I occasionally see videos where the topic is "BBQ Guns"- a gun you would wear, openly, to a gun-owner-friendly BBQ where that was the dress code- or even kind of the whole point.
I want to go to a BBQ like that! I've never been to one, but it sounds like a lot of fun.
Anyway, the point is that you wear a really nice, or at least unusual/interesting, gun to show off a little.
I don't have any highly polished, gold-plated guns. I tend to find those boring, even if they look nice. But I do have a couple of ideas of what I'd wear in such a case.
My DL-15, shown above, is probably my top choice. It might not be anyone else's idea of a BBQ gun, but I really like it. And, judging by the reactions I get at the shooting range, it's interesting and unusual.
If I had to choose a backup, or if the invitation demanded a BBQ revolver, I'd wear my "Man With No Name" 1851 Navy.
If you were to pick a BBQ gun for yourself- either from your collection or from your want list- what would you choose?
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I'd take my dad's Ivor Johnson .410. I forget how old it is (I looked it up once, I think late 19-teens), but when he got it in the early 1950s, the stock was rotted halfway out, so an uncle of mine hand carved a new one from a walnut stump. Then the end of the barrel consploded, so he had it repaired (part of which was sawing it off a little). I remember when I was a kid he took it to a gunsmith to be re-blued.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen anyone "BBQ gun" a long gun. Usually they specify only handguns. But that's rude.
DeleteEven if I included my long guns, it probably wouldn't change my choices. Unless I brought my original Winchester 1894 (in .32-40).
Some of those old guns are hard to pin an exact date on. I have one ridiculously tiny rifle (Stevens Little Scout 14 1/2) that I inherited and can only work out a date range of sometime between 1909 and 1916- I've tried to get more specific but have failed so far.
I'm sure I could fire the .410 one-handed, so I'd call it a handgun and work up an over-the-back "holster" for it :D
DeleteMake a "mare's leg" style holster for it!
DeleteWhen the current Automag company anounced they were going to make one that shot standard .44Rem, I knew I was finally going to get a dream come true. They didn't, so I didn't. So much for showing off in style.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they'll do it one day.
DeleteOver a decade ago, I open carried my Springfield XD Tactical .45 (my daily carry) in a Christmas parade into a very liberal township (no objection from local LEO). The news coverage of the event demeaned my side-arm as a "BBQ gun". So ever since, I've called it exactly that! It's still my daily carry.
ReplyDeleteHans ... in the NC woods
"Demeaned"? Elevated is more like it! LOL!
DeleteThe only parade I've ever really been in was an Independence Day parade with my mountainman club. I carried my Hawken rifle and my flintlock pistol. Most of us even fired off a few blank shots into the air along the route. Good times.