The Frontier Sixshooter Community Message Board - Great picture! Great Gun!

Great picture! Great Gun! (reply)

Rob Leahy — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 03:30:29 +0000

Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful! (nt) (reply)

JimT — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:36:32 +0000

Texas Longhorn Arms........ (reply)

Gunner — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 15:57:07 +0000

Yep, most definitely on my to buy bucket list of handguns, 7 1/2" 41 Magnum would be a great addition to the collection.

Gunner

Texas Longhorn Arms - some of the nicest sixguns (reply)

JT — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 15:40:41 +0000

This was Bill's personal .44 Magnum West Texas Flat-Top Target. After I got it from him he made the .44 Special and .44-40 cylinders and then later one in .44 Russian. He was going to do another one in .44 Colt but his health became too bad.

Texas Longhorn Arms - some of the nicest sixguns

JimT — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 13:48:26 +0000

Bill Grover's sixguns were some of the nicest ever built. And as others have said, he never really ever received recognition for it while he was alive. I got to know Bill a little through The Shootists and we communicated and shared quite a lot. He sent me one of his West Texas Flattop Target Models in .45 Colt. I shot it a lot, hunted with it and wrote it up for several publications. When I got that done I asked him how he wanted me to ship it back to him and he wrote: "If you are still here after the Lord returns we can talk about it then." and told me to keep it.

This is the gun. I sold it to Boge Quinn when we were making preparations to move to Africa. The photos here are Gunblast's/Boge's.

Note the screws for the hammer, trigger and cylinder bolt.

They are "blind" screws in that they do not come through the frame. Bill did a lot of little things like that to the guns he built.

The TLA Logo

I believe this was the last West Texas Flattop Target Model he built.