Tyler Gun Works is noted for their action jobs and the Vaqueros are a living, shooting example.
It’s unlikely we’ll do either but we will need something to fill our time between rocking and waiting for the 4 p.m. My hope for these guns was they be roughly used so when we were someday sitting on the porch of the old folks’ home, we could make up lies about the time we carried the sixguns to storm the heights of Chapultepec and shot charging lions in the Veldt. When I explained one of them actually belonged to him, he was deeply touched - exactly as I expected. I couldn’t believe my luck and felt like it was the proverbial “meant to be.” When I finally showed Ken the pair after our annual Christmas squirrel hunt, he loved them. The guns arrived and were exactly as described. Are you kidding me? Who does such a thing? Regardless, and somewhat skeptical, I made an offer. 45 Colt Ruger New Vaqueros, never fired, purchased for a Halloween costume,” the listing read. “For sale: two consecutive-serial-numbered. The answer came one day as I scanned an online gun auction website. As we’re both “gun guys,” something made of blued steel - perhaps romantically Old West related - seemed the only logical candidate. Thus, two years ago, it seemed past due to commemorate this alliance with something tangible. Regardless, we can generally finish the other’s sentences. In fact, we consider each other “best friends,” though such labels seem a little trite when you reach a certain age. It’s been a good life and a special friendship. I’ve allegedly given one of his sons life-changing - and very bad - advice, he knows the combination to my gun safe and together we’ve killed more bottles of Kentucky Holy Water and maduro cigars than we’d care to admit to our healthcare providers. We helped form the SWAT Team, been in innumerable car chases, literally fought side-by-side in bars and on the street, had guns pointed at us and more frequently, pointed guns at other people.
Through those years, we’ve shared countless eight-hour shifts while he was a sheriff’s deputy (later Sheriff) and I a city cop in concurrent jurisdictions. However, before either of us achieved a modicum of notoriety in the firearm industry, we were both “baby cops” working side-by-side for decades back in Indiana. Wheat is the threadbare editor of this otherwise-distinguished magazine. Ken Campbell is the CEO of famed Gunsite Academy in Arizona.
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