Reply #216: Those rifles are fascinating.

[Silverhair]

When I was a kid, an adult cousin had a civil war rifle. It was longer than I was tall. I stand in awe of the courage of those guys to march shoulder to shoulder into enemy fire.

In civil war tactics, the defender would fire the first volley, the attackers would have to absorb the fire, continue to march with the defenders reloaded, and then fire their volley just before the defenders reloaded. I would not have had that kind of courage. If I lived through the first battle, I would have vanished to another country for the duration.

That Colt is a work of art.