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I became interested in Italian reproduction Civil War-era black powder "Percussion/Cap & Ball" revolvers back in the late 1970's. You can buy them in most US states mail-order because there are no federal restrictions on them. They are considered antique firearms so no background check is needed. They are a lot of fun but totally impractical for defense by today's standards. It takes several minutes to load them and they are not reliable. Misfires & jams (due to pieces of spent caps falling into the action) are an issue. When they came out in the mid 1840s they were state-of-the-art and gave one the ability to get off multiple shots very quickly at a time when almost all pistols and rifles were single shot muzzle loaders. These are my 3 guns and they were the most coveted percussion revolver models 155 years ago:
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Happy Birthday Beers!
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My first job was at a car wash at age 16 in 1973. It paid about $1.60/hour which was minimum wage in Maryland at the time. The job wasn't worth more than that as a starting wage. It was a very low skilled job for young people to make a couple of bucks after school & on weekends. Period. The car wash could never have sustained paying employees enough money to live on. it would have gone out of business.
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Happy Birthday Beers!
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Happy Birthday Chile!
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Welcome to the clan.
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Happy 18th Panzergirl!
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Happy Birthday Laszlo!
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COD5 DM1 Goes Hardcore!
Steak replied to djMot's topic in Call of Duty: World At War's Call Of Duty: World At War Discussion
It is a submachinegun slaughter fest now! I used to run around trying to draw fire to find people. Needless to say that doesn't work anymore. You go down very quickly. -
Happy Birthday Pops!
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Happy Birthday!
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I have a ten year old IBM keyboard, a Logitech G5 mouse, and a Creative Fatality headsrt I've been using for the past 7 years. The paint on the A, W & D keys is almost worn off!
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9 Minutes of ZZ Top Performing Tush??? Hell YEAH!!!
Steak replied to JohnnyNashville's topic in General Discussion
I saw them in 1974 in Baltimore, Maryland. They opened for Ten Years After. Incredible concert. -
What happened to all of the traffic on the DM servers? I see a number of people on our Sniper Server much of the time but the DM 1 & 2 servers have been vacant when I have checked lately. The shine has to wear off of the sniper thing pretty soon I would think but there still are a lot of players unaccounted for.
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Post pics of your lets see what people look like
Steak replied to Stringer's topic in General Discussion
Me a few years ago. The temples are pretty grey now. -
Happy Birthday Larsin! I'll have to reinstall COD4. I'm in need of a serious ass whoopin'
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Thanks Everyone.
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Congrats Nummy.
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To be accurate, in my original post I said that cartridge revolvers were common place by 1873. The reality was that shortly after the Civil War the old cap & ball revolvers had cartridge conversion kits so that they could fire metallic cartridges. The first actual cartridge designed revolver came out in 1873 which is the now famous Colt Single Action Army "Peacemaker". That is the most common revolver seen in western TV shows and movies and is known as "The Gun That Won The West". Colt has produced it off and on since then and it is available from Colt today.
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I have Q3 and Team Arena.
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Welcome BigDOg.
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Happy Birthday!