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While I'm on a roll with vintage photos of women and their guns, I present to you Lyudmila Pavlichenko aka Lady Death. She was a Red Army Ukrainian Soviet sniper during World War II. Credited with 309 kills, she is regarded as one of the top military snipers of all time and the most successful female sniper in history. The American folk singer Woody Guthrie composed a song ("Miss Pavlichenko") as a tribute to her war record and to memorialize her visits to the United States and Canada. Click here for more sometime before her death in 1974

I was hoping for Glock E-Tool vs. Python. Now that would be worth watching!

Combine this with being in near proximity of Dixie Gun Works (massive quantities of bp & cannon fuse) and maybe a co-op. Good times! This was years before anyone knew of that Timothy guy and the OKC thing.

I've found a lot of vintage gun photos on the web using various search criteria but this one got my attention because of the Tennessee connection. I'm not sure how I managed to never learn of this person until now being that I've lived most of my adult life in a county bordering the county of her birth place. Maybe some of you long timers know the history of Mary Fields. Mary Fields (1832–1914), also known as Stagecoach Mary and Black Mary, was the first African-American woman star route mail carrier in the United States. She was not an employee of the United States Post Office. The Post Office Department did not hire or employ mail carriers for star routes; it awarded star route contracts to persons who proposed the lowest qualified bids, and who in accordance with the Department’s application process posted bonds and sureties to substantiate their ability to finance the route. Once a contract was obtained, the contractor could then drive the route themselves, sublet the route, or hire an experienced driver. Some individuals obtained multiple star route contracts and conducted the operations as a business. Fields obtained the star route contract for the delivery of U. S. mail from Cascade, Montana to Saint Peter's Mission in 1885. She drove the route with horse and wagon, not a stagecoach, for two four-year contracts: from 1885 to 1889 and from 1889 to 1903. Author Miantae Metcalf McConnell provided documentation discovered during her research about Mary Fields to the United States Postal Service Archives Historian in 2006. This enabled USPS to establish Mary Fields' contribution as the first African American woman star route mail in the United States. Mary was born a slave in Hickman County, Tennessee, around 1832, Fields was freed when American slavery was outlawed in 1865. She then worked in the home of Judge Edmund Dunne. When Dunne's wife Josephine died in 1883 in San Antonio, Florida, Fields took the family's five children to their aunt, Mother Mary Amadeus, the mother superior of an Ursuline convent in Toledo, Ohio. In 1884, Mother Amadeus was sent to Montana Territory to establish a school for Native American girls at St. Peter's Mission, west of Cascade. Learning that Amadeus was stricken with pneumonia, Fields hurried to Montana to nurse her back to health. Amadeus recovered and Fields stayed at St. Peter's, hauling freight, doing laundry, growing vegetables, tending chickens, repairing buildings, and eventually becoming the forewoman. In 1895, although approximately 60 years old, Fields was hired as a mail carrier because she was the fastest applicant to hitch a team of six horses. This made her the second woman and first African American woman to work for the U.S. Postal Service. She drove the route with horses and a mule named Moses. She never missed a day, and her reliability earned her the nickname "Stagecoach". If the snow was too deep for her horses, Fields delivered the mail on snowshoes, carrying the sacks on her shoulders. She was a respected public figure in Cascade, and the town closed its schools to celebrate her birthday each year. When Montana passed a law forbidding women to enter saloons, the mayor of Cascade granted her an exemption. In 1903, at age 71, Fields retired from star route mail carrier service. She continued to babysit many Cascade children and owned and operated a laundry service from her home. Fields died in 1914 at Columbus Hospital in Great Falls, but she was buried outside Cascade. In 1959, actor and Montana native Gary Cooper wrote an article for Ebony in which he said, "Born a slave somewhere in Tennessee, Mary lived to become one of the freest souls ever to draw a breath, or a .38." Best I can tell she is holding an 1876 Winchester carbine with a 22" barrel In the 1976 documentary South by Northwest, "Homesteaders", Fields is played by Esther Rolle

The video was uploaded to Youtube 2 days ago on Wednesday June 7th so it could not have been on FB too long. Anyway, Bubbas are going to do what Bubba types do, It's in their DNA. Bubbas can be found all over the world, among every race, religion, political beliefs and income class. I must have a little of the DNA as when I was younger I did several Bubba maneuvers. I'm really glad the ability to record and disseminate evidence of such behavior was not available back then or at least Al Gore had not invented it yet. I consider myself very lucky now. I and several of my Bubba type associates survived and have no permanent disabilities as a result of such activities. I will be totally honest now, this tannerite and refrigerator door video would qualify as a lame opening act compared to some of the stupid Bubba stunts I'm associated with back in the day!

This is 100% spot on. This is a direct result of the May 19th, 1986 Firearm Owners Protection Act. Since there is a finite number of transferable machine guns by the general populace that whole supply and demand thing kicks in.

Better yet, why don't these people that keep making these redundant threads take a few minutes to search what's already been posted in multiple threads?

$4.00 per round is a bargain in these parts!

I would say there have been more than a few exhibition shooters that used special purpose custom made ammunition to aide in their ability and effects. I was fortunate enough to see the late Bob Munden perform two shows. Both shows were done indoors so he mentioned all of his loads were wax and black powder. One of the tricks he did was load two rounds then quick draws and fires both rounds so fast they sound like one shot. Then to step it up he has two balloons set up about 5 yards in front of him and about 8-10 feet apart. He loaded two rounds and then quick draws, firing both rounds and bursting both balloons almost simultaneously. They may have booth burst simultaneously as that it happen too fast to really tell. While he did have a skill level unlike most to draw and shoot very quickly his was aided in hitting the balloons by the fact he used black powder. The 45 long colt black powder loads would produce a lot of unburnt powder that exited the muzzle like shotgun pellets thus bursting the balloons with quite a bit room for point of aim error. However he still did it amazingly fast and with his usual Bob Munden nothing to it style. And to step it up a notch here it is with a Bond Derringer less the quick draw.

Can't leave out Phoebe Ann Mosey aka "Miss Annie Oakley", "Little Sure Shot", "Little Miss Sure Shot", "Watanya Cicilla", "Phoebe Anne Oakley", "Mrs. Annie Oakley", "Mrs. Annie Butler", and "Mrs. Frank Butler". These 3 images are from her early years. When Phoebe was only 15 years old she won a shooting match with traveling-show marksman by the name of Frank E Butler. She ended up marrying him and traveled the world performing shooting exhibitions and competitions. This was her in 1922 at the age of 62. She died 4 years later from Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia.

My apologies if I missed something but what about the revolver in the picture?

Funds sent for #23. Now the wait!

As far as value goes I think it is definitely in the $500 - $700 + or - range just by looking at the pictures. It's a family piece so that value far out weighs monetary value the way I see it. I have a few family pieces and some are just common clunkers with little or no real value. One or two could be traded up to something much more useful to me and very high end price wise. I would not take 5 or more times what the fair market value is because once it's gone, in most circumstances the family connection ends there. I'm not going to be the relative that's known as the grandfather, father, uncle or whatever with the story told after I'm gone, well if he hadn't sold that whatever it would still be in the family today.

Both views.

I have no clue, I just know its vintage.

I think the contest is over. Number 1, the AR pistol, wins hands down for Uuuuuuuugly!

Tintype were a direct positive transfered onto a thin sheet of metal which produced a reversed image.

Thanks man, my ever increasing circle of friends to keep me acting young and irresponsible. I kind of like it!

JAB nailed it, well said!

That's getting subjective but no doubt technology and expectations of the festival going populace has changed. The latest and greatest sound and special effects draws crowds and make them talk and attract more interest to draw more attendees. More attendees equal more $$$$ in someones pockets. People in general are so jaded these days. The majority of the population have the world at their finger tips by way of smart phones and the world wide interwebz. You posted "There are festivals that blow woodstock out of the water, matter of fact, I'll be at one of those in about 2 weeks. Think the head count for 3 days last year was around 400,000 people too." implying modern day festivals are better because of attendance numbers. So that's why I corrected your numbers. If I was younger and didn't have the family and business responsibilities I would probably be trying to figure out how to get to Vegas and enjoy the show with you. Heck, when I was in my late 20's and single, I was at work and ended up pulling a double shift. Someone called in sick or something I don't remember exactly why but I worked 2 full consecutive shifts through the night for some reason. This was back before cell phones so a friend that lived next to my parents showed up at work about 11:30 pm and said you need to call your cousin Tina and she said it was urgent. She lived in Dallas so I figured something bad had happened. Come to find out she had 2 extra tickets for the Rolling Stones Steel Wheels Tour at the Cotton Bowl. I convinced another friend of mine whose wife was about 8 months pregnant to drive to Dallas as soon as we could leave after we got off work at 7am. Needless to say we made the trip and being younger I could run a whole lot longer on no sleep than I can today. I will say that show still ranks high on my list of all time favorite stage shows. So just to let you know, I enjoy a good show.

Not too surprising when you consider Lost Wages has 160,000 +/- hotel rooms. The city host multiple convetions every week during all 52 weeks of the year in a city that has run 24/7 for 50 +/- years. They've built up the infrastructure to do this sort of thing. Vegas is an on going event venue with laws that allow activities to draw the masses so this still pales to what happened on a dairy farm in New York with the technology available at the time.

Is there any mention of the instruments crime used, surely no assault catfish carcasses were found?

Not sure where you are getting your numbers because Woodstock was a 3 day event that attracted 400,000 people. The figures listed for Bonnaroo shows only 70,000 for the first event in 2002, the highest attendance in 2012 of 100,000 and last years was only 45,500. Considering that Woodstock was thrown together in a less than 8 month time frame and that most advertising was done strictly by radio and word of mouth, I think Woodstock by far beats out any such event in recent history.

Up until a few years ago I and a few college buddies did an annual fishing trips in the North Georgian Bay area of southern Ontario. I know they see a lot of people from the US being so close to the border but just about any Canadian I came in contact with had a way better knowledge of anything US than I did of about Canada.

I had a few little young ones occupying my time during the Nashville Knights, Nighthawks and Ice Flyer years so needless to say I didn't hardly do any extracurricular activities in those days.