Posted on 04/10/2017 7:41:30 AM PDT by rktman
The Texas state dish is chili, its tree is the pecan and its fish is the Guadalupe bass. And soon, Texas may have an explosive addition to its set of official symbols: plans are afoot for a state gun.
Though Texas lawmakers through the years have seen fit to designate dozens of symbols, including an official pollinator (the western honey bee), cooking implement (the cast-iron Dutch oven) and shell (the lightning whelk), they have not yet given the seal of approval to a weapon, despite the state’s famous fondness for arms.
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In Arkansas that's Bill Clinton.
Colt Walker is first choice.
Runner up would be Colt 1851 Navy. Many cowboys carried them.
I kinda like the Colt Outlaw...
Gotta be the Colt SA Army in .45 cal.
What?
A Texas official state item thread without bluebonnets?
Fixed.
Because the Daisey’s were originally made by the Plymouth Windmill Co. located in Plymouth, MI. They were a kind of a give away to promote windmill sales. One customer was so tickled with it he called it a “daisey” and it stuck! They eventually slipped to full time BB guns. In the mid-fifties they moved to Rogers, AR.
AGREE 100% .......
The Republic of Texas was one of the earliest customers of a New England gun maker, Samuel Colt. Colt had invented a fragile .36 caliber five-shot revolver, a weapon Hays and his men used with deadly effect in defense of the Texas frontier. No longer would his men have to pause in battle to reload single-shot pistols and rifles while the Indians continued firing arrows. Colt built his reputation on the use of his weapons by the Texas Rangers. One of Hays’ men, Samuel H. Walker, made some suggestions for improving the pistol that Colt adopted during the Mexican War. The new weapon, the five-pound frontier equivalent of a nuclear bomb, was called the “””Walker Colt”””.
Yep, the walker Colt horse pistol. Shoots through a horse to get the bad guy on the other side.
Winchester’s slogan was “The gun that won the west”.
They’re blooming right now.
So pretty!
I love the bluebonnet fields in spring.
:-)
“Samuel Colt’s .45...”The Gun That Won the West”....”
Sam Colt never made a 45.
He died in 1862, more than a decade before the Single Action Army (factory model P) was introduced by the gunmaking firm he founded, five years before the centerfire cartridge it chambered was invented.
The biggest handguns “Colonel” Colt had a personal hand in designing were 44s - bore diameter of about 0.44 inch. Ball diameter was about 0.451 inch. And all of his were percussion-fired. Cartridges (the self-contained, metallic sort) came later.
The Winchester lever-action carbines were probably more instrumental in "winning the West" than the Colt SAA. Models 1873 - 1892, in particular. Winchester has been cranking out Texas-related "commemorative" models for collectors since the 1960s - time to reciprocate.
Winchester 73...
Needs to be a western gun. The 1873 Colt SAA is really the obvious choice here, especially as it is a hangun and the crazy commie libs hate handguns. The. Winchester 1892 carbine would be another dandy choice, but the SAA really needs to be it.
It pis so tempting to select the AR15 to shove it in the Left Wing’s face, but no. Texas has to adopt the Peacemaker. It is the only obvious choice.
Just so long as it is not based on popular vote and wind up with a Glock or something.
Ha! Texans know that if it has beans, IT IS NOT CHILI!
Texas chili is all meat, baby. The best kind of chili on earth.
If it has got beans IT AIN’T CHILI!
California has a state gun. It is the gay mens penii.
Looks like that is what they are going with.
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