This is an exact museum-grade replica of the pistol that was used by John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the night of April 14, 1865, the end of the Civil War. I had the idea that this, and other famous and infamous weapons, could be sold out of a small shop somewhere. I have civil war, revolutionary war, modern and wild western replicas, all of which are exact weight, size and balance of the original. They are the remainder of a quick-draw school I ran back in the ’60s. I’d like to train someone to take the business over. The entire shop is available, or I can make ten times as much by selling the items one at a time on eBay — or YOU could!!! My plan is to offer a demo of the exact use of each of the weapons. I was a Trainfire cadre at Ford Ord and I have the photos somewhere to prove it…
top left photo, left to right: Sgts. Mike Dunn, Chas Felix and me. Top right photo, that’s me on the left, the day before we got our cadre tight-tuck shirts back from Leo the tailor at Fort Ord. Lower left photo, that’s me in my temp sergeant stripe armband doing a demo of the correct firing position at 600 meters to the target down a slight ravine. Bottom right photo, I’m demonstrating a prone firing position from behind cover, not merely concealment. All photos date to sometime in mid-1962, at Fort Ord, California.
I’ll be talking about the Weapon Shop of Ishtar retail shop idea today at the ICW, so be sure to tune in or get the DVD!