Speaking of oddball calibers...

[280plus]

Some of you may recall the thread where we determined I had found a .32 long rimfire casing? Last night I went to the range and on the table was a box of junk marked "Free". Inside the box was another box, damn near a whole box of LRN .32 long rimfire. Is this caliber seeking me out for some reason. Is there some hidden message in this coincidence? Maybe it's not a coincidence at all.       

Unfortunately the ammo is looking pretty done. The rest of the stuff in the big box was black powder related. Lots of caps. Powder measures, the ball thingy for starting the round into the muzzle. .44 cal wads. I'm thinking THIS is a sign that I should get me a nice black powder pistol in about a .44. 

Anybody know why there would be so many different kinds of caps? Are they interchangeable?

[Mabs2]

It's probably a sign.
Kind of like that hand that Wild Bill ran into.
:)

[roo_ster]

Some of you may recall the thread where we determined I had found a .32 long rimfire casing? Last night I went to the range and on the table was a box of junk marked "Free". Inside the box was another box, damn near a whole box of LRN .32 long rimfire. Is this caliber seeking me out for some reason. Is there some hidden message in this coincidence? Maybe it's not a coincidence at all.       

Unfortunately the ammo is looking pretty done. The rest of the stuff in the big box was black powder related. Lots of caps. Powder measures, the ball thingy for starting the round into the muzzle. .44 cal wads. I'm thinking THIS is a sign that I should get me a nice black powder pistol in about a .44. 

Anybody know why there would be so many different kinds of caps? Are they interchangeable?

Ruger's cap & ball pistol is supposed to be the one to get.

[230RN]

Mabs,

How could Wild Bill's  "aces and eights" hand have been a signal to him when until he got shot, it was just another hand?

There were a couple of other dead man's hands before his black "aces and eights" hand was dealt:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man's_hand

[280plus]

me thinks you posted in the wrong thread. 

[Mabs2]

Mabs,

How could Wild Bill's  "aces and eights" hand have been a signal to him when until he got shot, it was just another hand?

There were a couple of other dead man's hands before his black "aces and eights" hand was dealt:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man's_hand

I thought I read somewhere that he had come across it before or somesuch.

[280plus]

[AJ Dual]

Mabs,

How could Wild Bill's  "aces and eights" hand have been a signal to him when until he got shot, it was just another hand?

There were a couple of other dead man's hands before his black "aces and eights" hand was dealt:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man's_hand

It's like Lou Gehrig dying of "Lou Gehrig's Disease". How creepy is that? What are the odds? 

[roo_ster]

It's like Lou Gehrig dying of "Lou Gehrig's Disease". How creepy is that? What are the odds? 

Thank.  I just about choked to death reading that. 

[280plus]

me thinks you posted in the wrong thread. 

Ohhhhh, took me this long to go back and finally catch the death hand reference. I went looking for it twice before too. I'll be ok, I'm just not sure it'll be any time soon. 

[230RN]

A buddy of mine (many decades ago) picked up an ancient .38 rimfire and a box of BP ammo for it.  Lotsa fun, but only like 80% of them fired the first time. About half of the duds fired the second time around after rotating them in the chambers.  Apparently fulminate-primed.

Lotsa fun, lotsa smoke, dead ones revealed flinching (probably because we half expected the thing to blow up on each shot) and my gawd, the smell!

Like all of the belches and farts of all the demons of hell all at once.

Terry, 230RN

[Perd Hapley]

I'm thinking THIS is a sign that I should get me a nice black powder pistol in about a .44. 

You need an excuse? 

[sanglant]

A buddy of mine (many decades ago) picked up an ancient .38 rimfire and a box of BP ammo for it.  Lotsa fun, but only like 80% of them fired the first time. About half of the duds fired the second time around after rotating them in the chambers.  Apparently fulminate-primed.

Lotsa fun, lotsa smoke, dead ones revealed flinching (probably because we half expected the thing to blow up on each shot) and my gawd, the smell!

Like all of the belches and farts of all the demons of hell all at once.

Terry, 230RN

sure you weren't shooting this thing?

[280plus]

You need an excuse? 

Not really but it doesn't hurt. 

[280plus]

What I got was the idea, "Now what am I supposed to do with all these free .44 wads? Such a dilemma.