"A little powder, a lot of lead..."

[buck460XVR]

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.

 

[Mizar]

"Where does he get those wonderful toys..?"

I believe that part of his success is that Mr. Pearce finds the words "obsolete", "awkward", "paperweight" and "old as Hell" actually quite appealing when it comes down to firearms...

 

[sgt127]

Fascinating stuff from the old days of big chunks of lead and, no X Rays. How did doctors find the bullets inside someone?

The Nélaton probe. A wire probe with a ball of porcelain on it. Feed the probe into the hole and, when meeting resistance, spin it around and withdraw it. No marks on it? Bone. Grey smear on it? You found the bullet.

https://boothiebarn.com/2012/06/29/artifact-history-nelaton-probe/

 

[Walkalong]

That's a really cool revolver.

 

[Kendal Black]

That was called "dwell time"

It was a theory that made a virtue of necessity. They could manage to do heavy-and-slow with the technology at hand.

Heavy and slow? Light and fast? Pbffttt. Heavy and fast works better than either one.

 

[22250Rem]

Very cool and interesting stuff.... Thanks for posting it all.

 

[ThomasT]

How did doctors find the bullets inside someone?

They used metal probes and dug around till they heard the metal hit the bullet. Then they removed the dirty metal probe and stuck a dirty finger or an even dirtier extractor to try and lock on to the bullet and pull it out. In those days if the bullet didn't kill you the doctor surely would. And a lot of times they never found the bullet.

WD Jones a young kid that ran with Bonnie and Clyde carried a couple of bullets and shotgun shot in his body all his life. He tried to volunteer for the army in WWII and was denied because of the lead in his body. Sorta seems funny they won't let you be a soldier because you have bullets in your body because if they did you might end up with more bullets in your body.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

That sounds like a line from a Batman movie. But I always think the same thing.

Yep, the first one...

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

I believe that part of his success is that Mr. Pearce finds the words "obsolete", "awkward", "paperweight" and "old as Hell" actually quite appealing when it comes down to firearms...

And, he probably uses those terms as his bargaining points.