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.
Distant relative was the mayor of Roscoe, TX in the 30's. The recently fired night watch man gunned him down with a .32. Mayor staggered to the hospital. Sepsis eventually set in I think, and the he expired a few days later. Those old lead bullets were deadly, even if they didn't kill you on the way in.
However… getting plugged with any one of those would be an unpleasant day.
ReplyDeleteI...know a guy who has several of the listed revolvers...he carries one of them daily.
ReplyDeleteDistant relative was the mayor of Roscoe, TX in the 30's. The recently fired night watch man gunned him down with a .32. Mayor staggered to the hospital. Sepsis eventually set in I think, and the he expired a few days later. Those old lead bullets were deadly, even if they didn't kill you on the way in.
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Cleanliness of self and clothing was definitely not the same back then, those chunks of lead carried a lot of “dirty” into the wound….
DeleteYes'm. Externally lubed .22's are among the worst.
DeleteYou don't want a big boomer in breach Schofield design, They tend to become a big boom.
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ReplyDeleteAny of them em would hurt pard.
ReplyDeleteAs a southpaw, I want break-top revolvers like these in modern calibers with modern engineering.
ReplyDeleteYeah!
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