kBob
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Rex and Indy,
My then room mate Linda Evans ( the SF writer and no relation to the Big Valley or Dallas) was working on the first book of a new series with David Webber which as I often do I cannot remember the title of at the moment.
Think Steam Punk verses Magic users and a dimensonal gate that has them crashing heads.
Linda asked me for something "different" sort of road not taken for the 1890's folks so I dug out some ancient tomes from the stacks and showed her a Bittner ring lever pistol with enbloc clips and she was excited. Years earlier she had been working on the Time Scout series with Robert Asprin and upon asking me about "Winchester Rifles" had been dragged to a shop of some friends where I gave her a class on the differences between a Henry toggle action and a Browning dropping block and she had been so excited she ended up buying a Winchester 1894 (there was an issue with the 1873 in .357 I had hoped to get) which she ended up shooting one of the NRA Field Rifle/ Hunting rifle short matches at 100 yards with.
I showed her pictures of the Smith & Wesson Volcanic types as well and she was excited to go crazy with them as well.
Then she asked me where we could get one..... for study of course!
After I finished laughing I had to explain that in those early internet days just finding someone with a finger ring lever action pistol would be a challenge, and the cost of buying one would be too much even if the books went NYT best seller.
As it happens David Webber was not thrilled with the idea and they argued over it. I believe they did appear in the hands of the Steam Punks during the first big running battle but am not aware of what happened later in the series.
Webber (a big 1911 fan BTW) could not get his head around a world with steam engines and such where Sam Colt had not been born and continued to argue that the ring lever pistols were failures. I tried to remind him that this was not our universe and that revolvers had just not gotten off to a good start and he argued that in any industrialized world they would have to.
Opinions, everybody has them...
-kBob
My then room mate Linda Evans ( the SF writer and no relation to the Big Valley or Dallas) was working on the first book of a new series with David Webber which as I often do I cannot remember the title of at the moment.
Think Steam Punk verses Magic users and a dimensonal gate that has them crashing heads.
Linda asked me for something "different" sort of road not taken for the 1890's folks so I dug out some ancient tomes from the stacks and showed her a Bittner ring lever pistol with enbloc clips and she was excited. Years earlier she had been working on the Time Scout series with Robert Asprin and upon asking me about "Winchester Rifles" had been dragged to a shop of some friends where I gave her a class on the differences between a Henry toggle action and a Browning dropping block and she had been so excited she ended up buying a Winchester 1894 (there was an issue with the 1873 in .357 I had hoped to get) which she ended up shooting one of the NRA Field Rifle/ Hunting rifle short matches at 100 yards with.
I showed her pictures of the Smith & Wesson Volcanic types as well and she was excited to go crazy with them as well.
Then she asked me where we could get one..... for study of course!
After I finished laughing I had to explain that in those early internet days just finding someone with a finger ring lever action pistol would be a challenge, and the cost of buying one would be too much even if the books went NYT best seller.
As it happens David Webber was not thrilled with the idea and they argued over it. I believe they did appear in the hands of the Steam Punks during the first big running battle but am not aware of what happened later in the series.
Webber (a big 1911 fan BTW) could not get his head around a world with steam engines and such where Sam Colt had not been born and continued to argue that the ring lever pistols were failures. I tried to remind him that this was not our universe and that revolvers had just not gotten off to a good start and he argued that in any industrialized world they would have to.
Opinions, everybody has them...
-kBob
... No it must be for that Charlton where as all the others you listed are very nice, something about that charlton is mega cool with all the extra crap hanging off it. It really should not work.. And we are shooting for steampunk.
