Los Cuernos del Diablo

Started by Pancho Peacemaker, December 14, 2010, 09:19:36 PM

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Pancho Peacemaker

I've been in the process of writing up a Mexican bounty hunter persona for NCOWS matches.  I've got a lot of good detail written up about a character with a shady past who started out working the agave fields in Jalisco.  I figured such a character needs some mean looking pistolas at his hip.

I came up with a pair of uberti Schofield hideout models (3.5" barrels) and I found some Ajax black pearl grips for them. 

We'll call this brace of guns "Los Cuernos del Diablo"

I'll post a few pics when I find my camera.

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Sounds interesting. Looking forward to the pix.


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WaddWatsonEllis

Okay, this Gringo is going to go look up what cuernos means ... LOL ....
My moniker is my great grandfather's name. He served with the 2nd Florida Mounted Regiment in the Civil War. Afterward, he came home, packed his wife into a wagon, and was one of the first NorteAmericanos on the Frio River southwest of San Antonio ..... Kinda where present day Dilley is ...

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Sir Charles deMouton-Black

Quote from: WaddWatsonEllis on December 17, 2010, 06:15:21 PM
Okay, this Gringo is going to go look up what cuernos means ... LOL ....

I thought you portray a Californio.  One that doesn't habla Espagnol ? ???

P.S;  I get stuck after Dos Cervecas Por Favor!  And I am from British California just a wee skip North of you.
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WaddWatsonEllis

I don't have any excuse ... other than it is not a word that I wold use ... I had to Wikipedia it and translate the Wikipedia to learn that it meant horn.

But I have been stationed in Spain, was born in San Antonio, and live in a state where Mexican is becoming the primary language in many places ... but unless Cuernas directly translated as what us Anglos call 'horny' (and I seriously doubt that), I wouldn't have much use to use it in normal conversation ...
My moniker is my great grandfather's name. He served with the 2nd Florida Mounted Regiment in the Civil War. Afterward, he came home, packed his wife into a wagon, and was one of the first NorteAmericanos on the Frio River southwest of San Antonio ..... Kinda where present day Dilley is ...

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Books OToole

Quote from: WaddWatsonEllis on December 17, 2010, 06:15:21 PM
Okay, this Gringo is going to go look up what cuernos means ... LOL ....

"The horns of the Devil."

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Quote from: Books OToole on December 20, 2010, 02:38:22 PM
"The horns of the Devil."

Books

Here I thought it meant "Horny Devil"...really.  8)

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Hola Pancho,

Those shooters sure look diabolical. Nice photo, too!

When I'm traveling under cover, I often take on a Mexican persona - that scourge of the border, "Pancho Vanilla". For a blood thirsty bandito, he is rather plain.

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Christopher Carson

Quote from: Pancho Peacemaker on December 20, 2010, 09:22:19 PM


Nice pistolas!  Good pic, too!!

What's the El Paso Saddlery holster model?

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Pancho Peacemaker

Quote from: Christopher Carson on December 21, 2010, 10:01:23 AM
Nice pistolas!  Good pic, too!!

What's the El Paso Saddlery holster model?

-Chris


1870 "Slim Jim" model.  Works really well with the top break revolvers.
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Christopher Carson

Quote from: Pancho Peacemaker on December 21, 2010, 11:54:01 AM
1870 "Slim Jim" model.  Works really well with the top break revolvers.

Gracias!

-Chris
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Sir Charles deMouton-Black

Pancho;  I'd like those pistolitos muy better if the grips were ivory.  Especialles, if they had the Mexican eagle on them.  I know they are available but I don't have a link and this is the best I can do;

http://www.tombstonegrips.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TGG&Category_Code=sw_breaktop

Maybe here?  http://www.buffalobrothers.net/grips/schofield_grips.htm

Sorry I can't get the link to work.

Or this;  http://www.eaglegrips.com/guns/Ultra-Ivory-Schofield-grips.html

Can't find the mexican eagle yet.  Better still, get the ivory grips and have the Devil carved on them!
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THE SUBLYME & HOLY ORDER OF THE SOOT (SHOTS)
Those who are no longer ignorant of History may relive it,
without the Blood, Sweat, and Tears.
With apologies to George Santayana & W. S. Churchill

"As Mark Twain once put it, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."

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