Three Foot Johnson

Nope. With the available capacity of most modern autos, I probably wouldn't carry a spare magazine either. The odds of deploying your CCW are remote. The odds of using it are extremely remote. The odds of an actual gunfight with another person in a civilian setting are virtually non-existent. If shots are exchanged, most stats say an average of only three shots are fired. I once had a guy working for me at Sportsman's Warehouse who claimed to be an ex-cop, but details were vague. Off work, he carried a 1911, and I think six extra mags. On the flip side, we had a goofy regular customer who carried a single shot percussion pistol in an exposed belt holster. He got around town on an adult size pedal trike decorated with bells, noise-makers, and all sorts of odd hippy crap.

I have two pairs of blued fixed sight 4 5/8" Single Six .32's, and paid an average of $550 each - all four looked essentially "as new" when acquired. Three of them came from here on the SASS Wire classifieds and one from Montana Gun Trader. One pair had even been worked over by Jimmy Spurs. You have to keep your eyes open and keep checking the various classifieds sites and online auctions.

A thousand bucks for a used Single Six .32 is insane. Looking at GB completed auctions for the past three months, adjustable sight Single Six .32's have sold for as little as $440, and fixed sight versions for as little as $560. Most others sold for well under $1000.

The question of legality as a main match gun vs pocket pistol was referred to the ROC six years ago, but I don't remember the outcome. The main match/pocket pistol may just have been a matter of barrel length? (edit) https://forums.sassnet.com/index.php?/topic/283693-cimarron-new-380-acp-pistol/ https://forums.sassnet.com/index.php?/topic/286651-cimmarron-1862-in-380acp-legal-as-main-revolver/

----- THESE HAMMERS ARE SOLD, PENDING FUNDS ----- Two brand new stainless SBH hammers, $130 each + $5.75 shipping or PM me an offer.

I came across an H&R 176 10g about five years back in a pawn shop for $295, ANIB, 36" bbl, 3 1/2" chamber. Holy crap, what a beast!

And the New Vaquero .44 specials were marked "Ruger Vaquero", not New Vaquero.

The short answer is no.

If you can't find one, it's not a particularly difficult thing to repair, although a bit time-consuming perhaps. The top one was broken completely off when I acquired the rifle in 2005, so I cut out a piece of flat stock shaped like a short lollipop, bent the stem up & over and back down to the center of the "lollipop", then curved the lollipop to fit the curve of the ladle, and soldered it all together. I probably drilled a hole in the center of the lollipop for the end of the stem to catch in so the solder joint couldn't crack and let the stem bend & break again. Use a wet rag wrapped around the ladle spring as a heat sink to keep from damaging it. The bottom one is just reinforced with a brace soldered on, then the hole filled in with something called Belzona E-metal - similar to JB Weld, but stronger.

I have several long barreled single shots, great for Cowboy Trap, but this is the one I occasionally use as a main match shotgun. It came from an abandoned storage locker over 20 years ago, and the original NEF 12g parts appeared to have been, ummm... "shortened" a little at each end, so I found a nickeled 20g H&R barrel on eBay, fit it to the NEF action, then spliced a piece of pine 2x6 onto the remains of the butt stock, shaped it, slapped a Ruger butt pad on out of the parts box, spliced another piece of wood onto the remains of the fore end, and painted the wood with Rustoleum pebble finish paint. The barrel was $39.51, shipped, plus whatever the can of Rustoleum cost me.

I bought a 10g Richland 711/Zabala in 2011 for $340 + shipping, and sold it to Mack Hacker a couple years later for $400 + shipping. The fore end on these literally looks like it was made from a 2x4 - huge. Looking at completed auctions on GB, selling prices are between $600 and $700. Some of the asking prices are considerably higher, but they're not selling.

Henry would be a good choice. The youth model number is H001Y. It has a 16 1/8" barrel and a 13" LOP, compared to 18 1/2" bbl and 14" LOP for the standard H001. Retail around $370. https://www.henryusa.com/rifles/lever-action-22-youth-rifle/

I can only think of one, two actually, .475 cal or larger revolvers/autos that aren't going to beat the crap out of you, and those would be the MBA 12mm and 13mm Gyrojet pistols. I still have the original six rounds that came with mine sixty years ago, and at $150 - $250 per round, it'll probably have six rounds with it when I sell it. I've got a Freedom Arms M555 .50AE/.500 Wyoming Express, a .45-70/.450 Marlin BFR, a .50AE/.44 mag Desert Eagle, a custom Ruger Bisley Blackhawk .475 Linebaugh by Ben Forkin, and a .480 Ruger SRH. The .475 Linebaugh and the aforementioned 4" .500 S&W w/700 grain bullets are the most punishing of the bunch. I haven't shot any of these cannons in so many years, I can't remember. I used to be a tough guy, but not anymore. Probably time to sell them.

That must be the one I sold him two or three years back. I shot a cylinder or two with some 700 grainers - those are downright uncomfortable. Between a .50AE and a .44 mag.

When my dad and his siblings were young, they used to spend a lot of time at a mountain ranch in the northern Big Belt mountains north of here. The old guy who owned it, "Bat" Smith, was a good friend of famed western artist Charlie Russell. Charlie died two or three years before my dad was born, but there were still some illustrated letters and envelopes around Bat's house. This wooden sculpture/carving belonged to Bat, and it's always been family lore that it was done by Charlie Russell. There is no buffalo skull & initials, no signature, or other markings on the piece to identify it as Russell's work, and Charlie wasn't known for working in wood, so who knows. With no provenance, it's a fifty dollar carving with a million dollar story.

Those Slocum sliding chamber guns turn up on Gunbroker ever' now and then. There was one listed a month or two back for $900.

C45S simplifies and lessens the cost of shooting BP. No extra fillers, just fill to the base of the bullet, and you're GTG. Using a convertible .45 Colt/.45 acp revolver achieves the same result, and plenty of .45 acp range brass can be had free for the picking. These Vaqueros are .45 acp only, NOT convertibles, and have pretty much become my favorites. No, Ruger won't fit a convertible cylinder, unless it was originally manufactured as a convertible. No, you don't use moon clips. No, I've never had a problem using a taper crimp. No, they're not legal for Classic Cowboy, but you can use C45S if you want to shoot CC. Yes, .45 acp is a legal black powder cartridge.

You don't start with the pistol in your pocket. It's on the table, or in hand with the muzzle touching the table. Five rounds in a five shot cylinder is OK. You'll never see a derringer side match shot with only one round in the pistol either.

One person's "must see" is another person's "ho hum", but... Lewis & Clark caverns, Mann Gulch/Gates of the Mountains, Pompey's Pillar near Billings, 40 miles northwest of the Little Bighorn battlefield and the last surviving physical evidence of the Lewis & Clark expedition, Bannack ghost town, Roe River in Great Falls (Guinness Book, world's shortest river) - a 200' long river from Giant Springs to the Missouri... not much to see... it's 200' long, so... but if you're in the area, you can brag you've been there.

A hacksaw, square, and draw file and that extra half inch comes off pretty easy, and even cutting a new sight slot with a Dremel and a worn down cut off wheel is doable if you've got a good eye and a steady hand.

Apparently I'm way under the money at $100 ea - you're the 4th person in line for them, 5th counting Wild Hair Larry.

I hate to sell one, because then I don't have a pair anymore. $100 for one of the SBH hammers at the bottom - new, never installed. You have to swap out the plunger, spring, and retainer pin from your existing hammer. ---THE SUPER BLACKHAWK HAMMERS ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE---

Ya'll are making this harder than it should be. Eight pounds of Winchester AA Lite, $350, WILL NOT SHIP. That's plain enough. And "The Cowboys" would be Norco, of course.