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  • remingtonoaks
    That is pretty cool, but I'm sure somebody's going to want to have it destroyed because it's racist...[V]
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  • guns-n-painthorses
    OK, why wouldn't you have that done by a pro? That could be a very pricy piece of iron.
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  • guns-n-painthorses
    Sold at auction for 33 grand.
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  • montanajoe
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    Now that's cool.
    Maybe he is,the pro.
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  • Grasshopper
    OK, WTH is that clown doing with a sander/grinder? GEEEZZZ ,,I can't believe what he done.. [B)][xx(][V][|)]
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  • mrmike08075
    Custer personally carried a pair of large pinfire revolvers made in Belgium...

    But his officers and noncoms would have had the issue option of a colt SAA revolver from a known narrow specific serial number range (well documented)

    Still an interesting item to many collectors

    BTW relics and artifacts attributed to the little bighorn battle site are often fakes and reproductions meant to deceive - it's a prolific counterfeiting cottage industry

    Mike
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  • jerrywh818
    I have done some pretty touchy restorations and I would have to see this done in person to authenticate it. I don't like the idea of using Nitric acid for this because Nitric eats both rust and the steel. However nitric will eat the less dense steel more so than the compressed or stamped numbers. Or visa versa. Phosphoric acid works better because it eats primarily the iron oxide rather than the steel.
    I would not have started off grinding on this but would have used the phosphoric acid first. Just my opinion.
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  • He Dog
    As far as I am concerned no rusty old guns is worth more that $10, I don't care where it came from. I have seen more shotguns marked Wells Fargo than Wells Fargo ever had.

    Caveat Emptor.


    Anyone in the market for a really good suspension bridge?
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  • Ditch-Runner
    33k
    what a great pay day for hours ? of work and research
    good for him
    great find but proves again some people have Too much money
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  • Mobuck
    It's been illegal to "pick up" anything off the battlefield for decades.
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  • remingtonoaks
    quote:Originally posted by guns-n-painthorses
    OK, why wouldn't you have that done by a pro? That could be a very pricy piece of iron.


    If you watched the video, you would realize that he is a jeweler. Although he doesn't work with firearms, he he does know and have the techniques to clean precious metals. So why wouldn't he do it himself?
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  • select-fire
    Nonsense. Could have belonged to the Indians after the battle.
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  • mrmike08075
    If I read it the right way the relic was found in 1933 so the legalities most probably differed greatly from the framework of regulations we have today...

    Ex post facto rule of law probably applies

    Or statute of limitations and criminal liability

    And when did the territory achieve statehood status

    Just some points for consideration

    Mike
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  • Grasshopper
    quote:Originally posted by remingtonoaks
    quote:Originally posted by guns-n-painthorses
    OK, why wouldn't you have that done by a pro? That could be a very pricy piece of iron.


    If you watched the video, you would realize that he is a jeweler. Although he doesn't work with firearms, he he does know and have the techniques to clean precious metals. So why wouldn't he do it himself?


    Because, jeweler and firearm restore are still two diff things. imo, you make a mistake and , well you f'ed it up.
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  • Doc
    As I understand it, there is no documentation on "Custer Colts." Only a serial range that includes many more guns than were actually present and really doesn't confirm that a particular gun was carried into battle at the Little Big Horn.
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  • Doc
    That book said 7047 was dug up on the Custer battlefield. How long has the federal government considered it a landmark? No digging allowed. That hunk of metal could have been found anywhere and the story is a lie to increase value.
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