Re: [DL] Re: Guns

["Ronald Conner" <marshalron@hotmail.com>]

>From: Evil Robot Shane From Another Dimension <wishkah@redbrick.dcu.ie>
>Reply-To: deadlands@gamerz.net
>To: deadlands@gamerz.net
>Subject: [DL] Re: Guns
>Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:51:40 +0000
>
>On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 09:31:39PM -0800, Ronald Conner said:
> > I was looking around trying to find some info on the pettengill army
> > revolver...NO luck.  And I found an auction site that has pictures.  And
> > they sell antique GUNS!
>
>  On a related note, nothing makes an authentic 
>gun-being-cocked-under-table
>  noise like a gun being cocked under a table.  An antique (or maybe just
>  cool stuff) shop near me sells replica Western-type guns by a company
>  called Denix.  I thought they looked cool enough, so bought a Peacemaker
>  for one of my posse members for his 21st, and fiddling with it quite a
>  bit before handing it over revealed it to be groovy indeed.  A few weeks
>  later I went out and got myself the Colt Army can-&-ball replica I'd been
>  salivating over, and it looks like Christmas will being other pistols and
>  possibly even a Winchester rifle for other party members.
>
>  They're not the sturdiest things in the world - my Army's cylinder 
>stopped
>  turning when cocking it about 24 hours after I got it, necessitating me
>  exchanging it for another one which is working fine still, and the
>  Peacemaker that started it all seems to have broken lately too.  However,
>  I still recommend these things, especially to folks who don't live in the
>  US or other country where guns are things people have.  They're heavy,
>  authentic-looking (except with very close inspction) and add real
>  atmosphere.
>

Personally I would avoid Denix.  They are cheap replicas and not very show 
worthy at that.

There are lots of other real fireing replicas that you can get.  They are a 
bit more expensive but they won't fall apart on you in five minutes.  Plus I 
think they stopped makeing some of them.

Ron C
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