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Stuart
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Re: Not Likely Practical but Interesting Nevertheless
23/04/12 02:43 PM

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How bout this one for a heap of barrels ?

Good grief. My entire right arm went into a spasm whan I saw that. I'd think there would be little need to actually load the thing; the mere sight of it would probably put most desperadoes off.

Although this quote from Mark Twain's "Roughing it" refers to pepperbox revolvers, there surely must have been similar dangers with those earlier multi-barrel pistols:

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"I should have shot that long gangly lubber they called Hank, if I could have done it without crippling six or seven other people--but of course I couldn't,
the old 'Allen's' so confounded comprehensive....It was a cheerful weapon--the "Allen." Sometimes all its six barrels would go off at once, and then
there was no safe place in all the region round about, but behind it."

Stuart

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smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles
who really mean it. (Mark Twain)

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Not Likely Practical but Interesting Nevertheless	mehulkamdar	10/03/12 03:34 AM
Re: Not Likely Practical but Interesting Nevertheless	PHMadness	10/03/12 06:19 AM
Re: Not Likely Practical but Interesting Nevertheless	Mike_Bailey	10/03/12 06:50 AM
Re: Not Likely Practical but Interesting Nevertheless	Oldbrit	10/03/12 08:09 AM
Re: Not Likely Practical but Interesting Nevertheless	DarylS	10/03/12 12:51 PM
Re: Not Likely Practical but Interesting Nevertheless	NitroX	11/03/12 01:04 PM
Re: Not Likely Practical but Interesting Nevertheless	NitroX	12/03/12 02:47 AM
Re: Not Likely Practical but Interesting Nevertheless	Sarg	15/03/12 10:48 AM
Re: Not Likely Practical but Interesting Nevertheless	NitroX	16/03/12 01:32 PM
Re: Not Likely Practical but Interesting Nevertheless	NitroX	16/03/12 01:34 PM
Re: Not Likely Practical but Interesting Nevertheless	Stuart	13/04/12 03:46 PM
Re: Not Likely Practical but Interesting Nevertheless	radin	16/04/12 10:19 AM
Re: Not Likely Practical but Interesting Nevertheless	tinker	16/04/12 01:24 PM
Re: Not Likely Practical but Interesting Nevertheless	Sarg	16/04/12 03:26 PM
Re: Not Likely Practical but Interesting Nevertheless	Stuart	23/04/12 02:43 PM
Re: Not Likely Practical but Interesting Nevertheless	Checkman	11/12/12 02:18 PM
Re: Not Likely Practical but Interesting Nevertheless	MikeRowe	11/12/12 02:30 PM
Re: Not Likely Practical but Interesting Nevertheless	Homer	11/03/12 07:07 PM

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