I grew up watching The Lone Ranger, in Spanish, on a B&W tv. Most definitely at the top of my heroes chart.
Must have been very very young.

Was an old adult when i stumbled on his sidekick original name: Tonto. Tonto means dumb in Spanish so for most of my life Tonto was Toro (bull) instead. A more proud and strong name.

Reading the Silver bullet thread at the Lounge made me wonder if the Lone Ranger just left a silver bullet as a signature or the guy just used them as his regular ammo as i thought until this very day. Always wondered where he got enough silver. Eyebrows raised…

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In all seriousness, the Ranger always fired silver bullets as only they will stop a werewolf in his tracks.

It was his signature, though typically an episode would end with someone asking who was that masked man and someone else would tell them that it was The Lone Ranger.

I remember an episode (or review) that he had a silver mine. He used the silver to finance his quest and his signature ammo.

PC

One of my favorite shows as a kid.

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Originally posted by PCWyoming:
I remember an episode (or review) that he had a silver mine. He used the silver to finance his quest and his signature ammo.

PC

His cabin, as i recall, was set atop a rich vein of silver which was at the surface. The Lone Ranger essentially went home and pulled the nearly pure silver out of the floor and made his silver rounds there.

Years ago, a couple of gunwriters cast some bullets out of pure silver, Dean Grinnell was one of them, I think.
As I recall, they didn't work very well.

Answer: Victor.

Everybody knows that.

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Originally posted by PCWyoming:
I remember an episode (or review) that he had a silver mine. He used the silver to finance his quest and his signature ammo.
PC

"The Lone Ranger" was one of my favorite TV shows when I was little and still enjoy it today. The silver mine was originally a partnership between John Reid (the Lone Ranger), his brother Dan, and their friend Jim Blaine. The series began with a three part episode where they visited Jim Blaine (portrayed by Ralph Littlefield). The use of silver bullets was explained in the second part, “The Lone Ranger Fights On.”

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Partial quote taken from IMDB.com, which from my recollection is very close:

John Reid: You forget I told you I vowed never to shoot to kill. Silver bullets will serve as sort of a symbol. Tonto suggested the idea.
Jim Blaine: Symbol? Of what?
John Reid: A symbol which means justice by law. I want it to become known to all who see the silver bullets that I live and fight only to see the eventual defeat and the proper punishment by law of every criminal in the West.

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Originally posted by rackrack:
Answer: Victor.
Everybody knows that.

The question is: What is the name of Silver’s son and the horse belonging to Dan Reid, Jr., the nephew of the Lone Ranger?

I wrote a Lone Ranger story several years ago that’s a takeoff of and follow-up to Season 4, episode 11, entitled “Dan Reid’s Fight for Life.” The story is told in diary form by young Dan and is read by his grandson, Britt Reid (also known on radio and TV as the Green Hornet), many years later. The story explains about Dan's relationship with his uncle following the death of Captain Dan Reid at the hands of the Butch Cavendish gang and uses information from the radio series and the TV show to put it into an adult perspective. Victor’s origin is touched upon, too.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1...R01-The-Summer-of-78

There are also a couple of standalone LR tales in

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1...s-of-the-Lone-Ranger

The way I remember it.

Prior to being bushwhacked ,
The ranger had done a good deed for a crusty old miner,
The miner was spared a considerable hardship and he felt indebted to the ranger.

After the bushwhacking that left him severely wounded,
After his recovery and rehab with the help of Tonto

After capturing the white horse.

He and Tonto visited the old miner and had the old miner mold up the silver bullets.
Gratis.

I recall an article in one the gun rags thirty or more years ago where someone, maybe Mike Venturino, tried to cast some silver bullets in imitation of the Lone Ranger. It turned out to be hard to cast good, uniform, and solid silver bullets. He found it difficult to cast them without voids and bubbles, for reasons I no longer remember. Or maybe they couldn't figure it out either. In any case, it is my memory they were only able to get a very few bullets they thought were safe to shoot. I think the bullets worked, but they found the whole project showed it was unworkable and not really possible.

Edit: Here is an even older article than the one I remember, from 1964. But they found the same thing. Silver is very hard to cast into bullets and they didn't work well.

https://www.patriciabriggs.com...icles/silver/ranger/

Maybe the lone ranger had a lathe

Maybe the lone ranger had a lathe

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Originally posted by bendable:
Maybe the lone ranger had a lathe

This is what I thought too. It's not like they couldn't afford one with all that silver laying around.

I used to love watching the reruns when I was younger. Due to that show, I always thought quick sand would be a great problem growing up and for a while, it concerned me deeply.

This explains it all. Hi oh Silver!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zISnKxmbPpI

^^^
That was great, thanks for posting. Don't think I ever saw it.

Ha!
These days kids play
The Floor is Lava
When stuck inside the house.

In the late 60's
We played the floor was quick sand