Single Action Sixguns
by John Taffin
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Author: John TaffinEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-10-12
ISBN: 0873499530
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Krause Publications
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Book Review: Half a century of sixguns
Summary: 5 Stars
John Taffin has been enamored with the single-action revolver for over 50 years. His fascination runs back to the "B" grade westerns of his youth, and he has been shooting, loading for and hunting with single action revolvers since the 1950s. One of the central tenets of his soul is that he is a teacher. The synergy of his love for sixguns and his superb teaching skills (as well as decades of hard work), have led Taffin to become one of today's premier gunwriters. "Single Action Sixguns" is a rich and fertile compilation of the experiences derived from five decades of handling, shooting, customizing, competing with and hunting with single-action revolvers of every imaginable size shape, caliber and configuration. The knowledge captured in these pages is both insightful and entertaining. The extensive color photography is truly spectacular, and any fan of the gun-maker's art will find the significant collection of fine sixguns captured in these pages to be inspirational. It could easily be argued that no other man has put as much time, effort or thought into customizing, collecting or competing with the single-action revolver, and this book is the culmination of half a century of John's passion. Chapters cover the multitude of different makes and models of single-action sixguns, customizing them, exotic grips, fine leather, hunting with the revolver, time-proven loading techniques and tips, and the history of the single-action revolver from the early Colt cap-n-ball revolvers through the thoroughly modern Freedom Arms masterpieces. The writing is in Taffin's clear, entertaining, and knowledgeable style. The firearms enthusiast will find no finer book on sixguns, their history, function and use, than "Single-action Sixguns" by John Taffin. Good teachers are a blessing indeed.
Summary of Single Action Sixguns
170 Years of the Guns that Tamed the West and Made All Men Equal!
The Peacemaker. The Ol' Thumb-Buster. The Hawg Laig.
No firearm in the world is more immediately recognizable than the 1873 Colt Single Action Army Revolver. Yet Colt's famed six-shooter was only one of hundreds of models of single action revolvers that fought wars, tamed a wild continent and bought the long arm of the law to a new world. Single Action Six Guns is packed with fascinating facts about all makes and models: Colt, Smith & Wesson, Remington, Ruger, Freedom Arms, John Linebaugh, United States Fire Arms, and many more...
Hundreds of full-color photos
Up-to-the-minute reloading data for today's hottest cowboy action guns
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