triggers

bruce moulds · Post by **bruce moulds** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 7:13 am

"we used to file the notch of the hammer till the trigger would pull sweet, which is another way of saying that the blamed gun would pretty near go off if you looked at it".
this is a quote of bat masterson when sherrif of ford county, an area 100 miles by 75 miles, surrounding dodge city in 1877.
bat's tools of the trade were firearms and his wits.
he was at adobe walls in 1874 when billy dixon took an indian off his horse at one mile wth a sharps 50x 2.5, and a small group of buffalo hunters defended the place against 500 indians. he must have been a proficient rifle shot at distance to make a living in that trade.
while sherrif he had little need to use his guns, because he practised in public a lot, improving and demonstrating his skills to the extent that his reputation was overriding.
very few serious shooters are happy with factory triggers. so what's new.
bruce.

bruce moulds · Post by **bruce moulds** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 8:19 am

other filing of firearms in ford county in 1877, was the filing off of foresights by transgressors of the law.
when bat masterson was around, it payed to have no foresight on your gun if you had committed a crime.
bruce.

RDavies · Post by **RDavies** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 6:12 pm

So, what your saying is that those without foresights on their rifles (F class)likely evolved from criminals, but the good guys and town heroes had the superlight trigger and good long range caliber, obviously F Open. :wink:

Lynn Otto · Post by **Lynn Otto** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 6:32 pm

RDavies wrote:So, what your saying is that those without foresights on their rifles (F class)likely evolved from criminals, but the good guys and town heroes had the superlight trigger and good long range caliber, obviously F Open.

Can it be assumed from this that you do not group F Open in with F Class as a whole seeing as how "F Class" are the criminal types but F Open are the "good guys"

RDavies · Post by **RDavies** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 7:16 pm

HaHa, I was waiting for a bite. I know it deserved one.

Lynn Otto · Post by **Lynn Otto** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 7:39 pm

I couldn't see Brucey biting since you lumped him in with the 'good guys' (I think you should rethink that btw :wink:

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bruce moulds · Post by **bruce moulds** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 7:53 pm

things were much worse for miscreants in tombstone in 1879 under the earps.
not only did they remove their forsights, they also filed the hammer spurs off their guns in an attempt to minimize pain.
bruce.

johnk · Post by **johnk** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 8:55 am

bruce moulds wrote:they also filed the hammer spurs off their guns in an attempt to minimize pain.

.......when the gun was shoved......?

John E · Post by **John E** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 4:48 pm

I just got a mental flash: shock: :shock:

John

Razer · Post by **Razer** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 10:01 pm

Roy Rogers actually rode his trigger. :wink: