All About Animals for Old and Young. Popular, Interesting , Amusing. Anon.: Published by George Newnes Ltd n d c, 1900 I fixed the flaws in some of the photos with PhotoScape.
Thank you sir, for posting this beautiful old Colt revolver. I have an old Colt Official Police from the early 1900's in 32-20 caliber. Old guns and the wear they display are some of the most interesting aspects of American history. Thanks again.
My all time favorite Colt revolver. I bought my first one in 1962 for 5$ . Also bought a conversion model at the same time. It was different back then. We got away with things, did we ever. There wasn't much thought about gun control at that time. I was 12 years old at the time.
Yeah, we can all see that. Its a rapier blade but the French and maybe the Prussians were using something like this on the eve of world war 1. Patton liked it, and before he was a general he was an Olympic athlete, particularly in fencing. Apparently this kind of weapon did a better job than the traditional curved blade. It was issued as a cavalryman's saber and thus called one. It would be interesting to see how it compares to a traditional cavalry saber.
He was mostly BC, and we did one of those genetic tests (there are a zillion of them) that said he had Chow in him. However, as a former Chow owner I'm convinced that's false, because if he was part Chow he would have had at least a few dark spots, and perhaps many, on his tongue, which he did not. The woman who fostered him, and she is a very knowledgeable dog person, believed him to be part GSD because he herded the way GSDs do, namely, with his body rather than with his stare. He was considerably larger and heavier than a typical BC, weighing during his prime ~55lbs.
@@rollo_tomasi The frames are stainless steel, not alloy. The slides are carbon steel that were sometimes chromed for various reasons, but that’s uncommon. For example, the 2 pistols supplied to Michael Man for Miami Vice have chromed slides so they would show up better in night scenes.
When Dornaus & Dixon took their Combat Service Pistol prototype to Jeff Cooper for his approval, he liked it, but it needed to be rechambered from .45 to 10mm. D&D had to go back to the drawing board and design the 10mm cartridge.
Would love to know the background data on Trooper William Gannon, especially his experiences with the Mexican Expedition of 1916. The Colt DA .38 Model of 1903 Revolver, displayed in the video, is missing a "ejector rod knob" located at the end of the ejector rod. That Colt, taking all video info at face value, has too rich a history to allow a noticeable missing part go unaddressed. These rod-knobs are available on the internet, and your deceased family member, that served this great nation as a soldier, would appreciate you making it whole again. I look forward (hopefully) to another video detailing Trooper Gannon's military career and a whole Colt Model 1903 Revolver. That knob makes a difference! Thanks so much for this display, you have shared.
Thank you for sharing this great collection of images, William Altimari! When I was a small child, we lived in several different Texas cities, and took day trips to most of the other Texas cities during that time. Abilene was one we visited often because of its historical significance. So every time I hear "Abilene" I think of those days, even though Wild Bill Hickok was not associated with the Texas Abilene.
I have a Pietta 51 Navy that I have done hours and hours of machining on, and it looks almost identical to this one. Only way you can tell it's a copy and not the real deal is it still has the pietta billboard on the barrel. I have reshaped a good portion of it. Even made some nice ivory grips for it. Wish I could post a picture in the comments. Cool video!
No, she was training him, and in one shot--where he's lying on the rock--it looks like she's preparing him to be photographed. If you notice the overall lighting of that shot and if you look carefully at the background, it appears to be a soundstage.
There are usually a few different variations on Gunbroker at any given time, but be warned--$5K, which is what I paid for the Marksman Special-Match model, is now considered lower end with regard to price.
@@clarissawestbrook2203 Well, I suppose I’ve done a sort of informal ranking in my own head, but I never thought of doing a video of that. I don’t know if my ranking would be more valuable than anyone else’s! Everyone approaches watching a film with his or her own criteria for excellence, and those always vary among individuals. With MV fans, the visuals are always very important, as they are with me, but some fans rank the visuals above all else, with the result that some episodes with a different look are not rated as highly. For example, I consider GLADES one of the finest episodes of the entire series and an excellent, and rather dark, change of pace from all the urban flash and dash of earlier episodes. However, there’s an episode guide to MV that gives it only 3 stars because it LACKS those bright colors so characteristic of those earlier episodes. Different criteria and so a different rating. Also, as a novelist I’m very attuned to dialogue and thus its importance ranks extremely highly with me, whereas there are certainly other viewers who rate dialogue as not particularly important at all. So I think any ranking by me would probably just be an expression of my own biases!
