Wait a minute now JK ....are you suggesting that my worship and emulation of Paladin as a youngster was based on a false idol? He was the reason I strode around in my Paladin black hat and holster set, taught myself to "slap leather" and distribute Paladin cards to my neighbors. I may not recover from this revelation....it cannot be true!
I've long been put out by Hollywood's deliberate use of misinformation regarding guns and Westerns, for the titillating effects of sight & sound in their films.
I love westerns and I love the safe and proper use of firearms. But no one who carried a single action Army six gun ever kept 6 rounds in their revolver. Only 5. Hitting the hammer accidently with a round under the hammer could cause it to fire. An empty chamber was always under the hammer/firing pin. And although Tombstone is one of my favorite movies, PLEASE! Curly Bill, high on drugs, shoots about 30 rounds from two six guns without reloading. How many westerns can we name where they shoot multiple rounds and never reload.
Just one more; open the loading gate of a single action Army and spin the cylinder at half cock and you DO hear the ratcheting sound. NOT so on a double action modern revolver!
And when they open the double action revolver to 'check it's contents', no self-respecting firearms user slings/slams the cylinder closed - it can damage the crane.
For everyone's piece of mind...I just had a visit from the ghost of Paladin...he "convinced" me to say...I made it all up...none of it is true...I have no idea what I'm talking about...and he thinks Jack D was a wonderful little boy.
the Wessons.....and their ilk,would bed to differ with naysayers.......................feed a guy enough baloney,he`ll come around to your side o the table
Terrific Pic JB!! (All right, I DO feel sorry for the baloney-less guy that they picked clean) - but your line makes perfect sense - feed a critter enough baloney, they'll feed at your side of the table.
Make movies full of baloney - and baloney-starved people will eat it up! I saw Bambi and expected the animals back home to all start speaking English!
Nooo! I was so disappointed John. As that kid fresh from the Bambi experience, I expected to converse with the various mammals around us. Nary a peep!
OK, there was this one time. Not so long ago. Here in the Smokies. We were hunting ramps - a type of wild-growing onion. We mayhave gotten sidetracked and into some mushrooms; I'm not sure now. But I was lucid enough to remember this one, very well spoken, obviously educated young male black bear. He and I regaled each other with tales of our youth (No, not in English) but in Italian. He spoke very well. I recall it like yesterday. I think.
NO-ONE speaks English voluntarily......early on,we were ALL coerced
Aye, ye're right there, Jimmy. Fan I went tae skule fin I was five yeers auld mah teechers winted me tae spik that furrin English lingo an' ah jist couldnae get mah heed roond it. It took me mony a yeer tae git tae grips wi' it. Ah'm sure that's whit stunted mah inteligens fur the rest o mah life.
NO-ONE speaks English voluntarily......early on,we were ALL coerced
Aye, ye're right there, Jimmy. Fan I went tae skule fin I was five yeers auld mah teechers winted me tae spik that furrin English lingo an' ah jist couldnae get mah heed roond it. It took me mony a yeer tae git tae grips wi' it. Ah'm sure that's whit stunted mah inteligens fur the rest o mah life.
