44 was because of his virtual inability to miss with it. One of the reasons he was so fond of the. I have little recollection of him ever being without it. sheathed in a Lawrence belt-and-holster rig. Dad’s carry gun invariably was his Ruger flattop. Evan Quiros, and my dad were great friends, so we pretty much had run of the place. Our initial stomping grounds were on the Ship Ranch near Laredo, TX. My dad and I knocked around the brush country of south Texas starting when I was just a pup. revolver, and there was a darned good reason for that. When I thought of the ultimate rattlesnake killer, I always thought of the Ruger 3-screw Flattop. Indeed, I was always unimpressed with what my companions to believed to be the ultimate desert firearm. Who really knew what they were designed for except for impressing the novice as to what was needed to dispatch a pesky rattlesnake, or perhaps to impress a girl who knew no better? Not that there was anything at all wrong with these guns, but they were quite uninspiring. I later learned that a “snake charmer” was an inexpensive, (usually) single –shot. Generally, these guys were the ones driving the nicest vehicles and getting all the girls, and they always had those "snake charmers" behind the seat. I always wondered what they were talking about, but never asked in fear of being dense. As a young man, I always heard my chums refer to the fact that they had the finest “snake charmer” available in the desert.
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