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Strategies & Market Trends : Winter in the Great White North -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (4799)	7/1/2003 4:33:56 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8273

That Liberty Valance. Man, that guy sure knew how to draw a six-gun. No six-guns up in Beaverville. We had pistols, handguns, and revolvers instead. Usually manipulated by a Captain so and so, who was a former major in the BA. No need to quick-draw as such, as the weapon would get all tangled up in the underbrush and cedar roots. Most cow-poke used to sling their guns cross ways pointing back, so you drew out of the holster cross arm and away from you. Drawing up straight from the same side as your arm, the arm had a less natural and restricted travel, and the weapon could easily point at your side or foot. In the cross hand draw it would always point away from you as it was drawn, and if the hammer was accidentally cocked and fired it was more safe. Many pistols were slung on horseback across the chest, cavalry style. A 'common' pistol to use was called a horse-pistol and it weighed maybe 6 pounds. Our history on the north side of the red line seems boring. All explo and fur trade, and forts and such. Even the Yk gold rush was tame. Reading Canadian history is like watching wheat grow. EC<:-}*