related knife- Searles/Fowler Bowie

[The Sicilian]

Now that's a beautiful group! How long did it take you to pull that one off? Mec, could you tell me anything about the Colt 1860 Signature series? I also noticed the fluting in one of your last pictures is very pronounced! Was that some sort of special job or something? I'm paying $345.00 for the Colt Signature (Tax included). Without tax it was $329.00 with the original box, looks like the revolver was never shoot, or if it was only a handful of rounds were run through the gun. I think they call the finish charcoal blue but it doesn't look like that really metallic blue (almost like aluminum that has been painted metalllic blue) that I tend to see on certain guns. I really don't care too much for that look. This gun looks silver-gray or antiqued bone, very smooth and even with a beautiful shine and finish! The only thing I'll need to rework are the grips, the finish looks like crap, either they are replacement grips or just a really lame finishing job.

 

[mec]

I really don't know a thing about pricing and such but would probably pay that for such a revolver. People tend to talk down about the Signature series compared to the run of reissues that came earlier. they look fine to me and should take new uberti parts. the prominency of the fluets is a function of how the light is hitting when I take the picture. some angles appear sharper in some pictures than in others. The army above was one I bought two or three years ago when I started accumulating pistols and revolvers for The Book. It has a very light mainspring and trigger pull like mos of the current Ubertis, times up perfectly and I didn't have to do a whole lot to get it hitting to the sights. That group is actually the larger of two bench groups i fired comparing .451 balls to .454. The smaller ball made a slightly better group though I might get the opposit results on another occasion. Being as how it is a fifty foot group, its not miraculous or anything.

 

[Manyirons]

Mike!

Not ta get back on knives or anythin, thought i read once tha BOWIE is made ta be used upside down that is tha long edge up, and tha hook/curvy side for slashin and tha backside fer catchin tha other guys knife was reasoning for tha design or behind it.

Any idea?

 

[mec]

The upside down thing was mentioned and demonstrated by one of the Carridines on "wild west tech". I haven't studied knife fighting but have been told that most peckerwoods just rush in drunk and thrusting wildly more or less at the proposed victim. the reason usually given for the sharpened false edge/clip was that it allowed a back slash cut as employed in the spanish style of sabre fencing.

 

[Manyirons]

Thanks Mike! Now i gots ta look up spanish fencing! DOes spanish fencin have bob ware?

 

[mec]

Can't blaime the barbed wire on the Spanish, the Mexicans or anybody but some greedy capitolist on the east coast.