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On This Day in History: January 4, 1847

Posted on 4 January 2025 by The Tactical Hermit

Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government and in doing so, Truly made All Men Equal.    

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The Bad Ass Files: Colonel Charles Askins, US Army (Ret.)

Posted on 11 November 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

    The Legend Of Charley Askins by Skeeter Skelton (As Published in Shooting Times Magazine, May 1972)   In The West Wing of a secluded, tile-roofed Spanish home in San Antonio, Texas is a room that is one of my favorite retreats. It’s a large room, carpeted with the rich hides of Polar and…

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Old West Book Review: I’ve Killed Men by Jack Ganzhorn (1910)

Posted on 19 July 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

I’ve Killed Men (Jack Ganzhorn, 1910) Amazing chronicle of a man who grew up in Tombstone, knew Wyatt Earp, worked as a gambler, scouted for General Funston in the Phillippine Insurrection, acted in Hollywood, and worked undercover for Remington Arms.  This man truly lived the gunfighter life on the early 20th Century Mexican Border and…

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Lessons from the Past: 3 Reasons to Carry Backup

Posted on 15 June 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

Lessons from the Past: 3 Reasons to Carry Backup   To some, notorious Old West gunfighter John Wesley Hardin was a psychopathic murderer and racist. To others, Hardin was a genuine American hero. Whether Hardin was a terrorist or a freedom fighter was a question that dogged him throughout his lifetime. Now, 150 years after…

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The Combat Quick Draw

Posted on 24 May 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

The Combat Quick Draw: Classic Lessons From Elmer Keith   From the February 1960 issue of GUNS Magazine, here is “the word” on combat quick draw, spoken out of a lifetime of experience as a hunter, guide and law officer by none other than Elmer Keith.   Editor’s Note: It is high time, we think, that somebody…

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Studying the Historic Gunfighters

Posted on 22 March 202422 March 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

Studying the Historic Gunfighters   For all you fellow Old West History buffs, this is an article you will want to bookmark. Greg Ellefritz lays out Eight of the best books on the subject of Gunfighters and the art of Gunfighting. I have read almost all of these save the one by Joseph Rosa and…

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The Days That Communities Fought Back Against Evil

Posted on 8 March 20248 March 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

The Days That Communities Fought Back Against Evil   There’s no shortage of stories about crime and criminals on the nightly news, these days. It seems we’re currently trapped in a cycle of violent criminal activity, with the bad guys holding communities all over our nation, hostage. We’ve seen this problem before in America, especially…

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Real Stories of the Old West: The Death Tent

Posted on 4 February 20244 February 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

The Death Tent   November 27, 1887 Working out of Fort Smith, Arkansas, Deputy U.S. Marshal Frank Dalton is tracking a horse thief named Dave Smith in the Cherokee Nation. Dalton is accompanied by Deputy James Cole, who also has an arrest warrant for Smith for introducing whiskey in the Indian Territory. The two track…

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Know Your Obscure Western History: The Battle of Battle Flat

Posted on 25 June 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

Five Prospectors vs. 50 Yavapais Maps & Graphics by Gus Walker Based on the research of John Langellier and Jack McPhee     June 2, 1864 Five American prospectors set up camp near the junction of Turkey Creek and Tuscumbia Creek in the rough Bradshaw Mountains, about 30 miles southeast of Prescott, Arizona Territory. Although warned of…

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Three Part Synopsis of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral by Dave Spaulding

Posted on 12 May 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

H/T Wynn   Gunfight On Fremont Street: O.K. Corral Part 1 Dave Spaulding gives a detailed break down of the gunfight, putting aside historical romanticism and getting down to the brass tacks of killing and survival with a firearm in the 19th century Old West. Part Two and Part Three can be found here.  …

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