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Colorado homestead 1890-1915, bipods and scopes?
May 2nd, 2024 at 12:40pm
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Re: Colorado homestead 1890-1915, bipods and scopes?
Reply #1 - May 2nd, 2024 at 1:46pm
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Looking at the original in a smaller format my guess would be they're likely Malcolm telescopes. The "bipods" could be anything, and likely made by shooters themselves to have cross sticks for accurate shooting at longer distances.
  

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Reply #2 - May 2nd, 2024 at 3:11pm
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I've probably looked at hundreds of old photos from various online collections, and this is the first I've seen with hunters using scopes or crossed sticks.

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Reply #3 - May 23rd, 2024 at 8:19pm
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bcp wrote on May 2nd, 2024 at 3:11pm:
I've probably looked at hundreds of old photos from various online collections, and this is the first I've seen with hunters using scopes or crossed sticks.

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They're  hunting targets.
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Reply #4 - May 25th, 2024 at 8:37pm
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Interesting to me two left handed shooters shooting together 

Thank you for putting up the picture 

Colorado that timeframe I was expecting to see the scopes set to reach out a mite further  Smiley

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Reply #5 - May 26th, 2024 at 9:36am
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Scopes and crossed sticks were well known to be in use during the "Hide Hunting" years (Buffalo) so this does not surprise me to see it 20-30 years later.

In Seller's book he describes scopes being frequently used on the heavy 14 to 17.5lb rifles of the 1872/3 hunting season. Scopes were ordered on about 25% of the Sharps rifles for the 1876 season but declined after 1878 with the majority of rifles thereafter being fitted with the blade front and Lawrence sights.
  

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Reply #6 - May 26th, 2024 at 10:20am
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Glass plate printed in reverse?  Like the left eject rifle held by Billy The Kid?
Bluedog wrote on May 25th, 2024 at 8:37pm:
Interesting to me two left handed shooters shooting together 

Thank you for putting up the picture 

Colorado that timeframe I was expecting to see the scopes set to reach out a mite further  Smiley

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Reply #7 - May 26th, 2024 at 5:34pm
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You shoot a gun around the horses around here and it would take days to find them...



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Reply #8 - May 27th, 2024 at 10:53am
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the image is reversed, and the men are not shooting lefthanded at all. Look at the jackets and you will see that they are the opposite of how men's clothing is made. Happens a lot and leads to plenty of mistaken things- the most glaring I can come up with is the image of Billy the Kid posing with his rifle, a '73 Winchester. Plainly the wrong side for a loading gate, and his clothes are also buttoned backward, but the damn image created the notion that the famous badman was left-handed from the side his revolver appears. Even made a movie about it. Gotta watch stuff like that. And, I bet they didn't shoot until the photographer finished and the horses were well away from  there.
  
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Reply #9 - May 27th, 2024 at 8:12pm
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Reversed image never occurred to me!
Thank you guys for the info!
Very interesting photograph
  
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Reply #10 - May 31st, 2024 at 10:04pm
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jhm wrote on May 26th, 2024 at 5:34pm:
You shoot a gun around the horses around here and it would take days to find them...



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Not horses, tho........ donkeys.

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Reply #11 - Jun 4th, 2024 at 11:09am
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Aren't donkeys smaller Chris? Maybe mules?
  

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Re: Colorado homestead 1890-1915, bipods and scopes?
Reply #12 - Jun 4th, 2024 at 11:23am
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Thought I'd seen those fellers before. Check out page 154 of Dutcher's book. Different plate and reversed but, same cabin, owl, mounted man with speed goat. Small world.
4 of the 5 in Dutcher's photo are named.
  

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