|
|
DOWN ON THE BORDER
Load One, Skip One, Load Four
I'm not staying here by myself…wait, I'll get my revolver," Mattie Ross said to Rooster Cogburn.
"Why, so you can shoot your own foot off?" he replied. Mattie later asked Rooster, John Wayne's character in the film True Grit, why he kept the one chamber empty in his revolver, and his response was firm. "So I won't shoot my foot off." True Grit was released in 1969, and I suspect most sixgun aficionados knew what Rooster meant by that statement. I'm not so sure that many younger shooters know today, though, and that's disconcerting. The Colt Single Action ...
Load One, Skip One, Load FourRecent Articles
Browse All|
|
-
Load One, Skip One, Load Four "Why, so you can shoot your own foot off?" he replied. Mattie later asked Rooster, John Wayne's ... Read More
-
-
-
G&A Recommends
Browse AllGun's & Ammo's Fifth Editor: George Martin
George Martin began his stay at Guns & Ammo in the late 1960s as National Advertising Manager and then took over the editorial helm a short time later when ... Read More
A Widow's Path
Most single women must throw themselves on the mercy of the counterman at the local gun store to try and figure out what carry gun will work best for them. ... Read More
- BlackHawk Blades BHB40 and BHB41 Folders BlackHawk Blades introduces two blades, the BHB40 and the BHB41. Intended for both tactical and general utility use, ... Read More
- Ed Brown Executive Target Despite being 95 years old--and inarguably a classic--the 1911 platform seldom gets referred to today as ... Read More
- Scope Sense Back in the Dark Ages when I was a kid, you still had to convince shooters that scopes were useful tools. This is no ... Read More
- Treasure of the Tres Hermanas The huge labyrinthian geological structures that decorate southern New Mexico have been fascinating to me since the ... Read More
