McCandless Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 Just some extra time while getting ready for the day, watching a movie on the confuser... Flipped on "Assassination Games" , Van Damme plays a hit-man... takes place modern day... looks like Romania...he's is the obligatory martial arts hand-to-hand fight when both guys go for their ankle holsters. Well, Jean-Claude pulls up his pants cuffs, covering boots (with lightning speed)... and pulls out... a pair of 7-1/2" barreled Griswold and Gunnison .36 Caliber Cap n' Ball pistols... !! Just what every professional assassin carries I knew if I held out long enough, percussion pistols would be the new "in thing"... fashionable. Now, where do I get ankle holsters for my Dragoons...
Blackwater 53393 Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 Yeah! My '60 Colts are just perfect!!
Rye Miles #13621 Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 My 5" 1851 Navies also would be a great carry gun. I actually thought about it! Rye
Krazy Kajun Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 I can see it now....you draw out your 7 1/2" cap and ball pistol and then have to yell out to the intended victim..."Wait a minute...I have to adjust my nipples!"
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 Well........they do look cool, so what else matters?
Wolfgang, SASS #53480 Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 Van Dam is excellent . . . . I can't take his movies with all the silly violent stuff . . . but that one I GOT TO SEE . . . .
Rye Miles #13621 Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 The great thing about C&B or even a BP cartridge gun for carry is even if ya miss 'em you'll scare the HE$% out of them fer sure!!
J-BAR #18287 Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 Maybe the Romanian ATF doesn't regulate blackpowder guns as strictly as cartridge guns...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 Yup.... they be cool. http://www.everythingaction.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/assassination-games-560x315.jpg
Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 I'm vertically challenged. My calf length would'nt work for concealing those.
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 I do like the idea of creating a smoke screen to hide in from return fire. Bugs
Willy Cheaten Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 The ideal carry gun is the one you have when the need presents itself.
Cypress Sun Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 I'd like to reach in my boot and pull out an A-10.........probably isn't going to happen in real life either.
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted February 8, 2014 Posted February 8, 2014 There's one thing that's really interesting about the Griswold and Gunnison revolvers. For several decades now we've been able to buy "Brass-framed 1851 Colt replicas." These have often been sold, or at least advertised, with the explanation that they were copies of Confederate copies of Colts, made with brass frames due to steel shortages and costs in the South. And there have been a few articles and many verbal claims that this never happened.... that it was a "replica of a gun that never existed." But the G&G kinda refutes that. From Wiki: "The Griswold Gunnison revolvers are copies of the 1851 Colt Revolvers and were made with distinctive brass frames because of the shortage of steel in the South." And there were others. However, the so-called reason for brass frames may not be correct; here's a link to an interesting discussion from a few years ago: False Information Concerning Brass-Framed Revolvers Now, regarding brass-framed Remington replicas.... well, they just may have been tempered in marinara sauce.
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted February 8, 2014 Posted February 8, 2014 The great thing about C&B or even a BP cartridge gun for carry is even if ya miss 'em you'll scare the HE$% out of them fer sure!! And if you are close enough you'll either set fire to them or cauterize any wounds.... or both.
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