The title gave me the impression that this is a piece you'd bring to prom in Texas.

@Tucko124

8 жыл бұрын

+IrrelevantNL I thought it was going to be a dress piece for military gatherings or celebrations, good to know I wasn't the only one who was confused.

@corneliussulla9963

2 жыл бұрын

I thought you shoot between the feet of people to make them dance.

"I am wearing this hat because Texas" -Ian, 2015

@rigramindio

3 жыл бұрын

It's backwards

I was just in the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame & Museum yesterday and saw the two Dance & Brothers revolvers. They had both the .44 and .36 version. Oh and the .44 also had the star on the right side of the grip.

Ian, you're definitely on to something here. More themed hats please.

@flynn88MN

7 жыл бұрын

He's already done that.

@robertscott2210

4 жыл бұрын

And continues to today. Oh, if you had known what you were asking for four years ago. 🤔😁

@mchagnon7

4 жыл бұрын

This comment has aged like wine.

"...because Texas." Nearly choked on my drink there, haha

I am a Texan and I approve of this video.

@nickmiller9537

8 жыл бұрын

you're a bad texan, that hats backwards..

@gokuss15

8 жыл бұрын

+Nick Miller that's still good for an Arizonan. ;)

@srjohndeans5508

8 жыл бұрын

+Nick Miller He's sick of people up his backside.

@jazzman5598

4 жыл бұрын

Josh Callejas lol!!!

@codaktakman7636

3 жыл бұрын

I am a Georgian and Confederate Sympathizer and I approve this message

I have to wonder if my grandmother's grandfather carried one in the war, he was a Sargent in the 29th Texas Cavalry(CSA), he was also half Choctaw.

My dissappointment when I realized this is not actually a revolver for dancing is slightly offset by Ian wearing one of his fabulous hats.

I’d imagine the lack of recoil frame would make it a lot easier to cap

Thanks for making this. I’m from Columbia, TX and have never seen the gun they made. Read the TX Historical Marker for years.

"I'm wearing a big hat for this video because Texas." As if there were any other reason to wear a big hat.

I've always loved civil war cap and ball revolvers.

Ian .... Please keep up your mission of gathering information. Record this stuff for future generations!Thanks again for another lesson in firearms history.

my native american name is dances with revolvers

@michaelreese605

3 жыл бұрын

God bless you.

@grob318

2 жыл бұрын

Mine is, 'Forgets To Wipe'.

@dennismetzger9287

Жыл бұрын

Mine is Dances with hoes

Forgotten Weapons is by far my favorite channel on YT. Keep up the great work Ian.

"I'm Sheriff Beaufort T. Justice...of Texas!!!!!"

J.H. Dance & Brothers Company. Excellent Rebel revolver.

"These guns saw hard use from the 1860's"..Yeah, I wonder why??

I watched the "because Texas" part, like, 5 times. I find it hilarious and I don't know why.

I'm beginning to think you just sleep at the auction houses with interesting stuff...

@Snandra66

8 жыл бұрын

+Sen Kanashimi A possibility.

@mortisCZ

8 жыл бұрын

+Sen Kanashimi Ian is secretly considered to be a property of local action houses cartel. :-D After this auction J.D.Julia will just pack him into a box filled with polystyren beads and books to send him to R I auction house. There Ian is unpacked, they change his clothes and let him free to make some more videos. Neverending cycle of making videos and reading in tight packed box..What a life! :-D

@Snandra66

8 жыл бұрын

***** Beautiful.

@Tendies7645

8 жыл бұрын

+Vojtěch “Mortis” Ptáček ^^yes just yes^^

@kevkfz5226

8 жыл бұрын

Best watch out. They will sell him to a collector.

The star and the good condition makes me think it was presented to someone important

''Hey Mister, I like the way you were that hat'' Ned Beatty, Deliverance

Ian, I really really really like your hat.

@kidwithanuke

8 жыл бұрын

Nice meme!

@thestr8person

8 жыл бұрын

+Kristofer Smith Haha 😀

@waller4570

8 жыл бұрын

+BluescreenBandit It would look even better if he wasn't wearing it backwards.

@zellarsDD777

8 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure it's a Stetson Open Road. A great hat

@WhatIsYourMalfunction

8 жыл бұрын

+S Hartman You beat me to it.

What a great looking revolver, honest patna with an interesting history. Love the Texas star in the grip as well.

IAN. THAT HAT IS OK BACKWARDS. IAN. STAHP.

Because Texas!

Funny, but when I saw "Dance Revolver" I just assumed that was like a barbecue gun. You know, "I'm going to the barn dance, where is my fancy gun with the star on it."

@theoriginaldylangreene

8 жыл бұрын

+Gun Sense (drmaudio) You have a fancy gun just to take to barbecues?

@drmaudio

8 жыл бұрын

Dylan Greene No, but wearing your fanciest or most impressive gun to a barbecue is a tradition is some parts.

"...because texas." Haha, love it! I wish i lived in texas but PAs laws are JUST good enough for me.

Thanks for sharing all this information on forgotten guns keep it up you got my vote.

"I'm wearing a big hat today because Texas." Ian - 2015

i'll bet that revolver once belonged to a legit badass from Texas & if it could speak would tell some badass stories!

@wizardofahhhs759

5 жыл бұрын

1dabirdman I bet it smacked quite a few mules between the eyes.

"...Because Texas." 10/10

Enjoy your Videos Ian! Keep it up!

I got the pietta replica of it, looks great, thanks for sharing this pièce of history.

That's a great hat. Keep on doing what your doing Ian.

Dance yankee, dance!

At this point i feel like you are just packed into a box with a nice book after every round of videos and shipped off to some other auction house i fear the day when the Ian model becomes outdated

Ian, is the star silver? Could it be some Texas sherif or Texas Ranger used it? It can be a nice story to the gun: made for confederates and used by a man of the war. ;)

@ForgottenWeapons

8 жыл бұрын

+Pprokop87 I believe it is.

@Pprokop87

8 жыл бұрын

I wonder if someone can track back history of this gun. It would be nice to see it on the wall or over fireplace with a desription plate. It was made in number far less than a 1000 and has a silver star of Texas. One hell of a item.

@Pprokop87

8 жыл бұрын

The crazy Weaponcrafter old silver gets black if you leave it on the air or in the ground. if it was cleaned before the shot it would look like it looks. all metal parts looks like the gun was cleaned few days before the shot, after about a 50 or more years in the junkbox.

@Pprokop87

8 жыл бұрын

The crazy Weaponcrafter well, patina is worth a shit, so nobody bothers with it. and when the item is all dirty and rusted you can use it as a hammer. to tell the real price you have to clean and oil it (with old iron and steel). old metals like iron and steel tends to rust fast if un-used, not cleaned and oiled. yes, oil protects it from rust. and if its a "US Civil War" time guns, the steel is so bad, that the marks will remain intil it gets melted again.

Like the hat Ian! Keep up the great work.

I was expecting Ian to be line dancing in this video.

Nice. Diggin your hat too brother!

Oh.. I like your Cattle Buyers Hat.

Interesting. Pietta has made a replica of this revolver, and a few years back, I purchased one. I found that it handled much like a Colt. The only thing is, that with the lack of recoil shields, that you must be certain that the percussion caps are on snug or they will fall off. Here's a link to a photo of Geronimo with a Dance revolver tucked in his belt. www.littlegun.info/arme%20americaine/revolver%20confedere/revolver%20confedere%20dance-06.jpg

@acidwizzardbastard

5 жыл бұрын

So he _did_ have a Dance revolver! That I wasn't sure about, couldn't find that photo.

Damn, these videos are too interesting! I'm not even into guns (I live in Sweden, guns are more or less banned unless you have quite extensive hunting licences) but I'm enjoying these videos more than anything I think I've ever watched! Awesome narration, and just enough information to keep you interested. Great job; keep it up!

@drmachinewerke1

5 жыл бұрын

You need to take a trip over here to the states then. Whatever you do. Do not go to Knob Cree Kentucky .

Because, Texas. That should be a meme.

I have a Pietta brass framed 1851 Colt .44 cal. I know only the South produced complete brass frames but I thought they were all 37cal. Now I know some were .44. which makes my gun just a bit closer to the real thing.

55 Thousand doll hairs! Holly jeezus that's a lot of money for one pistol.

7 years late .. I bought a pietta Dance two weeks ago

Pretty hat (^.^)

I'm a bit late, but Pietta is making repro of this gun.

That sure would be a nice pistol to own. My own guess as to the absence of the blowback tabs is as a cost saving measure. Thanks,

There were at least 4 companies making pistols/firearms in Texas during the "C/W". Not counting 1 that moved into Texas from AK when the yanks moved in. js

I have a Uberti Leech and Rigdon. Good shooter.

Spent caps can't get caught on something that is not there.

There’s a great picture with Geronimo holding a Dance brothers revolver

Down here in Texas the Dance 44 was a favorite killing weapon of the infamous, Texas, gunman, "Wild Bill" Longley......

I would love to learn the art of making my own designs but I feel I would be ostracised in the UK for even attempting such a thing these days.

RIP Texas

Very interesting video...love the local history. Are the Dance brothers any relation to Charles Dance?

@wizardofahhhs759

5 жыл бұрын

Trey Westcot Or Bill Dance the sport fisher

@fcukjones6709

4 жыл бұрын

@@wizardofahhhs759 Or Riverdance, the 90s musical meme?

Nice revolver :)

thanks Ian. I'd like to see you shoot an original P53 Enfield for accuracy. And other Civil War rifles. Real ones, not reproductions.

This is the closet possible historical justification to Pietta's .44 1851s.

watching this again after seeing the new Kevin Costner western Horizon feature a pair of cartridge-converted Dance revolvers in Apacheria in 1863... for some reason

Me a Union Soldier takes a captured Dance Revolver chambered for .44 Caliber Me: "C'mon now dance ye Rebel Prick dance C'mon"

im using ......becuse texas in everything from now on. wife says why isnt the trash taken out.......because texas honey thats why.

@HadToChangeMyName_YoutubeSucks

8 жыл бұрын

+powderedtoast man -- I enjoyed that too.

@attackzack21

8 жыл бұрын

+powderedtoast man how did 6 people look at this and understand it? Am I crazy? Did I have a stroke?

@JonatasAdoM

7 жыл бұрын

+attackzack21 You didn't because I didn't.

That hat makes you look like a DPS trooper. I'd like to bring that revolver back to Texas, but nothing short of winning the lotto (which I rarely play) would make that possible right now.

Nice gun !

Your hats on backwards there slick.

I like your hat, Ian.

Gotta have that Texas Star in the grip (even if it is one of a kind)

Wait a second, pardner. Didn't you, in another video, speak at length about the Tucker & Sharrard Texas revolver? So.....clearly Dance was NOT the only revolver manufacturer in Texas during the Civil War.

Your hat is on backwards. Just fyi for any future wear.

This gun was made for dancing!

😐 I'm to poor to bid on it even if it was a current video. 😁 However it was neat to see in even video form and I love the channel. 😉 So I'm not even bothered by how you think "Brazos" is pronounced. 😂🤣😂 Joking you have top notch content and knowledge and it's both appreciated and respectable. 😊👍

Don’t ever disrespect me with that hat

"Because Texas"

Dance company.... Because guns are art

+Forgotten Weapons Hey Ian, can you sniff around and see if you can find a Russian Pistol called the *OTs-27 Berdysh* or the "оц-27 бердыш" I'm super fascinated by it, it was one of those guns that couldn't win the trails!

Dance Dance Revolution

nice hat

Is it true the .44 calibre Dance was the favoured weapon of Wild Bill Longley???

The pure white background is killing your videos. Any chance you can carry a light blue or light gray (about 18%, see info on 18% photo cards) table cloth with you when you go to film these? Many of your older videos have a nice blue background and even some nice maroon clothes. That was really helpful.

Interesting.

as a Texan I really want this gub

Your hat looks like it is on backwards, to me that is.......Anyways thanks for the info.

Is this the new elite M1 Irons variant?

Because Texas. 'Murica!

Do you know if any of these were ever converted to fire cartridges following the War?

Did you say "the Great State of Texas"? To be honest, I've never been in Texas, but heard a lot about this state of freedom-loving people of "Lonely Star" banner! By the way: Ian, you look a bit different in this "cowboy" hat...

Were there any 8 " barrel models? Or only 7,5?

I think your hats on backwards son.

55k wow

Are the 44 and 36 the same size frame/barrel or is the 36 smaller. ?

Hats make the man. Lol

I'm from texas and I'm pretty sure you wore your hat backwards

CSA

i liked this video because... texas

Is the "Revolver Dance" that stereotypical "cowboy jumping on one foot or the other shooting dual pistols into the air shouting yee-haw or tarnation" phenomenon?

@Janshevik

7 жыл бұрын

no, the dancing is the one who is getting shot by another and he's dancing to avoid getting hit :D

Just a couple of corrections... It's Columbus, TX..... not Columbia, TX... and, there is no Anderson, TX (there is but it's not the same).... It's Anderson Mill (unless I am greatly mistaken) about 30 miles up the Colorado River on what is now Lake Travis. The old mill is still there. It was for grinding the ingredients for gunpowder during the Civil War and later converted to grain.

@vanessaburzynski6738

2 жыл бұрын

The factory was indeed in Anderson, Texas located in Grimes County. I live there and there is a historical marker that marks the spot where the factory was located.

@vanessaburzynski6738

2 жыл бұрын

This .44 caliber revolver was manufactured by the Dance Brothers in Columbia, Texas, as part of a larger effort by Texas gun makers to provide firearms for Confederate troops during the Civil War.

@vanessaburzynski6738

2 жыл бұрын

The brothers James Henry, George Perry, David Etheldred and Isaac Claudius Dance joined their cousin Harrison Perry Dance to form the J.H. Dance & Bros company, located in the city of Columbia, Texas, which was situated on the banks of the Brazos river near Houston and Galveston.

@GazalAlShaqab

2 жыл бұрын

@@vanessaburzynski6738 Thanks for all those informations.

Don't lie. You just really wanted to wear that hat.