Article: The sixguns of John Linebaugh: the man who wrote the book on big!(THE SIXGUNNER)

Phone calls are like Christmas packages; until they are opened we don't really know what awaits us. Once in a while either one can be life changing. Little did I know when I answered the phone on that Fourth of July in 1983 how much it would affect my future. This was before caller ID so I didn't know the call was emanating in Cody, Wyoming from a young custom gunsmith calling to tell me about the custom .45 Colt sixguns he was building and to tell me he wanted to send me a test gun. His claims were extreme: A .45 Colt capable of shooting 250-grain bullets at 1 ,700 feet per second? This was at a time some were actually in print still calling .45 Colt brass weak!

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