I've taken a look at the SASS rules, but I can't figure out whether the personna I'd like to develop would be legal or not.
I mentioned him somewhere in the Rambling Anecdotes thread. He was my great grandfather. He was involved in one and only one classic Western-style gunfight, on the side of the law as it happened.
In his gunfight, he used a pocket-carried, round-butted, nickel and black Smith and Wesson double action tip-up revolver, five shot, in the obsolete .38 S&W caliber.
In his honor, I would like to use at least one black and silver pocket revolver, if possible fired from a holster sewn inside a left-side pocket. I have a New Vaquero .45 and I'm getting a .32 Single Six Birdshead, just because; but the .32 is probably the closest SASS-legal piece to the one Great Grandpa used.
So. Anything say I can't use two different calibers? And must both revolvers be carried in belt holsters?
I'm also thinking (wildly) of the unlikely possibility of having the gunsmith Mr. Gallhager rebuild the .32 as a .38 Special, perhaps 5 shot. Being a New Model, assuming he could do this modification at all, and assuming I could afford its astronomical price, it would be safe to carry fully loaded with five rounds. But I don't know whether SASS rules would allow this.
I had thought, just because it would be more comfortable and secure, to have a holster rig built based on a bandelero-style strap over my left shoulder and down to my right hip, with a leg tie-down. I may have something like that made for my own use anyway, but since nothing like that has appeared in the real or fictional West (unless you count the string from which Tuco suspended his revolver in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) I really doubt any match would allow it. I would think it would work very, very well, though.
I mentioned him somewhere in the Rambling Anecdotes thread. He was my great grandfather. He was involved in one and only one classic Western-style gunfight, on the side of the law as it happened.
In his gunfight, he used a pocket-carried, round-butted, nickel and black Smith and Wesson double action tip-up revolver, five shot, in the obsolete .38 S&W caliber.
In his honor, I would like to use at least one black and silver pocket revolver, if possible fired from a holster sewn inside a left-side pocket. I have a New Vaquero .45 and I'm getting a .32 Single Six Birdshead, just because; but the .32 is probably the closest SASS-legal piece to the one Great Grandpa used.
So. Anything say I can't use two different calibers? And must both revolvers be carried in belt holsters?
I'm also thinking (wildly) of the unlikely possibility of having the gunsmith Mr. Gallhager rebuild the .32 as a .38 Special, perhaps 5 shot. Being a New Model, assuming he could do this modification at all, and assuming I could afford its astronomical price, it would be safe to carry fully loaded with five rounds. But I don't know whether SASS rules would allow this.
I had thought, just because it would be more comfortable and secure, to have a holster rig built based on a bandelero-style strap over my left shoulder and down to my right hip, with a leg tie-down. I may have something like that made for my own use anyway, but since nothing like that has appeared in the real or fictional West (unless you count the string from which Tuco suspended his revolver in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) I really doubt any match would allow it. I would think it would work very, very well, though.