So I uh got something this evening

I had a fellow carve a set of one piece walnut grips for mine to replace the bakelite that came on my Colt. It looked much better.

As much as I like .45s I believe the .357 more versatile. I remember shooting a snake out of the rafters, I had no ceiling, with a 45 FMJ and having it bounce off the wood and through the roof. The next I was patching the roof. I after that carried my Colt New Frontier loaded with shot. That was back in the old days before CCI came out with their commercial load. Never did use those. My load was ? gr of Bullseye, the #9 shot enclosed in a 000 capsule to prevent leading, sandwiched between a gas check at both ends. Got many a snake with that load. It really shinned when shooting snakes indoors, and there were several, as it did only a little damage to the house. Many times something less than max power is better. The beauty of hand loading, amongst other things, is that you can tune the load to whatever, accuracy, availability, economy, power or the lack of, etc.

I had a snake infestation problem. They would be in the fire place, corner, mantel, in the rafter as mentioned. I about stepped on one as I entered my house. My biggest concern was one crawling in the sack me at night to keep warm. It’s been known to happen. The house was isolated; the nearest neighbour I think was 5 miles distance. One day I had a contractor come out to do some work that was beyond me, mainly cement work including plugging a hole at the base of the chimney that the snakes were using. It was about 1500 as I remember when finished and putting his tools in his truck when I heard him call out. I wheeled to see what had him so excited and there was a snake in top gear going from the wood’s edge to the now non-existent hole. As he was not only out of range the contractor was between us so I closed. When just in range the snake saw me and stopped dead in his tracks making him an easy target. I let three fly as I remember, the impact of shot is not detactable in grass and because of the extreme range, the snake never moved again. Now the contractor, who obviously had a phobia with snakes became macho and wanted to carry the snake back as a trophy and asked me to put it in the truck, in the cab nonetheless. Why not? Macho man had now composed himself and I obliged. On the way back while passing through a city in the 5’oclock traffic the snake came to life. I cracked up at his story and would have given anything to have witnessed that, even the proverbial left nut. That must have been hilarious beyond words.

Also, other than the coloration and lack of fluting on my cylinder, my SAA is the same as Yul Brynner’s Artillery SAA from The Magnificent Seven, which is awesome. The irony is I had buzzed my head very shortly before getting the stock alert that my gun store had it in. I didn’t even think about that until yesterday too, and realized I had a pic of me that almost matched a pic from the movie.

Cool!  If they ever remake Westworld again, you can be one of the extras sprawled dead over a saloon table, or something. 

Ha yes! I’d absolutely love to be an extra in a western of any kind, be it a Wild West Western or something more modern like Hell or High Water or Yellowstone. I say extra because I’m an absolutely terrible actor lol.

Gonna be a bit more until I actually shoot it, but I’m practicing stances and actions with snap caps. I’m trying a grip position with the off hand operating the action, while the off index finger rests on the front of the trigger guard and the grip hand thumb rests on the left side of the back of the frame behind the cylinder. Attempting a “fighters stance” here, but could definitely improve.

How many "clicks"? Three or four?