The best gun show on TV, American Guns, aired another new episode last night where they built a customized rifle for a Cowboy Action Shooter who wanted an 1873 Winchester. The client, however, may surprise you in that Dylan is a 13-year old boy. But do not let his age fool you for Dylan is ranked 3rd in the country for speed shooting. He can aim and hit 10 separate targets with a pair of six-guns in under 3 seconds! Rich Wyatt negotiates with Dylan′s father over the price of the rifle. Rich starts at $20,000 while Dylan′s dad is thinking more like $15,000. The final price is $18,000.
Rich briefs his team of gunsmiths on the job. They will machine a receiver from a block of stainless steel using their C-in-C machine. The rifle will also utilize a short-pull lever action linkage kit which action shooters love. This allows the weapon to rack a round in about half of the motion as a normal Winchester. Naturally, the rifle will also get a detailed engraving job to make it stand out as a work of art.
Meanwhile, Paige gets herself a client, David, who is in need of a pistol. He runs an exotic animal rescue service and often faces dangerous, angry owners who do not want their exotic animals rescued. Paige talks him into a Smith & Wesson .45 caliber MMP with a customized trigger and a zebra paint job. They haggle a bit over the price and Paige comes down from $1,800 to $1,500 after seeing a baby camel David just rescued.
Jon, who typically does the wood-work for rifle stocks, starts trash-talking about Dylan and wants to challenge him to a shooting contest. Rich sets it up. Jon uses a MAC-10 sub-machine pistol while Dylan uses his current lever-action rifle. Both are assigned nine glass spheres as targets. Despite having a rate of fire of 800 rounds per minute, Jon loses to Dylan by a fraction of a second. Not to mention that Dylan only fired 9 rounds while Jon burned most of his 40-round clip. This kid is incredible!
Paige walks her project through the shop, getting the pistol painted while Brian works on the trigger mechanism. She then test fires the gun under Brian′s supervision. But daddy Rich is not pleased when he finds out that the company is only making a $100 profit on the deal. Paige acknowledges her error as she and Rich deliver the pistol to David. They meet at a shooting range so David can test his new weapon. David arrives with his wife and a young zebra they have rescued. Everyone is happy with the finished product.
Work on the Winchester is wrapped up. Brian had some issues with the linkage kit as the new lever did not align with it. So he put a torch to the lever and banged it enough to reshape the metal to fit. Kurt completes the job with some terrific engraving. Rich delivers the Winchester to Dylan who puts it through its motions. He is very pleased with action and shows off more of his incredible shooting skills. All in all, a great episode of American Guns on the Discovery Channel.
June 14th, 2012 at 10:53 am
I joined the Single Action Shootin’ Society (SASS) about 18 years ago.
Cowboy Action Shootin’ has Three Basic Tenets :
1) All Guns Must Be Cowboy ’style’.
2) All Clothing Must Be Cowboy ’style’.
3) All Shooters Must Have An ‘Alias’.
Hence ‘Awlhattin O’Kaddle’- Badge # 15,***.
If you join today, you will be issued a badge number well over 100,000. It Is HUGE !
I’m not Active Any More. Health Issues are my excuse. Truth is, those Liddle Bastards put six shots in the Target before I can clear ma holster.
Check Out this Link. It’s Fascinatin’ !
http://www.sassnet.com/About-What-is-SASS-001A.php
June 14th, 2012 at 11:42 am
I updated the video. Now I have the scene from the episode where Dylan and Jon go head-to-head. This young man is truly amazing. For him to keep up with a sub-machine pistol is incredible.
June 14th, 2012 at 12:41 pm
I’ll make sure to bring a “Brokeback Mountain ” video.
just to break the ice
June 14th, 2012 at 12:57 pm
Competitive Shooting Sports have been around since Day One and especially since the years after the American Civil War.
These have always been sponsored by groups like 4-H, Boy Scouts, American Legion, Jaycees and Law Enforcement Associations.
In modern times, most of these disciplines were quickly ‘taken over’ by professional Trophy Hogs.
Most people can’t even qualify without a multi thousand dollar ‘Race Gun’.
Cowboy Action Shooting went from small groups of blue collar good ol’ boys in cowboy hats, to a gigantic money-making phenom, at warp speed. Just tote up the $45. & $55. per years dues x 100k. ( BTW, I didn’t choose my Alias ’till several years after I joined, so these money grubbing sluts made me pay them $10. to do so )
Now, the Major Events, like End Of Trail, are attended by tens of thousands, and many of those are Decked OUT from scalp to tootsies in many thousands of dollars worth of ‘Costume ‘ and hardware.
And, of course, the Types that always have to win EVERY match, EVERY time, Year After Year. If there is a psychologist in the house, perhaps he can help with an appropriate tag for these pukes. I just can’t post the handles I have for them.
Believe it or not, I’m not really bitchin’ here. This whole CAS thing is fantastic. It has spurred gun & holster mfg. worldwide as well as hat, boot and clothing makers.
PS It will come as No Surprise that ‘Injun’ targets became verboten, long ago.
June 14th, 2012 at 1:14 pm
micky
LOLOLOL !
June 14th, 2012 at 3:36 pm
WOW !
Any attempt to get a dialog going is just pissin’ in the wind.
I’ll check back . . . . someday
June 14th, 2012 at 6:31 pm
Yeah, its been a little slow.
When a moonbat doesnt come round a post like this and call us all a bunch of “Duke” Red White and Blue John Wayne bible thumpers you know they’re worried about something else….
cant get stoned at a naked Ftisco gay wedding, who knows ?
June 14th, 2012 at 6:34 pm
Can we all have a list of words the moderator “does like” ?
Kriminy Jickets man
June 14th, 2012 at 10:42 pm
Micky, you can have a login ID and not worry about it anymore.
June 14th, 2012 at 10:43 pm
That’s a gorgeous gun. Anyone think Obama has ever fired a weapon?
June 15th, 2012 at 12:38 am
Pat !
Obama and his ilk don’t ‘get’ fine firearms.
That Bunch goes for MAC-10’s and Lorcins
when they Gotta Getta Gatt.
The Up Side, is that Thousands of lives have
probably been saved by these cheesy junk
weapons Failure To Function.
June 15th, 2012 at 5:32 am
Hah, my penis isn’t small enough to be as into this show as you guys, but if I ever need to make a gun from scratch, I’ll have to borrow someone’s “C in C” machine… or wait, did you mean CNC machines, as in computer numerical control?
I thought maybe you’re all big fans of C+C Music Factory? Everybody dance now!!!
June 15th, 2012 at 8:05 am
Me ! ! !
I’ve heard about that Crusty Limp Noodle you call Your Penis.
Didn’t you recently have to be circumcised because you were having trouble breathing ?
Guns aren’t for LibSquaws like you, anyhow. Stick to Floral Arrangements.
June 15th, 2012 at 9:32 am
Trust me, I spent a lot of time as a kid in the SW– I know how to fire a gun, ya douche. I just don’t feel the need to make it the centerpiece of my life. But then, I can see my penis without a magnifying glass.
But for you sad cases with 9mm-sized nubs hanging over their balls, i guess it must give you a real rush to fire something harder and bigger.
Enjoy squeezing your trigger.
June 15th, 2012 at 9:54 am
Um . . . . I Must have missed the ones who
‘ MAKE IT THE CENTERPIECE OF. . . .’
Their lives.
You are a Bitter & Vulgar Little Kunt ,
Aren’t You, Me ? Don’t let the frustration
and Failure of Your Life get to you.
There must be Something you can Salvage Of
It. Try Volunteer Work with Winos.
June 15th, 2012 at 11:00 am
“ME” has a penis?
June 15th, 2012 at 11:31 am
Yes, Faye, though its in Me’s mouth, not where one usually finds such.
June 15th, 2012 at 12:42 pm
Hmm, so you’re saying I’m a girl who gives lots of b1owjobs to strange men? I think you have me confused with Awlhattin O’Kaddle’s mother.
Or is it the thought of a BJ from Awlhattin himself that makes you wanna fire your Saturday night special into the ceiling?
Blanks, no doubt.
June 15th, 2012 at 12:54 pm
I never said you were a girl, ‘Me’.
June 15th, 2012 at 1:14 pm
Hmm, then I wonder what you meant by “…not where one usually finds such.” Maybe you mistyped and meant “suck” instead of “such”? In which case it sounds more like Awlhattin O’Kaddle’s father.
June 15th, 2012 at 2:07 pm
Like I said, Mi
You Pluck Dingleberries with no hands @ the Crack Of Don. Butt, Dats OK.
You an Him will soon Give Birth to an 8.5 lb Baby Turd.
\Liddle Mini Me
June 15th, 2012 at 2:16 pm
I’ll just let that “retort” stand.
(“retort” incidentally is what Awlhattin thinks people are calling him when the trip to the zoo is over and they want him back on the short bus…)
June 15th, 2012 at 2:37 pm
@ Me, You’re Goth in print, a miserable b1tch.
I’ve never seen some b1tch go off the deep end over an American Western gun club such as you.
Celebrate retained history.
Less we forget how this country came to be, ya fckin idjut.
Why cant you ever have anything in common with anyone but your anal self ? ?
You make Debbie Downer look like Peewee Herman
June 15th, 2012 at 3:11 pm
micky
I think Me and his ilk, the Lefty Losers who come to this site and spew their vile vitriol, are just Bitter PO’d Losers In Life.
Nature Handed them the Shit End of the Stick. First as Adolescent Misfits, always on the Outside Looking In and grossly Unhappy with their Dark Perversions.
Social Pariahs are always miserable and desperate. They try to put a happy face on it, but in The End, the likes of Me are only happy With A Facial.
Frankly, There is no other group that inspires such heady Schadenfruede in me. They demonstrate, every time they open their filthy Maw, they they deserve their fate. I would rather live and work among a whole population of Racist Ghetto Thugs than live on the same block with a couple of Fish Eyed Flamingos such as He Me.
June 15th, 2012 at 3:43 pm
Sad
June 15th, 2012 at 4:51 pm
Wow, Awlhattin, I didn’t think there was anyone less coherent than micky on this site. I’m not wrong often, but on this one I was.
The captcha strings make more sense than you do.
June 15th, 2012 at 5:22 pm
In dedication to “ME”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b248cANtWBo
June 15th, 2012 at 5:37 pm
“Wow, Awlhattin, I didn’t think there was anyone less coherent than micky on this site.”
I been around b1tch. Trust me, a day in my life and you’d selfishly kill yourself.
Your fckin miserable type slightly over aged trench coat Mafia masscara bunch would sht yourself within 15 minutes of the sht I’ve done and seen.
You nothing but a resemblance of your hammered dogma. Like a fcking checkers player against a three dimensional chess player.
You’re a simple minded predictable fck that aint worth droppin a dime on.
You sound like the nut in Times Square
“The End Is Near”!!!
But then again, you probably havent seen daylight in a couple months
June 15th, 2012 at 5:42 pm
Fey Be Snork Rash
Butt, ‘Nelly’ Be Me
June 16th, 2012 at 12:20 am
You nothing but a resemblance of your hammered dogma. Like a fcking checkers player against a three dimensional chess player.
I accidentally read one of your posts, micky, and now I can’t get the stupid to wash off. I do think you may have a future in writing horrible rap lyrics tho.
June 16th, 2012 at 5:56 am
Yeah well, guess what shthead.
Were not all fcking Hemingways like you.
Doesnt the fact that you can never answer a question that puts you on the loosing end without attacking ones intellect.
You’re a miserable fckn b1tch
My coherency ?
Our last debate you bailed, took off, crickets.
You’re the idiot who thinks Obama is too much to the right. NOT.
You’re just so fckin far left theres no room but to go right.
If these guys want to celebrate Americana more than once a year why does it bug you so fckin much ?
If it were a spear chucking contest, or archery or seeing how big a bone will fit in your nose, you’d be all in favor of celebrating the cultures behind those weapons, but fck Americans, right ?
Now you got your gay pride month acknowledged by the military. So pi$$ off and bust out your spandex 2 piece. Maybe you’ll get a seat next to Panetta
June 16th, 2012 at 5:18 pm
That kid made me sick. I could not believe his lack of appreciation for his dad shelling out almost 20k for this gun. If I were his parent, he’d be done shooting for a while and he’d be learning some really tough lessons about being thankful for what you have and respecting your parents.