What?

[Utah Bob #35998]

  

It’s not only the MSM that screws things up.

 

[Blackwater 53393]

This guy ain’t clueless.  He doesn’t even suspect anything!! 

[Alpo]

I like how he started the article with a quote from True Grit, and had both Ned Pepper and Rooster Cogburn saying the wrong things.

 

The misidentification of the gun was just icing on the cake.

[Sedalia Dave]

One would think that the editors at American Handgunner would know better.

 

Based on the info below In the movie The Big Trail, JW did carry a nickel plated New Model Army cartridge conversion.

 

https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Big_Trail,_The

 

https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/File:The_Big_Trail_Remington_New_Army_Conversion.jpg?force_isolation=true

 

https://truewestmagazine.com/article/john-waynes-first-movie-six-gun/?force_isolation=true

 

What's even sadder is the picture later in that writeup is still incorrect. It was not a 44 caliber conversion but a 38 S&W. Additionally the New Model Army pictured is not the one the Duke used. The one used in the movie was nickel plated with some engraving on the barrel and a star inlayed into the grip

 

The complete yet highly inaccurate  American Handgunner write up here

https://americanhandgunner.com/our-experts/the-sixguns-of-john-wayne/?force_isolation=true

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

His other job is writing firearm regulations in Canada.

[Cholla]

6 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said:

  

It’s not only the MSM that screws things up.

 

As a writer, don't lay this on John Taffin. The editor or their assistant often gets the captions wrong. I pointed out to Mike Venturino the other day that the editor had given the credits for his article to another writer! I knew it was MLV's stuff as I recognized his wife's photography style. I submitted two articles at once, one for a SASS primer and the other for Wild Bunch and they mixed the photos up, so only a few made sense.

[Alpo]

"As a writer, don't lay this on John Taffin."

 

I won't lay the caption on him. But this - “I mean to kill you or see you hang in Judge Parker’s court.” “That’s mighty big talk for a one-eyed fat man!”

 

It ain't real hard to quote a movie, when the movie clip is readily available.

 

I mean to kill you in one minute Ned, or see you hang in Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience. What will it be?

 

I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man.

 

 

[Cholla]

1 hour ago, Alpo said:

"As a writer, don't lay this on John Taffin."

 

I won't lay the caption on him. But this - “I mean to kill you or see you hang in Judge Parker’s court.” “That’s mighty big talk for a one-eyed fat man!”

 

It ain't real hard to quote a movie, when the movie clip is readily available.

 

I mean to kill you in one minute Ned, or see you hang in Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience. What will it be?

 

I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man.

 

 

Okay, I got nothing on that. Still, John Taffin is an icon and in his 80s, so we can cut him some slack.

[watab kid]

nobody said you had to be right to put stuff out there , you just need the connections and clout to get it done , often that is aided and abetted by those that would sully the reputations of others - i think this is a case for that ,