Anybody watch Ax Men? Gun ID question.

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I had nothing better to do Easter Sunday so I watched a block of back to back episodes of Ax Men. Haven't watched the show since the first season when it was all in Oregon. It's much better now that they've included other locales.

My gun question: The guy from Louisiana who got bit by the snake on both arms while retrieving swamp logs was waving an enormous single action (?) pistol around either in that same episode or the one before it. Was that a SAA or something else? I couldn't get a good look and the TV I was watching doesn't have DVR so no rewind or pause.

Just a curiosity question really. I'm not a revolver guy so I couldn't tell from the quick glimpses.

Thanks,
 
If its not a colt SAA, its definitely a descendant there of. I can't find a good enough picture to get a good idea on manufacturer.
 
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For a sec I thought Ruger, but then decided it was probably a Colt or a clone. The logo on the grip confused me. It looks too low on the grip for a Ruger and at a glance it's lower than Colt too.

Hopefully someone knows for sure. How about the barrel on that thing? 8inches ??
 
There you go then. Thanks for the info EdInk.

I quit watching that show after the end of season 1. It got stupid. The Oregon guys were boring and whiny. Now it's interesting again. Shelby Stanga should have his own show. That dude is....um.....entertaining?
 
But it wasn't a water moccasin. It was a Banded Water Snake, and they don't have any venom.

That said, I enjoy Shelby's segments. But, in typical History Channel dramatics, they present scenarios that defy reality. Much like the "Most Dangerous Roads: episode where the three trucks were hauling jet fuel to a far flung outpost, and were stopped because the road was out. The next morning, the girl trucker (sarcasm added, because ANY wannabe trucker who can't adjust their own brakes isn't anywhere near to being a trucker) has somehow off-loaded the other 2 trucks into her own and has departed to deliver this much needed load.

Or, the father-son combo who went to Florida to bring up old sunken logs, last year working with the other crew, this year, a broke father returns with a brand new boat and truck to compete for the "crown" of "King of the River."

Entertaining as fantasy, but they have no sense of reality. History? Nope, a on the cheap drama billed as reality.
 
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I saw he stole two logs from them other guys..... folks hate him but this is a part of the show to get folks to watch.

Shelby is like a guy taught me to cook fish, he was cajun and wild as sin. Folks like that make life interesting, they are missed when they are gone. Now I will lift a glass for old Bo and go noodle a snapper in his honor. but not in that order :)
 
If you watch a sort of similar reality show (Swamp People?-I think that's the name) closely, you will see that during a singular alligator shooting escapade, the initial gun being used will mysteriously morph into a different gun during the same action sequence. A lot of crude staging and character orchestrating in this "reality" series as is Ax Men.
 
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