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| COLUMNS DECEMBER 2009 |
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| CAMPFIRE TALES John Taffin |
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A Half Century With Sixguns |
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| History repeats itself! Fifty years separate this 50th Anniversary S&W Model 29 from the pre-29. Custom stocks are by Eagle grips and Roy Fishpaw. |
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| The year was 1955. Ike was in the White House, Elvis was in Heartbreak Hotel, and I was in the beginning of my last year of high school. That same year, Elmer Keith’s monumental work, Sixguns appeared, and little did Keith know he was about to have great material for a supplement. Beginning in the late 1920s Keith started writing about the heavily loaded .44 Special as the best sixgun cartridge available. He tried over and over again to get ammunition manufacturers to bring out his 250-grain, 1,200 fps .44 Special Load but no one would listen. They were afraid of the strength of some of the older guns, so he took a different tack and asked them to lengthen the case, call it a .44 Special Magnum, and even bring out a new sixgun. >> Click Here << To Read More Campfire Tales |
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