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Leatham's first competition took place in the late 1970s at a night shoot at the Mesa Police Department range. He shot a Smith & Wesson Model 27 revolver with a 6-inch barrel loaded with 200-grain round-nose bullets that Leatham loaded himself, including a custom holster made by local leather worker, Jess Bird, who had built holsters for Leatham's father for years.
The ASP is a custom-made pistol designed and built by Paris Theodore (owner of Seventrees, Ltd., a custom gun leather shop in New York City) from the early 1970s to 1987.The ASP was based on the Smith & Wesson Model 39 pistol.
The ASP, based on the Smith & Wesson Model 39 semi-automatic pistol, featured many innovations: “clear grips” made of Lexan which enabled the user to see the number of unfired rounds remaining; the “guttersnipe”, a gun sight designed for close-range combat; and a “forefinger grip”, today a standard feature on the trigger guard of ...
Not all cavalry used this method of draw, or located their holsters on the right hand side of the body. In the "Manual of Arms for the Sharps Rifle, Colt Revolver and Swords (1861)", [1] which was used by the Union Army, the revolver would have been worn on the left side, in front of the sabre-hook. To draw the revolver, the soldiers were ...
Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. (S&W) is an American firearm manufacturer headquartered in Maryville, Tennessee, United States. Smith & Wesson was founded by Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson as the "Smith & Wesson Revolver Company" in 1856, after their previous company, also called the "Smith & Wesson Company" and later renamed as "Volcanic Repeating Arms", was sold to Oliver Winchester and ...
The Jordan rig is rigid and unmoving, always holding the gunbutt in precisely the same relationship to the gun hand. The revolver's trigger guard is completely exposed, and the gun is held away from the back portion of the holster by a plug of leather, allowing the trigger finger to enter the guard as the draw is begun.