Buckshot Bear Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 The guy in the white shirt with the necktie, in the middle of the front row - that's a 76 he's got ain't it? It just looks too big to be a 73. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 The guy third in from the right in back row looks like he's holding a Colt Berges buy the location of loading port. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485 Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Warden Callaway said: The guy third in from the right in back row looks like he's holding a Colt Berges buy the location of loading port. I was just thinking that or maybe Marlin by the shape of the frame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted October 17, 2023 Author Share Posted October 17, 2023 Interesting noticing that a lot of them have their knives situated in front of their gun holster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presidio Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 5 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: Interesting noticing that a lot of them have their knives situated in front of their gun holster. Probably handy in close quarter hand to hand. They appear to be some type of ranger outfit. But, I don't see any badges. Maybe a militia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Joker Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 You use a knife a lot more in daily life than you use a gun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widder, SASS #59054 Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 18 minutes ago, Presidio said: Probably handy in close quarter hand to hand. They appear to be some type of ranger outfit. But, I don't see any badges. Maybe a militia? Except for the 2nd guy from the left on the 1st row, it could be the local 'Mustache' club..... ..........Widder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozark Huckleberry Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 6 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: Interesting noticing that a lot of them have their knives situated in front of their gun holster. Trying to guess from the sheath and handle, a lot of the visible knives look to be Arkansas Toothpicks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 I do not think they normally wear their knives like that. I think that they wore them like that for the picture to show how ferocious they were. Like the guy in the dark shirt, standing on the right in the back row. Having that second gun stuck down inside his gun belt. Looks ferocious. Good way to lose your second gun. Or like the way they are all wearing their hats. I'm sure they don't wear their hats like that normally. They have them tipped back so their faces can be seen. The way several of them gentlemen are wearing their knives, it seems that if they bent over they would stab themselves in the leg. That's why people usually wear them on the side or on the back. You can't bend very far to the side or to the back. I wish the guy third from the right in the front row was not wearing a hat. The man behind him in the shield front shirt looks to be holding a Browning design rifle. With everyone else having a Henry design that seems a little out of place. But the guy in the front row's hat brim is blocking enough for the receiver that I can't tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Jones, SASS 2263 Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 Statistically, the odds were stacked against this unsuspecting cluster of lawmen. At least five of these Company D Texas Rangers would die violently at the hands of others and, for that reason, this photo is among my top 10. (Standing, from left) Jim King, Bass Outlaw, Riley Boston, Charley Fusselman, Tink Durbin, Ernest Rogers, Charles Barton and Walter Jones. (Seated, from left) Bob Bell, Cal Aten, Captain Frank Jones, J. Walter Durbin, Jim Robinson and Frank L. Schmid. From True West magazine article by Bob Alexander, March 12, 2012. The Rangers were issued "official" badges by the state in 1935. Before that badges were hand made and had several designs, the most well known being made from the Mexican Cinco peso coin. PS: As it turns out today, 17 October in 1835, the Texas Rangers were officially created. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Brasse, SASS #3562 Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 Looks like the seated 2nd from the right has a 1873 "Trapper" carbine. Note the length of barrel & forearm even taking in account it is slightly back than the others in that row. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 When wearing my CAS rig I would put my knife sheath in front of my right side holster. The knife I carried was small. Maybe a 3.5” blade. I have seen that photo somewhere. Gonna go see if I can get some details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 Found it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 Our friend, 3rd from right, back row, also seems to be the only one visibly wearing his handgun in a crossdraw holster, albeit a lefthand crossdraw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 10 hours ago, Widder, SASS #59054 said: Except for the 2nd guy from the left on the 1st row, it could be the local 'Mustache' club..... ..........Widder Last guy on the right, in front row, is out of the Mustache Club too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted November 10, 2023 Share Posted November 10, 2023 Found it! When I first saw the opening post I flashed on one of my favorite coffee mugs ~ with this same picture, and the caption "The Original Homeland Security." I gotta post a picture! I sez to myself. Alas... I rifled all my cupboards, the Kid's room, the guest bedroom... no mug. Oh well.... So I spent last weekend at my son's "new" house. Sunday morning, went for a cup o' coffee, and right there in his cabinet - The Mug! And of course he's welcome to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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