The acquisition of another Model 19 got my memory in gear. On my first one I had a set of bone magna style grips I picked up at the Gun Show in Houston. People keep asking me if they were ivory and I said now they were bone. Bone? Where did you get those, they would ask?

Well, I said, when I was a kid on the ranch in Coleman Country Texas we found an old Comanche burial site under a flat rock on the banks of the Colorado River. I have the grips made from the shoulder blade of the dead Comanche. I told them, I felt his spirit was still in the grips.

That always spooked them a little, but I thought it was great fun. Do I need to start running ads in Texas newspapers fessing up to the whopper?

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NOPE !!!! That is what they get for sticking their noses in your personal gun business.

I like that one. Mind if I use it? Confess to nothing... put the burden of proof on the other guy.

That's just a Texan tellin' something in the usual "colorful" Texas style!

A tellin that same story today would likely get ya a chance to meet more people with some alphabet agency than you ever imagined!