Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Smith and Wesson Number 1 seven shot revolver

 


Mark Twain owned one, and had the following to say about it:

“I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homeopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault—you could not hit anything with it. One of our conductors practiced a while on a cow with it, and as long as she stood still and behaved herself she was safe; but as soon as she went to moving about, and he got to shooting at other things, she came to grief.”


4 comments:

  1. Ol' Twain sure could craft some colorful commentary.

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  2. So, I gotta ask, . . . no trigger? . . . or did you just pull back the hammer, and let it fly?!

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  3. The trigger is exposed when you cock the hammer.

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