapped out a Super Blackhawk grip frame. This was a tremendous help. I had also acquired a Ruger Super Blackhawk about that time.
Then, about that time, I ran into some pretty hard times in my life, which I'd rather not discuss here. In time I sold the .41 but kept the Super Blackhawk. I had fit a brass grip frame to the gun, at a cost of $20 from Ruger.
At that time, Tennessee did not permit handgun hunting for big game. While in California, with the US Army, I had gotten a taste of that, and wanted to do that in my home state. I learned of a regional meeting of the old Tennessee Game and Fish Commission and decided to attend, and to put forward a request to legalize handgun hunting. I made a check of all Tennessee laws and tried to counter any arguments I might encounter. To my surprise, I was heard out and a committee was formed. I wrote a series of articles in a now defunct publication, The Tennessee Sportsman, and after a few meeting, laws were enacted, pretty much as I had drafted.
Bob Wright
The Colt New Service I had suffered a broken mainspring. I could have repaired the gun myself, but decided to put it in a nearby gunshop. I did, and while it was there the shop was broken into and several guns, including my .44, were stolen. The shop closed and I had a hard time tracking down the owner. But I did finally catch up to him, and he did offer me a new gun, to select from a few he offered. So I opted for this Ruger Blackhawk in .41 Magnum:
(Its the bottom one in the photo.)
This about 1971 or so. The .41 was the first bigbore magnum revolver I ever had, and the recoil was pretty severe with the Remington factory JSP ammunition. I had a hard time controlling the gun in recoil, so I swapped out a Super Blackhawk grip frame. This was a tremendous help. I had also acquired a Ruger Super Blackhawk about that time.
Then, about that time, I ran into some pretty hard times in my life, which I'd rather not discuss here. In time I sold the .41 but kept the Super Blackhawk. I had fit a brass grip frame to the gun, at a cost of $20 from Ruger.
At that time, Tennessee did not permit handgun hunting for big game. While in California, with the US Army, I had gotten a taste of that, and wanted to do that in my home state. I learned of a regional meeting of the old Tennessee Game and Fish Commission and decided to attend, and to put forward a request to legalize handgun hunting. I made a check of all Tennessee laws and tried to counter any arguments I might encounter. To my surprise, I was heard out and a committee was formed. I wrote a series of articles in a now defunct publication, The Tennessee Sportsman, and after a few meeting, laws were enacted, pretty much as I had drafted.
Bob Wright
