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Bart Noir · January 20, 2014, 03:04 PM

.... for carrying a .32

Glad it didn't turn out worse. Family dogs sometimes like to sleep on the bed, don't they?

Jim March, IIRC, Elmer wrote that a cowboy would lift the heavy stirrup onto the saddle and then bend over to tighten the strap (girth strap? - don't ask me about horses!). Then the stirrup would slip off and fall right onto the hammer of the old model six-gun, resulting in a bang if it were fully loaded. This was fact as he said it had happened.

And I believe he also talked of the way a dropped single action could and did rotate to land right on the hammer. Again, fully loaded would result in a bang with a gun that is aimed up at somebody's soft under-belly, as Churchill put it. Or worse, the horse could get shot

Bart Noir

January 20, 2014, 03:04 PM	#27
Bart Noir Senior Member Join Date: August 5, 2000 Location: Puget Sound, USA Posts: 2,215	9mmfan, shame on you... .... for carrying a .32 Glad it didn't turn out worse. Family dogs sometimes like to sleep on the bed, don't they? Jim March, IIRC, Elmer wrote that a cowboy would lift the heavy stirrup onto the saddle and then bend over to tighten the strap (girth strap? - don't ask me about horses!). Then the stirrup would slip off and fall right onto the hammer of the old model six-gun, resulting in a bang if it were fully loaded. This was fact as he said it had happened. And I believe he also talked of the way a dropped single action could and did rotate to land right on the hammer. Again, fully loaded would result in a bang with a gun that is aimed up at somebody's soft under-belly, as Churchill put it. Or worse, the horse could get shot Bart Noir __________________ Be of good cheer and mindful of your gun muzzle!