The Evangelist Cowboy
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How is it a case of bad marksmanship when we have journals of the men who were there emptying cylinders of .38 long Colt into the enemy and they still keep coming. The .30-40 Krag also failed in those accounts but I'd wager that had more to do with the drugs and adrenaline they were on vs the cartridge. They didn't seem to have an issue when officers were loaded back with M1873s did they ? .Actually, I'd read your post. Always get a chuckle when someone uses the failure of the old service revolvers against the Filipino Moros (who were generally small-statured, 5' - 5'4" or so and lean) in the jungles of the Philippines ... the failures were blamed on the weapon and the cartridges, when typically it was a failure of marksmanship, notwithstanding the fact that the troops were armed with a primary weapon - rifles with bayonets -- that did not stop suicide attacks anyway.
You are not proving your case with "historical proof." Sorry.