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
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.
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