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January 24, 2009
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Ok, after reading the hang tag that Jody posted here...
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...I decided to see what I could find out about Bob MacWilliams (president of DWA for a time). As usual with Google searches, you can get derailed from your original path fairly easily, due to the abundance on info that pops up...
...although I did discover that Bob holds the patent for the long hammer spur on the large frame revolvers.
Apparently it's designed that way for easier access to the hammer, when a scope is mounted on the gun.
I think I read that somewhere before, but that little nugget of info was probably flushed accidentally with a bottle-o-Budweiser or something.
Anyway...I landed on this thread on the Firing Line.
http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=229467
Post # 19 (Swamp Yankee) sez some things I hadn't heard before, including that DW himself designed the gun.
Post # 25 (Grant Cunningham) called BS on some of the statements & backed it up with facts.
Post # 27 (Swamp Yankee) threw a bomb, by stating that DW didn't die until 1989??
Post # 30 (Grant Cunningham) straightened him out, by laying down more facts. It was DW's son (Seth's brother) Dan Wesson III, who died in June 1990.
Just some interesting stuff that I thought I'd pass on, in the never ending quest for DW info.
I'm going to send Mr. Cunningham an e-mail invitation to join us & hopefully he'll let us pick his brain a bit. Admittedly, I don't know the guy very well & according to his (very informative on a myriad of subjects) website
http://www.grantcunningham.com/ , he is one BUSY dude...but I hope he will stop in & say hi.
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March 2, 2008
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Grant Cunningham is a very busy and highly respected gunsmith, and one of the pioneering DW gunsmiths. If he will visit us occasionally that would be great.
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February 25, 2009
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Any info is great to piece together the puzzle.
I should be more vigilant in digging out what I have on hand and putting it together. Some of the articles I have are still packed in the boxes from moving 9 years ago.
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~Thomas Jefferson~
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