The Frontier Sixshooter Community Message Board - Yes...

Yes... (reply)

~JM~ — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:52:20 +0000

I've heard that one before.

It is funny!

You'll need to talk to Sam about that one, (reply)

former hater of plastic — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 03:06:25 +0000

I was simply quoting him.

My favorite, on gun safety (reply)

former hater of plastic — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 03:04:20 +0000

Don't meddle with old unloaded firearms. They are the most deadly and unerring things that have ever been created by man. You don't have to take any pains at all with them; you don't have to have a rest, you don't have to have any sights on the gun, you don't have to take aim, even. No, you just pick out a relative and bang away, and you are sure to get him. A youth who can't hit a cathedral at thirty yards with a Gatling gun in three-quarters of an hour, can take up an old empty musket and bag his mother every time at a hundred. Think what Waterloo would have been if one of the armies had been boys armed with old rusty muskets supposed not to be loaded, and the other army had been composed of their female relations. The very thought of it makes me shudder.
- Advice to Youth speech, 4/15/1882

similar here (reply)

bj — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 01:16:26 +0000

6" 57, or maybe 657

What he DID say... (reply)

Paul — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 21:24:51 +0000

Me too! It's one of my all time favorite Twain quotes. It's from "Roughing It".

What he DID say... (reply)

Cherokee — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 21:20:21 +0000

Love it...

On my list of 'Someday Guns'... (reply)

Bri A — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 20:33:55 +0000

Near the top of my list is one of the 657 Mountain Guns, with a hammer mounted firing pin. I doubt that itch will ever be scratched though, just too cheap to pay what they are going for.

Quit Smoking? (reply)

~JM~ — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 17:57:35 +0000

Its easy to quit smoking.

Once you truly decide to do so.

After you've made up your mind... Simply follow through.

I am also weak... (reply)

Kings6 — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 15:17:10 +0000

and you are not alone! There are at least 10 41 mags revolvers living in the safe. One rarely passes through this area without landing here including several TLA guns in the forgotten magnum flavor.

On my list of 'Someday Guns'... (reply)

Hoot — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 14:52:23 +0000

is a 4" 57/58/657/658. Hasn't been checked off just yet. Sounds like a good scoop Mark.

What he DID say... (reply)

Paul — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 13:51:52 +0000

I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homeopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an ahdult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault - you could not hit anything with it.

.41mag (reply)

Fivegunner — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 13:36:37 +0000

That's sounds like a great shooter Mark. how about Pictures???

I am also weak... (reply)

Bri A — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 03:35:21 +0000

Sounds like a deal far too good to pass up.

"I can resist.... (reply)

Glen — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 01:36:36 +0000

....anything but temptation."

why would you say that? (reply)

bj — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 01:36:29 +0000

That is something I couldn't resist either, especially at a good price. So if you decide you don't like it, ....

That is NOT what Mark Twain said....nt (reply)

former hater of plastic — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 23:31:16 +0000

My heart bleeds for you... ;-) :-D (nt) (reply)

Paul — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 21:15:54 +0000

As Mark Twain is alleged to have said, (reply)

former hater of plastic — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 20:49:18 +0000

Quitting smoking is easy. I've quit a million times already. So it is with guns.

And I said I wasn't buying anymore guns

MS — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 19:48:30 +0000

I guess when you have a S&W M-657-2 6" brought over to identify and price for a buddy, and he then drops multiple 100's of dollars off my estimate of local market value and says give me this much and it's yours.
I have no defense, no willpower when it comes to a deal like that.
I've regretted selling my M57 4", and this was a sign.
A sign that if I really wanted an N-frame 41, I'd better grab while the grabbing was good.
I might not get to shoot it till CSA, we are in the process of moving, and I think I know where most of my ammo is!