51_60_colt
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Just kiddin around about that anyway,
Your Gunslinging Heroes
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Just kiddin around about that anyway,
long rider
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Dick turpin.:d
Indian Outlaw
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George Maddox, member of Quantrill's Guerrillas, a Confederate band of "ruthless killers."
Clearly, a Remington man.
Clearly, a Remington man.
John Wayne will always be my favorite, followed by Clint Eastwood and Tom Selleck. Selleck's westerns are highly underrated if you ask me.
Historical figures, Wild Bill always impressed me as the real thing. He practiced regularly and was very good at what he did. As for the comparison to Annie Oakley, Hickock was a killer, Annie was a shooter. Big difference. Takes more than shooting skill to look a man in the eye and kill him dead.
As for Sherman, a man who waged war on women, children and farms in an effort to "punish the South" (his own words), I got no use for him and would spit in his eye if he were alive today. He was a coward and a war criminal.
Historical figures, Wild Bill always impressed me as the real thing. He practiced regularly and was very good at what he did. As for the comparison to Annie Oakley, Hickock was a killer, Annie was a shooter. Big difference. Takes more than shooting skill to look a man in the eye and kill him dead.
As for Sherman, a man who waged war on women, children and farms in an effort to "punish the South" (his own words), I got no use for him and would spit in his eye if he were alive today. He was a coward and a war criminal.
I'm honestly curious...I've never read anything that suggested that Sherman condoned, let alone actively encouraged, rape. Can you enlighten me?
If you mean to imply (with colorful hyperbole) that he had his army take foodstuffs from the countryside, including civilians...yeah, that's correct. It's also how wars were fought up to that time. The ACW was, AFAIK, the first war where any army actually tried to take its log train along with it.
Further, regarding non-military targets...is it your opinion that the USAF and RAF committed similar acts during the strategic bombing campaigns in WW2? They certainly intentionally bombed non-military targets, Hiroshima and Nagasaki being perfect examples.
I have seen a lot of westerns and have always realized they are all fictional in that the guns they use are not real and the people shooting them know all they have to do is aim it in that direction with the cameras are rolling and the pyrotechnic crews will take care of the rest.
Once I shot a fly off a target at 50 yards with a 357 and we had to dig up a bullet to find fly guts in the hollow point.... So am I a gun slinger?
Nope just a good shot with a real gun is all
Once I shot a fly off a target at 50 yards with a 357 and we had to dig up a bullet to find fly guts in the hollow point.... So am I a gun slinger?
Nope just a good shot with a real gun is all
51_60_colt
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Welp...I have no idea what he condoned if I get time I'll research it ( rape meant as a hyperbole), but he had a hand in burning Atlanta,burning out people who were just living there lives, the US government sent troops to burn out people who werent even fighting. and as far as teaching rebels a lesson they deverved, did they deserve it? I dont think so, my ancestors fought because they didnt appreciate the goverment sending troops into the south to march on its own people...they were fighting for their homes. I dont care what anybody says, they didnt deserve a lesson like that. Now....I apologize for making this post about North v. South...this is a BP forum, not a debate club.... my fault, sorry ya'll.
Christ...can I settle this already?
Who ever thought of Sherman as a pistolero, anyway? Ugly sumbitch to boot
That war is over. So Sherman was a so-and-so. So gahdamn what. He's not around now, and his brothers are dead too. Hell some of my kinfolk are still mad about Culloden. Let's move the F on, shall we?
Who ever thought of Sherman as a pistolero, anyway? Ugly sumbitch to boot
That war is over. So Sherman was a so-and-so. So gahdamn what. He's not around now, and his brothers are dead too. Hell some of my kinfolk are still mad about Culloden. Let's move the F on, shall we?
51_60_colt
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Thats why I apologized, I agree with Chris too when I think about it. And again, Sorry for the off topic junk.
Thought of another...John Wesley Hardin...dont know alot about him but seems pretty interesting.
I have to admit that "Once Upon A Time In The West" is the all time greatest western movie ever made.
It really showed the west the way it was and what people went through back then to build and modernize a lawless American frontier.
Of course the American frontier is even more lawless now days but there are still a few good heroes that always take it upon themselves to fix all of the problems in their own neighborhoods.
Once I told a bunch of gang members hanging out the whole neighborhood has cameras and pointed at the street light sensors that turn the lights on and off then told them that those were the cameras and they are hooked up to a computer of which the police and anyone can access and review every days activities for months in the neighborhood.
I was telling them I was watching them the other day online thinking you guys are going to get busted big time city LOL
They all split fast and never came back
Later a neighbor was asking, What did you tell them to make them all leave like that so fast and I told him and he was laughing so hard he almost choked LOL
It really showed the west the way it was and what people went through back then to build and modernize a lawless American frontier.
Of course the American frontier is even more lawless now days but there are still a few good heroes that always take it upon themselves to fix all of the problems in their own neighborhoods.
Once I told a bunch of gang members hanging out the whole neighborhood has cameras and pointed at the street light sensors that turn the lights on and off then told them that those were the cameras and they are hooked up to a computer of which the police and anyone can access and review every days activities for months in the neighborhood.
I was telling them I was watching them the other day online thinking you guys are going to get busted big time city LOL
They all split fast and never came back
Later a neighbor was asking, What did you tell them to make them all leave like that so fast and I told him and he was laughing so hard he almost choked LOL
Well, my interest in BP was started by the usual spagetti western's..
i like Morgan Kane, Texas Ranger, US Marshal, Special Agent, gunslinger.
Description:
height: 198 cm
weight 75 kilo
eyecolor: grey
has a star shaped scar on the back on his gun hand doe to a bullet.
Has a paralyzed ring finger on that hand, uses a leather ring to bind it to the middle finger.
personality:
Anxious, slight Introvert and does not bond easely due to his occupation.
psychopathic traits, likes to gamble and to play hasard. Draws on 1/5 second.
Handguns used by Kane:
Patterson Colt
Walker Colt.
Colt .45 SA Model P "Peacemaker".
Navy Colt.
Colt .44
Colt .45 DA
Smith & Wesson .44, New Model DA "Navy".
Used winchester rifles, later on Krag Jørgensen.
Morgan Kane is a product of the norwegian author Louis Masterson. It is the most successfull paperbackseries ever published in Norway, with over 12 million copies sold. The series was published 1966-1985 in 83 volumes. The series has been published in several countries (Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Poland, Germany, France, Holland, Spain and England). Later Kane appeared in the Diablito- (1978-79, 3 books) and El Diablo-series (1991-97, 4 books), but according to the author, he is killed in the last book in the El Diablo-series.
i like Morgan Kane, Texas Ranger, US Marshal, Special Agent, gunslinger.
Description:
height: 198 cm
weight 75 kilo
eyecolor: grey
has a star shaped scar on the back on his gun hand doe to a bullet.
Has a paralyzed ring finger on that hand, uses a leather ring to bind it to the middle finger.
personality:
Anxious, slight Introvert and does not bond easely due to his occupation.
psychopathic traits, likes to gamble and to play hasard. Draws on 1/5 second.
Handguns used by Kane:
Patterson Colt
Walker Colt.
Colt .45 SA Model P "Peacemaker".
Navy Colt.
Colt .44
Colt .45 DA
Smith & Wesson .44, New Model DA "Navy".
Used winchester rifles, later on Krag Jørgensen.
Morgan Kane is a product of the norwegian author Louis Masterson. It is the most successfull paperbackseries ever published in Norway, with over 12 million copies sold. The series was published 1966-1985 in 83 volumes. The series has been published in several countries (Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Poland, Germany, France, Holland, Spain and England). Later Kane appeared in the Diablito- (1978-79, 3 books) and El Diablo-series (1991-97, 4 books), but according to the author, he is killed in the last book in the El Diablo-series.
Of course the prototype gunslinger far and away was Wild Bill Hickok, even though probably John Wesley Hardin was faster and a better shot. Wyatt Earp had to be the luckiest gunslinger considering how many actual shootouts he was involved in and NEVER nicked by a bullet and lived a long life.
Insofar as the fictional character go the top of the list has to be the Clint Eastwood Characters. Matt Dillon and Lucas McCain also come to mind.
Insofar as the fictional character go the top of the list has to be the Clint Eastwood Characters. Matt Dillon and Lucas McCain also come to mind.
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Bat Masterson
Bat's significant contribution to the history and legends of the old west ranged from early buffalo hunter, lawman, gambler, promoter.... to sports writer in NYC. Friends included T. Roosevelt, Earp, Holiday, Short, Brown and others. Best book written on his life is:
Bat Masterson, The Man and The Legend by Robert K. DeArment
Bat's significant contribution to the history and legends of the old west ranged from early buffalo hunter, lawman, gambler, promoter.... to sports writer in NYC. Friends included T. Roosevelt, Earp, Holiday, Short, Brown and others. Best book written on his life is:
Bat Masterson, The Man and The Legend by Robert K. DeArment
Fingers McGee
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1st - Fess Parker. His portrayal of Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett got me interested in guns and blackpowder when I was just a wee tyke. Between them, they covered blackpowder usage in the US from the late 1700s through the Alamo. I had to have a coonskin cap & musket because him.
2nd - Roy Rogers. His movies and TV series got me interested in any and everything Cowboy.