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Old January 11, 2010, 01:28 PM   #6
Mike Irwin
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I've never heard that about crossbow bolts, but the Puckle Gun, an early manual revolving "machine gun," did have round and square barrels and chambers - round for Christians and square for Turks (a common name for Muslims).
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