Tony Simon
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Now, I'm like, why is that?
And he's one of the older guys on YouTube, and it was for hog hunting for one of his friends.
And dude was taking a four and a half pound black powder revolver out to hog hunt with percussion caps and a red dot on it because he said, I'm getting older and it's hard to see.
You can't see that little sight because if people don't know, the Colt Walker...
you aim through the gap in the hammer.
When you cock the hammer, that's the rear sight.
Then you got the little bump front sight.
They developed that, which is great because it's kind of a Jersey story.
Colt opened in Patterson, New Jersey, and they had .30 caliber revolvers.
They didn't even have a trigger guard.
When you cock the hammer, the trigger popped down from the gun and you shot it that way.
The Texas Ranger used them.
They used to carry a brace of them and they fought the Indians.
And this is back in the day when they expected you to have that single shot in your rifle and that single shot in your pistol.
And these dudes were able to pull out these 31 or 36 caliber, I forget which one, revolvers.
And they were just laying waste.
And the Indians were like, oh, crap.
What the hell?
So by the time the stories and those things got in the field and stories got back, Colbert closed up in Jersey because they weren't selling like he thought they were.
Well, Walker, one of the Rangers, was like, look,