A splendid rendition created for a well heeled friend...

Well Done Mike !!

 

Excellent work!

 

Very nice! Love the rig! I liked Tim McCoy Also!

 

Have you seen a picture of my Tim McCoy "tribute gun" I also have a duplicat of his custom holster w/his trademark silver buckle & a copy of his favorite leather vest he wore a lot along w/2 custom made hats,the gun has been posted several times on this forum

 

As a kid, I had a pair of Hoppy look-a-like cap guns, holsters and belt. For years my Mom had photos she took of both Me and my Brother standing next to Hoppy and taken at the old Knot's Berry Farm in Calif. Hoppy has his hands up and we had our cap guns out like a holdup! Also one taken with Crash Corrigan, another with Gen Autry at Columbia Studios. Wish I had those photo still, my grandson would love them! - Many of these old Hollywood Cowboys make themselves available on Saturdays for such photos as kids really were their bread and butter! Thanks Wyatt for posting your friends photos, brings back memories of so many things...

 

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I knew "Crash" back in the late 50's,I used to do my trick shooting act @ corriganville back then.I still have several pictures of the old ranch,

 

When the Hoppy guns were getting engraved, engraver Frank Leaman noticed a mistake in the engraving in one area between the flutes. He included those mistakes. I think I read somewhere that Hoppy“s guns were not the same caliber but one being .45 Co,t, the other .44 WCF. Both compatible with the same blanks, of course.

 

To show how young I was when I wanted Hoppy's guns, I told mama all I wanted for Christmas was "a pair of 2 guns".

 

When I was a kid Hoppy was my hero had the whole outfit shirt hat guns got to meet him once at the parade the used to have in Pasadena at Christmas

 

When I was a kid back in the 40's there was an ad on the back page of some of the comic books that sold Hoppy's neckerchief slide for a quarter,I still have mine.The leather pants belt that Gordon Davis made for me when he started his business many yrs ago has a Hoppy belt buckle on it w/a likeness of him on it ,awhile back I had a doctor appointment & he was a little younger than me & I was wearing that belt & he said I've never seen one of those I was a big fan of his when I was a kid.

 

Over thirty years ago a friend, now deceased, asked me to make him a rig like Hopalong Cassidy wore. He already had two 2nd generation Colt .45s engraved in the exact pattern as on Hoppy's guns, and with real ivory. The museum where they were at then let him take those pictures for the engraver to copy. Here it is with his guns in it, and also pictures taken years later where he went buffalo hunting in full Hoppy attire. His rifle was a .45-70 Shiloh Sharps #3 Sporter.

As you know Matt, Mike treasured those holsters! He made a great Hoppy!
Also Frank did an excellent job recreating those Colts!

 

I guess his daughter has it and the guns now. Hoppy's rig originally had a complete open space in the center of the stitched on belt drop loops right behind and above the gun. Apparently it was a weak spot and a filler was put on later. I made it like it was after that was added. Thast's not a Hoppy gun in the left picture but that's them on the right with Mike wearing it.

 

Great thread Matt-! gents from over at "Gunfighter Gluch" here is Jim's Tim McCoy tribute Colt!

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Gun Fighter Gulch is a great westerm website you can see a lot of Jim Martins fantastic old Colts and lots of other western goodness there.! owned and operated by Greg Custodio- a long time friend and Colt Student of Jim's, there is a lot of old west and fast draw info on "Gun fighter gulch"!

Any one interesting in Tim McCoy his life and time might be interested in his book "Tim McCoy Remembers the West" its a very good read about the west well written wrote by man who was there. A classic narrative of Col. McCoys life and times- Jim told me about the book its first rate!

"Tim McCoy Remembers the West" book

Our pard Jim Martin told me about this book "Tim McCoy Remembers the West" Its great! Col. McCoy had a helluva interesting life lived through the last days of the old west, WWI, Hollywood silent film to the talkie era- WWII and a lot more. He knew Wyatt Burp- I mean Earp, General Hugh Scott...

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We talked about it before here on the forum- if you like western history Colts and cowboy movies you will like the book pretty sure!

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Jim Martin Tribute Revolvers

Jim Martin is legendary. He has won countless fast-draw awards, holds shooting records, has advised movie stars on gun-handling and stood in during fast-draw cl

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Above linked- is a great article by forum member Alan Garbers from "Guns Magazine" with some great pictures of some of Jim's "Tribute Colts' Jim had Col McCoys bandana slide, hat, vest, holster and gun belt replicated iirc- with the help of Col. McCoy's relatives.

 

Ugly Hombre! Thank you for posting this! Tim McCoy was one of my favorite cowboys! And Jim, that gun is a fine trubute!

 

Very welcome Sir!

 

There's a lot of engraving on it that didn't show because of the nickel.I forgot to mention to look @ the neckerchief slide on the bandana,it's Tim's brand from his working ranch before he got in the movies,it's silver w/gold lettering- it reads "rafter HE connected" he took it from the Arapaho name he was given when he was adopted into the tribe which was "high eagle"

 

Jim, very nice work! Here's a photo my Grandad and little brother in Kingman 1965, I have Grandads Colt 22 buntline, we shot jackrabbits with it! and watch cowboy movies!