#16 was funny, because I counted up to 14 shots from Costner’s six-shooter, but it begs the question: is there really such a gun as that overdone revolver?
A double-ring cylinder, 20 pinfire rounds, two barrels, and it doesn't say what the mechanism was to keep the long hammer from firing both barrels together. It doesn't say how many were manufactured, but a few were used in the Civil War. I wonder how often something went wrong in the mechanism.
Pinfire sounds difficult to reload, although not as bad as a cap and ball front-loader. The primer stuck out the side of the cartridge so you had to line it up to load. And if you had the angle slightly off, you jammed the side of the primer against steel as you tried to push the cartridge in. I hope that was thick-walled.
Besides the standard LeFacheau, which was 8 or 9 .44 shots and a 12 ga center barrel, there was tge Walch Navy .36 cal Black Powder pistol with 6 cylinders, each double loaded and fired from different caps. Not for me, thanks. John in Indy
#1 Yup I'm a us. I was diggin in my pocket yesterday and pulled out a 380 round and a couple spent .22's. Reached in the other and had a ground clamp for an electric fence and a couple lock washers.
Did you know if you walk three blocks home in the rain after spending an evening reloading with your friends, putting your sweat shirt in the dryer to freshen it up results in a new clothes dryer when the primers all start going off?
#1) At the risk of admitting to Kenny that I use 9mm, when we moved out of our old house and were cleaning everthing up I found a live 9mm round in the crisper drawer in the refrigerator.
When I started looking, one page had a pic close to that and said 40gr. More research leads me to believe that was wrong and the pictured round might tip the scales at 105 gr. Lots of wildcats out there, might possibly be one of the 6mm varmint rounds instead.
Begs the question: why in almost every movie is everyone cautioned not to cut the green wire? Do terrorists and bombmakers follow an international wiring code?
Sometimes I go to the bank with my spare change bucket. It can get the eyes rolling with various handgun rounds and free drink tokens. I try and be careful but things catch up on you. Paul J
That's when you take a 4" thick "Analytic Geometry and The Calculus" text book that was the bane of your existence in college and put a .357 mag hollow point through the middle of it. Just sayin.
#16 was funny, because I counted up to 14 shots from Costner’s six-shooter, but it begs the question: is there really such a gun as that overdone revolver?
ReplyDeleteYes. It's a French Lefeaucheaux. They had front-stuffer and pinfire versions.
DeleteCostner and the director did that deliberately as homage to old oaters wherein it was a staple.
Delete"Front-stuffer" is what I call your mom. "Pinfire" is what your wife calls you.
Deletehttps://www.militaryfactory.com/smallarms/detail.php?smallarms_id=315
DeleteA double-ring cylinder, 20 pinfire rounds, two barrels, and it doesn't say what the mechanism was to keep the long hammer from firing both barrels together. It doesn't say how many were manufactured, but a few were used in the Civil War. I wonder how often something went wrong in the mechanism.
Pinfire sounds difficult to reload, although not as bad as a cap and ball front-loader. The primer stuck out the side of the cartridge so you had to line it up to load. And if you had the angle slightly off, you jammed the side of the primer against steel as you tried to push the cartridge in. I hope that was thick-walled.
#11 is fucking scary-
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on #16, he shoots 6 times but then fans his pistol for 9 more rounds, I remember counting them, damn they had a 15 round colt?
ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not, there was a 12 shot revolver right after the War between the States.
DeleteBesides the standard LeFacheau, which was 8 or 9 .44 shots and a 12 ga center barrel, there was tge Walch Navy .36 cal Black Powder pistol with 6 cylinders, each double loaded and fired from different caps. Not for me, thanks.
DeleteJohn in Indy
Jail? They belong in a woodchipper.
ReplyDeleteFeet first. . .
DeleteAnd lowered in slowly.
Delete#1 Yup I'm a us. I was diggin in my pocket yesterday and pulled out a 380 round and a couple spent .22's. Reached in the other and had a ground clamp for an electric fence and a couple lock washers.
ReplyDeleteDid you know if you walk three blocks home in the rain after spending an evening reloading with your friends, putting your sweat shirt in the dryer to freshen it up results in a new clothes dryer when the primers all start going off?
DeleteYou are my kind of people.
Delete#1) At the risk of admitting to Kenny that I use 9mm, when we moved out of our old house and were cleaning everthing up I found a live 9mm round in the crisper drawer in the refrigerator.
ReplyDeleteDid you text fire it to see if it was effected cold and moisture?
DeleteIt worked fine.
Delete#11: I'll let Hunter explain that.
ReplyDelete#1- What kind of hyper ballistic rounds does "us" have ???
ReplyDeleteI think that's a 6.5 Creedmagic.
DeleteReminds me of 5.7x28, but I don't think so.
Delete.22 Dasher. 4800 FPS 40 grain slug.
DeleteIt’s the stuff that gives the anti-308 Winchester crowd a boner🤦♂️
DeleteWhen I started looking, one page had a pic close to that and said 40gr. More research leads me to believe that was wrong and the pictured round might tip the scales at 105 gr. Lots of wildcats out there, might possibly be one of the 6mm varmint rounds instead.
DeleteLooks like 6 Dasher
Delete#10--if you cut the wrong wire, the bomb will 'diffuse' itself. Suddenly.
ReplyDeleteDon't sweat it, Ken, I know you don't write them.
--Tennessee Budd
Begs the question: why in almost every movie is everyone cautioned not to cut the green wire? Do terrorists and bombmakers follow an international wiring code?
DeleteSometimes I go to the bank with my spare change bucket. It can get the eyes rolling with various handgun rounds and free drink tokens. I try and be careful but things catch up on you.
ReplyDeletePaul J
#18 Also scientists today: Men can totally have kids, and paying obscene taxes will cool Da Erf's temperature.
ReplyDeleteI want to hear more about text firing!
ReplyDeleteThat's when you take a 4" thick "Analytic Geometry and The Calculus" text book that was the bane of your existence in college and put a .357 mag hollow point through the middle of it. Just sayin.
Delete#16. Hey, leave "Open Range" alone. It's my one exception to my, "No Kevin Costner" rule.
ReplyDelete#11 Ahh yea, blowjobs for blow, I remember those days.....
ReplyDeleteJD