What's the best gun for hammering up wanted posters?

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How many times have you watched an old western where the guy is hammering nails for a wanted poster with the butt of his gun? Is the Colt SAA the only gun that can double as a hammer? (heehee)
 
Hmmm...

Makes me think. What if we marketed a whole mess of products that look like guns?

Hammers, bottle openers, pens, cell phones, cameras (!), compacts, wallets, checkbooks, etc.

OC wouldn't raise eyebrows if everything looked like a gun.:)
 
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I just watched Support Your Local Sheriff over the weekend, and the sheriff drove nails in by shooting them, but I don't think that's what you meant.

I guess it would depend on the nail. Is is an 8D or 16D? The 8D has more velocity, but the 16D is known more for its stopping power. ;)
 
Is the Colt SAA the only gun that can double as a hammer?
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Nope. I've seen an M9 be used to hammer in tent stakes, not to mention it being carried as a casual burden to be tossed around casually rather than respected as a line of defense (even if it is the last/thin line). And people wonder why the Beretta is such a "crappy" military issue pistol!
 
Glock. Seen it used before. The guy was showing how well made they were. He took off the slide, hammered in a 10 peeny nail into a piece of 2x4 then put the slide back on and shot a pretty decent score. It scratched the finish a little but not too bad. He also,btw, said he just threw his into the dishwasher to clean it.
 
My dad bought a Centennial Blackhawk in 357/38 used. Somebody apparently had the same idea.
 
Well just about all of my colt single action would make great hammers. Including my 4 1/2 lbs Walker. Qestion is who would actually hammer something with a firearm. I know i wouldnt. Im sure i can find something else to use as a hammer other than my revolvers.
 
Ramset.

Fun.

Used one once (ca 1960)in the basement of C.W, Post College to put up shelving in stone foundation for the radio station. Even though I warned everyone in the building, somebody still called security (meaning the groundskeeper, at the time.)

Should work for wanted posters on brickwork, masonry, bridge abutments and the like.
 
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scrat, I edited after you posted. Post College had just opened up back then and the only security was the groundskeeper. We had a nice chat and I continued.

Unlike today.

Although not really classed as a firearm, it was more of a "hammer amplifier." You struck the firing pin with a hammer and it set off the carrtridge, blowing the stud into the masonry.

A hammer, by definition, is anything that's heavier on one end than the other.
 
Do they still run that surefire ad in gun magazines where they are using an X200 to hammer in nails?
Tactical hammer for mall ninjas!
 
Any Mosin-Nagant rifle/carbine

Could probably drive a railroad spike through a "telephone pole" with one smack...
 
I never knew the model, but I totally destroyed a cap gun, nice one, revolving cylinder and pretty heavy as I recall, trying unsuccessfully to get out of the garage my sister locked me into. This was in '47, maybe '48, after trying something that worked in Roy Rogers comic books. I don't know who was more upset, me or the Dad that bought it for me.
 
How many times have you watched an old western where the guy is hammering nails for a wanted poster with the butt of his gun?
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Lots of times, but I think it only happened that much in the movies. When pistols cost a few months salary or more, I don't think people would have abused them like that.
 
I've used the frame of my Hardballer to tap the guide rod through the barrel to clear a squib.

I wouldn't do that with anything else though.
 
I've got some of the cast-aluminum movie-prop Peacemakers that were used in nailing up those wanted posters. Pretty beat up, even though they're solid metal.

Imagine what would happen to the thin stuff used in Colt pistol butts!
 
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