{"id":11014,"date":"2011-09-19T14:33:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T19:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=11014"},"modified":"2013-08-08T22:11:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T03:11:05","slug":"on-gun-stories-top-break-revolvers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/on-gun-stories-top-break-revolvers\/11014\/","title":{"rendered":"On Gun Stories: Top Break Revolvers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11018\" title=\"gunstories6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/gunstories6-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/gunstories6-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/gunstories6.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>How did the perfect revolver for its time end up in second place? We look at the Smith &amp; Wesson Top Break, a classic American revolver used by Frank and Jesse James, Annie Oakley, Bill Tilghman and Buffalo Bill . Gun experts you\u2019ll meet in this episode: Larry Potterfield, Jim Supica, Jason Schubert, Dr. Jack Atwater, Dick Williams, Bill Laughridge, Lance Olson and Stephen Hunter.<\/p>\n<p>Aired first time on 08-03-11.<\/p>\n<p>Air last time on Outdoor Channel: 09-25-11.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/forum\/index.php?topic=16825\" target=\"_blank\">Discuss this episode on the DRTV forum<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gun Stories Home Page on Outdoorchannel.com:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/outdoorchannel.com\/Shows\/GunStories.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/outdoorchannel.com\/Shows\/GunStories.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gun Stories Facebook Fan Page:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GunStories\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GunStories<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joe Mantegna on Facebook<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/joemantegna\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/joemantegna<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joe Mantegna on Twitter<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeMantegna\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeMantegna<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joe Mantegna&#8217;s web site<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joemantegna.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.joemantegna.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did the perfect revolver for its time end up in second place? We look at the Smith &amp; Wesson Top Break, a classic American revolver used by Frank and Jesse James, Annie Oakley, Bill Tilghman and Buffalo Bill . Gun experts you\u2019ll meet in this episode: Larry Potterfield, Jim Supica, Jason Schubert, Dr. Jack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":11018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3173],"tags":[3617,1672,1966,898],"class_list":["post-11014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ocarchive","tag-gun-stories","tag-joe-mantegna","tag-smith-wesson-model-3","tag-top-break-revolver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}