Shooting USA: History's Guns: General George S. Patton's Guns

[@laserbeam002]

America needs a few more Patton's today.

[@robertbenson9797]

Patton is the only commanding general to pull out of a winter attack, pivot 90 degrees and move 100 miles to begin a new winter attack. He had his flaws but no other WWII American general could have done what Patton did to relieve Bastogne. If you ever get a chance, visit the American cemetery in Luxembourg City where he is buried.

[@timothysanders431]

My father served in Patton's 3 rd Army , 654th tank destroyer battalion, company b headquarters. France ,Belgium, and Luxembourg. That generation was bad ass . Thank you to all that served!

[@janemarkham4133]

" RIP " GENERAL!!!! A GREAT VIDEO FOR A GREAT MAN & HIS BEAUTIFUL GUNS!!!!😊❤🤍💙🤟🤘👍👍👍👍🙏💪

[@hunterm4188]

The sheer amount of history that this weapon was involved in is absolutely breathtaking. Makes you feel proud to be an American.

[@mohammedcohen]

53 years ago in 1971 I spent most of my free time at the Patton Museum...the S&W Mod 27 reproduction movie gun was on display near the entrance..I have a slide if it somewhere in my collection of all the picture I took in my better than three years in the army...

[@sanderhenkes7591]

Legendary general, Legendary Guns!thanks Guy,s.

[@cameronmccreary4758]

I have seen this report on Patton's guns a couple of years ago. Excellent.

[@tm2bow653]

Your channel deserves more subscribers.

[@shawnmanley9007]

Every time when I watch this video, I feel a connection to those two guns, and I don't know why

[@345Weeehrs]

Seen both of these at the museum, you know you're looking at history.

[@mtsflorida]

Well done. Patton sometimes carried the 3 1/2 " barrelled .357 on his right I believe and the Colt Peacemaker with the 4.75" barrell on the other. Patton was quite a gunman. While at Ft. Benning I saw an office constructed where he used a bust of Hitler turned upside down as a trash can. The germans were right when they said peacetime would bring his end. Regrettably a car accident in which he fractured his neck while touring a historcal area he was describing to a dignitary when the driver also looked that caused the accident. My dad who was an army officer after WWII told me the events, also taught history.

[@maxartusy6378]

As a boy, Patton sat at the knee of John Singleton Mosby, the "Gray Ghost". Mosby taught Patton how to fight and had direct bearing on Patton's methods. Mosby taught Georgie how to fight.

[@johnroper3077]

Heck, you guys have got me wantin' to watch the movie again now! I'm gonna' have to wait til' after the Marine Corps birthday.

[@Hibernicus1968]

Technically, Patton's .357 magnum wasn't a Model 27. It was a Registered Magnum, made _long_ before Smith & Wesson started using the designation Model 27. Postwar, S&W made basically the same model, referred to today as Pre-Model 27s by most people (I have one with a 3 1/2" barrel), and they were just referred to as Smith & Wesson .357 magnums until 1957, when S&W started stamping model numbers on the frame underneath the crane.

[@dukecraig2402]

It also doesn't have ivory grips, they're plastic and it's amazing that nobody including the museum curator knows that. There's an interview right here on KZbin of Patton's driver just a few years back, he was with him for quite some time and tells the story of how Patton told his staff that he wanted ivory grips for that revolver and gave someone the task of going into town somewhere and getting them, his driver took the guy into town and they couldn't find ivory grips for it anywhere probably due to the war and shipping lanes among other things being shut down cutting off the supply of ivory from Africa, not wanting to return without them and suffer Patton's wrath for failing they found a place that had plastic grips and put them on, he laughed and said Patton never knew the difference and apparently nobody else ever has either.

[@mtsflorida]

​@@dukecraig2402I don't know how you wouldn't know once you carve in notches. I'm drawn to conclude he thumped the handles and found that plastic makes a duller sound than the hard enamel of ivory tusks. Which would be the only reason why he would mutilate part of his equipment.

[@dukecraig2402]

@@mtsflorida Well without someone coming up with some proof that he knew they were plastic there's only supposition that he knew they were, I mean that's a pretty big suppose right there, he'd have had to have something with actual ivory grips to tap on one and then the other to draw that conclusion, despite the image of him and ivory grips I don't think he was some kind of an authority on them that had his pistol bumped against something he'd have taken pause and said "That didn't sound like an ivory grip should when one bumps into something". Also, since his driver was of WW2 vintage that means Patton couldn't have possibly put notches in them as the incidents occurred, only well afterwards after the ivory grips were installed, and once again doubting that he was an actual authority on ivory grips I don't see how cutting little notches in it would be something he'd use to validate or disprove them being ivory, I'd think that a little shard of white plastic would look like a little shard of ivory. You can hear his driver talking about it in an interview right here on KZbin, I believe it's that one channel called Veterans Center or something close to that, it's a great interview and the guy tells some really good stories about Patton in it.

[@johncantrell8904]

​@@dukecraig2402the Colt letter on that Model P it came with Ivory Stocks.

[@joeguzman3558]

I just subscribed, may God give you millions of New subscribers.

[@jasonarringotn2501]

Amazing

[@kraaidievoel]

Thanks, this was great

[@docmach8794]

There was an interview of one of his drivers in Germany who said he was the one to get the grips done for one of his pistols, but he said they were faux ivory and actually made of plastic.

[@BrokenBarBox]

Please post the Jeff Cooper interview!

[@joshuamontgomery4992]

He was also part of the Huron mountain club, his wifes father started the club and owned most of upper peninsula Michigan

[@djquinn11]

As a Michigan native I never knew this! Thank you and Patton is my favorite General.

[@joshuamontgomery4992]

@@djquinn11 Fredrick Ayer was able to dredge the water way and got a bunch of land. The Ayer family still has a logging business up north. He hired John Munro longyear to "land look" for him, timber cruiser. Longyear has lots of logging and real estate business still up here. They are tied to the league of nations, now the UN. Among the other federal agencies. The Jekyll island was closed down, where did they go? Rockefeller I think it was gave longyear a big check. The club members owned everything to do with mining up here, aside from kenacot eagle mine the one they tried to shut down haha

[@djquinn11]

@@joshuamontgomery4992 : Thanks for that. My grandfather had a hunting lodge in Paradise and I’ve camped and hiked all over the UP.

[@emmgeevideo]

I know this is a channel about guns, but Patton was not a "tank commander" during his days of fame- he was an army commander, a three-star general. He commanded infantry, tanks, intelligence, logistics, etc.

[@alanniederlitz8630]

Patton was amazingly complicated.

[@jimmyrhodes1808]

Tank Commander (?)- wonder what Patton would have to say about that ?

[@michaelwilson9986]

There an Uncut possibility?

[@JacobC479]

Only thing I think about is Patton was known for being super strict on soldiers having everything on them regulation but didn’t carry a regulation side arm.

[@pb68slab18]

I do believe a Model of 1917 belongs on that wall!

[@daxdenton2289]

The fact that George S Patton cut notches in his gun grip cracks me up he must have been reading a bunch of dime store novels the myth of the notched gun got started with bat Masterson. Somebody had written to him asking for one of the guns that he used in his gunfights and would pay him handsomely for it bat oblige the man and went to a hardware store and bought the biggest cheapest piece of crap he could find went back to his office, was getting ready to send the parcel off and decided to cut notches into the grip, Patton also probably thought that gunfighters dueled at high noon too. This only happened a few times with gunfights in the West but if they did, they wouldn’t Stand facing their opponent Directly Face-to-face that was extremely ignorant, you can get yourself killed doing stuff like that you would stand with your side facing your opponent side and your gun would already be out but most times they were muzzle to muzzle shooting all over the place and not hitting your target because more likely they were drunk With absolutely no romance in the task like depicted in the dime store novels and western movies or More likely than not, you would shoot Your opponent in the back like John Wesley Hardin who was murder in this manner and at the hearing of the man Who shot him a one John Selman Senior said he shot John Wesley Hardin in the eye, but no one really believed him so the judge said to him well, if you shot him in the eye that shows excellent marksmanship if you shot him in the back of the head that shows excellent judgment and the one Who is the only example of the Dual at high noon Shooting his opponent at 75 yards the king of shootist and I say shootist us because gunfighter is not the proper term wild Bill Hickok these two men have never been dumb enough to put notches in their gun grips showing how many people they killed even though they would have a hefty amount of notches on their grips and are well-deserving of their bragging rights I believe I heard also that George Patton in his youth knew John S Mosby known as the grey ghost of the confederacy Mosby would tell Patton as a boy about his Calvary charges and raids and all Of his adventures, you would think if this is true Mosby would’ve told him that notching your guns grips wasn’t something that gunmen did because of Mosby himself even training some of The men in the Civil War that would become known for their ability with a gun and that dime store novels are nothing but sheep dip

[@markosterman419]

LOL … did he engraving and carving the ivory grips? Wish he could have found the same guy who did the metal engraving.

[@kafakafaa3950]

A shame that none of these guns could protect him from his own people :D :D :D

[@shooterqqqq]

He died in a fluke car accident.

[@kafakafaa3950]

@@shooterqqqq clear thing :D

[@F_Yale]

@@shooterqqqq Flukes tend to happen when you say the wrong things, don't they.

[@DennyRice]

He and a friend were going hunting in his command car when he was struck by a truck on the way to the site, his neck was broken he lived for days before compications set in and took his life. The US Army could use a couple Generals like Patton today.

[@RaulRodriguez-bq4nj]

Why was Pancho Villa an outlaw?

[@danewhitt489]

Hey what about the other colt revolver he carried 2.😮

[@justindearmond1]

i wonder if he ever fired his weapons in combat in ww2....killed enemy soldiers? Im a painter and we painted his house on Ft. Riley (number 5B) back in 07. was a really cool house, huge...still has his original furniture.

[@stephenmccartneyst3ph3nm85]

Two donkeys. In Sicily, Patton shot two donkeys on a bridge that were in his way. When the poor peasant farmer complained, the rich soldier boy proceeded to beat the man with a cane. Patton was an awful excuse for a human being.

[@SPMech1]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@wizardofahhhs759]

And all this time I was under the impression that Patton carried a Glock.

[@sideshow4417]

Maybe a glockenspiel

[@craigthemonke794]

It didnt exist yet

[@joshuagibson2520]

I miss old man Scoutten.

[@santamanone]

The Colt Peacemaker did not win the west. That was done with single shot muzzle loaders and breech loaders. The Peacemaker is the gun. that tamed” the west.

[@Clevelandsteamer324]

No mention of his 1903 officers model

[@DymondzTrucking1962]

His boys as Patton always referred to them would go to hell and kill the devil if he asked.

[@glocksp80smd]

That .357 isnt in good shape ive seen others that old in way better shape but saying thay im sure he carried the hell out of that in alot of different conditions

[@novascotianinfj]

Fathom Paton today with his .500 S&W Magnums

[@shaunsteele4968]

That museum is not home to the Patton staff car. It's with Jimmy Hoffas body wherever ike chose to dump it. What you have there. Is a replica. With a filed off VIN number.

[@billpotter7162]

My uncle James served in Pattons 3rd Army. That SAA most definitely looks like something a pimp would carry

[@frankbutta9344]

George C. Scott’s portrayal of General Patton is overblown, and fails to depict the nature of Patton’s speaking voice and style. Omar Bradley did not like Patton, and Francis Ford Coppola drew heavily on Bradley’s memoirs when doing the movie’s screenplay.

[@carlharper557]

Custer was not a general until they reinstated him after he died

[@joshuagibson2520]

Love me some Shooting USA, but fuck cable / satellite TV channels. That shit is dead.

[@FINNIUSORION]

Good content but delivered like a mid 90s opb special.

[@Clevelandsteamer324]

It’s not a “pistol”

[@bob733333]

"We fought the wrong enemy" GS Patton

[@team_dpi3621]

Absolutely correct!

[@thinghammer]

Of course, you're a Holocaust denier. Only people who believe that the Holocaust was fake think we fought the wrong people. That's how you meant it. He wasn't a fan of the Russians, either. That's what he was saying. Not fuck the Jews.

[@bob733333]

@@thinghammer I question everything that is presented to me. Including your comment. You can't prove anything you saw on the boob tube.

[@bob733333]

@@thinghammer Have you ever read Revelation of Jesus Christ?

[@bob733333]

@@thinghammer Why did he say we fought the wrong enemy then? Have you even thought about it?