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To: Beowulf9

I know what you mean. I ince had one of those ball and cap Pennsylvania rifles and I used to practice with it. Found out that if I had lived back in the day I0d have probaly starved to death.


8 posted on 11/15/2012 12:32:11 PM PST by Americanexpat
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To: Americanexpat

I know what you mean. I ince had one of those ball and cap Pennsylvania rifles and I used to practice with it. Found out that if I had lived back in the day I0d have probaly starved to death.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/hns/indians/offense.html

Mark Twain wrote about the outlandish and ridiculous claims of frontier markmanship by the pioneers. You might enjoy it.


20 posted on 11/15/2012 12:55:44 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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