Rye Miles #13621

Can’t open any of these.

Wesson Model 3 revolver. On the original S&W Model 3 design, the latch was mounted on the barrel extension above the top strap, requiring two hands to unlatch and break open the revolver. Major Schofield modified this mechanism and received U.S. Patent 116,225 in June 1871 for key improvements: Frame-Mounted Placement: He moved the catch from the barrel onto the frame. This allowed a right-handed cavalry trooper to depress the latch using only their thumb while holding the grip. One-Handed Operation: By depressing the latch with the thumb and pushing the barrel down against a leg or saddle, troopers could open the action and eject empty cartridges with one hand while keeping control of their horse's reins with the other. Integrated Safety: The redesigned latch pushed the hammer back into a quarter-cock safety position automatically as the action opened. Because of these military-focused design modifications, Smith & Wesson adapted the Model 3 to produce the S&W Model 3 Schofield, paying Major Schofield a royalty for his patented latch mechanism on each gun produced.

Yes easier to load and reload on horseback. Makes sense! I believe it was Major Schofield who changed the design of the latch to make it easier to open.

I’ve ordered from Scarlett before also but I currently get my bullets from two local sources, Patriots Casting, and Doc Adam’s.bullets. They’re both cowboy shooters and come to the shoots.

I had read once that a shipment of .45 Colt was shipped to a Fort and some of the soldiers had Schofields. They had to reorder the correct rounds. I believe it was the cavalry division that was using the Schofields in this instance.

In the old west there was also the issue of ammo. .45 Schofield vs .45 Colt. SAA’s could use the Schofield ammo but not visa versa.

S&W Schofields, they were well made but very pricey. I don’t think they sold many. I know a cowboy that has a pair that he never shot. I’m not talking Uberti’s or Berettas I mean the REAL S&W Schofiields.

Wow I don’t even know my first great grandfather. I’d have to do some searching in Italy.

WIXY 1260 and WJMO in Cleveland. We also picked up CKLW from Windsor/Detroit with all the Motown hits!

Yea how about those big rounds he had in his belt , .45-70 maybe? 😂😂It would pretty hard to fit them in that rifle! 🙄

Yea these are great examples but my original point was in Wanted Dead or Alive they put coin in the PLAYER PIANO and it played. There was no electricity in that saloon and Player pianos did not become operated with electricity until much later. I’ve tuned player pianos where people hooked up a vacuum cleaner and reversed the air to blow out into the main hose to act like a pumping of the pedals which makes the mechanism work. I’ve also seen electric motors added to these old pianos so you don’t have to pump it. These are really old pianos by the way! They are a pain to tune since there’s very little room inside and you have to disconnect hoses to get inside! I refuse to do them now.

The first coin-operated player pianos appeared around 1900, shortly after player pianos became commercially popular in the 1890s. 1890s: Player-piano technology was developed and commercialized. Around 1900: Coin-operated versions—often called “nickelodeons” or coin pianos—began appearing in saloons, arcades, hotels, and other public places. 1900s–1920s: They became especially common, allowing someone to insert a nickel and have the piano play a perforated music roll automatically. Remember the song lyrics, Put another nickel in the Nickelodeon ………..

Well my original point was I doubt they had enough electricity in a saloon for a player piano. If they did they would have used it for a light or two but not for a piano when they could have had a pretty saloon girl pump the pedals! 😂😂😂❤️

It certainly was not in saloons at least not in the 1870’s 80’s, maybe later in the late 1890’s early 1900’s. The bigger cities had some outdoor lights but few and far between. Electricity first began appearing in the Old West in the 1870s, but it was very limited at first. 1870s: A few Western towns began experimenting with electric lighting, especially for streets, businesses, and mines. 1879: Thomas Edison demonstrated a practical incandescent light bulb, accelerating interest in electric lighting. 1880s: Electricity became increasingly common in larger Western towns such as San Francisco, Denver, and Los Angeles, with electric streetlights and power plants appearing. 1890s: Electric power was becoming fairly established in many Western cities, although small frontier towns and ranches might still have had no electricity at all. So if you’re picturing the classic cowboy Old West of the 1870s–1880s, electricity did exist, but seeing an electric light would have been unusual outside a larger town.

I got Continental ProContact TX tires on my 2022 Buick Encore, just turned 50k and they still look great.

I’m not a race fan at all but I found the 250 interesting. 👍🇺🇸

Coffinmaker lives in Pennsylvania, a little different climate than Arizona! 😂

Nope, no way! You need electricity to operate it.

Jazz musicians still use that term for a fellow musician. EX: That cat plays a mean horn man!

I forgot, I use Federals for my slicked up rifles but my Colt pistols work with anything.

Yes and they were pneumatic not electric! You had to pump the pedals to put air into the hoses and bellows. Actually there was one before 1896 history goes back much earlier. 1863: M. Fourneaux patented the Pianista, an automatic piano-playing mechanism. It used a perforated roll to control the piano keys and is generally regarded as the first practical player-piano mechanism.

We all know about the 92 rifles and 73 Colts etc in the wrong time period but here’s one I saw the other night. Wanted Dead or Alive, bar scene, someone walks over to the player piano and puts a nickel in it and it starts playing! DUH!!! Player pianos need electricity to operate without pumping the pedals! Electricity in 1880 out west? I think NOT! 😂😂😂

I use 3.4 grs of TiteGroup under a 125 gr bullet in my .38’s. I load on a 550 as well. Same load for pistols and rifle. Great machine. Good luck, make sure you get a good crimp for rifle rounds.

That’s great! 🇺🇸

My God I hope not but they’re are mistakes that will be made I’m sure.