The Frontier Sixshooter Community Message Board - I will confess I have never been a Hopalong Cassidy fan ...

I will confess I have never been a Hopalong Cassidy fan ... (reply)

JimT — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 22:55:44 +0000

either the books nor the TV show.

Preferred the Lone Ranger.

Though I like Mulford's custom Colt SAA .44!

Thanks for sharing this...... (reply)

RayLee — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 22:20:40 +0000

Most interesting. As for mulford's books, reading the phonetic dialect spelling in the dialogue gets tiresome. I get it that most of the characters have a tobacco quid impeded texican drawl but to read it spelt-out over & over is annoying !

Favorite Gun of Hopalong Cassidy's Creator

JimT — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 16:34:27 +0000

Clarence E. Mulford was the author of the Hopalong Cassidy books the TV show was based on. In the 1950's he wrote about his favorite gun. A Colt Single Action .44 Russian and Special, it had been modified with a barrel rib, special sights and a cylinder made of what he termed "strong steel" for the heavy loads he was shooting. He wrote that they "really packed a wallop."

I read that he was part of the .44 Associates.

The rear sight is a "folding leaf" sight with 2 blades. The shorter blade for normal distances and the longer blade for long-range work.