Your First Love
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ApacheCoTodd
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Color me lucky.
I've stuck with her all these 40+ years.
Todd.
I've stuck with her all these 40+ years.
Todd.
BobWright
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It was Fred Harmon's side panel illustration of "Red Ryder's six-shooter" in the Sunday color cartoon of Red Ryder. Later, at a rodeo, I saw a cowboy with a Colt Single Action with "red handles." Decided then and there I would someday have a "red handled gun."
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Pat Riot
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Mine was my Smith & Wesson 442. I still have it. I had contemplated buying a revolver before that one and in fact did buy an H&R .32 Magnum, which I no longer have, but the 442 started me thinking I actually liked revolvers more than autoloaders.
Obturation
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Saa, blachawks and saa clones. Slick and pretty.
earlthegoat2
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I bought a 1911 as a first handgun. But my next several were revolvers. The first being a Colt Trooper MKIII satin nickel. Beautiful gun but decided to sell it for a PD marked Smith Model 15. Don’t regret it a bit. Soon after I bought a Model 60, 38, and 66. All snubs. A Taurus bobbed hammer Ti UltraLite came next and then I lost count. I have mostly used revolvers as carry guns.
WheelGunMan
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Ruger Security Six..been a hunting companion since 1978.Bush Pilot
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Ruger Blackhawk (old model) 41 mag with a 4 5/8 barrel. I bought the gun when I 19 and still have it today.
adcoch1
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I had a fling with a rossi 357 6" that got my attention, but love at first sight was my 6" model 29 classic. Bull cylinder and full underlug, with perfect blueing. We saw it in a pawn shop and I talked my dad into buying it. A few weeks later he needed some cash when the truck broke and I also talked him into selling it to me. I have never lost my affection for the 29...
tbob38
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Ruger Blackhawk, early model 45 Colt/45ACP, 4 5/8" barrel. Sold it and been very very sorry ever since.
Bennj
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First love would have been a S&W 686-3 or 4, with a 5" full lug barrel if possible. Ended up with a GP100 5" which suits me just fine.
Starter52
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K frame. Best. Revolvers. Ever.
chicharrones
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Ruger GP100. Per the serial number look up at Ruger it was made in 1991, but per my old receipts I bought it new in a gun shop in 1993.
It's shorter and lighter than my Single Six.
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It's shorter and lighter than my Single Six.
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Mr. Mosin
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This again ?
Whazzat mean?
HarryB
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I used to carry a SW642. It wasn’t love, just a tool and was replaced by a SIG P365. One day I was offered a birdshead Vaquero in 44 Mag out of the blue and she sang out to me. I had to have her, she’s a beauty.
Driftwood Johnson
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Howdy
The first revolver I ever bought was this Uberti 44 caliber, brass framed 'Navy' in 1968. I was still a teenager and did not know that the Colt Navy was never chambered for 44 caliber. Shot it for a few years before I bought my first cartridge revolvers in 1975. Alas, too many 30 grain charges stretched the frame and it is just a wall hanger now, but I still have it. Nobody was telling us back in 1968 that 30 grains of FFg was too heavy a load for a brass framed Cap & Ball revolver.
The first revolver I ever bought was this Uberti 44 caliber, brass framed 'Navy' in 1968. I was still a teenager and did not know that the Colt Navy was never chambered for 44 caliber. Shot it for a few years before I bought my first cartridge revolvers in 1975. Alas, too many 30 grain charges stretched the frame and it is just a wall hanger now, but I still have it. Nobody was telling us back in 1968 that 30 grains of FFg was too heavy a load for a brass framed Cap & Ball revolver.
Here's my revolver trajectory. My first encounter with centerfire revolver was via my close friend and main shooting buddy's Model 19 back in the day. I liked it a lot but didn't buy one as I just wasn't much of a handgun guy -- much more into rifles and shotgunning. A few years later I bought the Trooper Mk III below from another shooting buddy. I liked it a lot, especially for the 125 grain .357 rounds that I came to favor (and loaded myself). Then a year or so later I got the 686 no-dash in the photo (from the same friend). I REALLY liked the 686, and to this day, have never handled or shot another revolver that is a match for it in terms of action or accuracy in my hands. Fast-forward a couple of decades, and I bought the K-22 and the K-frame in the photo. I like them, but not at the 686 level. Then, two or three years ago, I snagged the 586 no-dash because I love the L-frame Smiths. (Edit: originally mistakenly wrote N instead of L. I like the N frame, but the L is the Goldilocks Smith & Wesson for me. )
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Armored farmer
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Despite living out in the country, when I was growing up we had neighbors right across the road from us. They were an older couple with an 'old fashioned ' farm . Complete with milk cows, chickens, eggs, ducks, turkeys, ........coon hounds......etc.
Themrs of the house had a bachelor brother who would come every summer and set up his giant cabin tent, complete with cot, rugs, coolers, and all the necessary gear to stay the summer.
He had a Ruger single six that he would shoot blackbirds. They were plentiful around the barnlot. He would the use their innards for catfish bait.
I fell in love with that single six, especially when he told me that he used the magnum cylinder in his part-time security gaurd job!
Whoo! Seeing was believing for a 8 or 9 yo gun-crazy farm boy.
It wasn't long until I had my own single six.
I'm up to three now....
This one is my favorite;:
Themrs of the house had a bachelor brother who would come every summer and set up his giant cabin tent, complete with cot, rugs, coolers, and all the necessary gear to stay the summer.
He had a Ruger single six that he would shoot blackbirds. They were plentiful around the barnlot. He would the use their innards for catfish bait.
I fell in love with that single six, especially when he told me that he used the magnum cylinder in his part-time security gaurd job!
Whoo! Seeing was believing for a 8 or 9 yo gun-crazy farm boy.
It wasn't long until I had my own single six.
I'm up to three now....
This one is my favorite;:
Grizzly2
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I know what you mean, but like Kleanbore I cringe just a bit when that term is used with my guns simply because it once was but that has been corrected and never should get upside down again. Just look at these verses I was led to to see what I mean (Rev 2:1-7; Revelation 2 NASB (biblehub.com).
With me it was first the Python. Loved the bluing and the rib and the looks though I never owned one. I really enjoyed owning a model 19 but sold it for the magnum kick of the .44s in a SBH, then onto .45 convertible, and then it morphed into the 6" L frames. Today I like the small frame revolvers and would love to get my hands on an older model 60-4 small frame .38 spc with the target hammer, underlug and adj sights in 3".
With me it was first the Python. Loved the bluing and the rib and the looks though I never owned one. I really enjoyed owning a model 19 but sold it for the magnum kick of the .44s in a SBH, then onto .45 convertible, and then it morphed into the 6" L frames. Today I like the small frame revolvers and would love to get my hands on an older model 60-4 small frame .38 spc with the target hammer, underlug and adj sights in 3".
ApacheCoTodd
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Armored farmer ; I'll bet that neighbor's brother was one to know!
Sounds like there's quite a story there.
Sweet photo too. Love the precipitation.
Todd.
Sounds like there's quite a story there.
Sweet photo too. Love the precipitation.
Todd.
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