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To: Hugin

I love that add. The only thing I like better is the picture of a cowboy in a saloon with a Mauser C96. Wish I could still find that picture!


10 posted on 10/25/2014 3:25:24 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: Little Ray; All

When I was thinking about taking the position at Yuma Proving Ground, I looked up books on Yuma. One detailed a gun fight that occurred in the early 1900’s.

The bar tender pulled out a Colt .45 revolver and started shooting up the place. A cowboy said everything was fine until a round creased his butt as he crouched behind an overturned table.

Then he pulled out a 9mm Luger and emptied the magazine into the bar tender, who fell over, dead.

It was a great .45 v. 9mm story, but it was in a book in the post library in Ft. Clayton, Panama, and I have not been able to find it since...


15 posted on 10/25/2014 3:45:00 PM PDT by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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