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To: ZULU

Ping!


45 posted on 08/22/2006 1:11:30 PM PDT by bad company (When Chuck Norris goes to bed at night, he checks his closet for FReeper kanawa)
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To: bad company

Rorke's Drift.

I would have liked to have the Martini-Henry instead of just its bullet.

I think we were using trapdoor Springfields back then.

I remember reading an interesting book on firearms - I can't remember the title - where the author quoted military "experts" of the time as opposing firearms which could fire multiple rounds because it would necourage the troops to "waste ammunition" So we and the Brits were using single shot rifles when things like Winchesters and Henry Rifles were around.

I read something similar about the idiot who was in charge of northern ordinance procurement in the Civil War. Instead of buying breech loaders, he insisted on sticking with single-shot muzzle-loaders which gave the South an advantage as they couldn't easily gear up to breech loader production or get them readily through the Union blockade.


55 posted on 08/22/2006 2:04:53 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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