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Red Nichols, Holstorian
- 4 days ago
- 3 min
The Devil is in the details
My wife is a radiographer and she can 'see' a person's spine through their flesh. This tells her about the person's skeletal health, and...
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Red Nichols, Holstorian
- Apr 5
- 7 min
I know what you did last summer
As for the film of that name, I didn't even get through the opening scenes! But my story is not scary at all. Kinda fun, instead....
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Red Nichols, Holstorian
- Apr 1
- 1 min
Which twin has the Toni?
You'll have to be really old, like I am, to remember the hair care ad with the catchy line, "Which twin has the Toni?". Here we're...
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Red Nichols, Holstorian
- Apr 1
- 2 min
Defensive tactics
It was a course given in LEO training but here I'm speaking of why you all have ever been able to buy what's called a 'slide' holster. ...
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Red Nichols, Holstorian
- Mar 29
- 2 min
Theory confirmed
A really well thought-out article by author Tim Mullin in the current The Rampant Colt magazine, outlines a notion that I also had...
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Red Nichols, Holstorian
- Mar 14
- 2 min
Hyper trivia
It seems that Arvo Ojala had a birth defect that I'd have expected to keep him from becoming the fastest draw of his time: Poland...
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Red Nichols, Holstorian
- Mar 11
- 6 min
Treasure hunt
In 1968, three articles appeared about Paris Theodore and his Seventrees Ltd gunleather company. Two of them were by Bob Zwirz, a...
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Red Nichols, Holstorian
- Mar 6
- 2 min
The king is dead
Who knew that we owed, indirectly, the modern holster to a sea captain? Captain King knew prosperity when he saw it and created the huge...
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Red Nichols, Holstorian
- Feb 15
- 6 min
The true-to-life story of Milt Sparks
A friend recently sent me yet another old puff-piece that was published about Uncle Milt; this one from the late 1980s and not long...
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Red Nichols, Holstorian
- Feb 14
- 2 min
In Living Colour: Chic Gaylord
It's 1955 and Chic Gaylord puts out his only catalog that is still encountered today and accompanied by price lists of various dates of...
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Red Nichols, Holstorian
- Feb 8
- 2 min
In Living Colour: the Sequel
Examples of Seventrees Ltd. products have survived into the present day, that are NOT in the known catalog pages. Nevertheless, several...
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Red Nichols, Holstorian
- Feb 7
- 5 min
In Living Colour: Seventrees 1969
There is only one Seventrees catalog, and it was issued with a 1969 price list. However there is more than one version because it is...
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Red Nichols, Holstorian
- Jan 18
- 3 min
Father of the Buscadero
Captain J.R. Hughes is the most influential Texas Ranger for gunleather development and his service with the Rangers didn't much outlast...
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