Jeb48

Would like to find one of these, might even go $10.

Didn't think about it, but you're right, I think I saw a B&C photo in a similar pose but couldn't find it, maybe I'm remembering one of the movie. Here is two that I do have in the file.

Typical of guys that retire early, only took 6 weeks till either the wife couldn't stand him around the house or he got tired of the honey do list.

Guess I'm awake tonight, only took me about 30 seconds.

Time for another Annie Oakley photo, looks like a fake background studio shot.

1929 - Circus performer Hugo Zacchini gets some serious hang time in the air after being shot from a huge siege gun.

Ran across this on another board and thought it was an interesting gun that I never knew existed. It is a very early air powered gun used by the military. Here is the first paragraph and the link to the full article and pictures. "The Girardoni air rifle, also known by its German name the Windbüchse, was a military air gun designed in Vienna by Italian inventor Bartolomeo Girardoni c.1779. It was issued to the ‘Imperial-Royal’ army of the Holy Roman Empire between 1780 to 1815, but only used for a few years during that time period." https://qsy-complains-a-lot.tumblr.com/post/646836290665529344/what-is-girardonis-windbüchse

Ernest Hemingway and his son Gregory, Sun Valley, Idaho. October, 1941

Never fell in love with the whole 1911 thing, do have a couple of Glocks. A G19 was my first real big boy handgun. Added a bunch more since including the G19's little brother G26, just to be a little more compact and to stay in the double stack mag interchangeability family. Lately I'm thing a G34 would be nice to round out my Glock collection. Sorry left out the comment on the topic. I like butting my own age on new guns. Older handguns if they have some earned scars that is fine, I don't like fake aging,

1941- Gas-masked Canadian soldier with mascot dog perched on the barrel of one of Canada's East Coast defense gun