And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
My dad had a 45-70 Government version of the Sharps. I shot it when I was about 12 years old and it kicked like a wild mule. Dad traded it for a custom 1911 from Wilson's Gun Shop just before it became Wilson Combat.
It ended the dominance of the Bison on the American plains. By so doing, it broke the Indians capacity to survive and sent them onto reservations.
ReplyDeleteMy dad had a 45-70 Government version of the Sharps. I shot it when I was about 12 years old and it kicked like a wild mule. Dad traded it for a custom 1911 from Wilson's Gun Shop just before it became Wilson Combat.
ReplyDeleteThe last bolt gun I built I almost used a set trigger, used a Timney instead.
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