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To: Badabing Badablonde

Pearl handled .44, or whatever it was that George Patton carried.


30 posted on 04/24/2013 5:37:38 PM PDT by ConradofMontferrat (According to mudslymz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
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To: ConradofMontferrat
Ivory handles!

When asked about his “Pearl handle gun” Patton remarked that “Ivory handles are for pimps and queers.”

George Patton was such a diplomat.

36 posted on 04/24/2013 5:44:49 PM PDT by Tupelo
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To: ConradofMontferrat

He carried two in holsters and also a Cold General Officers model pocket pistol in his belt.

The belt guns were a Colt .45 model 1873 Army model. Nickle plated and engraved. He killed two Mexicans with it during the Pershing expedition into Mexico. He killed them in a face to face shootout.

He also carried a Smith & Wesson registered .357 magnum. Today the same gun is called a model 27. I think it was done up like the single action.

He said in the movie that no one but a pimp in a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl handled revolver.

Patton was actually wrong about that as some old West gunfighters did actually carry pearl handled revolvers.


40 posted on 04/24/2013 5:53:24 PM PDT by yarddog (Truth, Justice, and what was once the American Way.)
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