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The high quality imitation ivory usually looks about as nice as the real stuff. You have to look close for the grain in order to tell.
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USFA prewar .45, Pachyderm dentine by Dan Chesiak, Simply Rugged. Need to do over with better lighting. Nice. Real ivory?
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Reporter: Tell us about the pearl-handled Colt pistol you carry. Patton: They're ivory. Only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl-handled pistol. I was hoping someone would recognize the source of that.
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Son of a liberal: " What did you do in the War On Terror, Daddy?"
Liberal father: " I fought the Americans, along with all the other liberals."
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AMERICAN HOLLY -- Get some!
Don't ask me about my military service or heroic acts...most of it is untrue.
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AMERICAN HOLLY -- Get some!
Wow! They really do look like ivory.
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Making my own stuff would be a lot less expensive in many endeavors but unfortunately I have the artisanship of a backwards 3 year old. Give me some sandpaper and a file and I can pretty much wreck anything.
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery. Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
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AMERICAN HOLLY -- Get some!
Wow! They really do look like ivory. THOSE are a great fit! Nice craftsmanship.
Don't ask me about my military service or heroic acts...most of it is untrue.
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for sale in classifieds
the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded. Robert E Lee ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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here's that colt .22 of mine again. In an old Lawrence holster I picked up on the classifieds from ajgunner.
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I have pretty nice grips on my Ruger 45/45acp. They are Eagle Sambar Stag with very little bark. But I don’t know how to post photos anymore and I’m to tired to figure it out.
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Imitation ivory from Eagle grips:
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Same on my 32 H&R and Old Model 45 Colt conversion.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Got to handle this pair of Ed McGivern Colt revolvers factory custom with factory elephant ivory. Needless to say they were a bit out of my price range. Sure could feel the history when held...
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Mmmm-mmm, those are gorgeous! I like that aged color to them
Ordered the grips yesterday and chose the aged option plus having a set of S&W medallions installed. Obviously won't have that grained look but the color should be close.
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Got to handle this pair of Ed McGivern Colt revolvers factory custom with factory elephant ivory. Needless to say they were a bit out of my price range. Sure could feel the history when held... Very cool. I love his book, Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting.
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A guy I know has this one.
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A guy I know has this one. Beautiful!
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These are white linen micarta from Hogue. Not bad looking at all, with it's bit of grain visible. I picked them up from Midway a while back, they were around $100. Give it 40 years and it may look like this. White Micarta on a three screw, older Blackhawk .45 Colt fitted with a Superblackhawk frame, hammer and trigger, then blued. It has aftermarket steel rear sight. The micarta sorta yellowed over the years, not too unlike real dead elephant. DF
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Back when I was into Cowboy Action Shooting, I picked up a pair of Gen 3 Colts in .38 Spec from a SASS member in TX. He had bought them new, had a retired Weatherby engraver living in TX engrave them. I sent them to Nutmeg Sports for real dead elephant grips with deep dish medallions They were shaped like a set of one piece rosewood grips I had previously done with deep dish medallions. Those fit me very well and Nugmeg reproduced that shape.. I think these Colts have the nicest, almost irridescent case colors of about any Gen 3 guns I've seen. Last photo is the rosewood grip I sent to Nugmeg to be duplicated. That set had been sent to Errol Case in MO for carving and checkering. They are on a Gen 3 .357 pair that my son now has. DF
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