buck460XVR
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What a pretty lil' gun. Looks like something right out of a Steampunk novel.
The philosophy of throwing bug chunks of lead at folks in those years before effective antibiotics were used was a good one. Folks that didn't die right away from the wound, usually died later from infection or lost a limb to amputation to stop the infection from spreading. The bigger the hole, the better, and it didn't have to be deep. Better to keep the dirty piece of lead in the body/limb, than to have it pass thru.
The philosophy of throwing bug chunks of lead at folks in those years before effective antibiotics were used was a good one. Folks that didn't die right away from the wound, usually died later from infection or lost a limb to amputation to stop the infection from spreading. The bigger the hole, the better, and it didn't have to be deep. Better to keep the dirty piece of lead in the body/limb, than to have it pass thru.