Once you handle one, you will quickly see why. Bond Arms derringer’s claim to fame is the simple fact their guns have won the World Champion SASS Shooter Derringer category for eight years in a row! That alone is a pretty good reputation to build upon.
Greg Bond and his group have come up with some really innovative designs and materials to upgrade the derringer concept to a multitask utility firearm. The overall popularity of the two-shooters seems to have waned somewhat over the years, at least until Cowboy Action Shooting™ came into vogue.Īll that changed when Bond Arms of Granbury, Texas came on the scene with a line of modern manufactured single-action, high quality Derringer pistols. Some may have picked them for a self-protection role. Today, the derringer has been relegated more or less to a plinking role or some orchestrated shooting events held at cowboy gatherings. They were probably not regularly seen around the stockyards or ranches as a normal tool of the working man.
Such guns were likely used in self-offense when a card hand went bad or another cheat was discovered dealing from the bottom of the deck. Small double stack barreled “belly” guns were most often encountered in the gambling houses or paddle wheel river boats held next to a spare ace by sporting men. They often just opted for the Colt or Schofield, or maybe a Winchester lever gun, or a Greener smooth bore to squelch the tail shake of a nasty rattler along the cattle trail or around the corral. From what I have studied of American Old West history, the old cowboys and ranch hands really had no special firearm on their carry to dispatch snakes. The genre of so-called snake charmer guns has been around a long time.
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