Interest in the “Old West” and single action revolvers was intense in the 1950’s. Western movies were very popular before World War II and afterward. The expansion of television into millions of homes brought even more interest. TV shows like Paladin, Maverick, Cheyenne, Bounty Hunter, The Lone Ranger, The Cisco Kid, and probably the greatest [...]
For those who came in late, Cabanas blank guns, if you want to call them guns, were made by Industrias Cabanas, S.A., of Aguilas, Mexico, from around 1949 to around 1989. They weren’t cartridgefiring guns, at least not in the strictest sense; they used .22 blank loads to shoot breech-loaded lead BBs or pellets (though [...]