My Dad enjoys guns, but doesn't do a lot of shooting. (It interferes with working all the time) I decided to introduce him to our world for his big 66 this year. I picked up some flattop .44 specials, serial numbers 520-30429 Mine :mrgreen: , 430 my good friend Justin Ransbottom, 431 John Linebaugh, and this one, 432 is my Dad's. (I also have 520-30452, which WAS a standard grip .45 convertible, but began life anew as a stainless gripped round butted Bisley night before last :mrgreen: It's getting a set of fire tiger maple grips) I wanted to do something special on the grips. I went back to my other place where I grew up in NC Kansas, and hauled home a pickup load of 10 year old hedge (osage orange) stumps, and we promptly cut one down the middle only to find it wet to the touch. My good friend came to the rescue. He's got some hedge posts that were in the ground back before Oklahoma gained statehood, and was still Indian Territory before 1907. I really like the way these turned out. They'll get darker, but I like them like they are now. It was a spur of the moment decision to do these, so there was no time to face the frame, mate the main frame to the grip frame, grind them to the frame, and get it reblued, so we just hand fit them the best we could the day before the big 66 :!: Here's a few pics.
