Mine and my wifes first pistols.

I could be the Australian in America "Quigley"...but someone has to send me a Sharps rifle to fill that picture! ;) *hints*
There you go! But as heavy as those things are, postage could be expensive. Love your pistols, and welcome to the USA! I hope you get to fire 100,000 rounds through them!
 
Hi Robert-

Those look like fine pistols!

45 colt will give quite a kick - those look like they have a nice big grip on them.

Congrats and thanks for the pictures!

best regards -

mqqn
 
Nice iron and I second the recommendation for training. I recently did a 4 day defensive handgun course at FrontSight near Vegas and I can't recommend it highly enough. I don't particularly like their marketing strategy but the training was top notch. Their claim is that you'll shoot and handle better than 90% of those that carry a gun for a living. I didn't believe it but after the course I do. Not because I shoot so well after the course but I and several other military and LEO's in the class agree that the training received in our military and LEO employment was not nearly as good as that we got at FS.

Get you and yours a couple of Glocks or a Springfield XDs in 9 mm and a good Kydex holster and go, you won't regret it. Great fun too, some classroom but a lot of varied shooting......

Welcome to the States Mate.
 
Congrats on your new purchases Robert. And good on you for exercising your new liberties.
 
How do they color the steel like that? Is is through chemicals, or part of the heat treating process? I like it!
 
Wow, I have never been much of a six shooter fan, prefering semiautos myself, but those are some attractive pistols, very good looking. Congrats!
 
Thanks a lot guys! sorry for the late reply, been a busy week getting out stuff at work.

Nice pair of pistolas there! Have you gotten full leather rigs for them as well? Doing any Cowboy Action Shooting yet?

I know you're already here, but I wish you and your wife (plus kids) "Welcome" to the USA!

No cowboy action stuff yet though I am ordering a holster and will make up a belt. atm its a little out of the budget (need another centerfire SA, getting a cimarron doc holliday piece, a carbine and shotgun) but I'd eventually like to get rigged out for just that. Also no kids just yet, and my wife is born and raised in the US...we had 15 months apart due to immigration red tape introduced in the past few years.

Hi Robert-

Those look like fine pistols!

45 colt will give quite a kick - those look like they have a nice big grip on them.

Congrats and thanks for the pictures!

best regards -

mqqn

Thanks, surprisingly the kick of the 45 LC isn't too bad and my wife and I find it quite manageable. We are however getting a couple .22 LR single actions for off weeks when we can't be spending out on 45 rounds. I have large hands and find the grip to be very comfortable, I am going to save to buy their Doc Holliday model also enjoying this one quite a bit.

How do they color the steel like that? Is is through chemicals, or part of the heat treating process? I like it!

The frame is case hardened, so heat produces that effect.
 
You left us Rob.
Don't forget to come back and visit.
Love America, only been there a couple of times but great country and even better people, nearly as good as Oz ;-)
 
Guessing from your e-mail address- you're from South Africa? Did you not have the opportunity to own firearms there?
 
You left us Rob.
Don't forget to come back and visit.
Love America, only been there a couple of times but great country and even better people, nearly as good as Oz ;-)

It's highly probable I wont be back, Australia was never really home for me (felt a pull to the US since I was a small child) and don't have much good to say considering you can't even buy single hand opening knives anymore without customs seizing them lol.

Guessing from your e-mail address- you're from South Africa? Did you not have the opportunity to own firearms there?

My MSN address is an ancient Egyptian deity with birth year, had that address since first year of junior high :p...I was in Australia, I owned rifles in Aus but never had pistols. The laws made firearm ownership prohibitively expensive so I gave up what firearms I had left which hadn't been reclassified as illegal when I began planning my future in the US.
 
I f you come home you can have one of my many Knives like that. :-) Tough thing to move for Mate.

Rob, I hope you make a fist of it in the USA and have a good life.
All the best Mate.

MM
 
I f you come home you can have one of my many Knives like that. :-) Tough thing to move for Mate.

Rob, I hope you make a fist of it in the USA and have a good life.
All the best Mate.

MM

I wouldnt move back even for a crate full of Hinderer XM-18s!!! :p I am home.
 
Nice revolvers!Single action wheelguns have always held a special place for me.They're what I learned to shoot first.
 
Since your going the single action route, may I suggest the Ruger super single six for the ,22 revolver?

I had one for many years, and it got sold off during the great downsize, but I sometimes regret it. It was neet to have a .22 revolver that took .22 long rifle as well as the .22 magnum with an easy change of cylinder.

Revolvers have always held a special place in my heart, and they form the main core of my home arsenal, small as it s. Another thing is, a short lever action carbine in the same caliber as the revolver is a heck of a nice combo to have. Greatly extends both range and power from the same round.

Carl.
 
Hi Carl, I was intending on getting a model 94 in .45 colt so I had a matching side arm and rifle...as for the .22 pistols we are still looking into models so will see what we can budget for after I get some more paychecks under my belt. I definitely like the old school pistols over more modern pieces, WWII pistols are about the newest pistols I really have a desire for at this point in time.

Probably my taste in slipjoints affects this decision! :D
 
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Winchester is good. A lot of the cowboy action shooters at my club use the Marlin 1894. The Marlin 1894 of mine in .357 was very accurate and reliable.

Carl.
 
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