looking for my next addition to the collection

Jason_S Posted 2006-09-14 1:14 AM (#325413) Subject: looking for my next addition to the collection Joined: August 2006 Posts: 2804 Location: ranson,wva im looking for a lennon,campbell,peacemaker or early shiny bolw. im no shure on my price range yet but im looking..thanks jason Tupperware Posted 2006-09-14 5:55 AM (#325414 - in reply to #325413) Subject: Re: looking for my next addition to the collection Joined: January 2005 Posts: 4903 Location: Phoenix AZ Jason, Check your PM. Sounds like you're coming to the NE gathering on Saturday. We can talk them ... Dave Norseman1 Posted 2006-09-14 9:38 AM (#325415 - in reply to #325413) Subject: Re: looking for my next addition to the collection Joined: May 2002 Posts: 1026 Location: Back in the Valley of the Sun Mesa Az. If it's a "PeaceMaker" you're after, you better go to the Smith and Wesson board cowboy! ;) I suppose you have to replace "Jeb's" Rifle ey John?! Norse(I Hung My Head)man1 Jason_S Posted 2006-09-14 11:48 AM (#325416 - in reply to #325413) Subject: Re: looking for my next addition to the collection Joined: August 2006 Posts: 2804 Location: ranson,wva just checked em dave..see ya at the gathering..jason Jason_S Posted 2006-09-14 11:49 AM (#325417 - in reply to #325413) Subject: Re: looking for my next addition to the collection Joined: August 2006 Posts: 2804 Location: ranson,wva if memory serves me well..like it usualy does a peacemaker was colt..jason Stuart Miller Posted 2006-09-14 11:55 AM (#325418 - in reply to #325413) Subject: Re: looking for my next addition to the collection Joined: August 2003 Posts: 430 Location: Lebanon, TN #So about a year later i bought a Colt .45# #Called a peacemaker but i never knew why# Name that tune :-) MWoody Posted 2006-09-14 12:50 PM (#325419 - in reply to #325413) Subject: Re: looking for my next addition to the collection Joined: December 2003 Posts: 13996 Location: Upper Left USA Yes, I used Al Gore;s internet to confirm my suspicions: "What was remarkable about the Colt pistol when it came out was the, the amount of firepower it could put out, the fact that it was a workable repeater. I think people were also taken with the way in which this product of industrialization was itself like a small factory. It was a bullet firing machine as opposed to a single shot weapon. In that sense it was a kind of model product of technology the way that the computer is today." It was the first practicle revolver. MWoody Posted 2006-09-14 12:56 PM (#325420 - in reply to #325413) Subject: Re: looking for my next addition to the collection Joined: December 2003 Posts: 13996 Location: Upper Left USA I think that it is fitting to note the parralels here. Peacemaker Made in Hartford CT. Success due to assembly line/machining breakthroughs and strategies. Overwhelming firepower! cliff Posted 2006-09-14 12:59 PM (#325421 - in reply to #325413) Subject: Re: looking for my next addition to the collection Joined: March 2002 Posts: 14842 Location: NJ And invented by Samuel Colt in my old hometown of Paterson, NJ (founded by Alexander Hamilton and the first manufacturing center of the U.S.). I believe his old Factory is still there, but is now an office building . . .