Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/05

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Subject: [Leica] With Friends Like These...
From: leica at rcmckee.com (R. Clayton McKee)
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:33:59 -0600
References: <4B8E72DB.7091.11FC484@leica.rcmckee.com>, <7CE401A5-7F7E-42D2-A7DE-D7E72C0DF567@frozenlight.eu>
 
Nope.  Period-accurate to 1845 or so. (Modern replica, of course; 
actual antiques are far too valuable and dangerous to shoot with 
powder and ball.)  If the shooter was good and in practice, sustained 
rate of fire would have been about three rounds a minute, effective 
range on a man-sized target maybe a hundred yards or so.  Survival 
weaponry for the period.  These guys are pretty hard-core about their 
history.

I was much more impressed with the knife he was carrying, though it's 
not in the picture.


Quoth the Nathan Wajsman :

> At least it is not an automatic...
>
In reply to: Message from leica at rcmckee.com (R. Clayton McKee) ([Leica] With Friends Like These...)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] With Friends Like These...)