Day off from work, came across movie on tv from 1956. In color, filmed on location (California, Colorado?). Titled "Running Target", about a sheriff and a few helpers tracking escaped convicts. Never saw it before, now i want to get a copy of it, you might like it if you ever get the chance to see it. A beautiful Weatherby rifle and a S&W pistol figure prominently in the script. (i'm old fashioned, i still call a revolver a pistol, hope no one is offended!). :wink:
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BDM1,
Back in the 1900's 'Pistoleros' were shooting revolvers not semi-autos.
The business of categorizing semi-autos as pistols is fine, but so is referring to a revolver as a pistol fine too.
For some reason (I don't understand how this bs started) some folks now think a semi-auto 'must' be referred to as a pistol and revolvers can't be called a pistol. This is bunkum!!!
Back in the 1900's 'Pistoleros' were shooting revolvers not semi-autos.
The business of categorizing semi-autos as pistols is fine, but so is referring to a revolver as a pistol fine too.
For some reason (I don't understand how this bs started) some folks now think a semi-auto 'must' be referred to as a pistol and revolvers can't be called a pistol. This is bunkum!!!
SR1911SHOOTER
Blackhawk
All my life I have just said gun! Only I need to know what I am referring to.
Blackie
Blackie
I grew up calling a revolver a pistol... did not know any better... Oh, well.... things change.
Enigma
Hunter
The only thing that annoys me is when an auto pistol is called a 'service revolver,' usually in a book or movie/TV program.
Well, heck you could have used Gat or Rod, or any other of a huge number of names and we would have understood. Unlike places frequented by anally retentive youngsters we pretty much know words are meant to convey meaning, not a sign of ones self determined intelligence.
GunnyGene
Hawkeye
BDM1 said:
Well, wheel guns were called revolvers in 1864. Here's a couple pages from Civil War Marine, A diary of the Red River Expedition, in which Lt. Frank Church refers to them. The book also includes descriptions and illustrations of other weaponry, etc. Know what a Coffee Grinder is? :wink:
Link to the book: https://archive.org/details/CivilWarMarine
WIL TERRY
Buckeye
A revolver IS a pistol and has been called such for well OVER 150 years.
There are revolving pistols and self-loading pistols.
Need we explain more !
And so it goes...
There are revolving pistols and self-loading pistols.
Need we explain more !
And so it goes...
indyartisan
Bearcat
https://youtu.be/eQt5WPQTwN0
Clint calls em pistols.
https://youtu.be/xKw3ZXqrhhA
Here is the movie Running Target on youtube
Clint calls em pistols.
https://youtu.be/xKw3ZXqrhhA
Here is the movie Running Target on youtube
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I'm almost at a point of thinking a semi-auto 'must' be referred to as a pistol as some sort of gun PC b.s. Psssst, a revolver is a pistol whether you like it or not...
All handguns (not rifles claiming to be handguns) are pistols.
If that information makes you p.o.'d then I assume you to be under 40...
All handguns (not rifles claiming to be handguns) are pistols.
If that information makes you p.o.'d then I assume you to be under 40...
bogus bill
Hunter
For what it`s worth calling a revolver a pistol gave Colonel Jeff Cooper fits.
GunnyGene
Hawkeye
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Well, I'm not po'd. In fact, I prefer descriptive terms with fewer sylLAbles. Revolver has 3, pistol has 2. Gun only 1, but that can cause entirely new levels of confusion. :wink:
