Clint Smith

They got their butts shot off because that was their first introduction to the cartridge case gun in the trapdoor Springfield.

So there's that transition.

The Henry we already talked about, and I'm counting the last thing as two guns, not one.

And I think if someone go pick a gun, I would go 30-40 Craig.

Why?

First 30, first smokeless powder, first magazine fed, first bolt gun.

I mean, it was the space shuttle compared to the trapdoor rifle.

I mean, it was a quantum leap.

What's a perfect gun?

No one ever said that.

Okay.

I mean, eight millimeter Mauser is probably a really, you know, as far as a gun that was made, that's been made worldwide.

Yeah.

And I look at it right now, a model 29.

And the only reason is that is because that started to get people's eyes open into the idea of like using the gun and fighting back, even though, you know, they didn't like dirty Harry.

So I see that gun and another gun in my mind's eye would be the P38 because that was the one that the arch nemesis used.

And then it has a connotation to it because you go, oh, that P38, that is pretty cool.

You know, well, when they brought the Model 39 Smith and Wesson out, everybody thought that that was the first double action auto pistol.

And I kind of go, you need to know history because it was a P38.

It was actually something else before that.