I just discovered ‘popular highlights’ on my kindle books. This option shows you what passages other readers have highlighted in their copy.
Pretty cool.
I like that line also, by the way.
And on a side note, have you ever LOOKED at the prices of Colt Peacemakers? Good heavens!
They ain’t cheap for something that’s almost a 150 year old design! They even cost more than most 1911’s that require far more machining and intricacies to build and operate.
What’s really fascinating, is that when they came out they could be bought for a single gold piece THEN and NOW. In 1873 they sold for $17.50, which was about a month’s labor, and a gold eagle (1 ounce gold piece) was worth about $20. Today, they sell for around $1799 according to Colt’s website and a 1 ounce gold piece is worth $1805 today.
I bought her a Savage Arms Rascal in .22 MONTHS ago. Probably almost a year ago now, long before we got her a BB gun. It was going to be a surprise when we felt she was mature enough to start learning to shoot. And I don’t know what I was thinking, but for some reason I got the ‘swamp people’ alligator camo one… WHY I thought that was a good one for a super girly-girl, I’m not certain.
I -think- I was hoping at the time my son would get into shooting as well, so it’d be something a bit different that they could both shoot.
-sigh-
Instead, about two weeks ago, I took my daughter to the local gun store like we typically do every couple of Saturdays, and as usual, she oohed and aahed over every pink gun in there. And they had a pile of Henry Cricket’s, including a solid pink one that came with case and scope.
They also had a Savage Arms in pink camo, and for some strange reason, I decided to let her pick which one she liked better and bought it.
We came home with the pink Henry Cricket.
Yep, that’s the outfit she wore to the gun store. A pink gun was fitting.
And, apparently since I was on a spontaneity streak, we threw a few things into my range bag and drove 40 minutes to the gun club.
Where we proceeded to shoot exactly four rounds of .22 short. (For some idiotic reason, a year ago I bought an entire case of .22 MiniMag SHORTS thinking they were LONGS…. now they finally have a use. The small noise and recoil is perfect.)
(That’s my shot above the 8, I was aiming at the 8 to see how the sights were.)
Yeah, she shot that with IRON sights because I hadn’t put the scope on yet. And I’m pretty sure she had no idea what I was talking about when I was trying to explain how to use a peep sight.
She pretty much just aimed naturally and dropped the hammer.
I got her first ‘live round’ shot on video! (Because I’m father of the year.)
So.
Here we are.
Our daughter can already out shoot us, I’ve a use for all those .22 shorts, and I’ve a Savage Arms NIB .22 Rascal I need to sell.
I had a birthday a few weeks ago. Yay getting older!
Even with the Chinese ‘Bat Sandwich’ Flu, it was excellent. My parents came down, with individually wrapped hot dogs for Coney Island Hot Dogs (A Testerman Birthday tradition), sides, and cupcakes. We socially distanced ourselves on the front porch, and had an awesome time together for the first time in months.
But what really blew me away was this:
No, not the red 2020 Jeep Gladiator my wife got me. Although that was awesome as well and will eventually find it’s way from my daughters jewelry box and onto my work desk. (She keeps ‘treasures’ in her jewelry box, so we’re pretty honored she deemed it worthy of keeping there.)
But a new Ruger Bisley Blackhawk in .44 Special. Never fired, only slightly handled. 🙂
Wow, just wow.
So, the Bisley model gives it a nice curved hammer for one handed cocking, a different grip, and nicer trigger. And generally makes it more awesome both in appearance and from what I gather, in shooting as well.
Now, I’m not much of a revolver guy. The newer stuff that is.
The only one I own is a Ruger Wrangler in .22, and that’s a pretty new purchase of a few months ago for the kiddos to use. I’ve never really cared for the newer stuff, but the Single Action Army’s have always been something I’ve lusted for. Especially after doing so much writing about Cowboy guns.
Gunpowder and Ink! 