My 1st BP Revolver

[kalakila]

What started out as someone's comment about a BP revolver being kept in the bed of a pickup truck and then ending in an very interesting documentary of American history is why I love this forum. :bow:

ShortRanger

 

[Poor Private]

And I bet several people (including myself) even after several years still learn a few new things.

 

[Mike 56]

Yes this is a great place to hang out. One thing about shooting black powder there are lots of ways clean, load, and make lubes, cleaners, bullets and on and on. When someone asks a question you get a lot of good different answers and if you are like me you have to try everything. I guess that is what makes Black Powder shooting so much fun. My black powder skills have improved 100% after joining this forum. :applause:

Mike

 

[arcticap]

And here's more info. about the cylinder engravings on the other Colt models:

This includes some details regarding the Walker's engraving:
http://morro-bay.com/morsels/manny-silva/colts-paterson-walker-revolvers/index.htm

I also found this about the other Colt cylinder engravings:

Master engraver Waterman Lilly Ormsby and Sam Colt met in Samuel Hall’s New York gun store in January 1836. They formed a business association so strong that every cylinder scene to ever grace a percussion Colt was roll engraved by Ormsby. The Paterson cylinder scene depicted a centaur killing two horsemen, and the Walker and Dragoon pictured Jack Hays’ big fight. The Baby Dragoon showed a cropped version of the Ranger-Comanche battle until sometime in 1850. Then it was replaced by the engraving that would be rolled onto every ’49 Pocket: a stagecoach passenger using a Colt revolver to drive off outlaws. This was a scene Ormsby had recently experienced, and a common enough threat that stage companies’ handbills advised prospective passengers to bring a Colt revolver with them.(11)
http://www.texasranger.org/dispatch/15/pages/Colt_1849.htm[/quote]

Here's some background on Jack Hays:
http://members.tripod.com/~jack0204/gen/Heskew/jack_c_hays.htm


And here's fine details about Jack Hays & the Rangers fighting off the Indians on the Pedernales:
http://www.forttours.com/pages/jhays.asp#PEDERNALES

 

[PRM]

Edit - My comments were already in other post, and well stated. Did not want to back up the thread


Great info