This is fascinating to me. I have a 1934 Browning Auto-5 that is going to get the Clyde Barrow treatment, and become a whippit shotgun.
I need to do more research on how to correctly model it after those shotguns. I want to make sure I have the right barrel specs before submitting the Form 1.
I have read that Clyde used some sort of shoulder rig to carry it under his coat? If so, I'd love to recreate that as well.
Be a neat leatherwork project for Jim Ryan.
Smoking in the car...Originally Posted by Gadfly
It was after Memorial Day and before Labor Day apparently.
There's nothing civil about this war.
To clarify, that was the first station in Marfa, not the first USBP station.The Astrodome broke ground with Colt 45s instead of Shovels... time were different. First, there was the Houston Buffalos. Then they became the Houston Colt 45s... but a lawsuit from Colt came along, and then the Houston Astros were born.
When Bonnie and Clyde was filmed in 1966, the production company needed extras. And they wanted the extras to look like they knew how to use a gun. So the extras were all Dallas PD and the members of the Dallas Gun and Rod club. As luck would have it, many gun club member had period correct firearms to provide!
In 1928, the first US Border Patrol Station opened in Marfa Texas.
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Also. I’m fairly certain that is Charles Askins seated on the left end.
http://www.coltforum.com/forums/phot...#/topics/30875This is fascinating to me. I have a 1934 Browning Auto-5 that is going to get the Clyde Barrow treatment, and become a whippit shotgun.
I need to do more research on how to correctly model it after those shotguns. I want to make sure I have the right barrel specs before submitting the Form 1.
I have read that Clyde used some sort of shoulder rig to carry it under his coat? If so, I'd love to recreate that as well.
Be a neat leatherwork project for Jim Ryan.
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The folks on that dirt road are probably shooting at pheasants. Maybe ducks or doves - birds flying overhead.
My guess is doves. Hard to see what birds the kids have in their hands, but the angle they are shooting at looks right. (I've never dove hunted, but I've been in the fields when people are doing it -- they tend to be straight up, or at a higher angle rather than crossing or flying away, and the shooting can be high volume).
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That sample has some beautiful wood!This is fascinating to me. I have a 1934 Browning Auto-5 that is going to get the Clyde Barrow treatment, and become a whippit shotgun.
There was also the same gun as the Savage 720. Savage also made the Auto 5 clones in that era. During and just prior to WWII the Government Agency called Defense Supplies Corporation or DSC bought up every Savage 720, Remington 11, Stevens 520 and 620 they could lay hands on, new or used, and inspected (stamped an ordinance bomb) them and put them in the government inventory for the war effort. Most of those did not go overseas, but were relegated to civilian LE, shore patrols, prison guards, mail and government facility guards, and distributed to local or state LE agencies.
Note the Condition 1, 1911, way back in 1946 apparently.This was over at “Traces of Texas” of Facebook. The caption said it was a Texas Ranger in 1946. I was drawn in by the guns and gear. My how gear has changed. No seat belts. No shotgun rack. Open / exposed trigger guard. No retention on the holster. His red light would hang from a hook in the center of the windshield, but it was stored down by the radio.
Totally different times.
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